Pioneer Review, December 27, 2012

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December 27, 2012

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by Del Bartels “I’m going to miss this, too, I’msure,” said Lester “Les” Pearsonabout his retirement from beingthe site manager at Dakota Milland Grain, Philip, after 42 years. Pearson is retiring now because,“I’m spry and healthy. There’sthings I want to do while I’mhealthy; hoping I got the time to dowhat I can.” His time will be filledwith his nine grandchildren, hunt-ing, riding horse, and “that kind ofstuff.” Pearson first started at what wasthen Tri-State Milling “just to helpthem out. The guys wanted to takeoff some for Christmas vacation,”said Pearson. Those guys weremanager Ed Hansen and mill-worker Barney Pfeifer. After fourmonths on the job, Pearson wasdrafted into the United StatesArmy, where he spent the next twoyears doing special services. Uponreturning to Philip, he continuedhis job, but now it was with Hub-bard Mill and Grain. Pfeifer movedto Wall to be the manager at thatsite, and, about three years after

Pearson’s return, Hansen retiredand Pearson took over as managerof the Philip site. “It was a lot more than I thoughtit was, when I first took it. I’velearned a lot over the years,” saidPearson. “Lester’s impossible to replace:we’re looking for someone to fill therole,” said Brian Hammerbeck,area supervisor for Dakota Milland Grain. “I don’t pick on him, allI can do is praise.” “It’s been good. The people arethe best part of the job. I have somefamilies I’m working with the thirdgeneration. You can’t beat people,”said Pearson. Pearson’s wife is in favor of hisretirement. “She all for it, actually.I think she’s going to stay downthere (at the drug store) so she canget away from me once in a while,”said Pearson.

Lester Pearson retires after 42 years

Lester Pearson, right, after 42 years ofemployment there, has retired as thesite manager of Philip’s Dakota Milland Grain. Photo by Del Bartels

During a special luncheon, Tues-day, December 18, Matt Donnelly,was honored by the Philip chapterof Modern Woodmen of America asa hometown hero because of hiscountless hours of service to thecommunity and school. Donnelly, a Philip High Schoolinstructor and coach, had previ-ously been chosen as the 2012Teacher of the Year by the SouthDakota Association for Health,Physical Education, Recreationand Dance. In recognition of his efforts,members of the Modern Woodmenchapter presented Donnelly with acertificate and awarded a $100grant to the Community Better-ment Committee, the charitable or-ganization of his choice. The event had some attendeesspeak their thoughts, some with se-rious praise and some with friendlyroasting. Superintendent KevenMorehart said of Donnelly, “Astand up guy; a guy who teacheskids responsibility. There’s nobodybetter than Matt.” Kathy Peterson,PHS secondary secretary, saidabout Mrs. Donnelly, “We shouldtake our hats off to Linette, too.” “Improving the quality of life for

our members, their families andtheir communities is ModernWoodmen’s mission,” said DonHaynes, local Modern Woodmenactivities coordinator. “The home-town heroes program helps us ac-knowledge and thank volunteersacross the country for doing justthat.” Coordinated by local ModernWoodmen members. chapters pro-vide opportunities to connectthrough social activities and volun-teer projects. As a tax-exempt fraternal benefitsociety, Modern Woodmen sells lifeinsurance, annuity and investmentproducts, not to benefit stockhold-ers, but to improve the quality oflife of its stakeholders – members,their families and their communi-ties. This is accomplished throughsocial, charitable and volunteer ac-tivities. Annually, Modern Wood-men and its members provide morethan $23 million and nearly onemillion volunteer hours for commu-nity projects nationwide.

Matt Donnelly honored as hometown hero

Matt Donnelly, left, accepted the honors of being chosen as a hometown hero for his countless hours of service to the com-munity and school. Presenting the certificate and a $100 donation in Donnelly’s name to the Community Betterment Com-mittee was Don Haynes, activities director for the Philip chapter of Modern Woodmen of America. Photo by Del Bartels

On Thursday, December 6, at the32nd annual Ag Appreciation Ban-quet hosted by the Ag and NaturalResources Committee of the RapidCity Area Chamber of Commerce,Grady and Bernice Crew, Philip,were honored with the Aggie of theYear Award. The chamber’s Ag and NaturalResources Committee establishedthis special award in 1981, theaward was created to honor indi-viduals who provide leadershipthat has benefited the local areaagriculture community over an ex-tended period of time. The Crews were honored fortheir lifetime of service in agricul-ture through the operation of theirsuccessful agri-businesses includ-ing the Crew Crop InsuranceAgency, the Badlands Trading Postand now the Prairie Homestead. Grady is the fourth generationoperator of Crew Ranch, Crew Cat-tle Company, where he and Ber-nice now raise Angus cows andCharolais calves and grow wheatand corn. The Crews have beenmarried since 1978 and have twochildren. Their son Caleb is athome and helps run the ranch withthem and their daughter Jamieworks as communications officerfor the South Dakota Departmentof Agriculture. Grady and Bernice have bothplayed important roles in their

community. Grady has served assecretary of Cenex Harvest State,president of the White River Graz-ing District, director on the SouthDakota Wheat Board, he was onthe Jackson County Soil Conserva-

tion District Board and president ofthe Kadoka School Board. Berniceis currently a director on the Bad-lands Natural History Association. More than 600 people were pres-ent at the appreciation banquet,where South Dakota Secretary ofAgriculture Walt Bones gave thekeynote address.

Crew couple – Aggie of the Year

Members of the Philip chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America worked after school Wednesday, De-cember 19, collecting, sorting and distributing the donated gifts left under the community Maggie Grace Angel Tree. Thisis Philip FCCLA’s 15th year sponsoring the project. The angel tree is dedicated in Maggie Mehlhaff’s memory in the hopethat needy children in the area will be shown the spirit and love of Christmas. Since the set up of the tree in the HaakonCounty Courthouse, November 26, gifts have been piling up. The Philip FCCLA chapter, inconjunction with the local churchesand Haakon County Community Health office, have or will distribute the donations to children in need in the Philip area.Gifts beyond our community need will be distributed by the Jackson County Community Health office and the BennettCounty foster child program. Brigitte Brucklacher, Philip FCCLA advisor, believes that the amount donated this year is equalto, or even more, than the amount donated last year, which was over 300 gifts. Pictured are, from lower left, FCCLA Chair-person Kelsie Kroetch, Samantha Huston, Afton Burns. Tara Cantrell and Brucklacher. Photo by Del Bartels

FCCLA Angel Tree successful

The Deep Creek School held their Christmas program December 19 at the DeepCreek School, with numerous family members and friends. The students enter-tained the audience with several skits and songs. During the song, “We Wish Youa Merry Christmas,” Santa Claus surprised the students with a visit and a treatbag. The younger preschool students were awestruck when Santa called theirnames and gave them each a bag of treats. Shown singing, from left, are KoriEndres – second grade, Zakry Sinkey – third grade, Bobbie Jarvi – third grade,Noah Johnson – fourth grade, and Dylan Endres – fourth grade. Courtesy photo

