We hope to see you all in 2024 for Octoberfest Artisan Fair!

Save the date October 11-12-13.

2024 Artisans

Announcing the 2024 Oktoberfest Artisans joining us to date.
Please check back for updates.

Download Artisan list here!

We are still accepting applications for
Oktoberfest Artisan Fair 2024!

Final Deadline to submit applications:
September 8, 2024

Late fee: Additional $10 for applications
received after September 8, 2024

Download Artisan Application here!

Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer after Masses in
August and September
to sell 50/50 Raffle tickets!

50/50 Raffle Volunteer Form

What Makes Oktoberfest Artisan Fair Special?

Osep Apple Strudel

Lines of people wait for apple strudel in The Black Forest Café, delivered piping hot from the oven (it disappears so fast we have a hard time getting pictures of it).

Toni Osep’s apple strudel is legendary. She began making the strudel for the first Oktoberfest in 2009 after years of perfecting her technique for family and friends. As she aged, it became a challenge to stretch the dough over the top of the entire kitchen table. Her son, Ed, initially helped peel apples and in time progressed to learning how to stretch the dough. Toni mentored this process right up until she passed at age 97!

Ed now makes the famous apple strudel for Oktoberfest Artisan Fair. There are no shortcuts. It is a labor of love and Ed enjoys hearing how much people enjoy the homemade art!

Cake Walk

The cake walks are fun. Twelve players move around a circle to music and conducted by our famous Grace! When the music stops, a number is picked. The winner chooses a homemade cake to take home or share at their table. Grace is often stopped out in the community, such as a grocery store, with an exclamation “You’re the cake walk lady! Will you be coming back again?” Yes she will!

See what a cake walk looks like here!

Black Forest Café

The campus is busy with music, conversation, laughter, activities, and shopping. Sometimes it is nice to find a quiet, beautiful setting for a conversation and a sweet treat. The Black Forest Café is magical place to relax and indulge on decadent tortes, warm homemade apple strudel, cookies, and coffee. Visit several times!

Family Activities

We focus on intergenerational activities. All ages are invited to join in making art. The activities change from year to year. In the past, there has been pumpkin decorating, painting, and beaded bracelets to name a few. Most activities happen on Saturday afternoon, but check the schedule. You would not want to miss the campfire and s’mores, if weather permits!

Basket Raffle

Approximately 60 beautiful unique baskets are raffled out throughout the weekend of Oktoberfest, all donated by community businesses and parish members. There are assorted themes and guests are guaranteed to find something that excites them. Calling all wine and beer lovers, dog or cat parents, art buffs, coffee drinkers, or those with a sweet tooth. The tickets are an affordable $2 each.

Raffle Information and Rules

Basket Raffle

Basket Raffle Information and Rules

All 60 baskets will be available throughout the entire Oktoberfest weekend. Winners will be chosen on Sunday afternoon, October 13, 2024.

Sign-up

  • It is essential that you sign up on the Oktoberfest Basket Raffle Information Board (classroom hallway). Signing up secures your “place at the table” and helps with the ticket planning and printing.
  • We are limited to 60 baskets in total.
  • Sign-up begins September 3, 2024.
  • Sign-up includes your name and theme idea.

Basket Theme Options

  • Choose a theme from the Oktoberfest Basket Raffle Information Board.
  • Create your own theme and sign up on the information board.
  • Gift cards and certificates are very popular too.
  • Be aware that occasionally there may be a need to combine or rearrange basket items.

Content

  • Only new items.
  • No perishables.

Deliver and Deadline

  • All baskets must be at OLOL by September 22, 2024. Sorry no exceptions!
  • Express your creativity with a fully assembled and cellophane wrapped basket. (We can wrap it if you are unable to do so.)
  • All gift cards and certificates must be delivered to the office for security reasons.

Prepare for buying tickets

State law requires one name per ticket, complete address and phone number.
Consider tucking mailing labels in your pocket or purse. Then all you have to add is your phone number.
Law also requires that tickets not be folded or bent.

50/50 Raffle
50/50 Raffle Information and Rules

OLOL 50/50 Raffle

  • No need to be present to win.
  • Winning ticket will be pulled Sunday, October 13, 2024, at 1:00 pm.
  • Sales begin August 3, 2024, and run every weekend before and after masses depending on volunteer availability.
  • There must be at least 2 unrelated people selling tickets at all times. If someone doesn’t show up for a shift, and a replacement cannot be found, tickets will not be sold or taken in at that Mass. You may still take blank tickets.
  • Cash or Checks (made out to Our Lady of Lourdes)
  • Unlimited blank tickets can be taken home.
  • Money is collected when completed tickets are returned to the ticket box after Mass.
  • Tickets and money can be placed in the metal drop box outside the church in a sealed envelope labeled Oktoberfest 50/50.
  • Tickets are available throughout Oktoberfest.
  • Sales end October 13, 2024, at 12:45 pm.

State law requires

  • 1 name per ticket
  • Complete address (mailing labels with 1 name are acceptable)
  • Phone number
  • Tickets may not be bent.
  • Tickets and payment must be turned in to designated ticket sellers before or after Mass, or during Oktoberfest.
  • No tickets can be mailed to OLOL.
  • No tickets can be turned into the OLOL Parish Office.

Official rules

The winning ticket will be randomly drawn on Sunday, October 13, 2024, at 1:00 pm at Our Lady of Lourdes (OLOL) Oktoberfest in the Parish Hall. The winner does not need to be present to win. The winning number will be announced at Oktoberfest and will be posted on the OLOL website. 

Only one person can be named on the ticket and only one winner will be awarded the prize. 

The winner will have until TBD, to claim their prize and return all necessary paperwork to the OLOL Parish Office. If no one claims the prize by this date another ticket will be drawn and announced on TBD, and this winner will have until TBD, to claim their prize by returning all the necessary paperwork to the OLOL Parish Office. If no one claims this prize it will revert back to OLOL. 

Cash prize is determined by calculating half of net proceeds from the raffle sales. The remaining 50% will benefit OLOL Parish as it sees fit.

Participants must be 18 years or older to claim the prize.

All tickets transactions and winners associated with the 50/50 raffle are subject to federal and state laws, rules, and regulations.

Applicable taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner. Each winner will be required to provide OLOL with his/her social security number and a photo ID. Federal income tax withholding will be required for any prizes of more than $5,000.

Cash prizes will be paid to the winner by check within 30 days from the drawing.

Oktoberfest Time Capsule