Memories of Past Elk Tosses

This video shows how not to toss the Elk.

Tips for Elk Toss Virgins

For many people, this will be their first time attending the Elk Toss, Charity Auction, and Winter Festival. To make your experience as enjoyable as possible, we have compiled the following tips, reminders, and suggestions on what to bring with you:

1. The event benefits charities and your generosity is greatly appreciated. Please bring cash and/or checks to pay for events and the auction.
   
2. The charity auction is only as good as the items that you donate to the auction. We appreciate your donations but also like donations solicited from restaurants, artists, businesses, family, etc.
   
3. We will once again be collecting non-perishable food items to donate to the Danville-Riverside Food Bank. Please bring canned goods and other non-perishable items to donate.
4. Wear Lederhosen or a Dirndl.
5. Bring pot luck food to share at the Wagner Farm. Also, bring your own drinking vessel to cut down on the number of cups required.
6. Plan to carpool as much as possible. We will travel from Danville to Jerseytown to the Wagner Farm and then back to Danville. The only place with a lot of parking is at the Pine Barn Inn in Danville.
7. Speaking of the Pine Barn Inn, we recommend reserving a room there if you plan to stay the night in Danville. It is the only hotel within walking distance of downtown Danville.
8. Prepare for the competitions. Understand the rules. Grow a beard (see photo below).
9. Initiation only hurts temporarily. Do not be scared.

Post Elk Toss Entertainment

We will once again be holding our traditional Tour of Danville following completion of the 75th Annual Elk Toss, Charity Auction, and Winter Festival. In recent years, we have arranged, with the help of our Musical Coordinator, Joey McMonagle, a musical performance by Slimfit at the Pub II.

Due to circumstances beyond our control (although not entirely beyond Sean's control), Slimfit will be unable to perform this year. However, we are working on arranging a performance by Kris Kehr and the Stone Poets coming all the way from State College.

We are also hoping to once again have Danville magician Fred Iobst find us somewhere that evening to amaze us with magical magic tricks.

Would this post be complete without another classic photo?

More Classic Photos

To celebrate our 75th year, we will continue to post photographs from our storied history. Here are a few more. Hopefully, this will get you excited for the Elk Toss (February 20 in case you haven't been paying attention).

We are not mathematicians.

Preliminary Charity List

The preliminary list of charities for the 75th Annual Elk Toss, Winter Festival, and Charity Auction...

Daily Item Needy Family Fund, Sunbury, Northumberland, Danville area
Montour County Summer Concert Series , Danville
Deb's House, Lancaster
Mount Nittany Conservancy, Centre County
Centre Grounds, Centre County

We may add another one or two before the event.

Website Update

We still have not had any luck with finding another free web hosting service which still allows .html upload and doesn't have all sorts of advertisements. We probably won't have a new website until we break down and pay for one. Still looking at that. Until then, keep checking the blog. Luckily, we still have all the files and photos from the website, and we'll occasionally bust out some classic photos.

Like this one...

2010 Schedule Highlights

As usual, we will have a full schedule of exciting events associated with the 75th Annual Elk Toss, Charity Auction and Winter Festival. Some highlights include:

-Jerseytown Burger Eat Off
-Elk Bugling
-Scrap Iron Toss
-Dog Sled Race (weather/time permitting)
-Salad Toss
-Beard Competition
-Ice Roping (weather/time permitting)
-Elk Toss
-Tour of Danville

Invitations

We've had enough issues with Evite over the years that we are trying a new online invitation website this year - socializr.com. Based on what I have heard, it is easier to use and hopefully we won't have the same issues as with Evite. If you know of a better alternative to Evite or Socializr, let us know.

Website Issues

If you have looked at our website recently, you will have noticed that most of the links do not work. We had been using Google Page Creator to host our pages, but Google ended that service and switched all the websites to Google Sites. This new service has less functionality, and the worst part is that it does not allow uploading of .html files to the website. That means all of our sub-pages do not work. If anyone has a solution (i.e. a suggestion for another free web hosting service), please email us.

Until then, we'll try to use the DGS Blog to spread the word about the 2010 Elk Toss.

2010 Elk Toss Date

We apologize for the lack of recent blog postings, but here's some news to make you forget about our idleness...

Mark your calendars...the 75th Annual Danville German Society Elk Toss, Charity Auction, and Winter Festival will be held on Saturday February 20, 2010 in, near, and around Danville.

Also we would like to announce that our Commercial Donations Liaison (formerly Goutweed Control Technician), Aaron Jensen, married Karen Hagemeier on 9/9/09.