Midwest Honor Flight Upcoming Events

Fundraisers & Outreach

Interested in planning a fundraiser for us?

MINGO @ Hay Camp Brewery
Apr
26

MINGO @ Hay Camp Brewery

Join us for MINGO at Hay Camp Brewery on Friday, April 26th! What is MINGO? It’s like BINGO but instead of numbers on the cards, each box has a song title in it. We play 45-60 seconds of a song, and you have to identify it and see if you have it on your card. If you do, put a chip on it, and 5 in a row (just like bingo) is a Mingo! Each Mingo will win a prize. Come for the entire night or just when you can!

- $5/board or $25 Freedom Bundles (3 cards, a beer, and a t-shirt)

- $1/pint donated back to MWHF all night + all donations collected

- Food can be ordered onsite

All proceeds will go towards sending our local Veterans on future Missions to Washington, D.C.

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Day of Sweetness - Sioux Falls Chick-fil-A
Jun
14

Day of Sweetness - Sioux Falls Chick-fil-A

Come support Midwest Honor Flight all day on June 14th.

Midwest Honor Flight is a non-profit organization in NW Iowa, South Dakota, and SW Minnesota dedicated to providing Veterans with respect, honor, and closure with an all-expense-paid trip to our nation's capital.

100% of proceeds from all cookie and brownie sales will benefit Midwest Honor Flight on June 14th.

This will include all mobile, dine-in, catering, or carry-out orders!

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Pars and Pubs 2024 - Downtown Sioux Falls
Jun
15

Pars and Pubs 2024 - Downtown Sioux Falls

Get your team together for the 7th Annual Pars & Pubs in downtown Sioux Falls, SD on Saturday, June 15th! We are excited to be the recipient for the second year!

This event takes your regular old pub crawl and combines it with mini golf to make an exciting and fun social event that we call Pars & Pubs. Teams will go from bar to bar, playing a total of 9 challenging and fun custom made mini golf holes. All participating bars will be downtown within walking distance. Costumes are encouraged, but not required. There will be a prize for the best team costume, so get creative and have fun with it! There will be prizes for: best team score, worst team score, and plenty of individual hole prizes and door prizes along the way! The event will start at 11 A.M. and end at 3 P.M.. At that point, teams will take their scorecards to Wiley's, where we will hand out awards at 3:30 P.M.. Teams that are present at Wiley's will have the opportunity to win door prizes. Entry fee is $30 per person.

4 Person teams will compete for the 1st place cash prize. 2 and 3 person teams will be eligible for other prizes. We encourage 4 person teams, but 3 and 2 person teams are available! You can sign up your 3 or 2 person team now, and if you find another 1 or 2 people to be on your team between now and June 10th, they can register as well and request to be added to your team! Come out to help support a good cause and have a great time. Refunds - You can get full and partial refunds based on the dates below: Cancellation by May 31st - Full refund, Cancellation by June 7th - 50% refund, No refunds for cancellation after June 7th.

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4th Annual Honor Ride
Jun
30

4th Annual Honor Ride

Join us in Sioux Falls, SD for our 4th Annual Honor Ride on Sunday, June 30, 2024! We want to remember your loved ones while honoring all Veterans, past, present, and future. Participants are encouraged to take along a picture of a Veteran they wish to honor during our ceremony to ride along with them. Registration begins at 1:00 PM at the South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance and will close at 2:00 PM. Honor a Veteran you know and ride to raise funds for Midwest Honor Flight. Ride includes a slow salute past the Sioux Falls VA Hospital before an escort to the South Dakota Veterans Cemetery. $30 for each bike and rider (which covers a Veteran's lunch and dinner on flight), $45 for a bike, rider, and a passenger (which covers a Veteran's breakfast, lunch, and dinner on flight). Registration fees are 100% deductible. Each participate will receive a MWHF rocker patch for this ride, a raffle ticket, and a meal ticket for after the ride. The Alliance will be open before and after the event for meals and beverages.

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Rock the Ramp @ SUX 2024
Jul
13

Rock the Ramp @ SUX 2024

Join Midwest Honor Flight and Top Down from Sioux City as we ROCK THE RAMP! We are going to Rock and Roll All Night in an effort to raise awareness and funds for Midwest Honor Flight in a new, unique venue in Sioux City! This event will happen rain or shine.

What To Expect:

  • Aerobatic Airshow by the Vanguard Squadron

  • Live Music from Top Down (Sioux City, IA)

  • Food Trucks (Daga’s on Wheels and SMASH Food Trailer)

  • Local Craft Beer Tent

  • First Class Tickets (VIP Experience)

  • Silent Auction

  • 50/50 Raffle

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Rapid City Tee it up for the Troops Golf Tournament
Jul
15

Rapid City Tee it up for the Troops Golf Tournament

Tee It Up for the Troops' mission is to honor, remember, respect, and support all those who serve(d) in the armed forces for this great nation. We believe in engaging and inspiring communities across the United States to do great things on behalf of the military men and women who have served and sacrificed so much for our freedoms. Tee It Up for the Troops combines golf events with an inspirational ceremony, instilling a sense of pride, honor, respect, and appreciation for all those who have served and given so greatly. This year, Midwest Honor Flight will receive 50% of the proceeds to support their Mission: to transport America’s Veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit those memorials dedicated to honor the service and sacrifices of themselves and to fellow Veterans.

