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Club #2161 of District 5960. Mail to: Rotary Club of Owatonna, PO Box 218, Owatonna, MN 55060. Meets Mondays, 12:10 p.m., at the Owatonna Country Club.

10/11/2026

💙YOU BETCHA, OWATONNA!💛

What a Hootenanny! 🍽️

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out for the second annual Rotary Hotdish Hootenanny!

We estimate at least 350 people joined us for a night of hotdish, Minnesotan pride, and community fun. We’re still crunching the numbers, but we anticipate raising more than we did last year — all to support Owatonna Rotary’s youth programs!

And the winners are…

🏆 OPE — Most Creative! - the Meier Family
🏆 You Betcha It’s Minnesotan - the Branham Family
🏆 People’s Choice - Gar Olson

Thank you all to our incredible cooks who shared their time, talent and delicious creations.

An additional big thank you to our generous sponsors who helped make this event possible:

⭐️ Old National Bank
⭐️Owatonna Eagles
⭐️Tri M Graphics
⭐️Keen Bank
⭐️Spherion Staffing
⭐️Edward Jones - Jeffrey Hall

And a special thank you to Owatonna Hy-Vee for the extra sweet donation of 400 cookies for anyone who saved room for dessert.

Because of our sponsor’s generosity, we were able to cover our event expenses and ensure that every dollar raised goes toward supporting local youth. That’s something worth celebrating!

We’re so grateful for a community that shows up, pitches in and believes in making a difference. You helped make this year’s Hootenanny bigger and better, and we can’t wait to do it again!

📆SAVE THE DATE: The 3rd Annual Rotary Hotdish Hootenanny returns Saturday, Oct. 9, 2027, at the Owatonna Eagles!

Start dreaming up those recipes now, Owatonna. We’ll see you at the next Hootenanny!

10/10/2026

What’s for supper? At the Hootenanny it is 17 different hotdishes!

We are going until 7!

10/07/2026

🌟 CELEBRATING THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SHAPING OUR FUTURE! 🌟
One of the highlights of our Owatonna Rotary meetings is welcoming our Rotary Students of the Month.
These students give us an opportunity to recognize outstanding young people for their achievements, leadership and involvement—and, just as importantly, they help keep our Rotary Club connected to the youth of our community.
We get to hear their stories, learn about their goals and celebrate what they have already accomplished. And each time we do, we’re reminded of something pretty encouraging:
With young people like these, our future is in very good hands. 💙💛
Supporting and encouraging youth is at the heart of what we do, and proceeds from the Hotdish Hootenanny help Owatonna Rotary continue our commitment to youth programming.
🥘 Hotdish Cookoff — YOU BE THE JUDGE!
🎵 Music | 🎁 Silent Auction Baskets
📅 Saturday, October 10 | 4:00–7:00 PM
📍 Owatonna Eagles
👉 Follow the Facebook event, invite your friends and make plans to join us:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1999038637387101
Come for the hotdish. Help us celebrate, encourage and invest in the next generation! 🌟

10/06/2026

🍲 ANOTHER ROTARY PRESIDENT ENTERS THE KITCHEN! 🍲
Well, technically a PAST President…but apparently once you’ve led the Owatonna Rotary Club, the next logical challenge is proving yourself at the Hotdish Hootenanny! 😄
We’re excited to welcome Tom Partridge to this year’s lineup of cooks!
Tom has served Rotary in plenty of ways over the years, but on Saturday, October 10, titles won’t matter. There are no presidential privileges, no executive orders and definitely no guaranteed votes. 😂
Tom will have to earn them one spoonful at a time—because YOU BE THE JUDGE! 🥘🗳️
📅 Saturday, October 10 | 4:00–7:00 PM
📍 Owatonna Eagles
🎟️ $10 Individual | $20 Family
Come hungry, sample all of our cooks’ creations, cast your vote and help us raise money for Owatonna Rotary Youth Programming! 💙💛
👉 Follow the Facebook event, invite your friends and get all the details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1999038637387101
Welcome to the competition, Tom! Past President or not…the people will decide! 😉🍲

