Ryder News Oct 29, 2020

Ryder News for Oct 29, 2020

ELECTION 2020 NEWS:

BALLOTS can be brought in person or deposited in the secure drop box at the Ryder City Hall until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, Nov 2, 2020.

IN PERSON VOTING: You can vote in person from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020. 

 

I’m still in the moving process and boy oh boy, this is taking a long time. Just a bunch of little stuff to be moved and then the headache of trying to find a place to put all of it. I am making up boxes of stuff to put in a rummage sale next year! I wonder why a person thinks they need all this stuff. John, Staci and Johnny McGrath helped me once again this weekend. She has been trying to get all of her stuff out of the house too.

I neglected to mention that Troy Alderman was home last week to do some hunting. While he was home he delivered a washing machine that I had gotten from his mother. I sure do appreciate all the help I’ve been getting  from everyone. Elaine Alderman came in one day last week and helped me organize my new living room. We moved my couch, curio cabinets and also put my bookcase together. She was a big help, as evidently she likes to dust and wash glass in curio cabinet doors. I wonder if she will do this every once in a while for me! 

 

DRIVE-IN SERVICES CONTINUE 

“Ryder pastor holds services from deer stand”  

Pastor Jonathan Starks says, “What a great headline and an uplifting write up by Eloise Ogden in the Minot Daily News! I am so thankful for the opportunity to continue to minister to this community in these days where we need to be reminded of Jesus’ hope, peace and love more than ever!” 

Read the article here: 

https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2020/10/drive-in-services-continue/ 

 

Another former Ryder High attendee has passed away. Romona (Underdahl) Schroepfer died on Aug. 10, 2020. Her parents were Martin and Johanna (Gotenberg) Underdahl and their farm was near Makoti. Her siblings were Gertrude, Gladys (Haugen), Millie (Campbell), Pearl, Ralph, Kenny and Vi (Knutson). Records show that Romona and Vi attended Ryder High with Vi graduating in 1943 while Romona finished her high school in Minot. She is survived by 2 sons, Daniel and Jeffrey, Jeffrey's wife, Melinda, and grandson, Evan.  

 

Another Underdahl, Annie Jensen, graduated from Ryder High in 1936. Do any readers have an update on her for the museum records? If so, just let me, Sue, know. 

 

Marilyn Hudson

I just saw in the paper that Marilyn Hudson had passed away in a Bismarck hospital on Oct. 22, 2020. Since I used to live in Raub, ND I used to see her once in a while and we became friends in later years. Her brother Raymond Cross was a classmate of mine in high school. Marilyn Cross Hudson, 84, Parshall, died Thursday, October 22, 2020 at a Bismarck hospital.  Marilyn Old Dog was born on June 11, 1936 in Elbowoods, North Dakota where she attended school and graduated from Elbowoods High School in 1953. She continued her education at Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. She had a major role in the history and culture of the Three Affiliated Tribes. She was the historian of the information of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes. The tribal knowledge keeper. 

The family will celebrate Marilyn’s life privately, in respect of CDC, North Dakota, and Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation COVID-19 guidelines. A public memorial is tentatively planned for June 2021. 

My sympathy goes out to her family and friends. 

 

James (Jim) Bakken

James (Jim) Bakken, 81 of Minot, longtime educator and administrator, passed away on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 in a Minot hospital due to Covid 19. Due to the pandemic, funeral arrangements are pending and will be posted once arranged by the family. This is all the information that I have at this time. 

My sympathy goes out to his family and friends.

 

Upcoming Events: 

 

Nov. 1...10:30 a.m. 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.  

Nov. 1...9 a.m. Worship Service at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder. 

Nov. 1...10:30 a.m. Worship Service with communion at Hope Lutheran Church of Makoti. 

Ryder News Oct 22, 2020

Ryder News for Oct. 22, 2020 

 

It seems everyone knew who the Karna boys were in that sort of a Mystery Photo I had in my column last week! Shelly Otteson Sherven said she used to babysit for them! I neglected to mention in last week's news that Caleb Karna was the groom in the picture and he married Trina Howell. I just found out that they have bought the Elmer Wolff farm west of Ryder and that’s where they will be living. 