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Freedom Festival
Sep
21

Freedom Festival

Freedom Festival

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Event Gates Open at 4:00pm

  • Kid Zone Area – includes Face Painting, Inflatables, Petting Zoo, Touch a Truck and more!!

  • Food & Beverage – Fat Kid Philly’s will have their full menu available. Alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks will be available for purchase throughout the event.

Live Music (approximately 6:00pm) – there will be 2-3 local bands that will open for our headliner – which will be announced in April.

Fireworks Show (approximately 10:00pm) – the festival will conclude with a state of the arts fireworks show!

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3rd Annual Dance
Oct
12

3rd Annual Dance

​Elvis fans will delight in seeing The King onstage again when 14 local artists take the stage in Sioux Falls at the South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance on Saturday, October 12, 2024! Feel a fever pitch of excitement as this group of the finest, seasoned professionals takes the stage and impressively executes a wide variety of timeless Elvis classics, many of which have been modernized with an impressive edge while respectfully preserving their original essence! Ticket sales and a silent auction throughout the night will benefit future Midwest Honor Flight Missions.

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Barrel House Day of Giving for South Dakota Veterans Cemetery Wreaths Across America
Nov
18

Barrel House Day of Giving for South Dakota Veterans Cemetery Wreaths Across America

Join us at The Barrel House in Sioux Falls, SD as we raise funds to place remembrance wreaths on the graves of Veterans buried at the South Dakota Veterans Cemetery by donating 10% of our total sales from the day! South Dakota Veterans Cemetery Wreaths Across America will have a representative there for questions and collecting donations and sponsorships. More information on sponsoring a wreath can be found by visiting www.midwesthonorflight.org/wreaths.

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Wreaths Across America Day 2024
Dec
14

Wreaths Across America Day 2024

Join us this December out at the South Dakota Veterans Cemetery as we lay remembrance wreaths to Remember, Honor, and Teach. Following a short ceremony at 11:00 AM sharp, wreaths will be placed throughout the cemetery on the final resting place of the Veterans interred there. Sponsorships can be given online: www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/SD0021P

​We understand we have Veterans Day in the fall and Memorial Day in the spring, but our service members sacrifice their time and safety every single day of the year to preserve our freedoms. In many homes, there is an empty seat for one who is serving or one who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. There is no better time to express our appreciation than during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.

Please plan and dress according to the weather - this ceremony and wreath laying will take place outside. Parking is limited and will be directed by volunteers.

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Drive to Fly 2025 @ Great Shots
Mar
28

Drive to Fly 2025 @ Great Shots

SAVE THE DATE! Come on out to Great Shots on Friday, March 28 and "Drive to Fly" in support of Midwest Honor Flight! Your participation and support will help Midwest Honor Flight fly our WWII, Korean, and Vietnam Veterans as well as any terminally ill Veterans out to Washington, D.C. to visit and reflect at the memorials dedicated to their service and that of their fellow comrades. This trip is simply a small token of our appreciation for everything they've done. Throughout their Midwest Honor Flight tour, the Veterans are thanked, recognized and admired for their service. They come home personally knowing how much their country loves them and respects them. Veterans will never forget this gratitude and adoration.

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Drive to Fly @ Great Shots - Sioux Falls
Apr
8

Drive to Fly @ Great Shots - Sioux Falls

​Ready to get the golf clubs back out? Sick of the snow on the ground? Come on out to Great Shots on Monday, April 8 (postponed from March 25 due to weather) and "Drive to Fly" in support of Midwest Honor Flight! Your participation and support will help Midwest Honor Flight fly our WWII, Korean, and Vietnam Veterans as well as any terminally ill Veterans out to Washington, D.C. to visit and reflect at the memorials dedicated to their service and that of their fellow comrades. This trip is simply a small token of our appreciation for everything they've done. Throughout their Midwest Honor Flight tour, the Veterans are thanked, recognized and admired for their service. They come home personally knowing how much their country loves them and respects them. Veterans will never forget this gratitude and adoration.

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Sioux County Sportsmen’s Club Banquet
Mar
2

Sioux County Sportsmen’s Club Banquet

On Saturday, March 2, the Sioux County Sportsmen's Club will host their annual banquet with one of the guns on auction supporting future Veterans flying with Midwest Honor Flight. This will be the sixth year that they have invited us to this banquet and to date, have raised more than $20,000 to support our Mission: to transport America’s Veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit those memorials dedicated to honor the service and sacrifices of themselves and to fellow Veterans.

More information and tickets can be found at siouxcsc.org/banquet-info/

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Soup Supper & Film Screening
Jan
27

Soup Supper & Film Screening

The Lemmon Legion Post is proud to honor Maj. Gale "Buck" Cleven, who was born in Lemmon SD, and his fellow WWII pilots.

On Saturday, January 27, their opening celebration of the "Masters of the Air" debut will help raise funds for Midwest Honor Flight. Thank you to the Lemmon Legion Post #66 and community for hosting this event!

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