Lustre News
Returning north, the Canadian geese have been flying in formation over the campus of the Lustre Christian High School — what a beautiful sight with sounds in Montana’s big sky. Brian Young of Creation Instruction Association gave very insightful visual presentations at LCHS’s chapel on Monday to Wednesday, March 21-23. Besides fossilized evidence for Noah’s flood, students learned about how volcano eruptions affect the length of summers and plant growth. Students saw petrified finds like cowboy boots and learned how that process takes place. The students enjoyed finding out how a giraffe can raise its head without fainting, as it has valves that relieve the blood pressure. I enjoyed learning about the hyperbaric chambers that are being used around the world, using conditions that may have been like those pre-flood, and using that combination of factors to aid in healing. Documented cases were shown involving leprosy patients in India, blindness and sudden hearing loss patients in Japan, diabetic gangrene folk in Sweden, multiple sclerosis patients in England, advanced liver disease, vascular necrosis and arthritis patients in France, all being helped by treatments using hyperbaric oxygen. Sports injuries are being tended using these chambers in the U.S.
I was asked to give the background of Schmeckfest by an alumnus of LCHS from Wolf Point. It was begun in 1965 by several couples as a fundraiser for LCHS and is a tasting feast of the German foods common to the settlers of Lustre, with a program given by the community. Eventually, a silent auction was added, then a live auction as well as a bake sale. For 57 years, quilts have been made to auction or display. It is held yearly the last Friday of March and has only been delayed in 2010 due to snow. It takes the entire co-operation of the community, and we enjoy seeing folks.
Wednesday, March 15, the Awana leaders gave awards to their students, and it was good to see how many students won the Alpha Award for completing their first book of memory verses. There were students who learned 130 verses in the season and students who finished four levels. Over 140 people attended the junior class pizza buffet fundraiser. Dan and Melissa Morasco and the LCHS junior class organized the event. All that the teachers do to make LCHS well-rounded is appreciated, and Lustre’s teachers go way beyond the call of duty sometimes.
