Friends of Apple Creek Bridge hosts first ever Christmas Cookie Walk

OLD APPLETON, Mo. (KBSI) – “There’s a lot more history to this town that a lot of people just don’t know about.” 

This town is Old Appleton, and Bob Hrabik said this notion spurred the creation of Friends of Apple Creek Bridge, of which he is a member. 

He puts into so many words one of the goals of Sunday evening’s Christmas Cookie Walk on the bridge. 

“Educate the local folks about the town, about the bridge, about the effort here to refurbish the bridge and keep it in good shape for future generations,” he said.

Apple Creek Bridge washed away in a flood in the 1980s, but it has since been re-erected and has become a local landmark of sorts. 

Hrabik said the group has big plans for the site going forward, which the donations from the cookie walk will help support. 

“We’re going to try to eventually have more historical and informational signs about the various history that occurred here at one time in this town,” he said.

This is the first ever cookie walk on the bridge, and another member of the group and historian Tom Neumeyer said they couldn’t have asked for a better first go at an event like this. 

“I’m seeing friends I haven’t seen for decades,” he said. “It’s a great feeling.” 

And he said this event helps illuminate what the group attempts to do, which is… 

“Build bridges and maintain bridges, not build walls.”