2025 is St Urho’s Golden Year: 50 Years of Grasshoppers and Grapes

2025 is a big year for Finland Minnesota! March 15th, 2025 will be the 50th Annual St Urho’s Celebration. The theme will be St Urho’s Golden Year: 50 Years of Grasshoppers and Grapes. Our little committee has some big plans but we need as much help and participation as we can get.  Get involved by…

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St Urho 2024 Rundown and Thank You

A giant KIITOS (THANK YOU) to all of the people who helped to make the 49th Annual St. Urho’s Celebration happen. From all of those who help put the sign up over the highway, to the folks in the parade, to all the raffle ticket sellers, to the businesses that helped out by donating or…

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St Urho Travels the World: 2024 Schedule of Events

Finland’s 49th Annual St Urho’s Celebration Schedule of Events Theme – St Urho Travels the World St Urho Online Auction:  Bidding starts March 11th at 6pm and ends on March 17th at 7pm! Bid here! Friday, March 15th –  3pm – Four Seasons Outdoor Urho Celebration begins and goes all weekend! Tent, heaters, firepit, music,…

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St Urho ’23 and Me Thank Yous and Wrap Up

A giant KIITOS (THANK YOU) to all of the people who helped to make the 48th Annual St Urho’s Celebration happen. From the guys who put the sign up over the highway, to the folks in the parade, to all the raffle ticket sellers, to the businesses that helped out by donating or selling raffle…

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’23 and Me: St Urho’s Community Float Workshop

Help us build and decorate the St Urho Family Tree at the St Urho Float Workshop on March 10th, 11th & 12th, 11am-3pm at the Clair Nelson Center in Finland. Join us as we build our own floats in preparation for St Urho’s parade at noon on March 18th!  Our plan for the group project…

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St. Urho ’23 and Me Information and Schedule of Events

The 48th Annual St Urho’s Celebration will be March 17th, 18th and 19th this year. The Theme is St Urho ’23 and Me. How are you related to Saint Urho? We’re all Finnish on Saint Urho’s Day, right? St Urho’s Celebration in Finland, MN is back for another year with a ton of fun events,…

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Featured Volunteer and St Urho Updates

Our featured volunteer for 2022 is Cheri Bischoff for her many years of good work organizing the St Urho’s Day parade! Cheri took over organizing the parade from Carol Youngberg and has done a great job with it for over 10 years. After putting in her time herding all of those cats…err, parade floats, she…

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St Urho 2022 Thank Yous and Shout Outs

Kiitos paljon kaikille!  Thank you all so much! To the many people who helped to make the 47th Annual St Urho’s Celebration happen. From the guys who put the sign up over the highway, to the folks in the parade, to all the raffle ticket sellers, to the businesses that helped out by donating or…

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St Urho Flies the Coop – Information and Schedule of Events

St Urho’s Celebration will be March 11th, 12th and 13th this year. The Theme is St Urho Flies the Coop. Are there grapes out there that need protecting? A grasshopper herd that is growing too large? Does Miss Helmi have a sister? Maybe St Urho just needs to take a vacation.  St Urho’s Weekend is…

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We Survived! St Urho 2021 Wrap Up

The theme of Finland’s 46th Annual St Urho’s Celebration was Survival Mode. The big weekend was March 19th, 20th and 21st, 2021. Paljon kiitoksia (Thank you very much!) to the many many people who helped to make the 46th Annual St Urho’s Celebration happen. From the guys who put the sign up over the highway,…

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