Ryder News for May 11, 2017
Congratulations go out
to Marvin and Maureen Hagen who became the grandparents of twin baby girls on
May 7th. Parents are Ryan and Jade Hagen. Both babies are doing fine and
hopefully I will have more info for next week’s news!
The McGraths came out
to Ryder for Bingo Friday night and we all went to try our luck at winning the
big pot! Alas! Not a one of us won a thing except for Kenny. He won two 4
corners prizes of a free card. Maybe next month we will have better luck.
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| St John’s dining room starting to fill up for the Mother Daughter luncheon. |
Staci McGrath and I
attended the Mother Daughter luncheon at St. John’s Lutheran Church here in
Ryder. Wow... for people that came for this and the church basement was full
again. There were many delicious and varied salads and not much was left when
it was over. I had made a taco salad and didn’t have much left to bring home!
After eating we all made our way upstairs to be entertained by the “Da Lutherlic Ladies”, and entertained we
were as they had everyone in stitches with their antics and singing.
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Da
Lutherlic Ladies getting a head start on lunch.
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One of the
sketches Da Lutherlic Ladies performed.
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There is an upcoming
Rip to Ryder Fest June 3, 2017, in Ryder, ND. The itinerary for the day is
still in the works. Corporate Harley-Davidson will be present, they are
sponsoring the event to promote their Harley-Davidson Rider Academy (Abate does
our Rider Academy and does qualify for the Harley-Davidson Rider Academy). They
will be painting the Ryder water tower Harley-Davidson style. They will also be
filming a national commercial. Harley-Davidson is going to announce this event
nationally, June 1, 2017. They may want to film a large group of bikers riding
on Main Street in Ryder. A time for the filming of this has not been scheduled
yet. It should be scheduled by next week. If anybody would like to participate
in the filming, all they have to do is show up. As I learn more about times I will
keep you informed. This is just a HEADS UP notice to you.
Clint Romesha will be present to
participate in the Flag Raising Ceremony.
A Benefit Ride will leave Ryder at 11:00
AM, $20.00 per bike and the proceeds will go to Gabe Hillestad to assist his family
with medical expenses. Gage Hillestad, is a fifth-grade member of our South
Prairie community who suffered a stroke Sunday, January 29th. He is in stable
condition but fighting for his life. His mother and father are missing wages
from work to be with him aside from the medical bills associated.
The band Moments Notice will be playing
in Ryder Friday and Saturday evenings. The city of Ryder has offered to provide
free primitive camping. Budweiser and Morelli’s will be involved in this event
as well. Food trucks will be available. There will be Bouncy Houses, cotton
candy and Knockerball for family entertainment.
The Ryder Veterans’ binder is being
updated at the museum. The pictures received so far will be displayed at the
Memorial Day program again but not individually. Two lists have been found and
the veteran’s names were listed according to the Ryder church they/family
attended at the time of their enlistment.
A third list has been made of Ryder’s WWI and WWII Veterans. It is not known where this list originated
but was found among papers. Also, an old Fargo Forum was found among the Daniel
Jackson papers that gave an alphabetical list of all the North Dakota men that
died in WWII. The names that may be recognized
by you readers were Melvin Beyer, Melvin Bjordahl, Thomas Nelson, Joseph Nush,
Alton Olesen, Bernard Peterson, and Richard Walsh of Makoti. Those listed with
a Ryder address were Carl Eckstrom. Arnold Freelander, Herbert Meyer, and
Milton Quandt.
It stated that the end of the war
meant the homecoming of over 54,000 ND Servicemen. They listed the county figures and for Ward
County there were 1035 enlistments and 493 discharges. Some names listed in
those discharges were Phillip Hanson, Joseph Hjelmstad and Macy Paul of Ryder;
Edward Arndt of Emmet; Frank Weigel of Roseglen.
It was also interesting to read that
to secure victory the war cost the US $350 Billion. This meant that more than 5
lives more were lost and more than 6 dollars per dollar was spent over the cost
of WWI.
The peak strength of the armed
services at any given time was about 11,500,000 men and women. Roughly a third
of the casualties were incurred and a third of the money spent to defeat Japan.
The rest went toward subduing Nazi Germany.
Vietnam Veteran Pins will be presented
at the Ryder Memorial Day Celebration at the Ryder School Gym by the American
Legion LC Jensen Post # 99 of Ryder on Monday, May 29 at 10 a.m. The veteran
does not need to be a member of the American Legion. Eligibility requirements
are: Living United States veterans who served on active duty in the U. S. Armed
Forces at anytime during the period of Nov. 1, 1955 to May 15, 1975 regardless
of location. For more information and to help organizers plan for this
celebration, contact Susan Mahoney at 701-730-5772.
The Old News will be back next week.
Upcoming
Events:
May 14: Services at Calvary
Church of Ryder at 10:30 a.m. with Sunday school at
9:30.
May 14: Services at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church of Makoti at 9 a.m.
May 14: Services at St John’s Lutheran
Church of Ryder at 10:30 a.m.
May 29: Memorial Day Program 10 a.m. at
Ryder school gym. Food will be served afterwards at the Senior Center in Ryder.
June 3 & 4: 9th Annual Hoofin' It for a Cure cancer awareness horseback
ride.
June 10th: Hiddenwood Sportsmen's Club Fishing Derby 10 a.m.
- 3 p.m. at Hiddenwood Lake 8 miles south of Makoti
June 15: Ryder Town N Country picnic in the Ryder Park with
prizes and good food.
That’s all the news for this week, enjoy the sunshine and
warm weather.
I made a
huge to do list for today. I just can't figure out who's going to do it.
