Lustre News
Tuesday, the rain poured all day, giving Lustre 1 7/8” rain by afternoon. It was a great opportunity to harvest rain water for winter indoor plants. The beautiful wheat and canola fields were watered.
Ordinary work fills our days in Lustre: gardens, watching the skies for storms, spraying fields for weeds in a safe manner, moving cattle to new pastures, mowing lawns and caring for animals. Folks work together when that works better. Teens learn they do well with responsibility and earn respect in jobs well done. The canola field is beautiful with the light of the setting sun on it next to the stately evergreens. The fields of grain growing gently in the wind and seeing the buffalo, the deer or antelope along our road is really a blessing found in the isolation of our area. Hearing coyotes close by, not so much.
For those who love to read in summer, Bob Lee’s autobiography From Cleghorn to Kadan was released by Amazon. com on June 29. Bob and Carolyn were missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Papua New Guinea from 1975 to their retirement. Carolyn is the sister of Vivian Wall and has a number of relatives in Lustre. She trained at Briercrest Bible College and Multnomah School of the Bible, studying Greek at both. She met Bob at UND where they took linguistic training to be able to put a language into writing. They both knew they were called to translation and completed the Madak New Testament in 1995.
Gary and Marcia Fast mourned the sudden passing of her youngest brother, David Flaten, on Monday, July 6.
July 4th was a great day to celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It’s this document that recognizes we are created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Some celebrated with a barbecue with family and friends and joined Frazer or Wolf Point in their fireworks in the evening after a hard day of farm work. Others simply served meals on red white and blue dishes or with our nation’s colors in the menu and put up a flagpole to fly the U.S. flag in the yard. Seeing the huge U.S.-shaped flag on the Texas Rangers vs. Anaheim Angels was neat. It was held up by individuals as one needs to uphold the constitution, with pride and love before the baseball game.
President Trump spoke at the opening of the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library in Bismarck, N.D., and at Mount Rushmore on July 2-3. His speech there was worth hearing, reminding us of the extra-ordinary character, the extra-ordinary culture, the extra-ordinary ideas of our founders who created our republic July 4, 1776.
We listened to tributes to America by Canadian singers like Rosemary Siemens and The Most Beautiful Patriotic Hymns for July 4th
and a concert by the Bob Jones University Fine Arts Department with selections like The Star Spangled Banner, Liberty Fanfare by John Williams, the recitation of
The Gettysburg Address and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in its entirety on piano accompanied by their orchestra. John Philips Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever was their final piece and reminds us that Sousa belongs in a class with Beethovan and Mozart in the contribution he made to band music in America. They reminded us of the privilege we had of being in bands and marching in parades as teens. Friday evening, our country was given the privilege to see the Capitol Fourth 250th Celebrations from the lawn of our capitol in Washington, D.C. Trace Atkins sang American Made. The four astronauts who traveled on Artimus II were special guests. Pilot Victor Glover pointed to the White House and said, “This is the people’s house. Inside on one wall is carved a Scripture that says ‘Without vision the people perish.’” He and Commander Wiseman spoke of the space missions being planned, and the vision it takes to do them. We heard Jack Everly direct the National Symphony orchestra play John Philips Sousa marches we had played in high school and still knew our parts. We enjoyed the Joint Armed Forces sing “Let Freedom ring for the children of every generation” and the Orchestra play the 1812 Overture. A total of 2,500 drones gave a Fourth of July tribute and America the Beautiful was sung by Alan Jackson. Carlie Pierce sang
This Land is My Land and My County Tis of Thee. Trace Atkins honored the veterans with He’s still a Soldier and Angel Blue sang Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. Winter Olympians, winners of one of 33 medals won this year, were introduced.
