There will be a National Meatball Day, Swedish style, with a benefit dinner for the Swedish American Children’s Choir from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 8 S Lincoln Street in Batavia. The dinner will feature Swedish meatballs and gravy, mashed potatoes, vegetables, lingonberries, Swedish rye bread, and Swedish desserts. New this year will be vegetable balls in place of meat.
Featured will be Swedish and American baked goods for sale as well as a Swedish Dala painter. In addition there will be special guest entertainment. All proceeds from the event benefit the choir performance tour fund.
The choir, in its 20th year, is the largest of its kind in the Midwest and comprised of children four to 17 years from the Fox Valley and surrounding suburbs. They present performances of Swedish songs and Scandinavian dances throughout the Fox Valley area and beyond.
Dinner tickets are by reservation only and carry out orders are available.
Tickets are $13 for adults, $6 for children three to 10 years old and under three are free.
Call 630-414-9700 for reservations.
—Swedish American Children’s Choir, Inc.