Ryder News for July 28, 2016
Not much
news for this week. The ND State Fair is on so I imagine everyone was busy
making plans to attend.
We did have some rain Saturday in the wee hours lasting
until around 9:30 that morning. The rain gauge showed 2 inches. I visited with
others around town and they had about the same total. The rain came down hard
and then quit and then started up again many times. I only heard one good crack
of thunder and lightening but it was loud enough to make a person jump!
The McGrath’s came to visit and fish on Saturday...Kenny,
John and Staci went fishing while I stayed home with Johnny. They didn’t have
any luck fishing, their excuse was that it was too windy! (It’s always good to
have an excuse.)
My brother and I took in the free soup (vegetable this time)
and sandwich (ham) that the Senior Citizens had been putting on at the Ryder
Community Club/Gym. Kathy Kimball is the lady who made all the food.
There will be NO soup and sandwich in August and the food
pantry hours will be changing. You can check the Ryder Community Food Pantry
website for more information in August or call 578-5876.
BINGO is cancelled for the month of August!
The Makoti Senior Center will have a barbeque on Wednesday,
August 10 at 6:00 PM at the center. Burgers and brats and buns will be
furnished and the rest is potluck.
Shelsey and Stetson Brandvold spent a week with their
Grandma Joyce and Grandpa Pat McKinzie for their summer vacation this past
week. They were gone every day doing all kinds of things. They were very
impressed with the Peace Gardens as Shelsey said they had been learning about
ND in school and she had seen a Video of the Peace Gardens. She had asked a
long time ago to see it.
They took in the Farmers Market in Rugby and the Music in
the Park with free ice cream and enjoying the playground equipment also at the
same time. They did a lot of shopping for some school clothes which they really
liked. They went out for pizza and they were a big help for us. They are at the
good age where they want to help grandpa and grandma now, which grandma and
grandpa really like! They were really missed after they left to go home!
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German Lutheran Church (Ryder’s oldest building)
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I thought I better get a picture of this old church before
it is burned. The German Lutheran Church was brought from the old Ryder
townsite and put in the new Ryder
townsite. It is the oldest building that is left from old Ryder. After serving
as a church, it then became part of the Ryder Museum buildings. The Ryder
Museum eventually moved all their artifacts to the two buildings on Main St.
and sold the building. Since it costs too much to move it ($7500-$10,000) if
someone were going to try and restore it or save it, it is going to be burned.
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City Hall building on Main St.
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The new City Hall building on Main St. is finally finished.
Note in the picture, the sign on the front of building, the new sidewalk with
handicapped space and ramp and recessed lighting under the eaves.
Upcoming Events:
July 31: Parish Services at Camp of the Cross at 10 a.m. The
Parish is sponsoring the meal and the Parish Board meets after the meal;
Calvary Church of Ryder services at 10:30 a.m.
Aug 1: 6 p.m. Senior Citizen’s meal and brief business meeting
followed by lots of visiting.
Stay cool and in the shade during this hot spell of weather
we are having. Keep an eye out for farmers as they are starting to move
machinery down the roads.
That’s it for this week. See you
next week...same time, same place!
