CAPITOLETTER

September 16, 2024

The summer weather has come back to Capitol and Tie Creek. The mornings are cool and productive, but by noon things have heated up.

Diane Wear came to Ronda Cordell’s on Monday, and Ronda rode with her to Buffalo, where they had lunch at Blossoms N Brew. Diane went back home with an assortment of vegetables from Ronda’s garden. Ronda took Sophie to the Belle Fourche Vet Clinic for a check-up. Then, Ronda went on to Walmart and the Pizza Ranch until Sophie was finished at the clinic. She stopped to visit Alfreda Davis. Ronda went to Ekalaka on Thursday. She stopped by the Wagon Wheel for a bite to each and some good visiting.

Clint and Denise Zolnoski’s family were busy with homecoming activities, this week. Each day at school was a dress-up day with a different theme, and Ronda Cordell received pictures of the girls in their different outfits. Clint took time out from haying in the millet field, to take in some games and the homecoming parade.

Dick and Erma Albert took their car to Belle Fourche to have the dash lighting checked. When they finally found the trouble, it was that a dash cover was blocking a sensor that dimmed the lights during the brightness of daytime. The dash cover had to have a piece cut out of it to let the sensor work. Personally I think it would be much easier to let a person actually be responsible enough to know how to turn a knob up or down. Dick and Erma went to the Senior Citizen dinner on Friday. Many people were busy with Homecoming activities, and they went to see the parade at one o’clock. Erma stayed to play cards in the afternoon. Later that afternoon, Erma went for a haircut. Dick and Erma went to the Catholic Church on Sunday, and then met John and Carol Helms at Saloon Number Three for lunch.

Alvin, Marlee, Tawni and kids went to church at the Methodist Church in Camp Crook on Sunday. After church everyone was treated to cinnamon rolls, and there was a meeting to decide about the fall church bazaar.

Lynn Gustafson flew back to Rapid City on Tuesday. She had been visiting family in Alabama. Bruce met her there for the drive home. She set out her pepper plants, and later discovered one especially nice purple pepper nearly perfect for eating. The trouble is that a deer saw it, that night, too. The deer wasn’t’ even polite enough to eat the whole pepper, but left half behind. Lynn wants it known that it was the Diligent Doer’s Extension Club that sponsored the cake sale and cake walk at the fair, and not the church ladies.

Kellan Davis’s birthday is on Tuesday, and there are so many family birthdays this week, that they have a tradition of meeting everyone at the bike park in Sturgis for one big celebration. It is a great place for family, and if you don’t ride a bike, you have a great time eating and watching the others. Doug and Julia enjoyed the day with the kids. Then at noon they all had lunch at Pizza Ranch. On Sunday, Doug discovered that a coyote had taken a lamb, so they kept watch early while Alvin Teigen flew to search out the coyotes, but had no luck. Ty Moncur and Ivan Rosander brought loads of hay from the Hulett area on Friday and Saturday.

Shirley Melum has been busy baking apple pies. She is known for her delicious apple pies and Rachel brought her a bunch of apples, so she got busy with pie baking. Friday was delivery day. First, Junior and Shirley took a pie down to George Oleson, and visited there. Then they took a pie up to Donahey’s and had a visit there. The third pie was for Ernie, Rachel and Tommy. Shirley has kept quite busy with all that work, but she had energy to spare. Then on Saturday, Daniel Kalbach came for a visit with Junior and Shirley.

Dorothy Padden and Dawn made a trip to Buffalo for some lab work on Tuesday. Dorothy spent most of the week on the computer, watching the Harding County homecoming activities and sports on the National High School channel. Kelly Padden came to join her on Friday to watch with her. The channel seemed to have a time limit, and the end of the football game was cut off. When Bryce came in later, they were surprised that Buffalo had come from behind to win a very close game.

Dawn and Bryce Padden had a busy week. Their grandchildren are really keeping them busy this year. They are in most grades from junior high to high school. Dawn is especially busy because she is the designated photographer for the area. During homecoming week, Dawn took pictures at eight events on five days. Cross Country was a new event for her, and she nearly had to run the race with her camera equipment to get the pictures from beginning to end. There was junior high football, the coronation, high school volleyball at Bowman, cross country in Sturgis, home volleyball, the parade, and football. That was still not all, because she would go to Bowman for the junior high football jamboree. That just gave her a day to sort, work with, and save her billions of pictures. Things will slow down next week.

Karen Odell worked to get rid of weeds in the mornings while it was cool, this week. She wrote some music to use for singing at church on Sunday, and took copies to town to put in the music folders. She visited Wolffy’s and the Camp Crook post office. She practiced piano, violin, harp and bass guitar. On Sunday, Karen went to church at the Methodist Church in Camp Crook. Alan Loken was guest speaker. Lynnette Wolff had the children’s sermon and the kids got to ring the bell. Karen played piano, and everyone seemed to have a good time learning the new song. It was actually a very old song, but has always been a favorite of those who know it, even today.

Put your best foot forward, and hope the other one can withstand the trip.