No Blog the past two days.
For the record I did not get a blog posted the past two days.
Gary
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Happy birthday Connie Fauske Monte (DHS ’62): Fort Meyers, FL
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Manvil Sebelius’ 90th Birthday Celebration this coming Saturday at Peace Lutheran
Message from Cheryl (Marvin) Sebelius: Rolette, ND
Hi Gary, the family of Manvil Sebelius is having a 90th birthday Celebration on Sat. April 19th from 1 to 4 pm at the Peace Lutheran Church in Dunseith, ND. I would appreciate it if you would mention it in your emails. Everyone is invited, we are looking forward to seeing old friends and family this weekend and having a great day!
Thank-you!
Cheryl
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Happy Birthday Roger Counts
From Lola Metcalfe Vanorny (’68): Dunseith, ND
Happy BIrthday Roger!!– long time friend and classmate- !!-LOLa and Jay Vanorny
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Congratulations to Larry Hackman’s grandchildren at the State FBLA Conference in Grand Forks.
From Margaret Metcalfe Leonard (’65): Rolette, ND
I was the FBLA ( Future Business Leader’s of America) advisor for the Belcourt Chapter for 20 plus years and I can assure you that the events at these conferences are extremely competitive! The National Convention in Nashville will be a highlight of their high school experience to be sure!! Wishing them the best in their competition at the Nationals!!! Margaret Leonard.
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Rod Hiatt’s reply to Dale Evans
Reply from Rod Hiatt (’69): Bottineau, ND.
In response to my cousin, Dale Evans, whining about his horse riding experiences and the unmanageable horses we gave him when he would visit us from the west coast, I had to do some serious thinking. I now realize the time that the horse wouldn’t stop was because we kept putting quarters in the little horsey machine out in front of Walmart, and the time the horse was jumping the fences, was actually the Merry Go Round at the county fair and he was told that the little horsey went up and down as well as round and round. The one time that he was on a real horse was also at the county fair and it was on the pony ride where the ponies are chained to the wheel, and Dale’s comment when he got on was ” hand me the handle bars” Ya I believe that would be a true and accurate discription of his horsemanship!
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Blog (67) posted on April 6, 2008
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Hi Gary and Group;
It’s been a month of so since the topic of the old businesses and merchants of Dunseith were being talked about. While I welcome all the interchange that takes place, I kind of miss the old street news. May I share a thought or two along these lines with you folks?
I don’t believe when I started school in Dunseith there was a hot lunch program (that would be 1949). I do however recall that my parents arranged with Bertha Myers in the little strip lunch counter besides the old bowling alley for I and my brother, DuWayne, to take lunch there. For seventy-five cents or so we could get a decent meal or bowl of soup and sandwich. Somehow I conned Bertha to let me eat light and get some change back to use next door at KC’s to get some penny candy. This worked out real good until my mother caught wind of the arrangement. Needless to say, Bertha, KC, and I were all in hot water for a while. My Mom, Charlotte, must have found some extra candy in my pockets when I got home or something like that. How do mothers know these things, I’ll never know?
A few years later, I would pick up some money setting pins in the bowling alley on Saturday nights. I prided my self in getting my weekly allowance on Saturday (the big night in town)and then getting home with more. But there was a small problem. Late at night with maybe a little help from the back door of Stadheim’s bar, the big boys would show up and see who could throw the hardest. I believe it was Rod Evans who threw the hardest. I remember when he got up to throw, it was not pick your legs up. It was get behind the whole pit and the machines because pins would be flying. I can’t remember if it was a nickel or a dime we got to set those pins per game. But late on Saturday nights we earned every penny we got.
Enough of my ramblings for now. Keep them coming Gary.
Dwight Lang
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Gary,
Greetings to all of you Turtle Mountain Americans out there, wherever you are. Here are a couple of Ole tunes. I don’t know where or when they were recorded but I am pretty sure it is Ole Bursinger and Lorraine Metcalfe.
Ken Nerpel
Note to Kenny: To keep the file sizes of these daily messages down, I’ve attached only one of these songs today and I will send the other one tomorrow.
Note to everyone: These files have been considerably reduced in size for group mailing. For those of you that would like a non reduced copy, with better quality, I’m sure Kenny Nerpel would be glad to forward one to you. Kenny reduced the files that he sent to me and then I asked Bill Grimme to reduce them even more.