Deep Creek School program

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Lookin’ Around by Syd Iwan

Beginnings are often better thanendings. Take the moon in itscycle, for instance. It starts out asa tiny crescent in the west justafter sunset and is really niftythen. When I first notice it hangingthere, I often say something like,“Welcome back, Moon. Nice to seeyou again.” The moon doesn’treply, of course, but I say it any-way. From that thin crescent, then,this second-brightest light in theheavens keeps on growing fromnight to night until it blossoms intoa big and pretty full moon. It staysbig for a few nights although littlechunks start disappearing from it.Then by the fourth week of thecycle, I seldom notice it much sinceit comes up so late – just beforesunrise. Finally, it disappears alto-gether for a night before beingreincarnated as a thin fellow againin the west. To me, the beginningof the moon’s cycle is great, andthings stay interesting all the wayto the halfway point. From thereon it’s all downhill, as they say. The life cycle of animals can besimilar. There is nothing muchcuter than a baby animal whetherit be a calf, pony, or puppy. Thecuteness tends to win your heart.From there, critters continue togrow into adults when they hope-fully will become more useful, butprobably not as attractive. Afterthe midpoint of their lives, just likethe moon, things start to go down-hill until that particular life isover. The last part can even be sad. Humans aren’t much different.If a new baby appears in the com-munity, the ladies are stronglydrawn to it. (Men, not so much.)The gals, though, admire it, hold it,and thoroughly enjoy it. Seeingthat baby grow and prosper ispleasant as well. People in theirprime are fine too, but decline hasto eventually set in if life goes onlong enough. The final days of a lifecan be hard indeed and difficult tosee or deal with. Then we come to marriages.They usually start out with a greatdeal of joy and happiness. Unfortu-nately, in this day and age, it fre-quently doesn’t last very long.When I used to do wedding photog-raphy, a few times I barely got thewedding albums delivered beforethings fell apart. I shouldn’t com-

plain because that meant incomefrom another wedding in a fewyears, but the collapse is not fun towatch. I have even had a part insomeone’s third wedding a fewtimes, but quite often the thirdtime is the charm and things actu-ally hold together. Some marriages, though, don’tgo into decline, even right up to thepoint where one of the partnersdies. They may even continue tostrengthen. That’s nice to see.Faith in God can strengthen andgrow right to the end of life as wellso not everything goes into decline,I’m happy to say. Years, however, follow the more-normal cycle of good beginning andstrong midpoint, followed by disin-tegration. I am always very glad tostart a new year with all the possi-bilities of interesting happeningsahead. Sure, it can be chilly in Jan-uary, but at least the days are get-ting longer and the temperaturesare getting warmer as the dayspass. By March and April we’re aptto have some really nice days.Spring, as I have probably men-tioned many times before, is myabsolute favorite with green grass,flowers, baby animals and so on. Ithink I could live in perpetualspring. From there we go to the mostproductive part of the year withgrowing crops and all that until weget to fall. Although fall can be re-ally pretty with the leaves chang-ing color and putting on a show, italso signals the closing of the year.November and December are thepits as far as I’m concerned withshort days, snow and cold. I some-times think I really deserve to havea few days of good old deep depres-sion about then, but luckily I usu-ally don’t have time for it whatwith Thanksgiving and thenChristmas. By the time I recoverfrom those events, here it is thefirst of the year and off we goagain. Right now, as you know, we areperched right at the beginning of afresh year with all the promise ofbetter days to come, neat new stuffto try out, and old pursuits to enjoyagain. I’m ready for it. Let’s go.Here’s wishing us all the greatestof new years complete with exces-sive productivity, joy and happi-ness. May it be so. Have a veryhappy New Year.

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By example ... by Del Bartels

One school morning, I headed out early to attend a Fellowship of

Christian Athletes start-up meeting. My eighth grade son had said he

wanted to go, but that morning mumbled from his pillow that he

needed a little more sleep. I was upset, but mostly disappointed. I told

him that some things had to be wanted, not a forced attendance. I

walked to the school through a fresh half inch of snow, going probably

a bit faster than normal, and muttering to myself.

That first meeting went okay; this year’s FCA will probably grow.

As I left the school, the first class warning bell rang. Lost in thought

on if my son had made it to school on time, I somehow noticed my ear-

lier footprints in the snow. It humored me that someone had walked

beside them, seemingly on purpose, rather than in them or wander-

ingly over them. The second prints were nearly my size, and had

matched me step by step, inch per inch. Then, because of the direction

of their origin and lack of too many other prints, I wondered if they

could be my son’s. If so, when had he grown to be almost my shoe size?

Since when could he match my stride, especially when I had been upset

and in a hurry?

As I neared my house, yes, the second set of footprints were his.

Well before reaching my door, I stopped dead. When I wasn’t with

him, he had matched me step by step! What other things was he match-

ing me in? I had been upset, had he? Walking may be trivial, but other

things, such as being upset, are not. I grew fearful of those other things.

Had I given the impression that I had to, rather than wanted to, go

to that FCA meeting? When was the last time I raised my voice? Have

I spoken or even implied complaints about others? Do I grumble about

chores and other responsibilities? Do I start my days with a smile or a

frown, thus showing my attitude for the rest of the day? Are my si-

lences because of brooding, or something more pleasant? Do I prefer to

talk about friends and events around me, or some sitcom on television?

Who is at fault; the writer of the traffic ticket or the person who caused

it to have to be written?

He matches me! Is that really a good thing? That was a very sober-

ing, and unsettling, thought. Will he continue to match me? Will he

someday improve upon my stride? Some people say that they don’t

want to be role models, but their footprints are left in the snow for all

to see. I would think every father wants his children to be like him, but

is that a blessing or a curse? Some kids turn out great because of their

parents, while some turn out great despite their parents.

A new year will soon begin. New snows will fall, and I will put new

footprints in that snow. I pray that their direction and pace are worthy

of others, be it with others walking beside me at the time, or in later

following my lead.

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The members of the Philip Garden Club celebrated its third year during their Christmas party this year at Rock'n Roll Lanes,Saturday, December 15. After a meal and desserts, there was a gift exchange. “The club's membership continues to keepgrowing and local folks are always invited to join in at any meeting or outing,” said Elke Baxter. Shown, back row, from left:Betty Smith, Tina Staben, Donna Staben, Barb Kroetch, Lori Quinn, Becky Brech, Betty LaBeau and Elke Baxter. Front: San-dra O'Connor, Marion Nelson, Barbara Wentz, Virginia Wolden and Charmaine Stewart. Courtesy photo

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The United States Departmentof Agriculture announced recentlythat they will be lifting the previ-ously imposed limits on how muchprotein and grains could be servedto students in one week. The latest modifications will beset in place for the rest of the 2012-2013 school year, explained AnnSchwader, South Dakota StateUniversity Extension nutritionfield specialist. “These changes are positive andshow that the USDA is willing towork with nutrition officials andothers who have concerns relatedto the new standards,” Schwadersaid. The original changes to theschool lunch standards were an-

nounced January 2012, due to thenational Healthy, Hunger FreeKids Act (Public Law 111-296) thatdetermined how much of certainfood groups could be served, setlimits on calories and salt andphased in whole grains. Schwader said the move to cre-ate stricter guidelines was moti-vated by the fact that the obesityrates among school children aregrowing and steps were needed toreverse the trend. “These guidelines aligned schoolmeals with the latest nutrition sci-ence, based on recommendations ofnutrition experts and the 2010 Di-etary Guidelines for Americans nu-trition recommendations,” she said.The new school meal patterns meet

specific calorie ranges for childrenin grades kindergarten throughfive (650 calories), sixth througheigth (700 calories), and ninethrough 12th (850 calories). “The intention of the new schoollunch guidelines is to ensure thatalmost all children receive at leastone-third of their daily nutritionaland energy needs,” Schwader said. The latest modifications arebeing provided to allow schoolsmore weekly planning options toensure that children receive a nu-tritious meal every day of the week.According to the revisions, the stu-dents can eat as many grains andproteins as they want, as long asthey are eating the allotted amountof calories put forth by the USDA. SDSU Extension recommendsthat parents assist their childrenwith the changes to the schoollunch standards. “Parents can make sure theiryouth eats a nutritious breakfastand encourage them to take andeat the fruits, vegetables, wholegrains, lean proteins and low-fatmilk offered in school meals," shesaid.

