Ryder News for July 16, 2020
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| 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!"
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| 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.
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| 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.
