Ryder News Aug 31, 2017

Ryder News for Aug. 31, 2017

Kenny and I attended church services Saturday evening at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder. The attendance wasn’t large but there were enough of us to vote to replace the shingles on the church roof. The sermon was very interesting and was thoroughly enjoyed by all of us. Afterwards most of us stayed to visit for awhile.

Ryder Senior Citizens had two new members join at our last meeting. We would like to welcome Bill and Joan Quinn to our group.

Red Cross volunteers Allen Becker (former Ryder resident) and his wife Carol headed out for Texas with a Red Cross van. They are on their way to deliver supplies, etc. to the areas that were ravaged by Hurricane Harvey.

4 generations of Haugens finishing up harvest.

Harvest finished up on August 23 at the Don Haugen farm NE of Ryder. Brad is so very fortunate to have 4 generations help him with the farming. Pictured is brother Jeff Haugen, Mesa, AZ; father Don Haugen, Minot; Brad Haugen, Garrison; sons Ryan Haugen, Minot and Tyler Haugen, Ryder; grandson Mason Haugen, Minot.  Tom Hanson, Ryder also helps them but was not available for the photo. 

Captain Robert Roed of the Ward County Sheriff's Dept. sent me the following: “I am officially announcing that I will be seeking the office of Ward County Sheriff in the 2018 election. I am a lifelong Minot resident. I joined the Ward County Sheriff's Department after serving four years in the United States Marine Corps. I have been with the department for 27 years. I started as a part time Corrections Officer and worked my way up through the ranks until reaching my current rank of Captain with the Sheriff's Department. I feel the time is right for me to take the next step. Thank you, Robert Roed.”

Lenyce Simmons volunteer with Med Star Dirt Track Rescue Team (photo by Betty Nordstrom).

On Sunday, August 20^th, Lenyce Simmons (former Ryder resident) got the opportunity to volunteer with Med Star Dirt Track Rescue Team for the Craftsman World of Outlaw series sprint car at Nodak Speedway in Minot, ND. Med Star is one of the premier safety crews in the country. They travel all of the United States providing EMS, Fire and safety support for major dirt track races. Med Star also conducts safety seminars for race track safety crews on the best practices to rescue drivers that have been involved in racing accidents.

Simmons is a huge race fan and got her start as a little girl when her Uncle Butch used to take her and her sisters to the races in Minot. When she was older, she became a member of the Ryder-Makoti Fire and Rescue Department and became certified for Firefighter 1 and ND State Auto Extrication.

After moving to Mandan, Simmons started volunteering at Dacotah Speedway as a corner official. In March of 2017, Dacotah Speedway decided that safety training was needed to help protect drivers from serious injuries at the race track. With the help of Destiny Motorsports, Jay Masur from Med Star Dirt Track Rescue Team taught a safety seminar for safety crews from race tracks all over North Dakota and Montana.

A few weeks prior to the World of Outlaws race in Minot, Masur put out a call for those that had completed the safety seminar to join the Med Star Dirt Track Rescue Team and continue their training experience. Simmons jumped at the chance and brought two other safety volunteers from Dacotah Speedway on board to assist them. Simmons suited up and worked side by side Masur during the races.

“It was a great experience to work with the crew and see first hand what they described during their training sessions,” said Simmons.

One of our readers commented that it must be fall time as the colorful flower baskets that were hanging on Ryder’s Main Street have disappeared. Fall and winter are coming and the flowers have been put away once again. Hate to think of all the cold coming even if we did have lots of hot days this summer.

Can any of you readers use ink cartridges from HP that are numbered 02?  I have a reader whose printer quit working and has cartridges they’d like to give away. If so, let me, Sue, know and I will get in touch with this person.

Marty Shaw’s combine fire.