School meals add more grains/proteins

The inherent and dynamic qual-ities of soil were in the spotlight atthe Soil Health Information Dayheld December 11 in Mitchell. Theevent attracted over 230 people tohear regional and national agricul-ture and natural resources speak-ers. Ruth Beck, South Dakota StateUniversity Extension agronomyfield specialist, Pierre, said “Onegoal with the event was to helppeople learn ways to manage soilthat improve the soil function. Al-though we can’t change the inher-ent qualities of the soil in ouryards, fields and pastures, we canmake management choices that af-fect the amount of organic matter,structure, depth, water and nutri-ent-holding capacity – the indica-tors of the health of a soil.” “While the physical and chemicalproperties of soil have long been amain factor for land use planning,we are now getting an understand-ing of the biology happening be-neath our feet,” said ColetteKessler, public affairs specialistwith the USDA Natural ResourcesConservation Service, Pierre.“Thanks to technology advances inmicroscopes and other equipment,our understanding of the science ofsoil, biology in particular, hasgrown more in the last three yearsthan the last 30,” she explained. Two Alpena area farmers wereenlisted to kick off the day demon-strating water infiltration withRay Archuleta, conservation agron-omist, from the NRCS East Na-tional Technical Center, Greens-boro, NC. “Look at this ... it isn’t aproblem of run-off; we have an in-filtration problem,” said Archuletaas the audience watched him workthrough the soil experiment. “Raythe Soil Guy” got to the root of

everyone’s questions with his pres-entation “Healthy Soils MakeHealthy Profits.” Archuleta is pas-sionate about soil health and hispassion is infectious. He special-izes in soil biology/ecology and di-versity approaches for agro- ecosys-tem sustainability. “Understand-ing the biology – the microbes – inthe soil is the ‘next step’ for farmersand ranchers,” said Archuleta.Every operation is unique. He out-lined how to use above-groundmanagement, such as crop rota-tions, cover crops, and reducingtillage as tools to manipulate thesoil biology for a more sustainablesystem. “A healthy soil is not compacted.It has structure with macro poresthat allow water to infiltrate downinto the profile,” Archuleta ex-plained earlier. “When I pick up ashovelful of soil, it should look likecottage cheese.” Jim Hoorman,Ohio State University, outlinedtheir university research findingsand the economics of using mixes ofcover crops to improve the problemof compacted soils. Mixtures arebetter for addressing compactionthan using a single cover cropspecies. Hoorman explained thatdisturbances, like tillage, can de-stroy pore structure in a soil. “Healthy soil regulates waterwell,” explained Paul Jasa, Exten-sion Engineer, University of Ne-braska-Lincoln. Soil and residuemanagement helps control whererain, snowmelt and irrigationwater goes. “Field after field,” hesays, “Residue drives the crop.Buffers are good, but are a ‘band-aid;’ fix the soil in the field withresidue and keep your water,” saysJasa. “Go out with a spade and seefor yourself how your soil is han-dling water.”

Internationally known Dr.Dwayne Beck, Manager, SDSUDakota Lakes Research Farm nearPierre, encourages producers tomimic nature, “I’ve learned morefrom observing nature than tryingto change it.” Crop residue helpsimprove the soils balance of nutri-ents like nitrogen and phosphorus.Beck’s presentation outlined ‘Catchand Release Nutrients’ and work-ing with natural cycles to maxi-mize crop production. “Plant rootsare ‘hot spots’ for biological activi-ties like nutrient cycling and soilaggregate stability,” said Beck. A common theme recommendedthroughout the day was for peopleto get out with a shovel. “If we diga little, we can learn a lot,” saysKessler, “We can better understandhow healthy soil should look andsmell, and how healthy soil shouldfeel in our hands.” By the year2050, Earth’s population is ex-pected to reach 9 billion. Keepingevery inch of our soil healthy willbe essential as farmers and ranch-ers work to produce as much foodand fiber in the next 40 years asthey have in the last 500.

Ag future: soil biology as new frontier

Thursday, December 27, 2012 • The Pioneer Review •Community

June 28 – Done our buying inPierre and crossed the river to Ft.Pierre at 3 p.m. Old Missouri Riveron a tare. Rose 2 feet in 1 1/2 daysfrom the June floods and it was fullof drift wood. Dibble bought a Mc-Cormick mowing machine in Ft.Pierre for $45 and at 7 in the evewe struck out for Skieview with our3,000 pound load with three horsesand camped a mile out of Ft.Pierre. Heavy thunderstorm dur-ing the night. Eaten up by mosqui-toes near the river. June 29 – Resumed trip at 6 a.m.Camped for dinner 14 miles out.Camped for night one mile west ofO’Gearys and about 30 miles fromFt. Pierre. Shook up by heavythunderstorm during the night butdidn’t have much rain. PassedHarry Hopkins Road Ranch in af-ternoon and got a cool bottle ofbeer. Water places far apart andscarce. Sun. June 30 – Continued ontrip. Nice and cool day. Camped fordinner 5 miles west of Hayes – gota cool quart bottle of beer at Hayes.Camped for night within 25 milesof Skieview. Disturbed by a violentthunderstorm at 10:30 p.m. Rainedall night–got soaked–didn’t get tosleep. We went over to a settlers at4:30 a.m. and got a dry bed andslept to 8:15 a.m. Broke a couplingpole crossing Plum Creek(Cheyenne Plum). July 1 – Resumed the trip at 4:30a.m. Road heavy. Comped for din-ner 20 miles from Skieview.Reached home about 9 p.m. tiredout – no more trips to Pierre forBenny. July 2 – Day opened clear andwarm. Rested up all day after thetrip to Pierre. Temperature at noon92. July 3 – Day opened clear andhot. Went to the Cheyenne Riverfor a load of wood – like to havedied with the heat in the breaks.Temperature 98 in the shade. 100Indians camped in their tents 1/2mile from us getting ready for thecelebration at Marietta. July 4 – Clear and hot. Viola andI started to Kertzmans at 9 a.m.Large crowd there. Big ball games,roping contests and dance. Ropingcontest was a fake, steers got away.Bronco busting very good. Plentyice cream and lemonade. Plenty ofbeer in the breaks a mile away.Procession of the sports out thereall day long. Very hot. Furiousstorm came up in the eve. Had tobreak into shack to escape it (Mr.McKeown’s shack). July 5 – Done odd jobs in a.m. Inafternoon hitched up and distrib-uted telephone poles and went andguyed down a couple of cornerposts on the wire fence. And thenwe went over the the Indian campa mile west of Skieview. About 100Indians in camp. All kinds andages. Saw war dance. Talked toRosa Red Horse and saw EagleBear in paint and feathers. July 6 – Day opened with hugeblack clouds everywhere. At 1:30p.m. a terrific storm came up fromthe northwest and for 15 minutes aperfect avalanche of hail stones thesize of bullets fell driven by a 60mile per hour gale. Corn, potatoesand garden truck badly cut up.Went over to Dibbles in p.m. andset a few posts around cornfield. Sun. July 7 – Nice clear warmday. Big ball game at Marietta be-tween the Indians and the Mari-etta Club. Buster chased the ballsand got some. Big crowd in atten-dance. July 8 – Fierce rain and electri-cal storm broke over Skieview at 2

a.m. Rained incessantly until day-light and then hailed and rainedhard until 9 a.m. All creeks run-ning full. Put in a few telephonepoles. In p.m. helped Dibble lowerhis ceiling and put a floor in attic.

