06/05/2009

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Reply from Shirley LaRocque Wendt (59): Tukwila, WA
Shirley is requesting a ride to the Dunseith reunion being held in Seattle on July 24th.

I WOULD LIKE TO BE PUT ON THE LIST FOR THAT RIDE YOU TOLD ME ABOUT THANK S.. I WAS AT THE DOCTORS LAST WEEK, I HAD SOME TESTS AND MY HEART HAS GOTTEN WORSE ANYWAY I SEE ANOTHER DOCTOR FRIDAY MORNING. DOCTOR SAID MAYBE IF I AM A CANDIDATE. PLEASE KEEP ME IN YOUR PRAYERS. THANKS AGAIN GARY FOR ALL YOU DO. I WILL SEE YOU ALL AT THE REUNION., GOD BLESS SHIRLEY WENDT
Shirley, we are looking forward to seeing you at our reunion. I am so sorry to hear of your worsening heart condition. We all know that you had open heart surgery a while back too. I am hoping you will not be in need of a heart transplant? Please keep us posted. Gary

 
 
Reply from Bev Morinville Azure (72): Dunseith, ND
 
Gary, and all I am sure people are thinking why did Bev just say I work at the log house in the blog…. Well the rest of the story was Gary had ask me where I work. I am not sure he posted that part maybe I missed it. I would say John is saying ARE YOU KIDDING ME? after eating that. LOL……….. Diane ,Debbie is a little better after Clarence and I went there a few weeks ago I felt alot better . I plan to go back soon. I still call her every week I talk she listens. and always says I LOVE YOU at the end . >>>>Diane when Cheryl comes home in Aug. we plan on getting together I hpe you plan to join us. . I remember those days Diane Debbie and I would be so excited as soon as Lee would let us know you were coming HOME . and we sure did pick up from where we left off and still do. What a blessing your family was to us. we love you Bev
 GOD BLESS YOU …………BEV
Bev, I am so sorry for not indicating that your reply was in reply to a personal message. I knew folks would be interested to know where you work. I will for sure stop by and see you and all the others that are working at the Log House with our next visit back to Dunseith. I know that Mary Ann Gottbreht Brennan (58), Ann Boppre Perry (72) and Jess Hosmer have worked there in past summers too.
 
 
 
Reply from Bill Hosmer (48): Tucson, AZ & Lake Metigoshe, ND
 
Gary, Dick Johnson. The bird that my uncle Clark belly landed in was one of the early models of the Curtis P-40. At another time he also bailed out of one. Dick, you are well versed on alot of subjects, and I agree that the shape of that bird had alot of class. The Mustang, though, had better performance because it was developed later, and it was built by North American. Thanks for the interest. Bill Hosmer
 
 
 
 
Reply from Diane Larson Sjol (70): Minot, ND
 
Gary,
Ok, I really can’t imagine this egg thing you are talking about…a
nearly hatched chick in an egg? So you would be eating a little chick
encased inside an egg? how do you cook it? It sounds really awful. I
am sorry. I once ate a boiled egg that had no yolk and that turned me
off of eggs for about two years. When I was 21 and making a cake I
cracked open an egg and a little chick fell out. I threw the bowl and
everything outside in trash. So maybe you can explain this balute
thing to me…..please.
thanks.
Diane
Diane, with our class of 65 conversations prior to the 2007 reunion the subject of Balute came up. Many of the prior service folks were familiar with Balute. Balute is an egg that contains an un-hatched chick and is considered a delicacy here in the Philippines. They can be purchased in different development stages. The 18 day balute is much more crunchy than the 15 day balute. Bernadette likes the 15 day balute because it contains more of the juice’s. Balute is hard boiled, the same as a regular egg. When the balute man comes around, Bernadette will usually purchase 20 or so eggs for the folks in our area. Young and old alike love this stuff. When we treated some of the kids in our area to McDonalds a while back, we ordered Chicken nuggets and fries for all of these kids. This one little boy didn’t like any of the McDonald’s food, but he sure likes his balute and dried fish.
 
