Ryder News Jul 30, 2020

Ryder News for July 30, 2020 

 

Mystery Photo

Yay, we finally have another mystery photo to share and figure out who it is! The only clue I can give you is...This gentleman and his wife used to live in Ryder for a few years. Let me know who you think it could be...phone or text  me at 701-720-4297 or e mail me at sbradley@restel.com. 

 

6 Harleys and their riders along with Pastor Starks and his wife Pam.

Pastor Starks had this to say about his drive in church service at Calvary Church in Ryder this past Sunday,  “Rev up your engines and praise!  

This morning at church we had some extra excitement! Six Harleys joined us, as well as a couple of other bikes too! 

Our service closed in a rousing chorus of ‘Victory in Jesus, and ‘engine praise’”. 

The ‘engine praise’ meant the motorcycles all revved up their engines at the end of the service. I listened on the radio at home and I could hear them real well! It seems lately when he talks about his drive in church service, he is really getting drive in attendance especially with motorcycles...amazing. 

 

Lester Hjelmstad

Lester S. Hjelmstad, beloved husband, father and grandfather, died on June 25, 2020 at age 98 in Englewood, CO. He was born at home on the farm on April 27, 1922 to John and Mary Hjelmstad in Ward County, ND. Les graduated from Ryder High School in 1940 and served in the Civilian Conservation Corps at Kenmare, ND from 1940-42.  He was drafted into the US Navy in 1944 where he served on the USS Hancock aircraft carrier before settling in Colorado in 1946. He married Lois Luene Tschetter on September 12, 1948. He was employed at Gates Rubber Company for 37 years before retiring in 1987. In retirement he earned an Associate of Arts degree in history from Arapahoe Community College and traveled extensively. He was preceded in death by his parents, 9 of his 10 siblings, several nieces and nephews and two sons-in-law. He is survived by his wife of almost 72 years, Lois; daughter Karen Martin of Centennial, CO and sons Robert (Vicki) of Aurora, CO, Keith (Kara) of Mesa, AZ, and Russell of Traverse City, MI. He is also survived by 11 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; one brother, Wendell (Ann) Hjelmstad of Colorado Springs, CO, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Last week when I was talking about the weather and mentioned that it had rained all day that Monday and the forecast was it was to be rainy all week. Well, guess what...we didn’t get any more than the .20 that we had gotten last Monday. We had all the ingredients for storms, high humidity and heat and storms all around us but nothing for us. I even saw the ants were making ant hills which is suppose to be a sure sign of rain!! We even had a beautiful rainbow Friday evening which signified that it had rained somewhere, just not here. There were a lot of rainbow pictures on Facebook that evening and the next day.  

Vacation Bible School is scheduled for Monday-Wednesday at Calvary Church in Ryder, August 10-12, 9:00-3:30pm. Bring a sack lunch. 

We’re so excited to once again have Pastor Steve and our friends from Cornerstone Presbyterian come out and lead our VBS at Calvary Church! 

VBS is for kids preschool through 6th grade. And the older kids are welcome and needed to be our teen helpers. Please let us know if your kids are able to join in so we can make preparations. 

 

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.  

Aug. 2--9 a.m.  Worship service at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder. 

Aug. 2--10:30 a.m. Worship service at Hope Lutheran Church of Makoti. 

Aug. 2--Noon to 5 p.m. Easton Braaten Blood Drive at the Ryder Community Club (Ryder Gym). 

August 10-12--9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.  Vacation Bible School at Calvary Church in Ryder

Ryder News Jul 23, 2020

Ryder News for July 23, 2020 

Rummage event at the Ryder Community Gym

 

There was a steady stream of people going to the Ryder Community Club Gym to take in the huge rummage event this past weekend. There were a lot of bargains to be found, bargains because everything was free! Even tho I am downsizing preparing to move, I did manage to find a few bargains. I found some books, 2 CD’s and a DVD. Some of the bargains included books, cookbooks, clothes, furniture, dishes, pressure cookers, tupperware, pictures, toys, lots of baby items and much more. Many of these items were brand new. 

 

Troy Fliginger cooking babyback ribs for the Nathan Wohlk Benefit

There was a great turnout at the Nathan Wohlk benefit. There was a ton of good food...babyback ribs cooked by Troy Fliginger, coleslaw, beans and a variety of bars and cookies. There was also a silent auction with all sorts of items to be silently bid on including a snowmobile and trailer, swords, rifles, quilts, pies and a variety of gift baskets. There was a lot of spirited bidding silently going on! Plus there was live music by Tyler Keller. It looked like everyone was having a good time with all the visiting and eating and just enjoying the evening. There were a few dark looking storm clouds that hovered over the event several times but they all managed to go away without shedding a drop of rain on the crowd. 