Mail today but didn’t go after it. July 9 – Dibble went to Leslieand I took the mare Kate to Tad-dikens stud supposed to be in foal.Fearful thunderstorm broke at 6p.m. with heavy rain. July 10 – Day opened sullen andthreatening. At one p.m. anotherfearful rain storm with hail fell. Nodamage. Ground is soaked.Streams running over. Good forcrops which are recovering nicelyfrom first hail storm. July 11 – Awful fog at dawn. Dugholes for telephone poles and setsome poles. Dug post holes aroundmy corn. In p.m. went to Dibbles

and helped him with a new hayrack. July 12 – Corn and potatoes com-ing out fine since the hail storm.Helped Dibble with his hay rackand did odd jobs around Skieview. July 13 – Fixed the dropping de-vice on mowing machine and con-tinued work on hay rack. Gentlerain around midnight. Sun. July 14 – Day opened cooland threatening – later turned torain for 2 hrs. Good for all kinds ofvegetation. Mosquitoes coming onagain. Cool in evening a little firewas comfortable. July 15 – Worked pulling up tele-

phone wires from Skieview to Dib-bles and doing odd jobs. Muchcooler weather in evening. July 16 – New herd of mosqui-toes on deck and as voracious asever. Bert began cutting hay in af-ternoon and I worked all afternoonconnecting telephone. Got it so wecould talk over it some by evening. July 17 – Connected up tele-phone in morning. Viola atSkieview end of the line and me atDibbles. She got her phone workingto perfection and I could hear herplain. System now works to perfec-tion. Finished tamping in someposts before noon and in afternoon

went haying and hauled in threemonster loads – almost 3 tons. Newcrop of mosquitoes on as bad nearlyas they were in June. July 18 – Four months on ourclaim to day. Stacked some hay inforenoon and cut hay in the after-noon. Mosquitoes around by themillions. Very annoying. July 19 – Nice day but very hot.Began shocking hay at 9 a.m. andshocked until 6 p.m. Got mail todayand a letter from John. Mosquitoespositively a fright. Telephone upand working fine. Met Mr. GilbertDurston.

(to be continued …)

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Hit & Miss Thursday, December 27, 2012 • The Pioneer Review • by Vivian Hansen • [email protected]

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Elderly Meals Thursday, Dec. 27: Chicken

Lasagna, Prince Edward Veggies,Garlic Bread, Lemon Cake. Friday, Dec. 28: Potato En-crusted Cod, Twice Baked MashedPotatoes, Key Biscayne Veggies,Roll, Diced Peaches. Monday, Dec. 31: BeefRouladen, Red Mashed Potatoes,Cabbage Supreme, Roll, KirschTorte. Tuesday, January 1: HappyNew Year 2013 – Chicken OssoBucco, Rosemary Potatoes, Bis-cayne Veggies, Roll, Fruit.

*** Friday, December 14, at Somer-set Court, we had wheel of fortuneas our activity. Each team playingwon big Somerset bucks. Thanks toSusan and Sandy who set up thepuzzles and passed around thespinner. Marge Self, Marilyn Butts andVivian Hansen worked in a littlepool before the music program. We were entertained with musicin the afternoon by Skeeter Boyerplaying his guitar and TracyHeeter on the banjo. I love the mel-low guitar and the twang of thebanjo. Their amps were pleasant.Thanks Skeeter and Heeter andthanks Somerset Court for provid-ing this entertainment. Such a good bunch of mail withpretty cards from Leonard andJean Meyer, Chuck Allen and EttaErdmann, and a year-end letterfrom Carol and Al Vogan with pho-tos to illustrate the year’s activi-ties. There was also a box of thosewonderful See’s chocolates fromWayne and Gwynn Hansen. Thankyou all. Somerset Court dress-up daysincluded crazy sock day, December17, Santa hat or antler day, 18th,Christmas shirt, 19th, Christmastie, 20th, red and green flannel pa-jamas, 24th. Saturday, December 15, we hadexercises with mystery Somersetbucks. In the afternoon, we hadpainting with Susan. We used wa-tercolors and crayons and paintedwooden forms of houses, cupcakes,trees and other Christmas-yshapes. It was fun and they arecute. I got there late, so maybe Idid not see all who painted. But Isaw Eileen, Mary Lou and Mar-cella. I wrote Christmas cards toThelma Heltzel and to Chuck Allenand Etta Erdmann. There was a

nice note to Emery Gibson.Thanks. In the mail there was apackage from my niece, Wanda andEd Artz. Wanda had knit me somebig, long, warm wool socks. Thankyou, Wanda. And there was apretty long strip of black lace witha gold border. Not sure what to dowith that, but it is pretty, andthank you. Wanda also sent somecookies and M.R. liked them, so Isent the rest home with him. Wilma Keene’s daughter fromHot Springs, Pat Schetens, was vis-iting at Somerset Court Saturday. Mildred Kraemer and daughterwere making and baking dozens ofChristmas cookies. Florabelle Powell had companyat breakfast, her grandson and hisdaughter. Floy Olson had company atlunch, her son, Allen, was here. On third floor, Irene Arbach hasa wonderful new purple poinsettia! Irene Cox next door to Irene Ar-bach, has a charming arrangementof red roses and red carnationswith assorted greenery. As we go past Maxine Kilmer’sdoor, we hear some quiet Christ-mas music from her piano. Bernadine (Bernie) James hasmoved to Ft. Collins, Colo., whereher son lives. M.R. Hansen came over forscrabble. Later, Mary Lou and Iplayed bananagrams until almostsupper time. The Somerset Courtbus trip to Story Book Island wascancelled on account of coldweather, and Father Dahms wassick, and there were only Connie,Fr. Dahms and me signed up to goanyway. Besides, Shawn had hurther leg and some other spots at astore parking lot. Sunday morning, Eileen Tenoldplayed Christmas hymns on thepiano and I sang along. She singshigh and I sing low. Sunday, De-cember 16, we had an elegant Sun-day noontime meal of baked Vir-ginia ham, scalloped potatoes, andtiny carrots. Dessert was some sortof pie. Irene Cox had company at lunch,her granddaughter and threegreat-grands, Hayley, Macey andSydnie. They live out in the BlackHills. Marilyn Butts went to thegrand concert, “A South DakotaAcoustic Christmas,” at the oldhigh school at the foot of sixthstreet Saturday evening. It was afund raiser for Youth and FamilyServices. Sunday afternoon, we had non-denominational church serviceswith Steve, Terry and Addie Pulseand Jack Humke. A prayer was of-fered for the recent tragedy of the

shooting in Newtown, Conn. Wesang several advent hymns withJack Humke at the piano. Terry re-called that he had mentioned twoweeks ago that God had set up Hisplan, hundreds of years before thebirth of Christ. Moved kings andcountries, and languages so that allcame to pass. Terry said that theGreek language is the supremelanguage. We are so ignorant, hav-ing to make do with English. (Andour adaptations of English.) Sunday afternoon, Sande Lof-berg and her piano and guitarpupils presented us with an excel-lent recitation at Somerset Court.There was a good crowd. My son,M.R. Hansen attended. Sandeplayed “White Christmas.” JamieIwan, piano, “Do You Hear What IHear?” and “Go Tell It on theMountain” with wonderfully pre-cise delivery. Asia Sletten, piano,“We Wish You a Merry Christmas,”and a duet with Sande, “We ThreeKings,” with lilting, nice strokes.McKayla Stratmeyer, guitar,“Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Rein-deer,” and “Rockin’ Around theChristmas Tree.” Guitar duet withexcellent harmony, just enoughzing and “Silent Night” on thepiano. Brittney Stratmeyer, “Up On theHousetop.” Duet with McKayla,“Away in a Manger” and “SantaClaus is Coming to Town.” A guitar duet with Alec Daniel,“First Noel,” and “What Child isThis?” Quinn Daniel, “Rudolph theRed-Nosed Reindeer” and “Go Tellit on the Mountain.” Nice work,played in the key of D. Kennedy Hauge, “DrummerBoy.” Piano with awards for accom-plishments. Several others hadtheir achievements read andawards given. Isabella Glass, piano, “O ComeAll Ye Faithful” and “Away in aManger” in a calm mode. Isabellais a student of only six weeks andshows much promise. QuentinGlass, piano, “Holly Jolly Christ-mas” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s De-siring.” With polished delivery. Victoria Lundy, piano, “Do YouHear What I Hear?” and “AngelsWe Have Heard on High.” A com-manding performance. The grand finale was “JingleBells” with piano and bells. Thank you for coming to play forus. Thank you to our activity direc-tors for providing seating and re-freshments. Monday morning, we decided tohave goodies in the activity gardeninstead of going on a bus trip to thedoughnut shop. Sandi and Shawnbrought an assortment of our fa-

