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MARSHALL — There’s a lot going on this weekend in Marshall, whether you’re interested home improvements, the outdoors, or even indoor entertainment.

The 2024 Boelter Windows, Siding & Roofing Marshall Home Show opens Saturday at the Red Baron Arena. At the same time, a new athletic event — the DSE Pickleball Classic — will be going on at Marshall High School. Also on Saturday, the Flight to Fight Cancer darts tournament will be raising money for Lyon County Relay for Life.

Home Show at Red Baron Arena

The Boelter Windows, Siding & Roofing Marshall Home Show kicks off at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Red Baron Arena. The event features more than 50 vendors. Visitors can get information to help them with home projects, and check out home improvement vendors and services, as well as vendors focused on outdoor recreation and landscaping.

Enjoying the outdoors is also the focus of a prize package adults attending the Home Show can enter to win. The giveaway features a “patio party” with items like patio furniture, a gas fire table and a pizza oven. Visitors age 21 or older can enter the drawing for free at the Home Show Saturday or Sunday.

The Home Show will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

‘A great day’ of pickleball

A new pickleball event in Marshall got a massive response from players — and now a total of 60 teams will be working their way through the Downtown Sound Entertainment Pickleball Classic, Cam Bailey said. It was double the turnout event organizers had hoped for their first time holding the tournament.

“There are a lot of people coming in from out of town to play,” Bailey said. Teams from 23 different communities in Minnesota and South Dakota will be competing on pickleball courts set up in the Marshall High School gymnasiums. The tournament includes six different divisions, Bailey said.

Pickleball is a popular game that resembles tennis, but played with short paddles and a hard plastic ball.

“We’re going to start game play at 8 a.m. Saturday,” Bailey said. Spectators are welcome to watch games at the tournament, he said. One of the good parts about holding the tournament at MHS is the upper track area of the high school gymnasiums, which gives a vantage point on the action.

“It should be a great day,” Bailey said.

Darts for a cause

A different kind of indoor sports will be going on at the Brau Brothers taproom on Saturday. The second annual Flight to Fight Cancer darts tournament will be raising funds for Relay for Life, starting at 11:30 a.m.

The tournament is “a fun afternoon,” for a good cause, said Jason Anderson. “We had a good turnout last year.”

The Flight to Fight Cancer will take place using dart boards set up at Brau Brothers. The cost to enter is $30 per two-person team. Proceeds will go to Lyon County Relay for Life, he said. Registration for teams will close at 7 p.m. today to help with setting up tournament brackets. However, Anderson said it would still be possible for last-minute entries to get involved.