E-Press 8-30-12_Layout 1.pdf - Pioneer Review
E-Press 8-30-12_Layout 1.pdf - Pioneer Review
E-Press 8-30-12_Layout 1.pdf - Pioneer Review
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Belvidere News … August <strong>30</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong> • Kadoka <strong>Press</strong> • Page 3<br />
Lookin’ Around<br />
by Syd Iwan<br />
Flower gardens tend to have a<br />
mind of their own. They sometimes<br />
resist suggestions and prefer<br />
to do their own thing. That has<br />
been the case with the one behind<br />
our house this year, but it has put<br />
on a fairly good show anyway that<br />
was mostly done by itself without<br />
much input from us.<br />
It all started last fall when wife<br />
Corinne yearned for a glorious<br />
spring display of tulips, daffodils,<br />
and hyacinths. She therefore ordered<br />
a hundred or so bulbs which<br />
we carefully planted with lashings<br />
of bone-meal fertilizer. This spring,<br />
then, Corinne eagerly waited for<br />
the expected riot of color and<br />
beauty. It didn’t happen. It was a<br />
bad year for bulbs for some unknown<br />
reason, and the whole local<br />
area was affected. We did have a<br />
few nice daffodils and one hot-pink<br />
tulip. The tulip was pleasant to<br />
look at for a few days until a hurricane-strength<br />
wind came<br />
through and blew all its petals off.<br />
Some of the other tulips and the<br />
hyacinths came up and flowered<br />
but they were stunted things with<br />
the blooms barely visible and low<br />
enough to the ground that they<br />
were mostly hidden by leaves.<br />
They weren’t much to look at.<br />
Never mind. The big clump of<br />
irises came through and put on a<br />
nice show of purple blooms. They<br />
lasted quite a while and were followed<br />
by some purple salvia here<br />
and there. The best showing,<br />
though, was the larkspur which<br />
came next. These are actually annual<br />
plants instead of perennial,<br />
but they throw out so many seeds<br />
that, if you have them one year,<br />
you’re apt to have more of them<br />
the next. Such was the case. We<br />
had huge areas that came up with<br />
loads of purple, blue and white<br />
spiky flowers. They went on a long<br />
time and were great.<br />
Next on the garden’s agenda<br />
were hollyhocks. There was one<br />
big clump of those plus a couple of<br />
smaller ones. They were mostly<br />
pink with one or two reds and provided<br />
a nice display. We thought<br />
they were done for the year, but recently<br />
they’ve thrown out a few<br />
more blooms, especially at the top.<br />
The bottom part of each stalk has<br />
gone to seed enough that a heretofore-unidentified<br />
bird parks itself<br />
sideways on a stock each morning<br />
and crunches the seeds. The bird<br />
has some pinkish orange on its<br />
breast, some white wing bars, and<br />
a yellow beak but doesn’t quite<br />
match any pictures in the bird<br />
book. If the seeds hold out long<br />
Belvidere News<br />
Frank Carlson didn’t win any<br />
rodeos this week since he and his<br />
crew didn’t enter any. They did win<br />
at the Frontier Days Rodeo in<br />
White River last week however<br />
plus a couple of others previously<br />
this summer. Frank and family did<br />
attend the Rosebud rodeos and fair.<br />
On Wednesday they went to the<br />
matched bronc ride which Frank<br />
said was awesome. On Friday,<br />
there were other rodeo events in<br />
which Toni’s sister barrel raced in<br />
18 seconds flat, which wasn’t quite<br />
good enough to take first but was<br />
near the top. Toni does barrels and<br />
breakaway too when she isn’t expecting<br />
an addition to their family<br />
in a month or so. On Sunday, there<br />
was more rodeo action where local<br />
Christy Willert came in second in<br />
barrels, but her husband, Jamie,<br />
got bucked off. Other than attending<br />
rodeos, Frank has been getting<br />
in a lot of cattle work with calves<br />
being given preconditioning shots.<br />
He’s also been riding a few colts<br />
and doing some training.<br />
Ruth Ann Niehoff is back in the<br />
area after spending the summer at<br />
her home in Carson City, Nevada.<br />
Various of Dennis and her kids<br />
came through from military service<br />
and work in far flung areas so she<br />
wanted to be home for that. She<br />
plans to be here through most of<br />
