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2024 Hot Dish Finalists

Hot Dish 2024 Finalists

Christine Becker

SAD Baddies Club: Weekly meetups for seasonally affected folks to connect, create, and move.

Kathryn Hoffmann-Thompson

Community Square Dancing Events in Detroit Lakes

Kim Bettcher & Grace Davidson Thooft

With the Detroit Lakes Community and Cultural Center
Stay and Play Group: Regular meetups where you bring your kids to play and parents can socialize

Sarah Madson Schadt

Repair Cafe: Events at which people with skills and broken items come together to fix things, learn, and connect.

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Competition 2024

Thanks to everyone who joined us for an incredible Hot Dish evening at Bucks Mill Brewing!
We enjoyed watching our Hot Dish Finalists pitch their ideas to build a stronger Detroit Lakes community.

Our winner is Kathryn Hoffmann-Thompson. Her son, Severin Thompson, played fiddle during her pitch and is included in the photos below.

150 people attended the event, and together, we raised $815 for the winning idea!

Heartfelt thanks to all our finalists, attendees, and supporters for making this event a success!

2024 Hot Dish Winner

2024 Hot Dish Winner: Kathyrn Hoffmann-Thompson
Save the Date!
The next Hot Dish competition: Monday, February 24, 2025
Have a hot idea to dish out during our next Hot Dish competition?
Submit it here on or before February 9th at midnight CST.
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