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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 />

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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 />

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Norris News<br />

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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 />

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