September to deal with various<br />
ranch things. On Sunday, Ruth<br />
Ann and her mom, Kate DeVries,<br />
attended church in Belvidere.<br />
Wade Fox said he’s had pretty<br />
good luck fishing lately. The bass<br />
are biting. Right now, however, he’s<br />
fishing for sport instead of food and<br />
is doing catch and release. Sometimes<br />
fish taste a bit mossy at this<br />
time of year anyway. Wade plans to<br />
introduce his daughter to the joys<br />
of fishing after the weather cools<br />
down a bit. He has been doing some<br />
trimming of horse hooves lately but<br />
not a lot of shoeing.<br />
Betty Kusick had surgery to remove<br />
some skin cancer from the<br />
back of her left hand this week in<br />
Rapid City. She is now sporting a<br />
bandage that has some kind of<br />
stick in it to prevent a lot of bending.<br />
This is inconvenient since<br />
Betty is left-handed. She was, however,<br />
able to fry some fish for dinner<br />
on Saturday when Joe<br />
Hands Off Gardening<br />
Syd Iwan • 344-2547<br />
enough, we might eventually get a<br />
good enough look to figure things<br />
out. Grasshoppers and some disease<br />
caused problems for a while,<br />
but those have now disappeared<br />
and been replaced by recurrent<br />
growth. We are slightly wondering<br />
if more spikes with flowers will appear<br />
before frost, but we’ll have to<br />
wait and see on that.<br />
At the moment, we’ve mostly<br />
gone from hollyhocks to morning<br />
glories. These are large purple<br />
blooms that brighten our mornings.<br />
They have finally granted<br />
Corinne’s wish to have something<br />
pretty trail over the retaining wall.<br />
She originally wanted some special<br />
kind of petunias for that purpose,<br />
but those were not available in any<br />
of the local greenhouses this<br />
spring. We did find another plant<br />
that grows down instead of up and<br />
has lots of small yellow or pink<br />
blooms. Those were potted, parked<br />
behind the wall, and instructed to<br />
grow over and down. They refused.<br />
Every time Corinne would turn<br />
them so a branch was headed over,<br />
they pulled those back and sent<br />
them another direction. Maybe the<br />
wall was too hot or something. The<br />
morning glories, though, all by<br />
themselves started growing over<br />
and down so that three hangingdown<br />
sprigs are now in place and<br />
blooming. They are also climbing<br />
up the little lilac that never<br />
bloomed and up some elm sprigs<br />
that will be pulled later this fall.<br />
Also in evidence are a little<br />
cedar tree and various other nonblooming<br />
plants of various sizes<br />
and shapes. They all add interest<br />
and have grown thanks to the<br />
water and fertilizer Corinne has<br />
given them over the summer. She<br />
is into nurturing things including<br />
plants. The creeping jenny likes<br />
the care too, but it can’t be uprooted<br />
at present without also<br />
pulling the morning glories. It actually<br />
has pretty white flowers<br />
that could be enjoyed more if one<br />
didn’t know what a pest this plant<br />
can be.<br />
So, that’s the story of the flower<br />
garden. It definitely had a mind of<br />
its own this year but still managed<br />
to provide beauty and interest.<br />
Who knows, maybe next year will<br />
be even better. The bulbs are still<br />
there and might bloom, and other<br />
neat stuff is apt to happen. We’ll<br />
look forward to it. The silly<br />
flowerbed seems to know what it’s<br />
doing. Except for pulling a few<br />
weeds and watering, maybe we<br />
should just keep our hands off.<br />
Livermont came to visit.<br />
On Saturday, Marlene and Bert<br />
Perault helped give fall shots to<br />
calves over at Luke Carlson’s<br />
which is Marlene’s dad’s old place.<br />
Mike helped do similar work that<br />
day over at Larry and Lonny Johnston’s,<br />
and Bert had helped there<br />
on Friday. On Sunday, all three<br />
worked some calves of their own<br />
with the help of Bud Perault. When<br />
there isn’t cattle work, the family<br />
has been scraping the horse barn<br />
at their river place in preparation<br />
for painting. Marlene said that<br />
daughter Lesa is now an RN since<br />
she passed her state boards and<br />
finished her college training. She is<br />
working at Rapid City Regional<br />
