Lustre News
Lustre needs rain so badly. The dust clouds were high as the seeding progressed on Wallstreet Friday. Join us in praying for rain for our state, and our country, please.
State Music Festival was held in Billings on May 2-3. Seven of the eight entries earned Superior (1) ratings at the State Music Festival! They were (vocal): TJ Cumpio with “On the Sunny Side of the Street”, Justice Byers with “Even If”, Nathan Fast and Lauren Fast, Fast with their duet “Anything you can do, I can do better”, and the vocal ensemble of Chris Traeholt, Lauren Fast, Lauryn Holzrichter and Samantha Neufeld with “Blessings”.
In the instrumental brass entries earning superiors at State were: Holly Hilkemann, played “Polka Caprice” on her trombone, Diek Olfert and Nathan Fast with “Cool, Calm and Collected” on trumpet and trombone. Also earning a superior were KJ Brown, Joel Reddig and Wheeler Dambois with “Quasi Bossa Nova” (drumline). The jazz band earned an excellent with “Buffalo Head” and “Martian Square Dance”. Jerson Ayuno thanks Nikki Hilkemann for her bus driving, the school board for its strong support financially and the individuals who covered the lodging for the students to be able to go. He especially appreciated the parents for supporting their students and said he was very pleased with the students, especially considering the jazz band members had competed in a track meet in Sidney on the day before needing to compete at 8 a.m. in Billings.
The National Day of Prayer was Thursday, May 7. At LCHS, chapel focused on praying particularly for the seniors who are graduating on Sunday, May 17, at 3 pm. The theme of the National Day of Prayer was “Tell of God’s glory among the nations, His good deeds to all people”. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s address at the National Day of Prayer in our nation’s capitol was well worth hearing and we learned among other things why Congress engraved our national motto, “In God We Trust” above the speaker’s podium, at the height of the Cold War. “According to the visitor’s guide to the House, it was engraved there as a rebuke to the Soviets for their philosophy in Socialism, Marxism that there is no God.’ That’s Not Who we are.” “We are a praying nation”.