10/06/2026

🌎💙 MAKING THE WORLD A LITTLE SMALLER—ONE STUDENT AT A TIME. 💛🌎
For more than 40 years, Rotary Youth Exchange has been a cornerstone of the Owatonna Rotary Club’s commitment to young people.
Since 1985, our club has helped bring students from around the world to Owatonna while also giving local students the opportunity to experience life in another country. Along the way, something pretty remarkable happens: strangers become friends, host families become second families, and relationships are formed that can stretch across continents and last a lifetime.
It’s more than travel. It’s about understanding one another, experiencing another culture and discovering that our world really isn’t as big as it sometimes seems.
Rotary Youth Exchange is one of the youth programs your support of the Hotdish Hootenanny helps make possible. So when you buy a ticket, bid on a silent auction basket or simply come out and enjoy the evening, you’re helping Owatonna Rotary continue a tradition that began more than four decades ago.
🥘 Hotdish Cookoff — YOU BE THE JUDGE!
📅 Saturday, October 10 | 4:00–7:00 PM
📍 Owatonna Eagles
👉 Follow the Facebook event, invite your friends and make plans to join us:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1999038637387101
Come for the hotdish. Help us make the world a little smaller—one student, one family and one friendship at a time. 🌎❤️

10/06/2026

💙💛 PROUD TO SUPPORT ROTARY. PROUD TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY. 🍲
Tri M Graphics is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s Owatonna Rotary Hotdish Hootenanny!
For us, supporting Rotary is about much more than sponsoring an event. It’s about investing in the young people of our community and supporting programs that provide opportunities for leadership, service, personal growth and connection.
Tri M has a long history of supporting the Owatonna Rotary Club, and we’re excited to once again be part of an event that brings our community together while raising funds for Rotary Youth Programming.
And if we can raise some money while eating hotdish and having a little friendly competition…even better! 😋🍲
📅 Saturday, October 10 | 4:00–7:00 PM
📍 Owatonna Eagles
🥘 Hotdish Cookoff — YOU BE THE JUDGE!
🎵 Music | 🎁 Silent Auction Baskets | 🍻 Cash Bar
👉 Check out the Facebook event, invite your friends and make plans to join us:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1999038637387101
From all of us at Tri M Graphics, we’re proud to support Owatonna Rotary—and we hope to see a great crowd at the Hootenanny! 💙💛

10/05/2026

👨‍🍳🍲 UH-OH…THE CHEF IS ENTERING THE COMPETITION! 🍲👨‍🍳
Things just got interesting at the Owatonna Rotary Hotdish Hootenanny!
We’re excited to welcome Chef Gar Olson, the chef at the Owatonna Eagles Club, to this year’s lineup of cooks!
Chef Gar is bringing some serious culinary experience to the Hootenanny—but will professional experience be enough to take home the honors? Or will one of our home cooks prove that a treasured family recipe is tough to beat? 😋
That’s where YOU come in!
🥘 Taste the entries.
🗳️ Cast your vote.
🏆 Help crown this year’s winners!
And a special thank you to Chef Gar and the entire Owatonna Eagles team for everything they’re doing to help us host this event.
📅 Saturday, October 10 | 4:00–7:00 PM
📍 Owatonna Eagles
🎟️ $10 Individual | $20 Family
Proceeds benefit Owatonna Rotary Youth Programming. 💙💛
👉 Check out the Facebook event, invite your friends and make plans to join us:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1999038637387101
Welcome to the competition, Chef Gar! The rest of our cooks might want to bring their A-game. 😉🔥🍲

10/05/2026

🍲 THE ROTARY PRESIDENT IS HEADING TO THE KITCHEN! 🍲
We’ve got another team joining this year’s Hotdish Hootenanny Cookoff—please welcome Brad & Heidi Meier! 👏
Brad happens to be the current President of the Owatonna Rotary Club, but we should probably make one thing perfectly clear: being Rotary President earns you absolutely NO extra votes at the Hootenanny! 😂
Brad and Heidi will have to earn those the old-fashioned way—with a hotdish good enough to win over our hungry crowd!
What are the Meiers bringing? You’ll have to join us to find out. And remember…
🗳️🥘 YOU BE THE JUDGE!
📅 Saturday, October 10 | 4:00–7:00 PM
📍 Owatonna Eagles
🎟️ $10 Individual | $20 Family
Come sample the competition, cast your vote and enjoy a fun evening while supporting Owatonna Rotary Youth Programming! 💙💛
👉 Follow our Facebook event, invite some friends and get all the details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1999038637387101
Welcome to the competition, Brad & Heidi! Mr. President…we hope you can handle the pressure! 😉🍲

Address

1991 Lemond Road
Owatonna, MN
55060

Opening Hours

Monday

12pm - 1:15pm

Telephone

+15074513450

Website

http://www.owatonnarotaryclub.org/

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