Ryder News May 28, 2020

Ryder News for May 28, 2020 

Robert Smette

Sunday morning at Calvary Church in Ryder, they were privileged to have Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Smette speak in honor of Memorial Day. He is a C-12 Standardization Instructor pilot in the North Dakota Army National Guard. He has 20 years total service and 16 years of active duty service, and is a Graduate of Army Ranger school. He grew up locally in Ryder and Makoti, ND. 

“I will never forget this message.” a sentiment spoken by many as they left the service. May we never forget that freedom isn’t free. 

Most of us don’t remember the speeches that were given by the various military speakers we have had over the years at the memorial services. But this heartfelt and emotional speech is one that most of us will definitely remember. I’m sure there wasn’t a dry eye while he was speaking. 

Robert spoke of the horror and trauma that a family goes through when losing a loved one. In his case, he lost his big brother Keith in Iraq on Jan. 24, 2004 due to a roadside bomb. Keith paid the ultimate price, (his life) to keep our country free. He spoke of the horror when his parents opened their door to the military personnel and were told of Keith’s passing. It is something you never get over, you just get through!  

Dana Peterson’s car

Dana Peterson of rural Ryder had his car at the Memorial service. Dana has a painting of Keith on the underside of the car’s hood in honor and tribute to Keith and his service to our country! 

Robert (Bob) Petz

Robert (Bob) Petz, 87, Garrison, formerly of Makoti passed away on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at the Garrison hospital. A private funeral Mass will be held on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Garrison. A public graveside service using social distancing will be held on Saturday at approximately 12:45 p.m. at the Ryder Cemetery in Ryder. Visitation will be held on Friday from 5 to 7 at Thompson Funeral Home in Garrison. Robert Joseph Petz was born February 11, 1933 to Joseph and Irene (Anderson) Petz.  

My sympathy goes out to his family and friends. 

Dave and Kathy Kimball had a full house Memorial weekend, with their kids Amanda and Joe McCallum, their kids; Tristan, Caleb, Autumn, Aspen, Colton and big Sister Mackenzie, her mate Joshua Odell  and their son Joshua Jr.. Also Carl and Crystal Cree with their kids, Matayah, Avery and Ean. 

They had a great time, with room to run and play. They also celebrated Joe and Colton’s birthday. 

It was a rather rainy day on Sunday with my rain gauge showing .40 and my brother’s rain gauge showing .57, so once again, lots of mud puddles and the grass is growing like crazy. It seems that I have to mow 2 times a week to keep the dog yard grass under control. I’ll probably wear my riding mower out trying to keep the rest of this yard and the yard in town mowed! Rick mowed one lot over town while my brother and I did the other one. 

On the Memorial Day weekend, the  Ryder’s Community Food Pantry was honored to help feed 55 souls. 

We seem to have a plethora of wildlife in and around the area. My son saw a mama and two young moose right west of Ryder on his way to work last week and my brother had 4 deer in his yard plus a red fox. Also there seems to be a lot of skunks running around, if you don’t see one, you can sure smell it! 

If your child is 4 by August 1, 2020, get them signed up for Preschool Pre-registration for the 2020-2021 school year at the Max Public School. Please call the Max School and get them registered at 701-679-2685.  Local bus service is provided. 

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the annual Hiddenwood Sportsman Club fishing Derby for June has been canceled! 

There will be no Ryder Community Club Bingo in June or July, due to the pandemic. 

The walking gym is closed until this pandemic passes. 

Upcoming Events: 

Ryder’s Calvary church will continue to hold Parking Lot Drive-In Church services at 10:30 every Sunday morning until further notice. Tune to 107.5 on your FM radio station to listen to the service.  

May 31--10:30 a.m. Worship service at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Roseglen. There will still have to be restrictions such as social distancing, wearing face masks, disinfecting our churches and other precautionary measures to keep everyone safe. If you feel ill or have symptoms of the flu or other sickness, please do not attend church until you feel well.

Ryder News May 21, 2020

Ryder News for May 21, 2020 

This Sunday, May 24 @10:30 a.m., the Calvary Church Drive In Service will have a special Memorial Day emphasis.  Robert Smette who has served 20 years with the ND Army National Guard will be a guest speaker. The service will  include patriotic music! 