vorites and gave us hot coffee too.It was a pleasant party. Thanksgirls. Jim and Eleanor Holmes hadcompany at breakfast, their son,Bob, Rapid City. We have a posterthat said that the Monette familywill treat the Somerset Court resi-dents to pizza on Tuesday, Decem-ber 18. Thanks, what a nice treat.Somerset Court resident Ken Mon-ette has written two new poems.They are gentle reminiscences.They can be read in the SomersetCourt scrapbook on the coffee tableby the fireplace. Monday afternoon, Gary drivingand Sandy in charge of passengers,gave a bus tour to a new store. Iwent along to see the new, neatone-piece concrete floor. It was cutinto eight foot squares and someareas, like under the clothing dis-plays, are surfaced with wood floor-ing. We had a fine time. I bought anice ripe avacado. I even foundsome items made in the U.S.A.from Atlanta, Ga., and Pennsylva-nia. Well anyway, nice to see that.We got back to Somerset Court intime to see the end of the movie,“White Christmas,” starring BingCrosbie, Danny Kaye, Vera Ellenand Rosemary Clooney. Thank you to my grandson,Michael Hansen, his wife, Chris-tine, and children, Owen and Ella(going on four), Rancho PalosVerdes, Calif., for your lovely photocollage Christmas card. Thank you also your prettyChristmas card, Edith Drew andher daughter, Sandra, Sioux Falls.They were our neighbors in Philipin the 1950s. Tuesday, December 18, at Som-erset Court, we had the activity ofring the reindeer that was won byFred Smith. In the afternoon, we had bingowith the big birthday bash afterbingo. There was a big chocolatecake decorated in red and greenand baked by P.J. and ice cream.We took a photo. Jack Humke ledus in singing, “Happy Birthday,God Bless You.” John of kitchenfame had a Santa hat that bobbedlike a spring. Got a photo of him,too. Connie had the most amusinghat on hat day. It wa a big, thicksnowman. I took a photo. Thank you, Karen Meyer, my sis-ter’s granddaughter, for the prettyChristmas card with the nativityscene. Thank you, Vinnie andDanny, for your wise card of pho-tos. Vinnie and Danny learnedfrom their cat to keep calm andcomfy. The Rapid City Journal reportedthat local bird watchers spotted 61different species in a recent birdcounty, among them a hooded mer-ganser, a sharp-tailed grouse, amale belted kingfisher and red-breased nuthatch. At 5:00 p.m. at Somerset Court,we all went down to the diningroom for the Monette family pizzaparty. There were many varietiesfor residents and staff to enjoy.Thank you to the Monette family.Ryan Love, our director, thankedthem with a nice speech and alsoread one of Ken Monette’s recentpoems, entitled “The Visitor.” It

was sweet and sentimental abouthow much we appreciate visitorsfrom our past so we can reminisce.I hope to include his three poemson these pages soon. Wednesday, December 19, wehad resident gift exchange for en-tertainment in the afternoon.Many lovely gifts were unwrappedand a social time with refresh-ments was enjoyed. In the evening, carolers from theLutheran church came to SomersetCourt and sang in the front lobbyto us. Thank you, your music waslovely. My great-granddaughter, Mi-randa Littlefield, announced herwedding to T.J. Rose on May 8,2013, at Bozeman, Mont. Bestwishes to the young couple. Thank you to Kenneth and MaryHansen, Wall, for your prettyChristmas card. Thank you to myniece, Wanda, and her husband, EdArtz, Humboldt, for your prettycard and year end letter. Again, Iwill remind you all to please putyour address on your card, so I canthrow away the envelopes. Thatcuts down on the bulk of storedChristmas cards. Over the years,they can be measured in cubic feet!Thanks to Ravellette Publications,Philip, for your kind greeting. December 21, at Somerset Court,residents were entertained by agroup from the Wild Kingdom pre-school and kindergarten bunchwho sang and pantomimed for us.Thank you for your songs and alsofor the very nice treats youbrought. Dutch and Billie Stevensare parents of one of the teachers. We had a rerun of “White Christ-mas” and it was even better thanon Monday. Thanks to Jason whogot my TV working so I couldwatch Monk Reruns on Fridayevening. The mail was loaded, a photo cal-endar from my grandson, Mike,and wife Christine and twins,Owen and Ella, who are going onfour. Thank you kids. Philip nieghbor, Dalene Baye,sent a nice note and a bunch of for-ever stamps. Thanks, Darlene. Ritaand Glen O’Connell, near neigh-bors when I lived in Philip, senttheir Christmas letter. Thank you,Glen and Rita. They have moved toa new house out southwest ofPhilip, as near as I can figure out.I wonder who will live in their “oldhouse?” The staff at the bank senta nice card signed by a few employ-ees. Thanks, beats keeping all mymoney under the mattress. My son, Hans P. Hansen,painted a Merry Christmas to Vi-vian and neighbors. Thank you Sunday, December 23, at Somer-set Court, we had non-denomina-tional church services with Rev.Richardson. Jack Humke playedthe piano for some Christmashymn singing. Rev. Richardson hadan adventure last week, a car raninto his car. If he had not had aquick inkling, (message fromabove) to accelerate, he would havebeen injured much worse. As itwas, the car hit his car behind thedriver’s seat. So he was thankful,and felt that he had had divine in-terference. Remember, God is with

us. Rev. Richardson reminds us tobeware of rushing around shop-ping. Relax, remember that we arcelebrating the birth of Christ. My granddaughter, Holly(Hansen) Maudsley, and sonAsher, Woodbury, Minn., are visit-ing in Rapid City. Holly, Asher andM.R., Barbara and Willow Hansenjoined Vivian Hansen for lunchSunday. Thank you for your visitand for your photos. My son, David, Ft. Pierre, andCecelia, his two-year-old grand-daughter, came to visit at SomersetCourt. David’s wife, Janet, hadmade me a beautiful white angeltree topper, solidly machine em-broidered. Thank you. Wilma Keene, Somerset Courtresident, planned to spend Christ-mas at Hot Springs with herdaughter and family. Whist was the entertainmentSunday afternoon. Irene Cox andIrene Arbach stood off MargaretJacobs and Ina Oerlline. West Central Electric’s January2013 Cooperative Connections re-meinds us that just because elec-tricity is so cheap and so easy touse, we should not waste it. Weshould use it economically. Con-sider off-peak usage of high wattusers such as dishwashers and dry-ers. Consider a reasonable amountof Christmas lighting. Turn off thelights. Close the refrigerator door.

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and Rusty BairSaturday, December 29th at 8:00 p.m.

American Legion Hall, Philip

Fundraiser … Every Sundayin January & February!!

Starting at 7:00 a.m.Bad River Senior Citizen’s Center, Downtown Philip

Hosted by Philip Masonic Lodge #153

Pancakes,Biscuits &

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January 4-5-6-7:Life of Pi (PG)

January 11-12-13-14:The Hobbitt (PG-13)January 18-19-20-21:Jack Kreacher (PG-13)January 25-26-27-28:

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Gem Theatre859-2000 • Philip

December 28-29-30-31Playing For Keeps (PG13)

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Church & Community Thursday, December 27, 2012 • The Pioneer Review •

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCHPhilip – 859-2664 – [email protected]

Fr. Kevin AchbachSaturdays: Confession from 3 to 4 p.m.

Saturday Mass: 5:00 p.m.Sunday Mass: 8:30 a.m.

9:30 a.m. (August)Tues-Wed-Fri. Mass: 8:30 a.m.

Thurs. Mass: 10:30 a.m. at Philip Nursing Home* * * * * *

ST. WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCHMidland – 859-2664 or 843-2544

Fr. Kevin AchbachSaturday Mass: 7:00 p.m. (Feb., April, June, Aug.,

Oct., Dec.)Sun day Mass: 11:00 a.m. (Jan., Mar., May, July,

Sept., Nov.)Confession: Before Mass

* * * * * *ST. MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH

Milesville – 859-2664Fr. Kevin Achbach

Sunday Mass: 11:00 a.m.(Feb-April-June-Oct-Dec)

Sunday Mass: 7:30 a.m. (August)Saturday Mass: 7:30 p.m.

