Winter Weather Home Prevention - Tip 1 (2008)

The Cold weather season is approaching Fast! While watching the leaves turn deep shades and hues, tailgating on Football Fridays and planning for upcoming holidays with family and friends are top on our minds, it is vital not to forget important winter home maintenance. Here is your newest tip to help get you thru the cold weather season and hopefully help put some cash back in your pockets: TIP #1: Falling leaves must be cleaned from your gutters regularly. If your gutters get clogged, rains and ice can cause water back-up, leading to severe damage to your roof and water invading your home. The market has many types of gutter 'covers' that are easy to install and do wonders for proper gutter maintenance.

Recipe Competition 08 - still have time to send those recipes in!

Time is coming to an end to get your recipes in!!!! GET COOKING WITH KELLERMAN INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE RECIPE CONTEST Have fun with us by entering our recipe contest! Send in one or more of your favorite recipes to us no later than October 31, 2008. Be sure to tell us a little about your recipe, where it came from and why you like it. You can drop them off at our office, mail them to 101 W. 4th St, PO Box 1025, Holton, KS 66436 or email them to sparry@kellermanrealestate.com. Don't forget to put your name and phone number on each recipe! We will have a drawing of all our entries on October 31, 2008. The 5 winners will receive a "Get Cookin' with Kellerman Insurance and Real Estate" apron. Enjoy OUR recipes and share YOUR favorites with us. Hope to hear from you soon!

Chili Cook-off and Fall Harvest

Wow what a day! Sat. Oct 18th set off the first official FALL FEST combination with our annual Chili Cookoff Event! We all really enjoyed ourselves! 25 Chili and soup participants joined the ranks this year - making taste testing pretty heavy on everyones bellies! 10 categories of prizes were awarded thru the day for the chili/soup segment - Craig Fox bringing home the Judges overall choice for Chili and our brother in-law KJ Johnston of Lawrence bringing home the Peoples Choice Award! Pretty exciting stuff! We had almost 20 scarecrows for the first ever ScareCrow competition and if you didn't see the talent - you will need to make it a point to visit next year for the event. Local artisans showcased their talents weaving wheat, pottery wheels, painting and much more as well as pickers and players on every street corner. Plenty of activities were available for the kids to include painting free pumpkins, hay rack rides sponsored by Holton Family Health Center and face painting. Next year we expect to grow yet again trying to add evening entertainment, perhaps a beer garden and kids scarecrow dress-up competitions. In future years perhaps we'll even expand into a BBQ competition! It was a Fabulous day on the Holton Square in Downtown Holton Kansas! Hope to see you again next year!