We’ve been getting little rain showers off and on but they don’t amount to much, We had .17 of rain Tuesday night into Wednesday morning and then the other day another .05. Just enough to make mud puddles again! 

Staci gifted me with my Mother’s Day present on Thursday of last week. She got me a Roku which is a streaming stick for my TV. With this little device which plugs into my TV, I can watch a lot of TV programs etc. for free. I can hardly wait to install it and try it out! 

The Kimballs had family out for the whole Mother’s Day weekend, Carl, Crystal, Matayah, Avery and Ean Cree and their 2 dogs came to visit Friday and stayed until Sunday. Joe, Amanda, Tristan, Caleb, Autumn, Aspen and Colton McCallum and their 3 dogs. They also stayed Friday and left Sunday. 

Mackenzie Casper, Joshua Odell and Joshua Jr came out for the day on Sunday. These are all kids, grandkids and 1 great grandkid of the Kimballs! 

Also, Patti and Amber Ouellette and Roxie Smith dropped by for a quick hello. 

They all had a great time!! Amanda and Crystal did all the cooking and the kids were so happy to be at the farm and gramma and grampa were happy to see them. 

Due to this Covid-19 Pandemic, the Memorial Day Service in Ryder has been canceled but the Legion will be putting flags on the graves. 

The Makoti Memorial Day Service is also canceled but the Legion will be putting crosses in their park. 

May 17th is a day of celebration in Norway, known as syttende mai (seventeenth May). Norway’s constitution was signed on this day in 1814 by 112 men from Lutheran parishes throughout the country, in Eidsvoll (65 km/40 miles north of Oslo). The day is about hope and promise in the year to come, but is also a day to celebrate tradition, especially food. The food served today includes rommegrot (sour cream porridge), lefse (flatbread), polse (sausage), smorbrod (open-faced sandwiches), blotkake (cake similar to a Victorian sponge), and farikal (boiled cabbage and lamb meat). The day is also celebrated around the world by Norwegian immigrants. Since 1952, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge has been celebrating this date, events similar are held in Alaska, Wisconsin, London, Stockholm and Scotland. Gratulere med  dagen! (congratulations with the day!) 

If your child is 4 by August 1, 2020, get them signed up for Preschool Pre-registration for the 2020-2021 school year at the Max Public School. Please call the Max School and get them registered at 701-679-2685.  Local bus service is provided.  

The Community Food Pantry will be open May 23rd, with the following rules, 1 adult at a time. Gloves and masks. No children allowed. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Or call Kathy @701-578-5876. There will be no lunch served. 

There will be no Ryder Community Club Bingo in June or July, due to the pandemic. 

Prairie Rose Parish Council has decided that they will not continue the regular worship until May 24th depending on whether more cases of the Covid 19 virus are found to be located in this area. There will still have to be restrictions such as social distancing, wearing face masks, disinfecting our churches and other precautionary measures to keep everyone safe. If you feel ill or have symptoms of the flu or other sickness, please do not attend church until you feel well. 

Upcoming Events: 

Ryder’s Calvary church will continue to hold Parking Lot Drive-In Church services at 10:30 every Sunday morning until further notice. Tune to 107.5 on your FM radio station to listen to the service.  

The walking gym is closed until this pandemic passes.

  

May 24--9 a.m. Worship service at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Roseglen. 

May 24--10:30 a.m. Worship service at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Makoti.

Ryder News May 14, 2020

Ryder News for May 14, 2020 

Due to this Covid-19 Pandemic, the Memorial Day Service in Ryder has been canceled but the Legion will be putting flags on the graves. 

The Makoti Memorial Day Service is also canceled but the Legion will be putting crosses in their park. 

Masks made by Stephanie Hagen.

Stephanie Hagen of Ryder started sewing face masks on March 9th and just made the 300th mask. She's mailed masks to California, Nevada and Montana. She has sewn masks for her family, friends and businesses. She states it makes her think of Rosie the Riveter during WWII, women taking up the need. 

A typical North Dakota weekend...drink lattes all night on Friday, shovel snow on Saturday, and mow the yard on Sunday. 

