Successful Trivia Night raises funds for CSS outreach work

    A fun time, something different to do and thank-you were the responses after Friday’s Trivia Night fundraiser for Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska and St. Isidore’s Gift & Thrift.
    The first of its kind here in recent memory, Trivia Night drew 15 teams for a night of head-scratching questions, fellowship, good food and fundraising that will help the area’s families in need.
    It was held at the Nutrien Event Center on the Chase County Fairgrounds.
    Bill Sullivan, thrift store manager, said they’ve had a lot of comments asking if Trivia Night will be held next year.
    “We hope for it to be an annual event,” he said.
    “So many people came up to us and commented that they loved the event, it was something different and asked if we’ll do it again,” he said.
    Teams of six went through seven rounds of 10 questions in each.
    Categories included The Doctors, Seven Seas, Mark Your Calendars, We are the Champions, Name of the Game, Nebraska Archives and Famous Pairs.
    Teams were given a little over a minute to give written answers to each question, with scores tallied after each round.
    The winning team with the highest point total was Deuteronomy. Team members were Cale and Ashley Holscher, Carl Zuege, Jake and Marissa McDaniel and Jerel Fortkamp.
    Second place went to Charley’s Gang, comprised of Charley Colton, Sr. Rochelle, Ann Strand, Becky Fisher, Emmitt Zuege and Trey Milner.
    They were awarded $200 and $120. Both groups donated the winnings back to CSS, Sullivan said.
    Team entry fees, donations ahead of the event, door admissions and silent auction proceeds will also be figured into the proceeds, which were not yet final this week.
    Twelve items were on the silent auction table, with the day of golf and night lodging for two at Arbor Links in Nebraska City the top dollar item purchased.
    Sullivan said one important aspect of the Trivia Night was it helped educate people attending “on what we do.”
    All of the proceeds from sales at St. Isidore’s Gift & Thrift are used for CSS outreach to people in need in southwest Nebraska.
    The Trivia Night fundraiser will help extend that outreach even more, he said.
    Five people from the CSS diocesan office in Lincoln attended, including Katie Patrick, diocesan CSS director; Bill Meduna, operations manager; and John Soukup, development office director.
    Soukup and Josh Fries of Imperial served as co-hosts for the evening.
    Sullivan said the event wouldn’t have come off without a lot of help from others.
    “It came together so well. The volunteers and donors—that’s what it requires to put on something like this,” he said.