Hospital where she takes care of<br />
new babies and the mothers who<br />
have just given birth. She says it is<br />
her dream job. Marlene figures she<br />
inherited her love of that kind of<br />
work from Marlene’s mom, Lillian<br />
Carlson, who has always enjoyed<br />
working with babies and kids.<br />
Delores Bonenberger attended a<br />
surprise birthday party for Jo<br />
Rodgers in Belvidere on Sunday. It<br />
was thrown by her son and husband,<br />
Jory and John. Nikki Bonenberger<br />
and kids also attended. Jory<br />
told Delores that it was Jo’s 40th<br />
birthday, but Jo later corrected<br />
that her 40th was last year and<br />
this year was 41. Usually people<br />
stall out at 39 instead of 40. They<br />
all enjoyed cake and ice cream and<br />
Full Service<br />
Mechanic<br />
Shop!<br />
We make hydraulic hoses &<br />
On-the-farm tire service!<br />
NOW BUYING!<br />
Cars for salvage, call today!<br />
HOURS:<br />
Mon - Fri: 7:<strong>30</strong> to 5:<strong>30</strong><br />
Saturday: 8 to Noon<br />
visiting. At the ranch, Keith, Brett<br />
and Kade were all around this<br />
weekend doing some fencing in<br />
preparation for weaning. Delores<br />
manned the kitchen and provided<br />
meals as necessary for her hungry<br />
crew. The guys took time off to help<br />
fight the fire over at DJ Addison’s<br />
on Saturday.<br />
Jeff Willert is sporting a sling on<br />
his arm to help his broken collarbone<br />
feel better and heal itself. He<br />
will have a doctor appointment<br />
soon but doesn’t seem to be in a lot<br />
of misery although he’s still sore.<br />
Colter Carlson said they have<br />
been gathering bulls and giving fall<br />
shots. On Saturday, all the guys on<br />
the place (Cole Hindman at the<br />
Pines, Joe Pavlas on the Phipps<br />
place and Colter on the home place)<br />
all took time to go to the Addison<br />
fire. Colter said it was mostly<br />
taken care of already by the time<br />
they drove the 16 miles to<br />
Belvidere and then northeast to<br />
Addison’s. Baxter Badure went to<br />
the fire as well.<br />
Russ and Gay Spinsby went to<br />
Kadoka for supplies on Saturday.<br />
They noticed the fire on their way<br />
home but weren’t sure where it<br />
was. They have been working on<br />
their tractor in preparation for<br />
moving some hay before long.<br />
Jim Addison said his nephew,<br />
Myles Addison, had a rough day on<br />
Saturday. He was checking cows<br />
out at the place when the hot wire<br />
on the pickup battery shorted out<br />
and started a prairie fire. Jim figured<br />
the fire ended up being maybe<br />
a mile long but not very wide,<br />
maybe <strong>12</strong>0 acres were burned. The<br />
pickup was saved. Jami Addison<br />
started school last week in Murdo,<br />
but Jim said they are planning to<br />
let school out early the next few<br />
days since the temperatures are<br />
forecast to be in 100s.<br />
Ronda and Rick Dennis picked<br />
up their daughter, Bobbi Jo, and<br />
Ben at the airport early Thursday<br />
morning. They traveled to Mt.<br />
Rushmore and went on to Deadwood,<br />
where they stayed the night.<br />
Friday morning they returned to<br />
Rapid City where they spent the<br />
remainder of the weekend with<br />
Dana DeVries. A group of family<br />
members, and friends, Rob and<br />
Peggy Eckert, Brad and Scotti<br />
Block and Bob Eckert attended the<br />
fair Friday night. Lori and Aaron<br />
Iversen and children were also in<br />
Rapid City for the weekend. On<br />
Saturday Ronda and Rick’s family<br />
went to Reptile Gardens and the<br />
fair. Everyone returned to their<br />
homes on Sunday; Bobbi and Ben<br />
rode back to Denver with Rob.<br />
Chuck and Merry Willard have<br />
had their daughter and granddaughter,<br />
Coleen and Frankie<br />
Grace, home for a couple of weeks.<br />
Part of the visit was marred by<br />
Frankie getting the flu and passing<br />
it to Coleen, although Chuck and<br />
Merry escaped it somehow.<br />
Coleen’s husband, Billy, brought<br />
his gals to Rapid City for pickup,<br />
and Merry will take them back to<br />
Pinedale, WY, later this week<br />
where she plans to stay for a bit<br />
and maybe help with some canning.<br />
Last week, everyone attended<br />
the 4-H rodeo in Ft. Pierre. Merry’s<br />
niece and nephew from Trail City<br />
participated, and Merry’s brother<br />
