Ryder News for Jan. 19, 2017
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| Hiddenwood Winter Fishing Derby. |
I see there were a few brave souls that ventured out onto
Hiddenwood Lake braving the cold and snow for the Hiddenwood Winter Fishing
Derby on Jan. 14th of this year. There were 39 adults and 11 juniors fishing
this year. The ice was 2 ½ feet thick and above zero temps and no wind.
And the winners of the Derby were:
In the Adult Northern Class-1st place, Dalton Walsh
with his northern weighing 8.40 lbs.: 2nd place for Adult Northern Class was
Joe Lautenschlager with his northern weighing 8.15 lbs.: And 3rd place in the
Adult Northern class there were two winners, Darwin Van Dyke and Justin Johnson
with their northerns weighing 7.70 lbs. Congratulations!
The Adult Perch Class was won by Lacy Grimwood with
the perch weighing .10 lbs. Congratulations!
In the Junior Northern Class: 1st Place: Gage
Schenfisch with his fish weighing 7.05 lbs. : 2nd Place: Clay Schenfisch with
his fish weighing 6.50 lbs.: 3rd Place: Dylan Pank with his fish weighing 5.95
lbs. Congratulations!
In the Junior Perch Class the winner was: Violet
Braaflat with her perch weighing .10 lbs. Congratulations!
John and Shirley and Kraig Brandvold, Tom and Linda Madsen,
and Joyce and Pat McKinzie were Christmas Eve supper guests of Lee and Julie
Brandvold and kids. They had a wonderful prime rib and shrimp scampi supper and
a fun time of exchanging gifts and playing some games with the kids, Stetson
and Shelsey. Joyce said the blowing snow was really bad when they left the
Brandvold place about midnight and they could not see the road at times, going
into Ryder. They were so glad to get into town. They were snowed in at Pat’s
house on Christmas Day and could not get to Bismarck to have Christmas Day with
Pat’s son, Mike and family. Julie brought the kids into town so they could play
some card games and have some company for a few hours on Christmas Day. It was
such a nasty day, they hated to see them come in but they had a good day after
all and it helped pass the time and day. Kids can really help to entertain!
They were not able to get out of Pat’s yard until Tues. A
good neighbor up the street, Jodi Reinisch, came with his Payloader and moved
some snow for them out of Pat’s driveway so they could get out on Tues. They
appreciated it very much and said they may need him again if this weather
doesn’t let up.
Kenny and I had a good neighbor from up north, Ross Sherven,
come several times to blow us out and push snow for us. It was a little much
for our bobcat to handle and we needed a path made to the two propane tanks.
Ted and Kay Hofstad Upgren visited with Faye and Bud Karna
in Bismarck. Kay and Ted are getting
ready to go to a warmer climate for several months; so, they decided to visit
the Karnas before leaving. Kay, Bud and
Faye all went to Ryder High together and find it fun to get caught up on former
classmates and other Ryder people.
The 2016 records are being finalized for the Ryder
Historical Society. Following you will
find a list of those whose obituaries have been recorded. It includes 11 former graduates of Ryder
and/or North Shore. If you know of others, please inform the Historical
Society.
They are Edna Arneson Fredrick a 1946 graduate; Loren Quandt; DeLoris Fox Johnson a 1949
graduate; Lois Bradley Nogosek a 1963 graduate; Myron Brandt a 1953 graduate;
Keith Kronbach a 1970 graduate; Robert Balucki; Donald Weigel; Charlotte Dyke
Butterfield; Lois Brandt McKinzie a1953 graduate; Jennifer Haugen Nicholls
daughter to Denise Brandt Haugen and Jeff Haugen; Doris Liffrig wife of Duane
Liffrig; Doug Lahti son of Myron & Donna Lahti; Art Bjordahl, Jr.; Marjorie
Lewis daughter to Ben and Elsie Mueller Lewis; Judi Weltikol Bradley wife of
Alvie; Lilas Wasvick Guttormson wife of Clarence; Darlene Nush Morse; Barbara
Horning Keller a 1944 graduate; Robert Morris a 1949 graduate; George Linnertz
a 1945 graduate; Mildred Bergeson Peterson wife of Leslie; Pearl Eide Sparavalo
a 1936 graduate; Dennis Endreson son of Duane and Pedie; Sheri Nelson Weigel a
1978 North Shore graduate; Donna Betts Paulson wife of Dwight; Jerry Sorenson
son to Harold and Ethel Steine Sorenson.
I told you that I would identify all those Larson kids this
week that I had the picture of in last week’s paper. Dig out last week’s paper
and follow along.. Starting at the Right
side, oldest to youngest: Eileen, Richard, Eugene, Joan, Byron, Ronald, Sylvia,
Michael, and Linda. The youngest is Nancy and she wasn’t in the picture, either
she was napping in house or hadn’t been born yet! Hope most of my readers got
the names right and in the correct order.