 

I’m still in the process of moving and throwing lots of things away and putting some in boxes for  a rummage sale next year. I can’t believe all the stuff that I have accumulated in the last 44 years at my farm home...wow! I had quite a bit of help again this last weekend with John, Staci and Johnny McGrath helping and my new neighbors across the alley, Ethan and Kayla Hill. Wes Ford, my neighbor across the street and 2 of his crew moved my freezer over and even unpacked it and brought the food over too. With all this wonderful help, we got a lot of the furniture moved and tentatively put into place, that is until I change my mind about the placement of things!! 

 

Janice Eick sent me a message saying, “Sue. Loved the museum’s. We were there on Sunday. My son enjoyed the blacksmith display of his great grandfather’s. John (Warner) was very helpful. Thanks to all for keeping history alive.” 

 

Calvary Outdoor Church service preached from a deer stand.

My son Rick Sprinkle had this to say about the Calvary Church service last Sunday, “Drive in church service, Pastor Jonathan Starks preaches the good word out of a DEER STAND!!! This is awesome!!!” 

 

An amazing spooktacular display at the old Ryder school.

Jennifer and Greg Andreachi are going to be passing out Halloween candy at the Ryder school on Halloween starting at 5:30 p.m. I said I’d be sure to stop and get some for myself! Be sure to take your kids over for a Halloween treat! Jennifer has done an amazing job of decorating the old Ryder school with all kinds of spooky things! 

 

There will not be a Halloween party this year in Makoti as in the past. The kids can just go trick or treating door to door. The people will have their lights on and be ready to pass out the treats. 

 

Another writing from the mind of Gus Mueller. You can find his musings on Facebook under Gus’s Things and Stuff. 

 

Gus Mueller’s leaves

LEAF ME ALONE! 

It’s fall.  The leaves are falling. 3,508,180! I’ll get back to that number shortly.  Trees have always been a precious commodity in North Dakota. Just ask all the early settlers who built their houses out of sod. You readers who live in or near Ryder might take note of the large evergreen tree located in the yard just north of the Ryder gym—my mom’s old place. It was about 3 feet tall when she planted it in the spring of 1975, the year after my dad died. No, it was not in memory of my dad—for the first time ever, my mom had her hands on the checkbook and had always wanted a tree in the front yard! My dad would have never paid money for a tree. 

As a child in Ryder, a pile of dry leaves translated to something to roll in, or to bury your dog in. And if you had to identify one single “smell of fall,” it certainly would be burning leaves. As a teenager, fallen leaves also were a source of income.  It was common for the older ladies in Ryder to pay some young guy to come by and rake her yard (I know, I know, it easily could have been a young girl, but it wasn’t). My main annual employer was Tillie Lundahl, who lived in the house just west of the Ryder Tennis Court. She paid $2.00/raking. Doesn’t sound like much for an afternoon’s work, but to put $2.00 into perspective, in 1961 that would have bought 8 hamburgers at Nick’s café, or 400 root beer barrels at Butch’s Drug Store! 

Today I live on Fox Island, along the Missouri River on the west side of Bismarck.  Prior to the Garrison dam, most of Fox Island was undeveloped and was more or less a large sandbar, as it flooded regularly—a perfect growing area for cottonwoods. Most of the lots still have several giant cottonwoods on them. To be exact, ours has 42! Keeping up with the falling leaves is too big of a job for my wife and I, so we hire a professional lawn service. After having a beautiful leaf-free lawn five days ago when they left, I looked out today and saw that the yard is totally covered with leaves—a lot of leaves. How many you might ask?  So did I. 

I went out to several different places in the yard and sampled how many leaves were in one square foot—It varied from 62 to 138, with an average of 103/sq.ft.  Our lot is nearly an acre (40,916 sq.ft.), and from this I subtracted the footprint of the house, garage, deck, and the ground covered by the driveway, leaving 34,060 of ground for leaf accumulation. So let’s do the math: 34,060 x 103 (leaves/sq.ft.) = 3,508,180. Yes, that’s correct, I’d predict that today there are over 3 million leaves in my yard. 

As you probably know, with cottonwoods, when the leaves fall the stem stays attached, and the average length of a leaf + stem is 6 inches. If we were to take all the leaves (+ stems) in the yard and put them end-to-end using the 6-inch average, it would total 21,049,080 inches, or 1,754,090 feet. To give you a visual on this, if you were to take the leaves (with stems) in my yard, and placed them end-to-end on I-94 heading east from the Montana border, you would end up 8 miles short of the Minnesota state line! 