 

Enjoying the meal while practicing social distancing at the Nathan Wohlk Benefit

It looks like this may be the week of rainy weather as it has been raining almost all day today (Monday) and lots more in the forecast! There were quite a few cold air funnels seen in the area...in Parshall, Carrington and south of Plaza. They say that these cold air funnels very rarely touch the ground and if they should happen to, the damage is minimal. There was also a tornado funnel cloud reported at White Shield. 

I had been noticing mouse droppings in my entry and in my kitchen for several days and the little bugger just didn’t want to be caught. I put out new mouse poison behind my dryer and under the sink and the cat either laid in front of the sink or in the entry but no luck. I found my sticky traps and put two under the sink. So, this morning I discovered a tiny little baby mouse in one of the traps. No mama mouse or any more babies, so that means I probably have about 10 more babies running around somewhere in this house and getting bigger and bigger. I really don’t want to use a regular mouse trap as most of the time I catch my finger while trying to set it. Hopefully the poison and sticky traps will work! 

With all my complaining last week about when the power goes off, it takes forever for me to get my TV and cable box reset. My brother talked me into getting a battery back up and surge protector strip to plug all my components into and that way if the power flashes off, the TV and cable box won’t lose power and I won’t have to figure out how to reset them. I managed to get him to unplug all my stuff from my old power strip and plug everything into the new one. He did ask me who did all the plugging in on the old one as the cords were all tangled up. Ha ha, he should have known it was me! I’d had to plug them in so many different times that I finally didn’t care if they were tangled up or not as they were all hidden behind the TV anyway.

There will be an Easton Braaten Blood Drive on Sunday Aug. 2nd at the Ryder Gym from noon to 5 p.m. 

 

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.  

July 26--9 a.m.  Worship service at Hope Lutheran Church of Makoti. 

July 26--10:30 a.m. Worship service at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen.

Ryder News Jul 16, 2020

Ryder News for July 16, 2020 

Motorcycles at drive in church Service

Pastor Jonathan Starks posted the following on Facebook which I told him I was going to use in my news column: “'I drove over 6,000 miles to hear you preach today!' said a man from Tyler, Texas who was traveling through the area and happened to see our service gathering. 

We shared a beautiful morning outside in worship together! I always love getting to see all the different vehicles that people drive into service! Today we had our first bikes, alongside a 68 Trans Am, and Nathan’s awesome truck! Together the hot rods ended our service by rapping off!!! 

This weekend was the Makoti Threshing Show, and I sure enjoyed being able to see folks from our community and church driving their tractors, threshing machines, and hot rods in the parade!"

Lee Brandvold and his son Stetson driving an old tractor in the Makoti Threshing Show parade.

Speaking of the Makoti Threshing Show, I guess they changed the destination of the Tractor Trek to the Hiddenwood picnic grounds, so I didn’t get any pictures! Even tho I didn’t attend the Threshing Show in Makoti, I do have a picture of Lee Brandvold and his son Stetson driving an old tractor in the parade. 

Lane Underdahl

Congratulations go out to Lane Underdahl, he just finished high school trap league and is the number one shooter in the state of ND, besting 695 other shooters. Lane has been shooting trap with the Lewis and Clark Bombers for 5 years. This year was his junior year and he shot a 24.6 average ending up the top male and the top overall shooter in the state of ND. He competed in the Best of the West shoot in Minot and was 5th out of 235 shooters. Lane is a senior this year and will have one more year to compete. He is the son of Luke and Heather Underdahl of Makoti. 

We've been having some weird storms in our area, the power went off 3 times in the late hours of Friday night, July 10th. I was just about to go to bed when all of a sudden the power went off. As far as I could tell, there weren’t any storms around Ryder so I had no idea what the heck was going on. Then several minutes later after I got everything reset, it went off again. I thought that was a little weird as it doesn’t stay off more than a few seconds, just long enough to shut off my coffee pot and TV. So, once again I reset everything and of course grabbed a flashlight and it went off again! By that time I was ready to scream! I reset everything for the 3rd time and by gosh, it remained on after that! Then last night it flashed again but only once and I managed to get everything reset before going to bed. It seems this stuff always happens during the night. We did get a little rain during the night and this morning (Monday) as the rain gauge said .17.  

