Ryder News for May 9, 2019
Welcome to the North Pole! We had lots of wind and snow in the storm that blew thru here Sunday night into Monday. I had a little trouble getting the doors open with at least 6 or more inches of snow in front of them. It warmed up enough Monday for the snow to start falling off the trees and buildings and making a heck of racket when it fell.
There was a widespread power outage with this storm, affecting many area towns. My power was off for about an hour and a half, but some were without power for over 13 hours. The Verendrye truck was sitting at the substation right south of my place and the guys were working to restore the power around 10:30 p.m. Kudos to the workers for getting out there in the dark, wind and snow to fix things.
When the power decided to go off and stay off, instead of just flickering like it had been doing all Sunday afternoon, it was pitch dark in the house and I had to use the flashlight on my cell phone to run around the house looking for a flashlight! Then I was upset as my cell phone didn't have much of a charge, but after talking to Staci, she told me to plug it into my computer and use that battery to charge my phone. Clever kid that I have. I would never have thought of that!! With the power going off and on all afternoon, it was very frustrating trying to watch the Twins ball game and the Nascar races. Just when things would get interesting with the ball game or races, off the power would go. Grrrr.
Brenda Novodvorsky said this about Sunday's storm: "I guess we're the winners in Douglas, 12 inches of snow from this storm plus high winds. I stepped off the deck to get to the tractor this morning and sunk thigh deep in a snow bank. I enjoyed spring while it lasted, apparently it's winter already again?"
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Downed tree in Ryder from winter storm damage.
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I went for a little drive this morning in Ryder to see if there was any damage from the winds. Yep, sure enough, I saw 2 downed trees. The worst part, they were my trees on my lots in town! I heard that Ardell Folden also had a tree go down, hitting his clothesline. If it had fallen a little differently it would have hit his garage.
Pat and Joyce McKinzie had as their guests at Dakota Farms on Easter Sunday in Rugby, all of Pat's kids, grandkids and great grandkids for dinner. Afterwards, they all went out to the farm to visit and the weather was so nice that the men sat outside most of the afternoon. The kids had fun looking for Easter eggs outside and inside that Grandma Joyce had hidden. After they were done hunting for eggs, they all received Easter Baskets and had fun with those. They all had an enjoyable day as they all had not been together for a long time. Mike and Jodi McKinzie will be making their new home in Florida soon and Courtney and Brian Haugstad and family will be moving to Minnesota soon so they sure are going to be missed! Those coming to the dinner and out to the farm, were Mike and Jodi Mckinzie; Brian and Courtney Haugstad, Ellie, Easton, and baby Deklan; Cory McKinzie from Bismarck; Lee and Julie Brandvold, Shelsey and Stetson from Ryder and Tom and Linda Madsen from Minot. They had a light supper and everybody helped clean up and left but they sure had a Blessed and Happy Easter.
Also spending Easter Sunday with Lorraine Nelson were Kyle, Kayla and Skylar Schatz of Minot. This was accidentally left out of last week's news.
Rondi Deaver of Minot, daughter of Ron and Muriel Peterson of Ryder has been promoted to vice president/mortgage operations manager at First International Bank & Trust. Congratulations Rondi!
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Joslyn Phillips, $1152 bingo winner.
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There was a BIG winner at Ryder's Community Club bingo Friday night! Joslyn Phillips of Ryder won the $1152.00 pot in just 51 numbers! What an exciting night for a high school senior. Congratulations!
Our sympathy goes out to the family of Jerry Jorgenson. Gerald "Jerry" Jorgenson of Parshall, ND passed away on Monday, April 29th in a Garrison hospital.
Sympathy to the family of Rudy Errol Evensvold of Blaisdell, ND. He passed away April 27 at Trinity hospital in Minot. He was the brother in law of Ruth Wurtz of Ryder and Minot.
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Douglas quilters.
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Doris Zieman and I traveled to Douglas, ND to take in the quilt auction in the Senior Citizens Building. There were many beautiful quilts and I did manage to bid on one and get it. I took a picture of the quilters many of which belong to the Trinity Lutheran Church WELCA. There are other community members that also come in and quilt. There is one gentleman, Nels Narum, who also comes in and keeps the ladies in line! The WELCA quilting ladies are: DeAnne Finken, Isabel Groninger, Judy Haner, Gloria Lies, Marion Narum, Maryann Narum, Phyllis Narum, Lorraine Nelson, Alvie Nesson and Monie Talbott. The other community ladies that quilt are: Linda Burgeson, Stephanie Hagen, Dori Wilcox and Dee Ann Lowry. The WELCA ladies that served pie and coffee were Susan Erickson, Florene Knudtson, Grace Magandy, Joanie Narum and Myrna Ness.
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Nels Narum, who keeps quilters in line.
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The Ryder Community Food Pantry, located in the Ryder Community Gym, will be open on Saturday, May 11th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
NSP graduation is coming up real soon, on May 18th at 2 p.m. as a matter of fact. Graduating seniors are: Joslyn Chilstrom-Ryder
Noah Grimm-Plaza, Darien Hauf-Makoti, Addison Miller-Ryder, Ava Rogers-Plaza, Dylan Rynestad-Plaza, Jericko Stierwalt-Plaza.
Congratulations to all the graduates!!
Basketball camps are happening at NSP May 20 & 21 for Girls grades 3-5, May 20-22 for Boys & Girls grades 7-12, May 28-30 Boys & Girls grades K-6. You may call Shawna Schenfisch at the school, (497-3734) for more information.
It will almost be Mother's Day when you read this week's news so I want to wish all the moms out there in reader land a Very Happy Mother's Day.
Remember to send your news to me so we can keep this column going.
Upcoming Events:
May 11--Ryder Community Food Pantry will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
May 12--9:15 a.m. Sunday School at Calvary Church of Ryder with Church Service at 10:30 a.m.
May 12--9 a.m. Service at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Makoti.
May 12--10:30 a.m. Service at St. John's Lutheran Church of Ryder.
May 17--Last day of school at NSP (Full day)
May 18th--2 p.m. NSP graduation
June 8--10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hiddenwood Fishing Derby
