General Hope News

Please join us in celebrating the 53rd Heritage Days Festival by competing in our baking contest!! Bake us up your favorite recipe & enter our friendly competition with prizes to win & bragging rights!!

Schedule of Activities:

• 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Drop off baked items at Willow Leaves of Hope (On the northside of Hope Town Square)
• 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. - Judging
• 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. - Winners announced from the Bandstand
• 11:30 a.m. – Noon - Entries will be sold. $10 for 5 servings of your choice from entries, Grand prize $4.00 per serving.

Cake Contest Prizes

• 1st Place - $50 & lots of goodies!!
• 2nd Place - $25
• 3rd Place - $10

Pie Contest Prizes

• 1st Place - $50 & lots of goodies!!
• 2nd Place - $25
• 3rd Place - $10

Miscellaneous Contest Prizes

• 1st Place - $50 & lots of goodies!!
• 2nd Place - $25
• 3rd Place - $10

Kid’s Contest Prizes

• 1st Place – Pampered Chef Kid’s Baking Set
• 2nd Place – Yummy treats!

Every child that enters will receive a tasty treat!

Grand Champion Prize

• $100 & lots of goodies!!

*Please bring all baked items in a non-returnable container.
*You may enter each category, but only ONE entry per category.
*$10 plates (5 servings of your choice from entries) will be sold in front of Willow Leaves of Hope from 11:30 a.m. – Noon.
*Grand prize entry will be sold for $4 a serving.
*Please arrive at the Bandstand by 11:00 am for announcement of winners & presentation of prizes!!
Contest sponsored by WiLLow LeaVes of Hope and Pampered Chef consultant Lisa Bailey. Please contact her at (812) 371-1211 or email imcooking4u@gmail.com with any questions.

We would like to thank the community for the great support of the HSJ Online Hope Run/Walk. Now, we are partnering with Duck Creek Gardens once again to sell mums. Please consider buying 1 for $8, 2 for $15, or 3 for $20. Cards are for 9" mums.  Four cards may be purchased for $28 to redeem for one 14" mum.  Mum cards can be purchased from: Jessica Brown, Michael Dean, Don Hewitt, David Webster, Terri Young, Howard Zachariah, Stephanie Shoaf, or Carrie & Brock Harris. In addition, you can purchase mum cards at Reflections and WILLow LeaVes or during Heritage Days at our booth under the shelter house. Mum card(s) can be redeemed at Duck Creek Gardens through Saturday, October 16th.

Despite temperature checks at the doors and masks on the check in table, the Hope prom felt like a blissful if momentary return to normal. 

The Yellow Trail Museum will resume open hours the first full week in May.  Exact hours will be posted on their Facebook page but are tentatively set for Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 pm and Saturdays from 11:00 am until 2:00 p.m.  The research center will remain closed until the move into expanded space.  

The popular Sunday Socials history discussion group will resume on Sunday May second.  That group meets from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the museum.

If an individual or small group wishes to visit the museum outside normal hours please call the museum at 812-546-8020 or Susan Thayer Fye at 812-343-3798.