Solway Lutheran Church hosts third annual rodeo breakfast and bake sale

Solway Lutheran Church is bringing back a familiar summer gathering with its third annual rodeo breakfast and bake sale at Lammers Town Hall, turning pancakes and pastries into a small but steady marker of community life in Solway. The event will also serve as a practical fundraiser for the church, keeping a local tradition alive in one of the area’s most recognizable meeting places.

Breakfast will run from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, June 20, at Lammers Town Hall, 235 Centerline Rd. N., Solway. Plates will cost $8, and children 6 and under will eat free. The menu is straightforward: pancakes, ham and scrambled eggs, a combination that has become part of the event’s appeal because it is easy to attend, easy to recognize and easy to repeat from year to year.

The rodeo theme fits the calendar. JD’s Outpost Rodeo is scheduled for June 19 and 20 at 130 Centerline Road NW in Solway, giving the church breakfast a clear tie to one of the weekend’s biggest local draws. In a small city like Solway, where Lammers Town Hall often serves as a shared civic space, that overlap matters. It gives residents a reason to stop in, see neighbors and support a church event that is built around the same rhythms as the town itself.

That sense of continuity runs deeper than one morning meal. Solway sits entirely within Lammers Township in Beltrami County, but it remains a separate city, a detail that reflects how closely drawn local identities can still coexist here. The area’s history goes back to 1898, when the Solway post office began, and 1899, when the school was built. Lammers Township was later renamed from Solway to honor George A. Lammers and Albert J. Lammers after state officials found another Solway township already existed in Minnesota.

The town hall is already a regular home for church fundraising. Clearwater Lutheran Church and Solway Lutheran Church used Lammers Town Hall for the 14th annual Cabin Fever Auction in March, a sign that the building remains an active center for volunteer-led events. That repeated use is what gives gatherings like the rodeo breakfast their weight: they are not just one-off meals, but part of the social infrastructure that keeps Solway connected.