Marty Shaw of Makoti had his combine catch on fire and burn up while he was combining his wheat field. He was lucky that he made it out of the combine cab as he had to jump through the fire! Mary Shaw said on Facebook that Marty has some 2nd degree burns to the left side of his face from the nose to the ear. Lost some hair on the back of his head where he was on fire. (yikes)...lost half his eyebrows...Lots of blisters but he will be fine in a couple of weeks. He had to literally jump through the flames to get out of the cab.

The Ryder Food Pantry says, “We had an awesome turnout this last Saturday.

We appreciate all of you who helped out.

We do have fresh zucchini and will be getting more this week. If interested, please call Kathy 701-578-5876 or PJ 701-240-3964. We will meet you or something to get it to you”.

April 1951 Blue Hill News by Mamie Olson

Mrs. Clifford Daleness received a letter from her mother, Mrs. Solenberger, that her dad was hospitalized just a week at Redding, California but was out of the hospital and they were expecting to start for ND about April 18^th.

Dale and Warren Hopkins and Bub DeWitz returned home Wednesday afternoon after spending the winter at Sweethome, Oregon and all are glad to be home again.  They tell us the Johnsons expect to leave for ND this weekend.

Mrs. Ed Olson and Mamie were at the Olaf Hjelmstad home in Ryder on Thursday for Ladies Aid Circle.

A few Blue Hillers went to Roseglen to the Waffle Supper Tuesday evening. They report a large crowd and a big supper.

The spring runoff water has claimed its first victim in this area, an eight months old calf at the Carl Anderson farm. The calf slipped into a full ditch of water and snow. His disappearance wasn’t noticed for an hour and after he had been got out still alive, he died an hour later. The loss of an eight month calf is no small matter at current prices.

Schjold Eide, route 1 mail carrier is now able to use his car and to make mail boxes he hasn’t seen since early January.

Mrs. Anna Jackson, 78, who lives alone on her homestead in Blue Hill Twp. wasn’t able to get to her mailbox from early January till April 9 but friends have helped her in that and other respects.

Earl Romsaas, who has been in the army since October is on leave at his parental home, Mr. And Mrs. Sever Romsaas. He has been stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas and recently started officer's’ training school and has been on a military air tour of the US. He’ll return to duty in a few days.

Mr. and Mrs. John Slobojan, ranchers west of Garrison, visited Harry Peterson's Tuesday.

Mrs. Glen Hopkins accompanied her sister, Mrs. Omar Rostad and Vernon of rural Roseglen to Minot Wednesday.

Blue Hill farmers went to Roseglen Friday for the annual sign-up meeting of the PMA.

Raymond Johnson, son of Mrs. Christina (Bert) Johnson, has recently been promoted to corporal. He has been stationed in Guam nearly two years. He’s made his high school diploma at the same time. He would appreciate a letter from home folks. His address is Cpl. John R. Johnson, RA 17.258.143, 1^st Trans. Truck Co. APO 246 c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Don and Darlene Peterson are driving back and forth to school in Ryder now after staying in Ryder at the home of Mrs. Carl Nelson during the winter.

Phyllis Hill, who lived at Blue Hill three years while her mother taught school here, is graduating this spring from Martin High School in three years and graduating with honors.

To be Continued!

Upcoming Events:

Sept. 1: Bingo at 7 p.m. at Ryder’s community club/gym

Sept. 3: Services at Calvary Church of Ryder at 10:30 a.m.

Sept. 3: Services at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder at 9 a.m.

Sept. 3: Services at Hope Lutheran Church of Makoti at 10:30 a.m. with communion.

Sept. 11: Ryder Senior Citizens to meet at 6 p.m. with supper and a short business meeting to follow.

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Ryder News Aug 24, 2017

Ryder News for Aug. 24, 2017

Our little 3 year old grandson Levi Sprinkle fell ill this weekend and spent some time in the Garrison ER and also the Bismarck ER and hospital. He woke up with his eyes swollen shut and a terrible headache and was having trouble breathing. So lots of trips were made by his parents back and forth between Garrison, Ryder and Bismarck. At first Garrison thought he had the flu and sent him home but he just got worse so back to Garrison ER and a trip by ambulance to Bismarck. After being looked at in the Bismarck ER it was decided on a CT scan and later he was admitted to hospital so an MRI could be done. It was discovered that he has a sinus disease, possible migraines and they want to check him for West Nile Disease. I guess there is a Dr. in Fargo that works with sinus disease so they will be checking into that.

