May 16
St. John’s Lutheran Church worship service: 9 a.m. at 229 S. First St., Pearl City. Worship will be held in person and online.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church worship service: 9:30 a.m. at 118 E. Mason St., Lena. Worship will be held in person and online. The service will acknowledge the Seventh Sunday of Easter and read the Ascension story from Luke 24:44-53 and Acts 1:1-11.
Dakota United Church of Christ: 9:30 a.m. at 120 S. Church St. Worship will be held in person and online. The message, titled “Gone Up With A Shout: Clap Your Hands” will be part of the “Dare To Dance Again” sermon series.
JAMES FREDERICK DEROUIN
A little man with a big heart. In his high school class of 100 (50 being boys) eleven of them were named James. To lessen confusion they decided to call each other by their middle names. That is how Jim/Fred got to be known as Jim to some people while others only knew him as Fred.
Jim/Fred was the original owner of the Only Shoe Repair on North Broadway, known for its excellent workmanship and the tree out front with brightly painted shoes hanging from the branches. He took pride in his work and won several national shoe repair competitions.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, with the pews replaced by chairs for distancing. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
After more than a year of online services and mostly empty pews due to COVID-19 health measures, a significant number of people soon will be allowed back to church.
The first step of Saskatchewan’s Re-Opening Roadmap will increase capacity at places of worship to 150 people or a third of the building’s capacity, whichever is less. Step One is scheduled to begin May 30.
Rev. Jim Chimirri-Russell, the pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Regina, has been doing his best throughout the pandemic, but he’s still looking forward to standing up and speaking to a more normal-sized flock.
SHALIMAR As Bea Daily prepares a PowerPoint for Good Shepherd Lutheran Church’s 65th anniversary same as she did for the Shalimar church’s 50th and 60th anniversaries she can’t help but feel overcome with emotion.
The church historian compares archiving and sharing her church’s past to genealogy. They’re a family, she said.
“It s important to have that history there for future generations,” Daily said. “It s amazing how people will say, ‘I m so glad that you had that in there,’ and ‘You had so and so s face in there,’ and ‘That s such a great thing to be able to remember. If you hadn t had that in there, I would have forgotten about that.’ It s worthwhile.
Craig Fiedler, 59, passed away on May 8, 2021 at his residence in Moorhead, MN.
Craig Raymond Fiedler was born on July 22, 1961 to Raymond and Marlene Fiedler in Wheaton, MN, the first of four children. Craig grew up on the family farm and graduated from Wheaton High School in 1979. He went to Moorhead Tech for Culinary School (aka chef school) obtaining a two year degree.
Craig worked for Buttrey Foods in Moorhead in the early years as a baker. He then went to work for Costco Wholesale in June of 1987. He was hired as a baker to help set up the first in-warehouse bakeries. Craig wore many different “hats” in his Costco career, from baker, to bakery manager, to floor manager, receiving manager, meat manager, administrative manager, and finally assistant warehouse manager. His Costco career started by relocating to Seattle and then transferring to the warehouse in Billings. Then the move home to the West Fargo warehouse.