All this probably sounds like I’m not too fond of fallen leaves, but I do have to acknowledge one thing—they always get prettier when they age, something that most of us can’t claim! 

 

The Ryder Food Pantry is looking for farm eggs. chicken or duck eggs. we CAN accept these and we are very low on eggs. If you are cleaning out your freezers for fresh meat, think of us for donating your old meat  (not too old). They also would LOVE honey, if you have older honey you haven't used.  

 

There was a real good turnout for the flu shots at the Ryder Senior Center last Saturday. I was one of the first ones along with Harvey and Denise Johnson.  

 

Upcoming Events: 

 

 Oct. 25...10:30 a.m. 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.  

Oct. 25...9 a.m. Worship Service at Hope Lutheran Church of Makoti. 

Oct. 25...10:30 a.m. Worship Service with communion at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen.  

Oct. 27...10 a.m. Bible Study at St. John’s Lutheran Church. Everyone is welcome.

Ryder News Oct 15, 2020

Ryder News for Oct. 15, 2020 

 

Mystery Photo answer from last week..the 3 ladies were Faye, Karen and Gayle Wilson with their cousin Glenn Olson. 

Sheryl Erb Tolson said, “I know these gals as Faye, Gayle and Karen Wilson. Don't recognize the male in the photo. Love our Ryderites.” Grace Magandy guessed correctly but didn’t mention the man in the photo. Bruce Peterson was the only one who got everyone right, even Glenn Olson. He has changed a lot but since Bruce had seen him just a while ago, he knew who he was too. 

 

A Different Kind of Mystery Photo.

A different kind of Mystery Photo: Here are the groom and his brothers at the beautiful wedding held Oct. 2nd in Minot, ND. Do you recognize them?  Some hints are:  they use to run the streets of Ryder until moving to Makoti where they all still live, they are grandchildren to the former Gene Renschs and Dene Karnas and they helped lead the Makoti baseball team to many wins. I bet you already guessed they are Mickey and Mary Karna's boys.  BUT, do you know their names?  They all begin with a C. Can you name them?  Of course, the one in the middle was the lucky groom.  Those Karna boys' names from left to right are Chandler, Cade, Caleb, Cameron and Chase. 

Did you guess right? 

 

ELECTION 2020 NEWS: 

BALLOTS can be brought in person or deposited in the secure drop box at the Ryder City Hall until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, Nov 2, 2020. 

IN PERSON VOTING: You can vote in person from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020. 

 

Our sympathy goes out to the family and friends of Marvel Petrick. Marvel Petrick, 95, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 4th at Somerset Court in Minot, ND. Marvel was the daughter of Theodore and Christy (Smith) Zieman. She married Sanford E. Petrick. They farmed for many years and raised their family on their rural Makoti farm. A private family funeral was held by invitation only due to Covid 19 on Friday, Oct. 9th at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Makoti. Public visitation was Oct. 8th from 4-6 p.m. at Thompson Larson Funeral Home in Minot. A private family interment was held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery in Makoti. 

 

Visiting Berry Acres were Kathy Kallestad, Cindy, Henry, Lucy Oberdick,  Jenny, and Carter Brossart.

Kathy (Kronbach) Kallestad of Garrison traveled to Minot on Thursday, October 8th to meet up with her kids and grandkids, Jenny and Carter Brossart of Minot and Cindy, Wil, Lucy, and Henry Oberdick of Surrey to go to Berry Acres, just west of Minot.  The weather was perfect and they had a really nice time. 

 

BIG CALVARY CHURCH UPDATES 

We have sure enjoyed the beautiful but windy fall weather these past Sundays, and we are looking forward to the autumn services we’ll be sharing together in the weeks ahead! I know that brings to mind many questions of what our services will look like as that inevitable North Dakota winter looms near.  

While we are facing so many unknowns I would like to remind us of what we do know. Our God is a mighty God, He wasn’t surprised by the advent of covid and the many other challenges we face. In the midst of the storm He has clear direction for our lives, families, and church. And what a comfort it is to be able to trust in Him!   

I have been endeavoring to seek God’s wisdom for our Church and how he wants us as a body of believers to navigate this season of life, so that we can effectively serve and reach our community. More than ever people need to hear the eternal truth that is in the life changing message of the Gospel!  