(Jan-March-May-July-Sept-Nov)Confession: Before Mass

Monday Release Time: 2:15 p.m.* * * * * *

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCHPastor Frezil Westerlund

859-2336 • PhilipE-MAIL: [email protected]

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 8:30 a.m.1st Sunday: Coffee & Rolls after worship

First Lutheran Ladies Bible study. There are two Bible study groups: each meetingmonthly. One meets on the second Tuesday at

12:00 p.m. at First Lutheran Church and the othermeets on the second Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. at

the Senechal Apts. lobby. * * * * * * *

TRINITY LUTHERANPastor Frezil Westerlund

Midland – 843-2538SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:30 a.m.Ruth Circle: 3rd Tues. at 2 p.m.

Nowlin Circle: Last Wed. at 9 a.m.Rebecca Circle: Last Wed. at 7 p.m. (Nov. thru

Feb.); 6:30 p.m. (Mar. - Oct.)* * * * * *

DEEP CREEK LUTHERAN Moenville – 843-2538

Pastor Frezil WesterlundSUNDAY WORSHIP:

1:30 p.m. (CT)ALCW: 3rd Thursday, 1:30 p.m.

* * * * * *OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN

Long ValleyPastor Frezil Westerlund

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 5:00 p.m.* * * * * *

DOWLING COMMUNITY CHURCHEvery Sunday in July

Services at 10:00 a.m.followed by potluck dinner

CONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCHPastor Art WeitschatKadoka – 837-2390

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:00 a.m.* * * * * *

OUR REDEEMERLUTHERAN CHURCH, Philip

(605) 669-2406 • MurdoPastor Ray Greenseth

Sunday Worship Services: 1:00 p.m.* * * * * *

OPEN BIBLE CHURCH • MIDLANDPastor Andy Blye

843-2143 • facebook.com/midlandobcSunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.Bible Study: Wed. at 7:30 p.m.

Women’s Ministries: 2nd Thurs., 1:30

ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH10 miles SE of Midland

Pastor Glenn Denke • 462-6169Sunday Worship: 10:00 a.m. (CT)

Sunday School: 11:00 a.m. CT* * * * * *

PHILIP COMMUNITYEVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH

Pastor Gary Wahl – Philip – 859-2841Sunday School – 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Services – 10:30 a.m.Last Sunday of the month –

potluck dinner following church servicesLast Monday of the month –

Evang. Ladies Service/Bible Study - 7:00 p.m.Wed. Night Prayer & Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Everyone Welcome!!* * * * * *

HARDINGROVE COMMUNITY EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH

Pastor Gary Wahl – Philip859-2841 • [email protected]

Worship Service: 9:00 a.m.Children's Church: 8:30 a.m.

Ladies’ Aid - 2nd Thurs. at 7:00 p.m.Bible Study & Prayer, Mondays at 7 p.m.

* * * * * *UNITED CHURCH OF PHILIP

Pastor Kathy Chesney • 859-2310Home: 859-2192 • E-mail: [email protected]

Sunday Worship: 9:00 a.m.1st Wednesday Every Month:

Contemporary Worship, 7:00 p.m.UCW meets 2nd Friday at 9:30 a.m.

* * * * * *FIRST PRESBYTERIANCHURCH OF INTERIOR

Pastor Kathy Chesney • 859-2310E-mail: [email protected]

Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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Lois Hall______________________ Lois Hall, 84, of Stanley County,S.D., passed away, Tuesday, De-cember 18, 2012, at DoughertyHospice House in Sioux Falls. Services were held Saturday,December 22, at Lutheran Memo-rial Church. Interment will followat Scotty Philip Cemetery in FortPierre. Lois M. Hall was born April 13,

1928, in Jones County to Charlieand Mary (Shimmin) Wilson. Sheattended rural school through theeighth grade and graduated fromMidland High School. She at-tended Black Hills Teachers Col-lege where she received her Mas-ters in Education and taughtkindergarten through eighthgrades in rural Stanley County for30+ years. Lois was united in marriage to

Frank L. Hall, on May 23, 1950, inRapid City. They ranched north-east of Midland. Lois was a mem-ber of Victory Club, Midland Mu-seum, Midland Community Li-brary and Old Stanley County His-torical Society. Lois enjoyed read-ing local history, gardening, look-ing at the livestock – cattle andhorses, and most of all spendingtime with family and friends. Lois is survived by two daugh-

ters, Ronda (Lawrence) Schofieldand Charlotte Hall, both of Mid-land; one son, Richard (Arlette)Hall of Fort Pierre; seven grand-children and 10 great-grandchil-dren. Lois was preceded in death byher husband, Frank, her parentsand one step-grandson. Condolences may be conveyed tothe family at www.feigumfh.com

Delbert Sebade__________________

Delbert Sebade, age 95, of Wall,S.D., died Sunday, December 23,2012, at his home in Wall. Delbert James Sebade was bornon September 16, 1917, on BullCreek, west of Wall, the son ofHenry and Anna (Mooney) Sebade.He attended school in Wall, grad-uating from Wall High School in1935. After high school he movedto Chillicothe, Mo., where he re-ceived training at a businessschool. After traveling to Nebraska witha piston out of their ’35 Plymouth,Delbert and his soon-to-be wife,Armista Ronning, stopped andpicked up a marriage license. Afteradding one year on to her age, andtwo marriage licenses later, Del-bert and Armista were married onNovember 15, 1941. To this unionwere born four children, Sandra,Norbert, Rosalind and Marsha.Since 1963 they have made their

home in Wall. Delbert had a lifetime of work inthe banking business. He joinedthe U.S. Army on November 23,1942, where he served in the in-fantry in Northern France,Rhineland and Central Europe. Hewas honorably discharged on Octo-ber 26, 1945. Delbert was active in civic, busi-ness, fraternal and social organiza-tions. Survivors include four children,Sandra (Everett) Lerew of Valley,Neb., Norbert (Jane) Sebade ofRapid City, Rosalind Ham of Hud-son, Colo., and Marsha Lytle ofReva; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; two sisters, BerniceAnderson and Edith Paulson, bothof Wall; and one brother, NormanSebade of Puyallup, Wash. He was preceded in death by hisparents, Henry and Anna Sebade;his wife, Armista Sebade; his sis-ter, Eunice Johnson; his brother,Dayton Sebade; and his grand-daughter, Kimberly Cluff. Visitation will be held from 5:00to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, Decem-ber 27, at the Rush FuneralChapel in Wall, and one hour pre-ceding the services on Friday. Services will be held at 10:00a.m. Friday, December 28, at theUnited Methodist Church in Wall,with Pastor Darwin Kopfmann of-ficiating. Interment with military honorswill be held at the Wall Cemetery. A memorial has been estab-lished. His online guestbook is availableat www.rushfuneralhome.com

