Lustre News
Rain turned into snow Tuesday evening, Nov. 5, making the highways treacherous most the way to Wolf Point Wednesday for those who needed to travel. How thankful we can be that people could get in to vote on this most important day in American history, to attend activities and finish fall duties of the farm work. It is windy, but a clear 56 at bus time.
Dhana Olfert, daughter of Ron and Etta Olfert, married Vernon Hayden on Saturday, Oct. 26, in an outdoor fall wedding near the river on her brother Caleb (Rebecca) Olfert’s farm “Arrowrest”. Her sister, Ronda Lind of Huron, S.D., was her matron of honor. Vernon comes from Papua New Guinea and lived in Indiana before Kentucky, where they met. The couple will live in Lexington, Ky., where they both work.
Lustre Grade School athletes traveled to Saco to meet the North Country Mavericks in jamboree and junior high basketball on Tuesday, Nov. 5, and the students on the team bus got to witness a large cattle drive as it crossed Highway 2 along their route. The junior high girls worked hard to come from behind, winning 23-19 with great teamwork, making freethrows and steady fast running. We were playing the younger siblings of the 2024 state girls’ basketball champions so it was even more of a nail-biter, and we are glad they played well. Harlo Reddig’s free throws with eight seconds to go, Samantha Neufeld and Ava Holzrichter’s key baskets and the all around good playing by those who came off the bench really added. The girls’ junior high team starters are Tessa Olfert, Neufeld, Holzrichter, Reddig and Amelia Olfert.
The boys’ junior high team had a slow start, but it was a nail-biter and they won in the final quarter 24-21 with assists from Hilkemann, Damboise and Schiller, and Damboise’s 3.
The jamboree girls won their game in Dodson 14-2, and the boys 25-8 tonight, and the older ones play soon. Basketball practices for LCHS begin Nov. 21.
It was also heartening to have the students pepper their elders with questions after the game, as they had studied current events in their grades this fall, learning its importance, choosing candidates if they could vote. Waiting together as families in northeastern Montana for election results, reminded me of the issues that placed “Faith, Family and Freedom against Socialism, Secularism” as one commentator put it.
Life and freedom is what our veterans fought for, and we thank all for your service. You know where you served and they were often tough places and ever so lonely. We have talked with some of our grads who served in recent times, and we are thankful your lives were spared. PTSD and terrible memories are so difficult.