Dennis Borrison’s fish

 

Don Alderman’s fish

Don and Elaine Alderman had a houseful of company this last week with Dennis and LuAnn Borrison coming to visit and then a few days later Troy Alderman came to visit his folks and take in some fishing on his dad’s new boat. He also came up for Colin Stubley’s memorial. He got to do a lot of visiting with old friends and to spend some time with his grandkids, Noah and Teigan. Troy was only here for 3 days but he crammed a lot of fun into those days.

The Kimball, Bogert, McCallum, and Cree families celebrated birthdays and Kathy Kimball’s retirement at the Hiddenwood Lake picnic area the last week of July. There were over 50 friends and family from all over the U. S. that came to help celebrate with them. A lot camped over the whole weekend or stayed at the Kimball Farmstead. The weather was great! And a good time was had by all.  Kathy and Dave would like to tell all of those who helped them celebrate that they really appreciate it!!

August 15th Kathy and Dave celebrated their 30th anniversary at the Olive Garden with their kids and 9 of their grandkids and also to wish their Grandson, Carlos, Happy Travels, as he moves on to new beginnings in his life in Montana. Carlos graduated high school in Minot this spring.

The North Shore class of 1974 and 1975

The North Shore class of 1974 and 1975 met on the riverboat in Bismarck on August 5th. We had a blast! We also visited all evening in our motel. It was like we had never been apart A few from the class of 1978 joined us also. Those in the picture are Tondi (Erb) McGuire, Denise (Brandt) Downs, Debbie (Brandvold) Peterson, Cindy (Zieman) Burckhard, Karen (Matz) Worthy, Tami (Skarsgard) Haugen, Lenyce (Hove) Simmons, Donna (Giesen) Wheeling, Debbie (Brandt) Stafslien, Jody (Stafslien) Schmidt, Gayle (Wurtz) Hofland, Annette (Bofenkamp) Nelson, Joan (Rensch) Stafslien, Laurel (Larson) Myers, Darlah (Karna) Rensch and Mary (Rensch) Karna.

The Parshall High School graduating class of 1965 had a 70th birthday celebration this past Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in Bismarck. It was 3 days of fun from what I hear. Kenny and I didn’t attend as we knew we couldn’t stay for 3 days and his COPD makes it hard for him to do much visiting and standing around. I guess I could have gone but hated to leave him home alone. I guess Dick and I are the only ones of the class that haven’t turned 70 yet...not til next year! The first evening (Tues) they all had supper at The Bistro Supper Club. They went on the riverboat on Wednesday and on Thursday morning as everyone was getting ready to leave they all met at the Cracker Barrel for breakfast.

One of the classmates said, “What a wonderful time we had at the birthday party for the class of 1965 from Parshall, ND. We partied, laughed, ate lots, did a riverboat cruise and forgot to go to bed. We are almost too old for this! Thanks everyone for coming and sharing many memories and stories with us. Shall we start planning the next one?”

Those classmates attending were Dick Ludwig, Alan Lerberg, Larry Walsh, Mick Johnson, Joan Nelson, Diana Baker, Val Mickelson, Nikki Miller, Dick Hauge, Royal Lyson, Gene Meyers, Roger Meyers, Gerry Hedberg, Terry Auch, Larry Frink and Bonnie Kilber.

I didn’t include the spouses or invited guests in this listing, just the classmates and I sure hope I didn’t forget anyone!!