My rain gauge showed .20 Friday night into Saturday, plus snow and wind all day on Saturday. It was not a real fun day on Saturday! 

I hope everyone had a good Mother’s day while practicing social distancing. It’s not a whole lot of fun if you had to distance yourself from your family. Rick and Levi brought me a card. He also brought me a rose from Calvary Church and later brought me a steak supper. Staci said she’d see me at a later date. 

Calvary Church Parking Lot Drive In Service was on Mother’s Day and it was the 4th one they have had. Pastor Starks said the weather was the warmest they have had so far! There were  33 cars and around 90 worshippers in attendance. 

Worshippers were able to sing “behind their windshields” to the songs during the service by going to the Calvary Church Ryder Facebook page on their cell phones, search  for the date of the service and a list of the songs that would be sung.  

Pastor Starks said, “This morning at Calvary Church was a day of celebration, starting with our gratefulness for the women who have so impacted our lives, by sharing stories and memories of how our lives have been forever changed! We also recognized our high school graduate, Morgan Johansen and our confirmation class, Morgan and Emily Johansen, as they reach these new milestones in their lives. 

We ended our service by giving roses to those who attended our service, and then we traveled around the area delivering roses to ladies in the community, and also Garrison assisted living. 

It was another beautiful drive in service and I invite you to join us again this next week as we continue our parking lot services through this month of May."

Ryder community high school graduates are: Morgan Johansen, son of Jamie and Nikki Zablotney-Johansen, grandson of Terry and Delray Johansen and  Ed and Bernadyne Zablotney. 

Lanie Wohlk, daughter of Nathan Wohlk and DelRae Wohlk, granddaughter of Lydell and Wendy Ike-Wohlk. 

Max Graduation is Saturday, May 23rd at 2:00 p.m. They will be having a "Drive Through" Graduation ceremony for graduates and their immediate family followed by a parade where extended family, friends and community members can celebrate the Class of 2020. Watch the parade on the frontage road, in front of the elevator, in front of the park or the end of Main Street. Each Graduate has a time frame for graduation. Morgan Johansen is at 2:15 p.m. and Lanie Wohlk is at 2:50 p.m.  Congratulations to all our graduates. 

If your child is 4 by August 1, 2020, get them signed up for Preschool Pre-registration for the 2020-2021 school year at the Max Public School. Please call the Max School and get them registered at 701-679-2685.  Local bus service is provided.  

HELP NEEDED in the Max School Garden! 

Prepping & Planting: 

Thursday, May 14th from 4-7pm 

Meet in the school garden area which is west of the baseball field. 

Call or text Amanda Huettl (701-240-2034) if you are able to help or have questions so we can plan for those volunteering! 

Please feel free to bring anything that may be helpful. 

*Due to current school restrictions, the FFA members are not able to plant the community garden. If you are able, please volunteer your time to help with a garden that gives so much to our school and communities. 

*No students or children under the age of 18 can participate at this time. 

*If we are unable to plant due to weather, we will reschedule and post it. 

Our Community Food Pantry has been chosen as recipient of a grant from the Minot area community foundation! This will help in their efforts to keep meals on our tables!! 

Please contact Kathy at 701-578-5876, if you or someone you know is in need or if you need something and can't find it shopping right now. No, they have no yeast, but if you have extra, they will gladly take it! 

Confidentiality is number one in our pantry, so please let them help you. They will deliver, if you can't come to pick up. 

My biggest fear is getting a murder hornet stuck in my face mask while shoveling snow on a Saturday in mid May! 

Upcoming Events: 

Ryder’s Calvary church will continue to hold Parking Lot Drive-In Church services at 10:30 every Sunday morning until further notice. Tune to 107.5 on your FM radio station to listen to the service.  

The Community Food Pantry will be open by appointment only. It will be picked, packed and picked up outside the gym by the client. Contact Kathy for information at 701-578-5876. 

If errands need to be done, or you need something from Minot or Garrison, The Community Food Pantry will help with that, to keep you safe. Contact Kathy at 701-578-5876 

The walking gym is closed until this pandemic is passed.

  

All Prairie Rose Lutheran Church building gatherings are canceled until further notice due to Covid-19 Social Distancing. Please stay in contact with your church family via phone, video chat, facebook, etc.