19 March 2020
Area Youth Win Small Business Competition
Nakona Dakota Oyate Youth Council member Ethan Blount (left to right), Fort Peck Tribes Executive Board member Alexander Smith, NDO chairperson Antone
Members of the Nakona Dakota Oyate Youth Council attended the Reservation Economic Summit 2020 in Las Vegas, Nev., March 2-4. They won first prize in the youth business plan competition March 3.
NDO chairperson Antone Manning, vice-chair
12 March 2020
40 Years For Friesen’s Floral
Friesen’s Floral recently received a plaque for being open for 40 years from the Wolf Point Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture. (Mary Buckles (left) and Kathryn Wylie (second from right) accepted the plaque from chamber president Jeff Presser and Jan Bryan, a chamber director.
Wed On Leap Day
Rayna Marie DeSocio and Andrew Allen Schultes were married Feb. 29, 2020, in Wolf Point in a small ceremony. Parents are Dennis and Lorna DeSocio of Caldwell, Idaho, and Loyal and Jane Schultes of Wolf Point.
Allyn Skyberg
Allyn “Buster” Walter Skyberg, 95, of rural Fort Peck, died March 6, 2020, in Glasgow.
He was born Dec. 14, 1924, in Bonin, McCone County, to Melvin and Thora (Wangsness) Skyberg. He grew up on the family ranch where, in his youth, he herded sheep and later cattle.
He attended country grade school and three years of high school in Nashua and Frazer, but never finished the last year to