Daniel Starks and Joleen Hauf

Last week on Monday, Daniel Starks performed gospel and 50’s & 60’s music at Dakota Terrace in Minot. After the concert, it was fun to visit with Joleen Hauf, a former Makoti resident.  The next day, Daniel also had a concert for the Garrison Hospital Nursing residents. He enjoys performing and his audiences tell him that they love his music. Daniel had his dad, Pastor Jonathan Starks, join him in singing “Heartaches by the Number”, a folk song medley, and a few gospel songs. Daniel is looking forward to performing at the Norsk Hostfest in September.

Blue Hill News by Mamie Olson New Year 1951

Mr. and Mrs. John Linnertz and children were at Nick Linnertz’ Sunday afternoon.

Andy Reed came up from Nishu to visit with Harry Peterson Friday. He said he was a Santa Claus that had gotten stranded but nevertheless Don and Darlene enjoyed to have that Santa Claus come.

A Mr. Elmer Tucker of Bismarck had to remain overnight at Palmer Daleness’s Wed. night due to Highway 37 being blocked, but after the snowplow went through, he could go on.   

The Gordon Hancansens and Palmer Dalenesses were dinner guests at the Fred Hacansen home Tues.

Mr. & Mrs. Ole Folden took Dianna and Dennis to Garrison for a check-up with local doctors Tuesday. The youngsters both seemed improved.

In spite of the weather, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Hove, Mrs. Alma Meyer and Lorin, and Mrs. Joseph Kraft, David and Joan and Joyce Erb came to help Loni Ronelle celebrate her first birthday at her parents’ home, the Walter Hoves. Her mommy had baked her a heart shaped cake topped with cherries and a candle.

Not realizing the stormy condition on Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hopkins came out to the O.K. Hopkins’ home but did not stay long and did not encounter 37 again, making the trip home on # 6.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Sletten & Dianne spent time Saturday until Monday at the Ervin Hopkin’s home.

Mr. & Mrs. Roy Yonker of Garrison brought Stella Daleness up to the Ole Daleness home Tuesday evening but due to the storm on Wednesday were not able to return to Garrison again until Thursday.  Stella returned with them, leaving from Garrison for Velva where she teaches.

Helen Hanson has returned to Jamestown to resume her duties at the F.U. Office after spending the holidays at home.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hansen and Arvid and Jacob Hansen visited at John Hansen’s last Friday.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Upcoming Events:

Aug. 26: Food Pantry open 10 a.m.

Aug. 26: Saturday Services at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder.

Aug. 27: Services at Calvary Church of Ryder at 10:30 a.m.

Aug. 27: Services at Hope Lutheran Church of Makoti at 9 a.m.

Aug. 27: Services at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen at 10:30 a.m. with communion.

 If we ever travel far in the universe to another planet with intelligent life, let's just make patterns in their crops and leave.

Ryder News Aug 17, 2017

Ryder News for Aug. 17, 2017

Our sympathy goes out to the family of Paul Rau of rural Makoti. Paul passed away in his home on Friday, Aug. 11th.

Ryder Senior Citizens on their group tour of the Heritage Center and then Lewis and Clark riverboat ride in Bismarck.

Doug Wurtz said, “My thanks to the members of the Ryder (ND) Senior Citizens Center for attending my tour today (Aug. 11, 2017) of the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck.

Ryder is my home town so there was a little added pressure to do a good presentation. They were a great bunch and had a lot of interesting questions and comments.

After lunch at the Heritage Center they continued on for an afternoon ride on the Lewis and Clark Riverboat before heading back north.

I appreciate my sister, Denise Johnson, and brother-in-law, Harvey Johnson, for getting this tour arranged.

I hope they can make many more trips to the Heritage Center after this introductory tour.

Safe travels!

The Ryder Senior Center had this trip planned for several weeks and Harvey and Denise Johnson were the main ones in getting everything set up. There were 14 seats on the bus and I believe they were all filled.

Kenny and I opted out of going as he has trouble walking and also has COPD. The ones that took the bus trip were: Harvey and Denise Johnson; Ron and Muriel Peterson; Bill and Joan Quinn; Dick and Debbie Ludwig; Ruth Wurtz; Colleen Sherven; Dwight Paulson; David and Kathy Kimball; and Gary Hagen. Kenny and Kathy Fjeldahl and Gary Sorenson met up with the group in Bismarck.

