Lustre News

Oct. 4, 2024

Fall is here, with a low of 31 degrees this past night. Coyotes were heard in the morn with their plaintiff cry.

Pablo and Judy Perez were chapel speakers at LCHS on Sept 26, and held a Friday evening meeting at the EMB Church. They spoke on missions on Sunday morning and afternoon at the EMB Harvest-Missions Festival, with a meal served between.

They serve in Quito, Ecuador, with Mesa Global which is based in Charlotte, N.C. "Pablo preached in Spanish and Judy translated it into English. It made for an interesting service," one guest said. "Pablo and Judy minister in Ecuador with home-based church families. This involves personal discipleship, Bible study classes, counseling, and leadership mentoring, both in person and virtually. One of these churches meets in their own home. Pablo also writes discipleship materials." The Mesa Global website says it "focuses on building long-term partnerships that bear fruit for all involved, working to provide hands-on support for churches and their leaders to serve and minister sustainably." They plant house churches because "we believe in the good that can happen when we come around the table."

The Valley County Commissioners held a Community Meeting on Sept. 30, at LCHS. Fifteen people were in attendance for the listening session with Paul Tweten, Jeff Alsberg, Mary Armstrong and John Fahlgren. Concerns were expressed by Principal Bob Burkhard for speed control around the schools, especially the blind hill that is just west of LCHS. The 5:30 p.m., meeting showed clearly the need for signs as the sun was blinding anyone by 6:30 p.m. at the school intersection. There was also a request for occasional police presence to enforce the speed limits on the entire public gravel roads. The 35 mph speed limit signs are on order, which the Road Dept installs. The traffic is going too fast, and there are NO signs on the west sides of Wallstreet or Lustre Road to give speed limits.

Concern was expressed that Academy Road and the main roads would be graveled before snowfall. The priority will be given first to school bus routes, then farm to market routes. The Commissioners reported that 700 thousand yards of gravel (94 thousand ton) have just been finished crushing for the roads needing gravel in this part of Valley County. The Novak Road, Lustre Road, Richland-Frazer and Wallstreet Road are on the schedule. Questions were asked about whose responsibility it is to maintain Grand Prairie Road to Hwy 2 through the Oswego Creek where deep potholes are causing vehicles to bottom out. The commissioners were made aware of portions of the roads needing fabric, ballast or binding rock where the springs open up under the road beds.

The Commissioners reaffirmed that it would not cost for someone to take a load of refuse to the dump in Glasgow from Lustre, but it would need to be weighed. There is a new Landfill Administrative assistant full time, freeing the drivers to do more of their work. Kerry Utchmann was commended on the road maintenance.