Friday and just five more daystill Christmas. And I still havesome cards on my table! Wheredoes time go? It couldn’t be that Idon’t want to admit that I am slow-ing up, could it? I can rememberwhen I was a kid and there justwas no money for gifts, so we set-tled for a great meal. Mom seemedto have found enough money fromthe cream check to buy a turkeyand we raised pigs, so we alwayshad a roast pork ham. And wewould have sour cream chocolatecake and Jello with several fruitsin it, pumpkin and apple pie,mashed potatoes, candied bakedsweet potatoes, corn and greenbeans, plus baked beans. And wewould have lettuce and applesalad. I really don’t know where theyput everyone in the house, as it wasnot that big. It was not uncommonto have 30 people there to eat withus. For many years Sam Kirk-patrick would make it back forChristmas. So this Christmas takesome time to remember your fa-vorite Christmas and have a goodone this year. Bill and Jane Gottsleben’s kidsare all home from school and col-lege to spend the holidays. Bill andJane will be hosting the family forChristmas Eve. The kids will behome until January 2. Marvin and Vicki Eide and Cliffand Rita Ramsey enjoyed a Christ-mas dinner at the Philip NursingHome with Dorothy UrbanWednesday, December 19. TheRamseys had been visited by theflu for several days in the last fewweeks, so they were glad to be upand about again. Chuck and Shirley O’Connor en-joyed a trip to Las Vegas this pastweek. Shirley said that she hadDonna Newman fill in for her onher bowling league. Friday, Donna Newman hadmany folks at her home. And Sun-day, Donna hosted Christmas din-ner Sunday for Warren and ShirleySweezy, Glenn, Dianne, Morganand Kayla Parsons, (Chelsie wasn’table to be there as they were goingto her husband’s family for the hol-idays this year.) Shayla and Je-remy, Donna’s brother, Roger andBecky Buhmann, and Debbie andMike Clements, (except Caleb whohad other plans). Donna helps withrelease time at Redeemer LutheranChurch, as does Sharon Hemming-son and Katie Schultz. The churchhad their annual Christmas dinnerand program Sunday. She reportedthat the parents and grandparentshad a great day. Kieth Smith took his wife, Deb-bie, to Rapid City for a birthday

dinner Friday, December 14. Thenon Saturday evening, they went toRay and Donna Smith’s to watchthe rodeo finals. Sunday, Kieth andDebbie attended the children’sChristmas program at the UnitedChurch. Pat and Mary Lou Guptill wereat Kieth and Debbie Smith’s for cof-fee and visiting. Lincoln Smith arrived homefrom Aberdeen Tuesday, December18. He is staying at Tucker’s andlater will move into the Ted Knut-son’s house when Carrie Buchholzmoves out. We lose one neighborand gain another. It seems that theKnutson home has not been vacantsince Esther moved to Philip, Es-ther told me she always hadChristmas there and it will be dif-ferent this year as they are allgoing to Steve and Vickie’s homefor Christmas. Kieth and Tucker attended theMason meeting in Philip this weekand Lincoln plans to join the Ma-sons as soon as he gets settled. Cas-sidy and two girls are coming earlyfor the Christmas holiday and willbe here to help Debbie get ready forChristmas. Kieth and Debbie arehosting both Christmas Eve andChristmas night suppers. Stephanie (Smith) and LanceFountain and two boys have beenvisiting Rich Smith and family.They have rented a home in theRapid City area and she will bespending time with her brothers,the Ravellettes, and visiting andtouring the Black Hills over theholidays. Barb and Mike Coy are arrivingthis weekend for their Christmaswith her dad, Rich. They will spendthe rest of the holidays with theirdaughter and family. Don and Donna Olivier left thisweek to go to Corsica to visit herfamily and have Christmas withthem. They planned to return Fri-day. Jerry (Olivier) and Joel Spry hada baby girl and they have namedher Aven. She joins two sisters. Herb and Hazel Sieler and Phyl-lis Coleman enjoyed a Christmasparty that was hosted by HeatherGabriel and her friend, Terry E.They stated that they had yummygood. Hazel and Phyllis also tookalong some treats to share. Sielershave been kept close to home dueto entertaining the flu, so no morenews from their house. I didn’t find Bob Thorson athome, so news from him this week. Don and Deloris Poss plan to goto Clifford’s for Christmas Eve oth-erwise no news from their place. I have enjoyed so many nicecards and have gotten so many

Grindstone Newsby Mary Eider • 859-2188

family pictures this year. It is eas-ier to get pictures with all the newtechnology. I didn’t write a Christ-mas letter this year and thosewhom I sent cards to get the Philippaper and so can read all my newsin there. Those who don’t get thepaper, I just wrote a few lines intheir card. I also had some picturesthis year to send, but some will gettheirs late.

Conventional people are roused tofury by departures from convention,largely because they regard such de-partures as criticism of them-selves. – Bertrand Russell Hope everyone has a greatChristmas and a safe trip going andcoming. In hearing the weather re-port, sounds like it is going to bewintery weather, so drive careful.

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New Year’s Eve Regular Hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.Closed New Year’s Day

Ronnie & DawnCoyle &

Employees

Help us raise funds for the

Ronald McDonald House!We’ll place Pink Flamingos in the yard

of your choice!

The recipient may donate

to have them removed by calling:

Haakon Co. Extension Office: 859-2840

Nicki Nelson: 308-862-1051 (cell)

Nancy Haigh: 859-2888

Tri-County Ranchers Workshop

The Tri-County Ranchers Work-shop will be held Wednesday, Jan-uary 16, at the Winner RegionalExtension Center in Winner, SD,beginning with registration at 9:30am, CST. Dr. Barry Dunn, Dean ofthe College of Agriculture and Bi-ological Sciences, SDSU is sched-uled to emcee the event, and sharesome thoughts about SDSU, SDSUExtension and how the Universityserves farmers and ranchers dur-ing the noon break. The topics and speakers wereselected to address issues facingranchers dealing with the linger-ing effects of the 2012 drought, butshould be of interest to anyone inthe ranching business over thelong term. Starting the program will beJim Krantz, Extension Cow/CalfField Specialist, discussingCHAPS and Record Keeping.CHAPS is a computerized per-formance testing system that wasoriginally developed in the early1990’s in North Dakota. NorthDakota State University is collab-orating with SDSU to revamp theprogram to better fit the needs oftoday’s cattlemen. The next speaker will be AdeleHarty, Extension Cow/Calf FieldSpecialist, providing informationon Livestock Nutrition and WaterQuality. The 2012 drought re-

quired producers to get creative insecuring enough feed to maintaintheir cow herds, and may be deal-ing with feedstuffs they are notused to dealing with. Water wasalso a major concern, and an im-portant part of a ranching opera-tion. Finishing up the morning willbe Pete Bauman, Extension RangeField Specialist, outlining some in-novative ideas for RangelandWater Development. Lunch will beserved at no charge to partici-pants, courtesy of area Conserva-tion Districts and agri-businesses.After lunch, Laura Edwards, Ex-tension Climate Field Specialistwill provide a Weather Update andoutlook for 2013, and MattDiersen, Extension Risk Manage-ment Specialist, will outline theMarket situation in the cattle in-dustry. For more information, contactyour local NRCS office; Winner –842-0603, Burke – 775-9122, Ken-nebec – 869-2216, or the WinnerRegional Extension Center – 842-1267. The Winner Regional Exten-sion Center is located at 325 SMonroe St., Winner, SD, one blocksouth of the stop light on SD Hwy18.

Calendar 1/04: Private Applicator Certifi-cation meeting (PAT), 1:00 pmMST, Sr. Citizens Ctr, Philip

Extension News by Bob FanningField Specialist, Winner

Regional Extension Center

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Santa Claus made it to the In-galls house in De Smet, DakotaTerritory, even if the train bearingsupplies did not. In The Long Winter, Laura In-galls Wilder describes how she andher family faced the hard winter of1880-81. That Christmas, small stripedpackages by each place at the tablecontained Christmas candy. Therewere presents, too. Laura, her sis-ter Carrie and Ma had combinedtheir money to purchase a pair ofblue suspenders for Pa. Laura gave a cardboard hair re-ceiver to Ma and a roll of knittedlace to her sister Mary. She foundthe prettiest card she had beengiven in Sunday school and placedit in a frame for Carrie. Baby Grace tore the paper fromher gift to reveal a toy. The two cans of oysters that Pahad bought from the store werecombined with the last of the milkthe Ingalls’ cow gave to make aChristmas dinner of oyster soup. “‘Oh, what a lovely Christmas,’Carrie sighed. Laura thought sotoo. Whatever happened, they couldalways have a merry Christmas,”Ingalls wrote in The Long Winter. Christmas, whether one was apioneer in town, in the Army or ahomesteader, was observed on thefrontier, as evidenced in differentwritings about the day. In A Frontier Army Christmascompiled by Lori A. Cox-Paul andDr. James W. Wengert, 1st Sgt.Ragnar Theodor Ling-Vannerus ofthe Seventh Cavalry wrote of hiscamp’s holiday preparations atPine Ridge in 1890: “Every tentwas decorated with firs and twigs,and long garlands of evergreenswere stretched between the tents. At each end of the picket lines,sheaves were put up … In thekitchens everybody was busy;turkeys and geese were roasted orgrilled and filled with apples andother delicacies, whole pigs were

Ingalls family. Back row: from left to right ... Carrie, Laura andGrace. Front row ...Caroline, Charles and Mary.