and his wife were there to see their<br />
kids compete as were Merry’s folks.<br />
The weekend before this, a Bickel<br />
family reunion was held in the Mobridge<br />
area. Merry’s folks and<br />
three of her four brothers and their<br />
families were there. The fourth<br />
brother was on a mission trip to Indonesia<br />
at the time and didn’t<br />
make it back. He was helping build<br />
some homes out of bamboo. Daughter<br />
Niki Kleinsasser and kids were<br />
also at the reunion. Merry said her<br />
granddaughter, Frankie, is a lot of<br />
fun and enjoys the chickens, cats,<br />
horses, ropes, and lots of things<br />
outside. She is 16-months old.<br />
Later this week, everyone will go to<br />
Nebraska to visit Casey before<br />
Coleen returns home.<br />
Troy J. Dent Jr., graduated with<br />
a Doctor of Philosophy with a<br />
major in Mechanical Engineering<br />
from the University of Alabama in<br />
Tuscaloosa, AL, on August 4, 20<strong>12</strong>.<br />
He graduated from high school in<br />
Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. Troy is<br />
the son of Retired Col. Troy Dent<br />
and Kay Dent of Shalimar, Florida.<br />
Troy Jr. is currently employed by<br />
Applied Research Associates in Albuquerque,<br />
New Mexico. Kay Dent<br />
graduated from Belvidere High<br />
School in 1954. She is the daughter<br />
of Wilbur and Eleanor Osborn.<br />
J&S ReStore<br />
Kadoka, South Dakota<br />
USED VEHICLES!<br />
We’re here for all your<br />
vehicle maintenance!<br />
Give us a call today!<br />
TIRE & SERVICE WORK - CALL 837-2376<br />
Norris News<br />
Marjorie Anne Letellier • 462-6228<br />
We can learn a lot from<br />
the game of volleyball.<br />
If you do not concentrate on<br />
serving, you will surely lose.<br />
Ed and Carol Ferguson spent<br />
last weekend at their cabin in<br />
Rochford. When they returned<br />
Tuesday evening, they had<br />
overnight guests. Ed’s cousins,<br />
Blanche Cox of Newcastle, Mary<br />
Simmons from Gillette and George<br />
“Cap” Ferguson of Silt, Colorado,<br />
were driving through western<br />
South Dakota looking at locations<br />
where they had lived as children<br />
and other places of family interest.<br />
Bruce and Jessie Ring and<br />
Stephanie attended a funeral in<br />
Iowa last week and returned home<br />
on Wednesday. June Ring tended<br />
their animals and garden while<br />
they were gone.<br />
Gale, JoAnn and Jerry Letellier<br />
kept appointments in Pierre on<br />
Monday and then in the evening<br />
they all attended the garden and<br />
yard tour at the new home of<br />
Luann and Lowell Noeske in<br />
Pierre.<br />
James Letellier was among the<br />
crowd taking in the Pen of Three<br />
heifer show in White River on<br />
Wednesday. He got home in time to<br />
answer two fire calls by the White<br />
River. Please be careful the ground<br />
is burning up and this whole country<br />
could go up in flash. Keep your<br />
eyes open and don’t hesitate to call<br />
if you see smoke.<br />
Maxine Allard and June Ring<br />
accompanied Janice Ring to the<br />
Beryl Brunsch funeral on Thursday<br />
afternoon.<br />
School News:<br />
Norris school will hold an open<br />
house on Wednesday, August 29<br />
from 4-6 p.m. Everyone is invited<br />
to attend.<br />
No school on next Monday,<br />
Labor Day, Sept 3.<br />
Several folks from this area attended<br />
services for Beryl Brunsch,<br />
74, in Martin on Thursday afternoon.<br />
Beryl served in the U.S. Marine<br />
and returned home to ranch,<br />
rope and drive truck.<br />
When we were first married and<br />
without many luxuries, Beryl<br />
knocked at our door holding a vacuum<br />
cleaner all ready to demonstrate<br />
it. I was so excited, but knew<br />
better than to get my hopes up. I<br />
didn’t know he was a local guy.<br />
While he was demonstrating it;<br />
Jim came in called him by name<br />
they shook hands and I was so<br />
shocked that they knew each other!<br />
They got to talking and I didn’t<br />
think I would ever get to buy that<br />
vacuum cleaner, but we did. I will<br />
never forget it.<br />
Our hearts and prayers go out<br />
for his dear mother, Lucille, his<br />
daughter and other family members.<br />
It has been a heartbreaking<br />
summer for all of us who love and<br />
know the Brunsch family.<br />
Friday, Jeanne Merchen accompanied<br />
her sister, Pat Porch, to<br />