The Ryder Community Food Pantry will be open Saturday,
January 21st, 11a.m. to 1p.m. due to donations of fresh products that need to
be given out. The Soup and Sandwich Social will also be at that time. Hopefully
the weather will cooperate this time and we can get back on schedule with the
openings for the food pantry!
Dave and Kathy Kimball met 2 of their kids; Carl and Crystal
Cree and their kids Matayah, Avery and Ean; and Amanda and Joe McCallum and
their 6 kids; Mackenzie (home from college), Tristan, Kaleb, Autumn, Aspen and
Colton at Olive Garden the Saturday before last, so they could have lunch with
them all and so Dave could give Joe; his son-in-law, a wood chest that Dave had
made for him to keep his military memorabilia in, since he retired from the Air
Force. Joe was very surprised and loved all the caring and love that went into
building it.
Dave and Kathy were also snowbound at home for four days,
due to 4 foot snow drifts on the gravel roads and the county not having time to
clean them. Kathy was a little worried
about missing 3 days work and Dave hadn't been able to open the Senior Center
for breakfast or to be at the Senior center meeting.
Judy Kimball called Kathy and asked her if she had her bags
packed to come live with them in Colorado for the winter! Watch out Dave and
Rick, you never know what those 2 are up to!!
I had a very busy few days last week starting on Jan. 6th. I
was scheduled to have chemo but when I told the nurse how tired and short of
breath I was, she got permission to do blood work on me. It was discovered that
my hemoglobin was real low again and I was scheduled that day for 2 units of
blood. But there was a snafu with the blood that was sent to the lab and they
had to run it several times to get a donor match. So instead of having 2 units
of blood, I was only able to receive one that day and scheduled for the next
one on Monday, Jan. 9th.
Of course I had all kinds of other medical things scheduled
for that Jan. 9th as well starting with a PET scan at 9:30 to check on the
cancer. Then I was scheduled for a mammogram at noon and then a visit with
primary Dr. at 1 and then finally the blood transfusion at 2. I thought that I
would have a chance to eat after PET scan before mammogram. Wrong!! My Dr.
called and wanted to know if I could come in around 10:30 as he had a meeting
at 1. Yippee. There goes my lunch. I told him about PET Scan but said I would
get there as soon as possible afterwards. Luckily, I got in early for scan so
was able to get to Dr. all the way across town in time for that appointment.
Then we scurried all the way back across town to make the mammogram
appointment. Now to eat...by that time we were starving as we hadn’t eaten yet
that day. After eating, I called Cancer Care to see if I could get in early and
luckily I was able to and had my transfusion early! It’s surprising how a
little blood can make you feel so much better. Maybe I should check into
becoming a vampire!
Now I have been running a fever and having some pain in my
left side kind of by armpit for a while so Kenny thought maybe we should go to
ER to have it checked out so Tuesday evening the 10th of Jan. off we go. This
time I was out of there in 4 hours, a miracle. I had blood work, an EKG, chest
X-Ray and finally a CT scan. They said lungs, heart and blood work were all
clear but the CT scan showed that there was something, either a tumor or
swollen lymph nodes in the armpit area. Great!
Then on the day of my birthday I woke up looking like I had
the mumps..swollen lymph glands on both sides of jaw and neck. Hmmm. Well,
since I was scheduled to see cancer Dr. on Friday I just waited to show him. I
did get some good news. PET scan showed no additional cancer activity and what
is there is under control for the time being and mammogram was all clear. Dr.
did decide I should have a biopsy on lymph nodes under arm so will have that
shortly. In the meantime I have to be off chemo and aspirin til then. I have my
suspicions that by the time they get this biopsy set up, the lymph nodes in the
armpit area will be gone. The ones on jawline and neck are almost gone now!
We haven’t had a chance to celebrate either mine or Johnny’s
birthday as he has been sick but I think maybe this next week we will all be
well enough to celebrate!
I think I will skip the Old Time News for this week as you
probably have a headache from reading all this!
Upcoming events:
Jan. 21: Food Pantry and Lunch Social at the Ryder Community
Center/Gym. Lunch Social is from 11-1 and the food pantry is open from 11-2.
Jan. 22: Services at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen at
9 a.m.
Jan. 22: Services at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Makoti at
10:30 a.m. with communion.
Jan. 22: Services
at Calvary Church of Ryder at 10:30 a.m.
The Mobile Mammogram Unit will be in
Ryder on January 24. Appointments are required. Call Sarah at 701-720-8421 to
make an appointment or for more information.
That’s it for this week. Remember to get
your news into me so we can share it with the world. You enjoy reading other’s
happenings and I know they would enjoy reading yours! Have a great week and
enjoy the January thaw!!
