June 2016

The Belleville Police Department hosted a Bike Rodeo on June 4th. Participants learned about bicycle safety, received t-shirts and bike helmets and there was a professional on hand to inspect their bicycles. Mounted Patrol horses Monty and Taser appeared as well, simulating traffic on one of the courses.

Alphonse Francis Gion, age 96, passed away on May 26, 2016, at Agrace Hospice in Fitchburg, WI. Alphonse was born on Sunday, 6:00 a.m., 25 April 1920, on the homestead farm of his parents, Michael and Margaret (Kilzer) Gion, near Regent, ND.
At age six he began his education at Cherry Butte consolidated school, a few miles from the farm. Upon graduation in 1933, he attended Assumption Abbey, a monastery/seminary high school at Richardton, ND. Upon completion he chose not to become a monk, but returned to the farm until he was drafted into the Army in February 1942.

Dear Editor,
Several weeks ago I was surprised, while trying to plant a crab apple tree in my front yard, to see three young men pull up, get out of their truck and offer to help me plant the tree. They got right to work, dug the hole, put the tree in, filled it in, watered it, and raked it out. The three young men were Brent, Brice and Dillon Klitzke, from Monticello.
Now, if I had been young and beautiful, this would not have been such a surprise, but I’m anything but. So, thank you, Brent, Brice and Dillon.
JoAnn Krueger