Rapid City. They joined Bunny<br />
Berry, Carol Merchen and Darrel<br />
and Lynette Batie at Minnerva’s<br />
for a Batie sibling celebration of<br />
Jeanne and Bunny’s birthdays.<br />
Friday, Evan and Dorothy Bligh<br />
kept appointments in Pierre and<br />
then went on to Valentine, NE, for<br />
the Fulton’s horse sale.<br />
Folks around here have kept the<br />
road busy traveling to the Rosebud<br />
Fair over the weekend. The big<br />
news is that the Red Leaf fast pitch<br />
team came away champions over<br />
the Nelson team with a score <strong>12</strong>-0.<br />
Pitcher Richard Charging Hawk<br />
and his team did it again. Norris is<br />
once again the home of champions!<br />
Yes, we are proud of that.<br />
Friday, Gale, JoAnn, Gary and<br />
Jerry Letellier and Jim Carey traveled<br />
to Sioux Falls. That evening<br />
they joined Dan Letellier and his<br />
friend, Colleen, and his son, Joe,<br />
and his friend, Hanna, at the<br />
Brazilian Grille to help Joe celebrate<br />
his 18th birthday.<br />
Sharon Ring made a trip to Mission<br />
on Saturday.<br />
Saturday, June Ring and grandson,<br />
Ryan, enjoyed taking in the<br />
Rosebud Fair garden show, pow<br />
wow and parade. They were kept<br />
busy helping with entries at the<br />
garden show. At the close of the day<br />
several best of show awards were<br />
given out in the children and adult<br />
divisions. Ryan was awarded best<br />
of show for his green beans and<br />
June received best of show award<br />
for her black diamond watermelon.<br />
Good job!<br />
Bob Kaufman of Parker, Colorado,<br />
was visiting his mother,<br />
Irene Kaufman, for several days<br />
this week. Friday night Irene<br />
hosted a supper in Bob’s honor;<br />
guests were Marjorie Popkes of<br />
Mission, Ed, Carol and Jesse Ferguson<br />
of Norris. This same group<br />
traveled to the Popkes’ new home<br />
on Saturday night to enjoy another<br />
meal and more reminiscing. Bob<br />
returned to his home on Sunday.<br />
Maxine Allard was thrilled to<br />
have Virginia Coller and Stacy Valandry<br />
stop for a visit Sunday afternoon.<br />
The gals went home with<br />
copies of Maxine’s books, too.<br />
Stacy was too young to go to<br />
school when her mom, Iris, was<br />
cooking at the Day School so she<br />
spent her time at the Phipps School<br />
when Maxine was teaching there.<br />
It sure beat just sitting in the cook<br />
shack.<br />
Sunday, James and Marjorie<br />
Letellier started out for the Dwain<br />
and Rose Mooney sale in Kilgore<br />
only to meet up with a road closed<br />
sign at the state line. They turned<br />
on the gravel road and began their<br />
little “Nebraska back roads” tour to<br />
Crookston then on to Kilgore. They<br />
did make it to the sale and also enjoyed<br />
a visit with their daughter,<br />
Julie before returning home.<br />
On Monday funeral services for<br />
life long Todd County resident,<br />
Walt Heinert, 89, were held. Services<br />
were held in Valentine, NE, at<br />
the Our Saviour Lutheran Church<br />
with burial at the St. John<br />
Lutheran Cemetery in Norris.<br />
Walt and Erna Heinert were a<br />
part of our community and church<br />
for many many years. Walt’s grandsons<br />
are the fourth generation on<br />
the home place. Our hearts and<br />
prayers are with you at this sad<br />
time of loss. Our prayers go out especially<br />
to his wife, Erna, and family.<br />
You are not alone, there are a<br />
heap of friends and neighbors willing<br />
and ready to be of support in<br />
this time of great loss. We will long<br />
remember the man Walt Heinert.<br />
Norris area can boast again of<br />
another queen! Brianne Herman<br />
was once again crowned Miss<br />
Rosebud at the fair this week. Brianne<br />
is the granddaughter of Bill<br />
and Christine Dunham and the<br />
daughter of their daughter Hattie.<br />
We are so proud of you.<br />
Have a great week!<br />
Please be careful,<br />
the fire danger is high!<br />
Summer Hours<br />
Monday - Thursday<br />
10 a.m. to 11 p.m.<br />
Friday & Saturday<br />
9 a.m. to Midnight<br />
Sunday<br />
1 p.m. to 10 p.m.<br />
344-2210<br />
ATM<br />
BELVIDERE BAR<br />
Annual Garden Tour<br />
at the Gale & JoAnn Letellier<br />
residence • Norris, SD<br />
Saturday, Sept. 8<br />
1 to 4 p.m., MT<br />
Everyone Welcome!<br />
Call JoAnn at 462-6353<br />
or email<br />
letellierjo@yahoo.com