Kidron Days on June 12-14 to celebrate event's 5th anniversary

For those who like a good deal, being competitive or helping others, all while having fun in a safe community, Kidron Days is a weekend they won’t want to miss.

In its fifth year, Kidron Days will take place Thursday through Saturday, June 12-14. All-day garage sales will kick off the event on June 12, with yard sales all over town.

On June 13 garage sales will continue, and a benefit dinner in the evening will help two local families with medical expenses at Kidron Park. Chipotle will be served, along with pie and ice cream. Carryout will start at 4 p.m., and dine-in will start at 4:30 p.m. A local band, Liberated, and Lena Mullet will be the live entertainment.

On June 14 a professionally timed 1-mile run/walk will start at 8 a.m. or a 5k at 8:30 a.m. Starting and ending at the Sprunger Building on Kidron Auction grounds, participants will get a scenic view. Blend of Grace Coffee will be on-site for coffee needs. Yard sales also will take place on this day.

“We would like to thank Kidron Auction for allowing the use of the building for the last four years and the landowner for letting us run across their land,” said Jacob Troyer, president of Kidron Council.

The Kidron Council and Kidron Merchants work together to plan the event. To find the beneficiaries of the meal, they send out letters to local churches, which submit nominations, and this year Lillian Wengerd and Rachel Baus were chosen.

Wengerd lives in Kidron, and the past few years have been very rough on her health-wise. In November 2021 she had a posterior lumbar spinal fusion surgery. In October 2022 she fell and broke some ribs and then later had surgery to scrape out arthritis from another part of her back. On July 8, 2023, she had a heart attack and had two stents put in. Then on April 16, 2024, her son Lester was in septic shock and was in intensive care for months. Since the end of April 2024, he has been living with her.

In December 2024 Baus would’ve celebrated her 20th year as an accountant at Weaver Leather, but her life took a drastic turn.

The mother of four who grew up in the Dalton and Kidron area started feeling sick last summer with what felt like the flu. After doctor visits, hospitalizations and tests, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with two gene mutations — KMT2A and FLT3, which cause the disease.

Since her diagnosis she has been in and out of the hospital for weeks at a time, receiving chemo, taking care of some discovered blood clots and getting ready for a stem cell transplant.

On Dec. 18 Baus was readmitted to start the stem cell process. When she first found out she had leukemia, they told her she would need to have a stem cell transplant, along with the other treatments. They started with her older brother Jeremy Nussbaum. On Christmas Eve, Baus got his stem cells.

“You could watch little specks going into my IV port,” Baus said. “There is no way I can ever repay my brother. Thirty days after the transplant at the end of January, they did a bone marrow biopsy test, and it was 100% Jeremy’s stem cells, which is just what the doctors wanted to see.”

The by-donation meal will help show the community’s support to these two families, and because it’s Kidron Days’ fifth anniversary, special prizes will be given away.

“There will be something for everyone at the three-day event,” Troyer said.

To register for the garage sales, call or text your name and address to 234-799-2137.