Bushes by Kronbach farm that resemble a cow. This is best viewed from a distance. The closer you get, you realize it is bushes.

As Kenny and I drive to Minot several times during the week, we keep seeing what we think of as a cow or bull when we are at a distance from the Kronbach farm. The close we get, we realize it really is two bushes together. But it is kinda freaky to see bushes that resemble a cow. Check it out the next time you are headed north on highway 28.

Bald eagle nest with two occupants

Another interesting thing we see when we go camping is this group of dead trees and way up in the tree is a bald eagle nest and earlier this year there were two babies sharing the nest. It is really hard to get a picture as you can’t get up close and I don’t carry my good camera around with me, just my cell phone!

With this total solar eclipse coming up Monday Aug. 21, I think the safest thing to do is to view it on TV. There is no sense in taking a chance on scarring your eyes or children’s eyes by wearing a pair of special glasses that may or may not work. There is a lot of fake stuff out there and always people hoping to make a buck.

Blue Hill News by Mamie Olson

New Year 1951

More snow, more wind and not so warm about describes our weather for the week. Sunday, Dec. 31, 1950 brought another blizzard through the afternoon. New Year’s Day dawned fair at least so folks dared venture out for “That Dinner”. Tuesday was a grand day but not so for Wednesday when Ye old East wind brought about four more inches of new snow, piling up again.  Towards evening it shifted to the NW changing the shape of the drifts a bit. Thursday, today, has been a nice clear day, calm but quite nippy on the noses with the temperatures snuggling close to the zero mark. The radio man just said “colder” but the roads are open. Highway 28 south of Ryder has remained open all winter but 37 past the Hansen farm blocks up with the least bit of snow. Today the snow plow has gone by three times, clearing 37 again. The mail men are having to reroute the regular routes. Scjoild Eide on Rte 1 had to retrack several times. Alvin Officer on the Star Route has started to make his route backwards from his usual route. Farmers are reporting that the snow is getting deep on the level from hauling hay.

New Year’s Day let more people do a bit of dinner eating than Christmas. The Paul Sorensen's were at the Harry Peterson’s together with Ed and Roy for a goose supper. The Ray and Carl Olson's were at Ed Olsons.

Omar Rostads came up to Glen Hopkins. Tommy Nelson's were dinner guests at the John Pederson home.

Those cold, cough and flu seem to be mastering several households lately. At Ole Foldens, Dennis and Dianna both had virus pneumonia, likewise, Mrs. Clifford Daleness and Leann but all are improved and not any have been hospital patients.

Mr. & Mrs. Francis Bland motoring up from Riverdale on Sunday, encountered snow blocked roads near the Fred Hacanson farm and had to remain there overnight but as 28 was open and 37 to the Hacansen corner, Soren Sorenson drove down on Monday where they stayed until Tuesday afternoon, when the snow plow went through again.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sorenson have received word that their son, Lloyd, who has been with the Appliance department at Sears Roebuck for more than two years has been promoted to District supervisor in part of Montana, ND, and Minnesota in this department with the family moving to Fargo where Lloyd will have his headquarters.

The O.K. Haugens, John Linnertzs & Harry Petersons were visitors at Ed Olson's Tuesday afternoon.

Mr. & Mrs. Wendell Hansen took Mrs. & Mrs. Olaf Hansen to Garrison on Thursday where Mrs. Hansen consulted doctors for a bad leg. It was found necessary for her to enter Riverdale hospital for treatments for awhile.

TO BE CONTINUED

Upcoming Events:

Aug. 20: Services at Calvary Church of Ryder at 10:30 a.m.

Aug. 20: Services at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen at 9 a.m.

Aug. 20: Services at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Makoti at 10:30 a.m. with communion.

Aug. 26: Food Pantry open 10 a.m.

Aug. 26: Saturday Services at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder.

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