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Reply from Aggie Casavant (69): Fort Mill, SC
Goodmorning Gary !
Happy to see you and Bernadette had fun on the cruise,and are enjoying the company of Art Hagen and Rose.Always enjoy the pictures. In your posting to Margaret Metcalf you mentioned Connie Burcham. This past couple months there is a Connie Burcham, who just joined our local T.V Station here in Charlotte N.C . She is about in her early 30’s and looks exactly like Connie or Kathy Burcham from Dunseith. Have always wondered if she was related,and keep meaning to call the station and chat with her…but…”When do I have a free minute? LoL. Well Gary happy to see you and Bernadette back safe and thriving,and got the blog going again….Will chat with you another time. Thanks for everything you do in keeping us all in touch. Aggie
Reply from Doreen Larson Moran (BHS ’61): Usk, WA & Hazelton, ND
Hi Gary – Bob and I are on our yearly spring trek to southeast Missouri. We spend time with his brother and a couple of cousins who are in the area of Poplar Bluff and Cape Girardeau. It did get us away from the snow of Washington state and North Dakota. The evening we arrived in Hazelton about March 1st the snow banks and snow in the yard were too deep for us. The community had pretty well dispersed to Grand Forks for the state Class B basket ball tournament. (Oh, yes, that is still the BIG deal). We went the 15 miles down to Linton and checked into a motel. I spent the next morning making a few phone calls until I could find someone to clear the drive into the garage from the four foot berms. That done, we spent about ten days there before coming south. Had a terrific thunderstorm during the night. Hope the tornadic winds stay away.
Unless there is information on the old Salem Cemetery in the 100 year history book, I won’t be of much help. But Glen Rude probably has all that information. It is good that the “lost” graves will be noted before too much more time passes and no one remembers where they even are.
Thank you for your dedication to the “Blog”. It is interesting to hear and see and share news and pictures from around the world.
Posted by Eddie Parisien (69): Mukilteo, WA
Rene Belgarde
(July 3, 1952 – March 13, 2012)  Send FlowersSend Sympathy Card Guest Book| Sign Guest Book
RENE BELGARDE
Rene Belgarde, age 59 of Dunseith, died Tuesday, March 13, 2012 in a Minot hospital. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday March 20, 2012 at the St. Anthony’s Catholic Church of rural Dunseith. Burial will be in the Church Cemetery. A wake will be held on Monday beginning at 4:00 P.M. with a prayer service at 8:00 P.M. in the church.
Rene Belgarde, a son of James C. and Emma (Parisien) Belgarde, was born on July 3, 1952 at Belcourt. He was raised and educated in the Belcourt area. After the competition of his education he began working with his father doing carpentry work in the area. Rene then worked in Southwest North Dakota as an Ironworker at several coal gasification plants near Beulah. Rene then moved to Washington where he worked for a time. He moved to Montana and worked for Blaze Construction as a carpenter. In 1990 he returned to the Dunseith area and worked for several construction companies in the area.
He enjoyed watching TV, going to the Casino, attending auto auctions and visiting with family and friends.
He is survived by his companion, Ola Houle of Dunseith, sons, Rene St. Pierre Jr., and Kevin St. Pierre both of Dunseith and Keith St. Pierre of California; a daughter, Angela Layton of Perham, MN; a grandchild, Taylor Layton; brothers, Eddie Parisien of Marysville, WA, Clifford Belgarde of Belcourt; sisters, Eunice Phillips of Dunseith and Marie Harold of Plano, TX; step children, Peggy Houle, Tammy Houle-Peltier and Chad Houle all of Dunseith; grandson, Cole DeCoteau; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Day trip to the Island of Bohol wth Art Hagen and Rose
Rose arranged for a travel guide with an Air Conditioned Suzuki van, for $80.00 (3,500 Peso’s) that took us all over the Island to see all the sights. He picked us up from the ferry boat when we arrived at 8:00 AM and dropped us off back at the pier at 5:00 PM to catch our ferry back to Cebu.
Business class seats on the fast Jet Ferry were only $23.00 (1,000 Peso’s) each way. It was a 2 hour and 20 minute boat ride from Cebu. We could have gotten tickets for $11.50 each way, but we would have been sitting on flimsy plastic chairs. Art and I would have given those chairs the load test. Compared to us, these folks are tiny. We preferred the large comfortable luxury reclining seats in business class.
It was a fun enjoyable day.
Gary
Rose Hohl/Art Hagen & Gary/Bernadette Stokes
 Tarsier, the worlds smallest money on Bohol
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