Folks,
I have a few more reunion pictures that I will be posting tomorrow. That will pretty much wrap up all that I have. Please send any that you have. I don’t think I have copies of all the class pictures that were taken. I’m still lacking the class of 68 and I’m pretty sure there were some taken of the class of 60 too and others.
I have pretty much dedicated today’s message to the Dunseith Alumni raffle donations that were given to the Filipino needy elderly
Gary
Art Rude Sr. update:
From Art Rude (71): Dunseith, ND
Hi Gary,
I don’t write the script, I just try to follow along. I think the last thing I sent you, was that Dad was going to have to be in the Rugby swing bed unit. Well, the Dunseith Nursing Home decided they did have enough certified RN’s to pull it off, so he was moved back to Dunseith. Last night, I stopped at the nursing home on the way back to Bismarck, and Dad had apparently pulled out the IV site (whatever they call it) so now will have to go to Rugby to have it reinstalled, and hopefully, make it more difficult for him to pull out. He didn’t have any recollection of doing it, but it was laying in his wastebasket. Amazingly, there was no blood, so it’s rather amazing. Hopefully, it will work out, and Dad will be able to stay in Dunseith. I’m hoping the IV antibiotics will work, I think he has been fighting this infection for a long time, and if they get it controlled, I’m hoping more of his strength will return.
Thanks again for all the concern.
Peace and Power,
Art
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From Keith Pladson (66): Stafford, VA
Gary,
Hope this comes through to you okay. I really enjoyed it and thought it was to good not to forward. For privacy, I’ve deleted who sent it to me, but think it is one of those emails that are just to good to keep to myself. Feel free to send out on the blog if you want. Thanks Gary.
Keith (66)
Just goes to prove, music is an international language.
Dunseith Alumni raffle donations help the Filipino needy Elderly:
Folks,
Bernadette has always had a soft spot for the needy elderly. It gives her great pleasure to be able to help these folks. Before we left for the states and the reunion we purchased a few miscellaneous items that Bernadette raffled off at the reunion. As you folks remember, she was selling raffle tickets at the registration desk. When we did the drawing at about 11:30 PM, Larry St. Claire was the lucky winner. As we all know, Larry and Bobbie made a special trip down from Alaska for the reunion. We raised a total of $480 with this raffle.
With the money raised from the raffle, we purchased nine (110 LB) sacks of rice along with miscellaneous canned goods and noodles. We then divided the rice into 110 individual nine pound (4K) bags. We did the same with the canned goods and noodles. Then we asked the social services folks to select 110 of the most need elderly in our neighborhood to be the recipients of which they did and they provided us with a list of names. We asked these folks to be at our house at 1:00 PM yesterday.
These folks were so happy and thanked us individually as they received there food idems.
I have included a few pictures.
Gary
Our helpers & Bernadette dividing the rice, noodles and canned goods in our office
Food packages ready to be distributed.
Note: Bernadette’s sisters house is the one to the left thru the bars.
We are pretty close neighbors.
These are the folks waiting for their name to be called to get their care packages.
Many of these folks were accompanied by family members. This area is just out
side of our gate in front of Bernadette’s sisters house. As these folks arrived,
Bernadette provided them with a beverage and a snack.
Aldren, our helper, handing out the care packages as their names are called.
Another happy recipient
This says it all.
The observers:
Michael & Barbara are very close and dear friends of ours from the UK (Ireland & England). They have been living here nearly 3 years now. They love it here. They were very impressed with what they saw and made a sizable donation and will continue to be part of our organization with future donations.
Note for all you pie lovers (Larry Hackman): We topped everything off with some of Bernadette’s good ole home baked apple and pumpkin pies with a couple scoops of ice cream.
Gary Stokes, Michael & Barbara Kenny.