At the 2007 reunion, for a gag, we took 20 balute back with us to raffle off for a door prize. Warren Anderson got the door prize. He shared his balute with Kenny Nerpel and John Bedard at the reunion. Art Rude Sr. requested several of those balute too, of which Warren also shared with him. I kind of don’t think Art ate his balute though. He took them home. I’m not sure what he did with them once he got them home. Maybe he still has them in his refrigerator?
 

 

Larry St. Claire and all,

 

I really screwed up with the pictures in yesterday’s message. I always send a copy of each days message to myself for review to make sure all is OK before sending it on to you guys. I sent the copy to myself, but got side tracked and forgot to examine it for errors before sending. The system replaced Larry’s pictures with those of Kenny Nerpel and John Bedard, distorting them in the process and I did not catch that before sending. If I don’t follow the correct sequence when pasting these pictures into the body of the email, this is what happens. I have posted the correct pictures, below, with today’s message.

 

Larry, It is so nice that you will be able to make our Seattle reunion. We are looking forward to seeing you. I enjoyed my visit with you at the 2007 All School reunion too. You are truly a very social type guy with lots of personality and charisma. I believe Shirley LaRocque (her message posted above) is related to you too. I remember Ginger telling me at the reunion that your guys are related.

 

 

1966:

Top row: Donny Mongeon, Mr Hepper, Larry St. Claire, Tommy Evans

Bottom row: Allen Houle, and Jim Berube
 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry and Robbie St.Claire

 

 

 

 

Picture posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND

 

 

Folks,

 

 

I have been gone long enough from the area so I don’t know Nathan & Traci, but I sure recognize their parents names. Rick and Denice Wheeler Casavant are on our distribution. Denice and I communicated frequently when I was locating Dunseith folks. Donnie Nelson is Orvin Hagen’s adopted son, acually his nephew, but Orvin raised him after his mother, Orvin’s sister died.

 

 

 

 

 

Folks, Barry Shelver is a mirror image of his dad Glen. I’ll bet he posses the great qualities of his father too. Gary

 

 

Picture taken 7-14-07 L to R:

 

 

Barry Shelver (55), Gary Morgan (54), Clark Crum (54), Jerry Williams (54)

 

 

 

 

 

Picture taken 7-12-07 at the class of 65 reunion;

 

Bobby Lagerquist & Art Rude.

 

 
 
 
 
2009 Schedule of 125th Events for the Bottineau City & County Quasquicentennial
 
Thursday, June 18th
2:00 – 4:00 Open House, Pride Dairy
8:30 – 3:00 Bus Tour, West Bottineau County Jim Kofoid is driving one bus; I assume there will be more than one.
School Gathering
Amateur Night, Fairgrounds
Bottineau High School Class of ’57 meets at small picnic shelter in the city park–anytime after 6:00 o’clock.
Friday, June 19th
8:00 – 10:00 Registration, Free Breakfast
10:00 – 4:00 Arts/Quilt Show @ MSU – Bottineau
10:00 Athletic Games, 3 mile walk/run for cancer (Wear a pink hat!)
Open House @ Courthouse, Hospital, MSU, BHS, Ambulance, Good Sam
8:30 – 2:30 Bus Tour, East Bottineau County Brother Jim drives a bus for this event, too.
Kid’s Swim Events
School Gatherings & Bingo
Evening Williams & Ree @ Fairgrounds, aka, the Indian and the White guy.
Saturday, June 20th
Registration
9:00 Welcome Ceremony, MSU – Bottineau
10:30 Parade
11:30 Free Picnic in the Park
10:00 – 4:00 Arts/Quilt Show @ MSU – Bottineau
Athletic Games, 3 on 3 Basketball
9:00 – 4:00 Bingo, Craft Show & Bake Sale @ Armory
1:00 – 4:00 Car Show, Registration for Car Show from 12:00 – 1:00
Open House, Courthouse, MSU, BHS, coffee at the Hospital and Good Sam
School Gatherings & Kids Games
1:00 – 5:00 Free Music Show – Hourly on Main Street
Evening Johnny Holmes @ Fairgrounds
 
Sunday, June 21st
10:00 Ecuminical Church Service
10:00 – 3:00 Best Ball Golf, School Gatherings
Evening Demolition Derby @ Fairgrounds