There will be a FREE RUMMAGE SALE in the Ryder Gym on July 17, 18, and 19 starting at 8 a.m. This means there is a lot of  things there and it is free. Come and look it over and take what you can’t live without! 

There will be a Benefit for Nathan Wohlk on July 18th at the Ryder Star Bar in Ryder, ND. There will be a free will offering meal including BBQ ribs, beans, coleslaw, buns and bars from 5 p.m to 8 p.m. There will also be a Silent Auction from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and later from 8:30 to 12:30 there will be music by Tyler Keller. 

There will be an Easton Braaten Blood Drive on Sunday Aug. 2nd at the Ryder Gym from noon to 5 p.m. 

  

A "HUGE THANK YOU" goes out to all the volunteers who helped unload and load the fresh produce that the Ryder Food Pantry was blessed with!  We are hoping to get in on another distribution soon.  It was exciting to see that all the produce was given out!  There was a lot of good produce in the boxes like carrots, lettuce, celery, cabbage, potatoes, apples and onions.  Hopefully they will be invited to participate in this giveaway again which was from the Great Plains Foodbank. 

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.  

July 19--9 a.m.  Worship service at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen. 

July 19--10:30 a.m. Worship service at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Makoti.

Ryder News Jul 9, 2020

Ryder News for July 9, 2020 

Large tree limb broken off from a tree at Gary Hagen’s home in Ryder a week ago in Saturday’s storm.

A little rain fell on Saturday, but lots of wind. Gary Hagen lost a tree limb in that storm and in the Tuesday/Wednesday storm last week, my brother lost a 70 ft. evergreen tree at his rural Ryder home that was uprooted in the Tuesday/Wednesday storm! 

Total rainfall at my house from the 2 day storm on Tuesday and Wednesday last week was 4.5 inches. 

70 ft. evergreen uprooted at  my brother’s home 4 miles southwest of Ryder during the Tuesday/ Wednesday storm.

I received the following nice message, “Hi Sue. This is Jennifer and Gregg Andreachi. We moved to Ryder two years ago, and have fallen in love with the community. When the opportunity arose to buy the school, we were excited to purchase and restore the historic building. We want to see it respectfully preserved for those who share the memories and for future generations to enjoy. For the time being, we intend on using it as a personal hobby shop after completing some much needed repairs/renovation.” 

Thanks for the nice message and we are all so glad that you like our little community and that you have purchased the old school building. 

The "REINISCH'S" gathered at Jody and Peggy's cabin at Iglehart Bay for the 4th of July. Those that were able to make it were: Marlys Hanson, Larry and Marsha Reinisch, Tom and Kacee (Reinisch) Miller and Archer, Nick and Danni Reinisch and Boone, Kandi and LaVerne Mikkelson, Penny and Mike Carlson, Josh Reinisch and Brigett and Paisley Savenko, Kelsey and Alex DesRoches, Kallie and Kirby. What a Great Time we all had - Blessed with RAIN too!!!  

John and Staci along with Johnny McGrath and their 2 dogs went camping at the camp ground on the edge of Garrison. The weather was dreadfully hot and then on Saturday, the 4th, the fireworks started. They finally had to leave and head back to Minot as their dogs were absolutely terrified and they are OLD dogs. They were afraid they would have a stroke or heart attack from being so scared. 

About 1:30 the morning of July 4th I was awakened by flashes of lightning and loud booms of thunder. I thought, “Oh boy, we are in for another round of storms”, but after awhile it all went away and not a drop of rain...just noise! 

The Makoti Threshing Show will be held July 10-12th. You need to purchase a $10 button which takes care of you admission for the entire weekend.   

Special Friday events: Tractor Trek from Makoti to Ryder and back to Makoti, Tractor Trek lunch at noon, Steak Fry at the K Bar from 5-9. 

Saturday and Sunday, Giant Parade starts at 1 p.m. Draft Horse Demonstration both days, Kids Mutton Bustin’, Backseat Driver Lawnmower Obstacle Course, Indoor Flea Market and many other events. 

There will be a Spaghetti Supper on Saturday, July 11th from 5-8 p.m. at the Makoti Senior Citizens building. All proceeds go to the North Shore-Plaza Music Department. 

There will be an Easton Braaten Blood Drive on Sunday Aug. 2nd at the Ryder Gym. There will be refreshments in honor of Easton and to celebrate his heavenly 8th birthday. The starting time hasn’t been firmed up but there will be more details to follow. 

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.  

July 12--9 a.m. St. Paul’s Worship service at Threshing Grounds in Makoti. 

July 12--10:30 a.m. Worship service at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Ryder.