Happy Birthday Rhonda Hiatt (DHS ’75): Battle Ground, WA

Folks, As I have mentioned, our current Web site hosted by Microsoft Live is being discontinued the end of this month. My cousin, Amy Schalesky, has offered to take on this time consuming labor intense job of transferring our current very large site to a new site that will be totally ours, never to be discontinued, unless we so elect to do so. With Amy being related to both my family and the Morinville family, I didn’t want her to feel as though we were approaching her for free gratis. That sort of thing very much goes against my grain. I told her that we would compensate her for all of her efforts. Amy used to develop Web sites for a living, so she is well experienced. I have pasted Amy’s reply below. Gary

 

Amy’s reply

Okay, I’ve looked over both sites and, I won’t lie, it will take a little time. Both have been/are going to be designed with proprietary web design software, so they are not directly transferable. This just means a lot of copy/paste/patience. We will have you up and running by the April 30 deadline, though, never fear. From this point you can decide if you want to reproduce your garystokes.net site or the old Dunseith.net site with your information incorporated into it. Let me know which way you want to go and I will get started.

You know, I actually think that because of the size of the garystokes.net site, it might be necessary to pay for hosting. It is around $6.00 per month. Let me check a little bit more and get back to you

Thank you for the offer of paying me. I am certainly not going to charge you, but if you have people throwing money at you offering to help, what with the flood here in Minot and all, I don’t suppose I’m in a position to turn a little bit of money down. LOL! Thanks so much.

Gary’s reply to Amy

Amy,

 

You are a lifesaver. We and I am speaking for all of the Dunseith Alumni thank you so much for taking this on. Yes, I know this will be very labor intense and time consuming transferring all this to a new site. The good part is that when it is finished we will have a good product that will not go away and is easily accessible by all. Amy, with the Dunseith Web site you put together, we know you do good work. We also know that you are no longer doing this line of work for a business too. With all that being said, you are a saint for taking this on. Yes, as I have told, we do not expect you to take this on free gratis. We will pay you.

 

I think with this being a Dunseith site we should go with Dunseith.net, but please go with whichever is the easiest and least labor intense.

 

Is there a way we could have searching capabilities in this new site too? With the mass amount of info posted in this site it is hard for folks to sift through it all to find what they are looking for.

 

Also, I’d like to salvage my gws123456@garystokes.net email address too that is part of the current garystokes.net site. It is not the end of the world if it can not be done.

 

About the hosting fee, That is not a problem. Please go with it.

 

Thanks again Amy,

 

Gary

Amy’s Reply

Thank you. No problem.

 

 

Yes, we can give it the old Dunseith.net content and integrate the garystokes.net content. Yes, we can add a search feature. I am doubtful that you will be able to keep the email address, as that belongs to the garystokes.net site and the site belongs to Live. I will check that though.

It seems that my recall has not been totally destroyed by the various chemo drugs offered boys and girls with breast cancer these days. Treatment was arranged by my Doctors in Seattle just before our move to Waretown, NJ. Driving across southern Canada from sea to sea the first 2 weeks of September was inspired and accomplished by Victor. And when we drove the considerable length of Reed Lake in Sask, I drove it with my brother Ernie. Ernie’s happy recollections and laughter echoed in my ears. A few tears then too; pity for Ernie, not for me. All my family and many friends have been very supportive.

But back to my recall troubles and first careful search of Willow Cities first 100 years. It lists the Emil and Edith Semler family who farmed in Ostby Twp. Together they operated a threshing rig and cook car. Their son Gerald was born in 1927, so he may yet be around Willow or the family farm. His mother, Edith Yerkie, remarried Hubert Getzlaff after 1944. The gentleman on the far right, seated with feet crossed, is a great likeness of Emil Semler. The lady in front of the cookcar door looks like a tired Edith Yerkie Semler who appears more youthful in the picture taken some years later with Hubert. Further study of the Willow City book may offer more answers.

Keep well friends, Sharron

1932 Willow City threshing crew

4th Row: Edith Yerkie Semler?, Jim Egbert, ??, Emil Semler?

3rd Row: ??, ??, Ole Evans

2nd Row: Dave Eurich Sr., George Egbert

1st Row: Dave Eurich Jr., ??