Ryder
News for June 18, 2015
Don’t forget the 113th annual Hiddenwood
Picnic this coming Sunday on June 21, 2015. There will be an All Faith Worship
service at 11:00 and then the Pot Luck lunch will start at 12:00 noon. Plates
and utensils are furnished…you bring the rest! The program will start at 1:00
and Kenneth Opsal as Elvis will be there. At 3:00 the Hiddenwood Ladies will be
selling their world famous pies. There will also be kid’s races and there will
be lots of prize drawings. You can get to the Hiddenwood Picnic by going 8
miles south of Makoti on County Road # 9.
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| The new gas pumps are up and running at the Ryder Cenex. |
The Ryder Cenex station has their newer gas
pumps up and running, of course so are the gas prices around the area.
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| The concrete pillar in the Ryder park has been repaired. |
Rod
Johansen, Justin Simmons and Jody Reinisch were busy fixing the concrete pillar
in the Ryder Park that was damaged several weeks ago.
Last week a Ryder resident heading east ran
the stop sign on County highway 22 that runs right by the south side of our
house and this person crashed into a semi belonging to Jan Severance who was
heading north on State Highway 28. Luckily no one was badly hurt in this
accident. Both vehicles sustained major damage and the female driver of the
pickup went to the hospital to be checked out.
Gus Mueller has another article that he
sent me to share with you readers and since he is such an entertaining and
amusing writer, I am going to print it in the news for this week…besides I
really don’t have much else!
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| Newspaper clipping from the Minot Daily News 50 years ago, when the Ryder Vikings baseball team went to State. |
As many of you know, the Minot Daily frequently has a column titled “50 Years Ago” which highlights an event from the past published in that paper. For reasons we don’t quite understand, however, they neglected to mention the most important event from the spring of 1965, which is detailed in the clipping from the Minot Daily displayed here. For 55 years Ryder High School had sports teams, but only once did a team make it to the state tournament—the 1965 baseball team. This accomplishment was particularly noteworthy in that in 1965, there was only one class division for baseball, meaning that Ryder was lumped together with the likes of Minot High, who were the eventual 1965 state champions. The Ryder ’65 team was undefeated in the regular season (10-0) and defeated Medina and Kenmare in regional action to earn the state berth. Except for Rod Wilson, who graduated the year before, the ’65 team was identical to the ’64 Vikings, who also were undefeated in the regular season (11-0), but lost in regional play. What made this ‘65 team quite unique was that it essentially was the same as the Babe Ruth team that Bud Wilson and Don Mueller put together and took to the state tournament years earlier, with everyone playing the same positions that they had played since little league: Lyle Christensen (1B), Wayne Larson (2B), Lee Sorenson (3B), Mickey Streeper (SS), Larry Johansen (LF), Mike Larson (CF), Randy Morris (RF), Butch Mueller (P) and Willard Wahl (C). Sickness or injury was not an option—Larry Sorenson, an 8th grader, was the only substitute. While the team was good at winning games, they would have never been selected for the cover of GQ. After many years of simply playing games wearing jeans and t-shirts, Superintendent Dale Doty decided that the team really needed uniforms. Unfortunately, all the school budget allowed for was an old 1940s vintage set that Doty found at Government Surplus. These uniforms had once belonged to players who were much, much bigger, and hence, when running onto the field the team looked more like a group of circus clowns than athletes. The town of Ryder pretty much shut down and traveled to Minot on that June ’65 afternoon to support the Vikings in the state tournament, but the winning streak ended, and Ryder eventually finished 4th in the state. Nonetheless, it was a good two-year run as the Vikings compiled a combined 23-3 record! That’s what was happening 50 years ago.
Happenings in Ryder:
Sunday, June 28, 2015,
@7pm, Calvary Church is hosting a special music concert with the Brian Besser
Family. It will be a great time of Gospel music.
Monday-Thursday, June
29-July 2 is 5-Day Club, sponsored by CEF-Child Evangelism Fellowship. This
year it will be a 4-Day Club due to Independence Day. It’s a fun week for kids
ages 4 to 12! (Parents are welcome to attend.) There are two options of
location & time: Makoti City Park, by the Gazebo – 10:00 to 11:30am and
Ryder City Park, by the Gazebo – 1:00 to 2:30pm.
July 6, 7, 8---Vacation
Bible School, Monday-Wednesday, 9:00am-3:30pm at Calvary Church in Ryder. This
is for all kids who are Kindergarten on up to those who have just completed 6th
grade. Bring a sack lunch. Teens are welcome to help.
