Polish Heritage Center Inc.

05/24/2026

The Polish Heritage Center in Ashton will be open for the season on Sunday, May 24, 2026. Our hours are from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. We will also be open on Memorial Day from noon to 3:00 PM.

04/21/2026

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04/19/2026

Today the Polish heritage center sponsored a kolache class taught by our very own Theresa Jorgensen and Rita Czaplewski. We had 86 participants. The class was free and our participants were served lunch. Thank you to Jeri McDonald and Michelle Lutz for handling the mid morning snack and our lunch as well as getting us set up at the museum and to John Hulinsky for manning the museum! Thank you Phil Turek for grilling hot dogs and helping with whatever needed done. Thank you Kevin Jorgensen, Bryan Robinson and Jordan Bottolfson for helping with the setup and selling kolaches!! Thank you Phyllis Piechota, Bryan and Theresa Robinson and Jordan Bottolfson for making extra kolaches to sell. And thank you to all those who attended!!

Sandi

04/05/2026

Fr. Vince Parsons celebrating the Polish tradition of the Easter basket blessing at Sts. Peter & Paul Church in St. Paul. 

03/31/2026

The Polish Heritage Center, Inc. in Ashton, NE will be hosting their second Kolache Making Class. The date is April 18 at the St. Francis Parish Hall in Ashton. Participants will be guided through the art of making traditional kolaches. Recipes will be provided and all skill levels are welcome. The class is free! Register by calling 308-750-6439 or 308-379- 1373.

Free lunch will also be served featuring Maschka's hot dogs. There will be hot dogs and kolaches for sale following the class.

03/28/2026

Svieconka - also known by the Polish Community as 'Blessing of the Easter Baskets' will be held at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in St. Paul, NE at 11:00am on Holy Saturday. Bring your decorated baskets to the back of church prior to 11:00am to have them blessed.

Fr. Mark Maresh will also be blessing Easter baskets at St. Josaphat's Catholic Church in Loup City at the Holy Saturday Evening Mass and the 10:30am Mass on Easter Sunday. Please have your basket there prior to the start of mass to have it blessed.

Traditional decorations of boxwood, p***y willow and ribbon can be found in baskets along with foods such as eggs, bread, salami, horseradish, candy, ham, etc.. Foods that will be used in your Easter meal are usually placed in the basket for blessing.

03/19/2026

For those of you that received the newsletter, I have the wrong date for the Polish festival. It is on September 13 of this year. I apologize it will be correct in the next newsletter.

02/24/2026

02/08/2026

I had a question about how to politely address a priest in Polish. I thought you say Ojciec Dave. (Father Dave). Boy was I wrong!
I asked the question on the 'I love my Polish Heritage' page. Ten and counting people responded. Following is the most concise answer. Who Knew?

Ojciec is not used to address priests except in certain circumstances. If the priest is a part of a religious order, such as the Dominican or Franciscan Orders, then you will hear and see "ojciec" before their first name (e.g., ojciec Michał). All diocesan priests are referred to as ksiądz (ks. Wojciech for example - literally priest Albert) . Thus, the proszę księdza.

01/12/2026

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