The Heritage of Flight is a high-energy event that has something for everyone. It starts at 2 p.m. with the opening of the Beer Brat Hanger, entertainment, carnival rides and vendors.
Every year there is something new to spotlight. Last year I wrote about the Flight Pageant. Before that, I focused on the car show, the chair race, the airplane parade, and residents doing the chicken dance in the street.
The website www.heritageofflight.com is almost exhausting to read. There are so many cool things to do. You don’t want to miss anything. Check out the website, read the posters, then head for New Carlisle next weekend. You will not be disappointed.
This festival is a community effort. And nothing says that more than two relatively quiet events happening on the southern end of the festivities.
On Friday night and Saturday nights from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., there will be a Chicken Noodle Dinner at Honey Creek Presbyterian Church, 212 W. Jefferson Street.
This is no ordinary chicken noodle dinner. Ordinary food will not work on Heritage of Flight weekend in New Carlisle.
This dinner has been months in the making. You see, they didn’t just go buy chicken for this dinner. The chickens were raised on a local farm and that takes time.
“We cook the chicken ourselves, and make our own noodles,” said Honey Creek member Marilyn Perkins.
As she explained, the locally raised chickens were cooked and de-boned by hand. It took three days last week for members of the church to make, roll and cut the homemade noodles, which are now dried and ready to cook in the simmering homemade broth, reserved from cooking the chickens.
If your mouth is not watering right now, you need to read that paragraph again.
The chicken and noodles is served either beside or over mashed potatoes, or biscuits.
“We will prepare the meal any way they want it,” said Perkins.
Then there is a side of green beans, and homemade desserts. The iced tea is also home-brewed. The cost of this meal is only $8. It can be eaten in the Fellowship Hall or ordered Carry Out.
Perkins was happy to announce that the Fellowship Hall is now handicap accessible from the Adams Street entrance. Proceeds will benefit mission projects like the local Beds for Babies, a mission in Haiti or other Presbyterian missions. That is scheduled between 5 to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Start off Saturday morning with airplane shaped pancakes at the Impact Bethel Pancake Breakfast at the First United Methodist Church at Main and Madison streets. Really, they have airplane shaped pancakes and they have normal round ones too.
This filling breakfast features hot pancakes fresh off the grill, warm sausage gravy over biscuits, sausage patties on the side, sausage and biscuit sandwiches, lots of juice, and fresh coffee. It is all you can eat for $6 for grownups and less for kids. Take-out is available.
“This is our main fundraiser to help with our programs,” said Mert Christmann, director of Impact Bethel. Important local projects include the Christmas program and summer lunches.
This hot homemade breakfast begins at 7 to 10 a.m., which gets you outside just in time to find a good spot to watch the parachute jump before the parade.
The Heritage of Flight Festival and Parade goes on all weekend from 2 p.m. on Friday to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Come celebrate heritage, flight, and community with your neighbors, the good folks of New Carlisle, Bethel Township, and western Clark County.
This is the place to be Oct. 2 to 4.
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