While in some ways returning indoors to our sanctuary is a comforting thought, we must also recognize and adapt with the realities of our world. With the limited size of our sanctuary, safely accommodating everyone who has so faithfully been attending our drive in services with enough inside spacing is simply not feasible.  

We are exploring our options and putting together a plan of action with our church board, but we need your input. How will we go forward? A three sided trailer with space heaters? Building some sort of enclosure? With His leading, and the ingenuity our ND farmers, ranchers, mechanics and more, we will be more than equipped and ready to minister in these unique circumstances.  

I would like to ask you a question. Would you support us? Would you join with us and fight for our ability to come together as a Church family? We need each other. We need you. You are an integral, irreplaceable, one of a kind piece of this puzzle. And together we can change this world, all starting from our humble place on the prairie. Pastor Jonathan. 

 

The Ryder Food Pantry is looking for farm eggs. chicken or duck eggs. we CAN accept these and we are very low on eggs. If you are cleaning out your freezers for fresh meat, think of us for donating your old meat  (not too old). They also would LOVE honey, if you have older honey you haven't used. Thank you so much for everyone helping us!! Our rural community is very supportive! 

 

Jennifer Andreachi said, “Hi Sue! So glad to hear that your place is coming right along, and almost move in ready!  

This is all we've got for news: After hurricane Sally went through the panhandle of FL two weeks ago, Gregg decided to drive down to assess the damage to our home there. Thankfully, we only lost a boat dock, and suffered minimal damage to our house. Meanwhile, I've been taking care of the school here, getting the gutters/downspouts repaired, furnaces installed and window glass replaced. He's on his way back to Ryder, and will be back Sunday.  

I have a girlfriend in Garrison who was kind enough to donate several vintage school textbooks, and encyclopedias that I'll use to resurrect a small library in the building. All glasswork at the school is being done by your nephew, Mike Nogosek!” 

Jennifer and her husband Greg are restoring the old Ryder School and plan to make it their home in the future. She has painted lots of cute Halloween figures on the windows for the Ryder folk to enjoy. 

She says, “I'd like to send a big thank you to the folks here in Ryder that share their excess garden produce in the post office! I roasted some tomatoes, and made homemade pasta sauce this year! I I've got 8 apples that will become a pie, and a beautiful butternut squash that's destined for soup!” 

 

We are sad to report the loss of the following people you may remember. (1) Eunice Ness Herr-manna, a 1964 Ryder graduate, lost her husband due to cancer. She lives in Burlington, ND. (2) Freida Olson Schutz was raised in Douglas area and was the aunt of Grace Magandy. Her folks were the former Oscar and Freida Olson.  Freida was named after her mother who died shortly after the daughter's birth.  This left Oscar to raise 4 boys and 6 girls by himself. 

 

We need to send congratulations to Roberta and Duane Johnson of Minot. They are the first of two of 2020 Bishop Ryan Hall of Fame inductees. Together they devoted 52 years of teaching to the students at Ryan.  Duane worked in the Science and Phy-ed areas while Roberta covered Speech, English, Creative Writing and Yearbook. Of course, this meant many after-school hours with coaching and directing drama performances. They will be honored at Cor Christi Gala. Roberta is a 1963 Ryder graduate and daughter of the former Robert and Geri Albert.  She continues to give piano lessons to lucky students. 

 

White Drug out of Minot has agreed to administer flu shots at the Ryder Senior Citizens on Saturday, Oct. 17th from 10-12 a.m. Be sure to bring your ID, Insurance Card and your Medicare Card. 

 

I had lots of great help on Sunday to help with moving some of my stuff over to my new home. John, Staci and Johnny McGrath and Scott Zieman moved a lot of my things over so now I am trying to unpack the boxes and get everything put away. There are still a of lot things left to move and hopefully we can get most of that done this coming weekend. In the meantime, my son, Rick Sprinkle cleaned out the little red barn shed and some of the things in the old garage. 

 

Upcoming Events:

Oct. 18...10:30 a.m. 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.  

Oct. 18...9 a.m. Worship Service at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen. 

Oct. 18...10:30 a.m. Worship Service with communion at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Makoti. Also St. Paul’s annual meeting with a soup and sandwich lunch after the service.