~Photo South Dakota State Historical Society – State Archives

A merry prairie Christmas

hung on the broaches, pastries andcakes were baked, and so on … Eventually came the feast ea-gerly longed-for, and mighty wasthe drinking among high and low… Along the walls there were lowseats covered with a mixed collec-tion of skin rugs, in whose soft,warm furs it was delightful to rest,while speeches, toasts, and songsmade time unnoticeably go by. There were also Christmas giftsfrom near and far.” In June 1909, 21-year-old Eliza-beth Corey came to South Dakotato stake out a claim, homesteadthe land and to teach school. She filed claim to land 10 milessouthwest of Pierre, along the BadRiver. The letters she wrote to her fam-ily in Iowa from 1909 to 1919 arecontained in the State Archives ofthe South Dakota State HistoricalSociety at the Cultural HeritageCenter in Pierre. The letters arethe basis of Bachelor Bess. Corey wrote of her first Christ-mas as a homesteader, “I havethree Xmas presents. Mrs. Stonegave me a beauty of a button box.Myrtle gave me a pretty Xmascard and Speers gave me an enam-eled quart cup … Xmas day therewas lots of company and lots to doso I never had time to get home-sick. Just before supper Howardhitched to the bobsleigh and wewent to take Ben Share someXmas goodies.” All was not calm on ChristmasDay 1862 in Yankton, Dakota Ter-ritory. According to Christmas on theAmerican Frontier 1800-1900 byJohn E. Baur, a brawl broke outbetween a supporter of territoriallegislator J.B.S Todd and a backerof territorial Governor WilliamJayne. Todd’s supporter threw inthe towel and Jayne’s defenderbroke the man’s thumb. Politics and Christmas seldommix.

This year’s annual hunters breakfast, sponsored by the Philip Ambulance Servicein their building’s community room, resulted in approximately 250 people attend-ing. The meal, a free will donation for pancakes and sausage, was held from 4:00a.m. to 10:00 a.m., Saturday and Sunday, November 10-11, the first weekend ofthe West River deer season. Proceeds will be used by the ambulance service forneeded equipment and training. Show are some of the ambulance crew servers.From left, Karyl Sandal, Lee Vaughan and Gayle Rush. Courtesy photo

Philip Ambulance Service’shunters’ breakfast results

The South Dakota Departmentof Agriculture is hosting commer-cial pesticide applicator certifica-tion meetings this January andFebruary. The goal of these meetings is toinsure the safe and effective stor-age, handling, distribution, use anddisposal of pesticide products. Pes-ticide applicators must take a testto become initially certified, butcan recertify by attending one ofthese meetings. Once certified, commercial appli-cators must obtain a license, whichis also valid for two years. A commercial applicator licenseis $25 and a recertification class is

$50. Applicator and dealer licensesmust be renewed by February 28,2013, or a $50 late fee will be as-sessed. For times, dates and places ofthe commercial applicator meet-ings, visit https://apps.sd.gov/doa/ecat3/ApplicatorMeetingPro-grams.htm. Please bring a govern-ment issued photo identificationand your applicator license to themeeting for check-in. For more information on SDDA’spesticide program, visit http://sdda.sd.gov/legacydocs/Ag_Services/Agronomy_Services_Programs/Pesti-cide_Program/2011-07pesticide_program_brochurewebopt.pdf.

Commercial applicatorcertification meetings

Governor Dennis Daugaard hasextended an executive order tohaul overwidth baled livestock feeduntil February 21, 2013, in SouthDakota. The executive order states that,upon receipt of a permit, permis-sion is granted to move overwidthbaled livestock feed not exceeding12 feet wide or 15 feet high for twohours after sunset and two hoursbefore sunrise. The order allowsmovement of overwidth baled live-stock feed until cessation of thedrought emergency, or no later

than February 21. Overwidth vehicles must beequipped with flashing or rotatingwhite or amber warning lights oneach side of the load’s widest ex-tremity. The warning lights mustbe clearly visible to motorists ap-proaching from the front and rear.Movement under the executiveorder is valid only for baled live-stock feed. “This year’s persistent droughtconditions have left livestock pro-ducers across South Dakota withinadequate feed supplies,” saidSouth Dakota Secretary of Agricul-ture Walt Bones. “Increasing haul-ing height and width restrictionsfor baled hay will allow producersto move feed in a more efficientmanner.” The normal size restriction onSouth Dakota highway loads is 14feet, three inches high and eightfeet, six inches wide. Although height and width re-strictions for baled livestock feedhave been temporarily increased byexecutive order, several highwaysin the state have width and heightrestrictions in place because of con-struction or permanent structuresthat cannot accommodate suchlarge loads. Truckers are encour-aged to check their routes ahead oftime for those restrictions. For information on permits, con-tact a South Dakota port of entry orcall 800-637-3255.

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Before the festivities begin, we’d like to give you our best wishes

for a wonderful year filled with much cause for celebration.

We thank you for giving us so much to celebrate this past year and look forward to your

continued business.

Remember to celebrate safely this New Year’s Eve. Don’t drink and drive!

Glenn Parsons110 S. CenterPhilip, SD(605) 859-2902

Dr. Jim StangleHeather, Linda & JenMilesville, SD

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Before the calendar starts anew, We’d like to extend our thanks to each one of you

For your friendship, goodwill andloyalty, tooSo we’re pouring a glass to say,“cheers” to you!

Happy New Year to our many good friends and neighbors.

We appreciate your choosing us and look forward to

your continued support.

With all good wishesto you & your family

for health & happinessthroughout thecoming year!

Mike & Shar Moses & employees

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You can tell Christmas is draw-ing near as there are school Christ-mas programs and school Christ-mas meals, Christmas carols sungand Christmas cards sent andMerry Christmas greetings calledout here and there. We woke up tosome snow the other morning,making it look like Christmas, aswell. Soon bells will be ringing inthe New Year, welcoming us to theyear 2013. A reminder of just howquickly time flies! A reminder toenjoy those unexpected blessings!For those unexpected blessings arememory makers! For those of us who had theprivilege of attending rural schools,Nancy Haigh’s article on ruralschools in this week’s Pioneer Re-view, was an interesting read.There’s just something specialabout being a part of a countryschool. Remember those softballgames at noon recess? With theschool bell ringing out that recesswas over, and kids calling out for abit more time to finish the game,the teacher would oftentimes allowit, as being a country school therewasn’t another classroom headingout for recess. Growing up in therural Deep Creek area, I’ve enjoyedthe articles on the Deep CreekSchool, reopening after beingclosed for seven years. In Nancy’sarticle of rural schools, she had pic-tures of, and wrote of, the DeepCreek School renewing their an-nual tradition of going out and cut-ting down a Christmas tree. That’swhat I call one of those memorymakers! Wednesday of this week was afull evening. It began with the soupsupper benefit for Mary Parquetheld at St. William CatholicChurch. It just plain warmed a per-son’s heart to see such a hugecrowd there. Mary and her hus-band, Tom, have been on a journeyfor the past four years, or more. Ajourney of what lies ahead? With

doctor appointments, kidney dialy-sis, Mary’s name on the kidneydonor list! As, Mary and I were vis-iting at that benefit Wednesdayevening, I was truly moved, as sheshared some of that journey. With-out a doubt, they believe God haswalked that journey with them.And, little grandbaby girl, Reming-ton, was an added plus to that jour-ney. Those little ones have a way ofworming their way into your heart,making you forget for a time, thedifficulties that can come on thisjourney I call, “life.” Tom and Maryhave been an inspiration to others,for sure. We pray Mary’s new kid-ney continues to do well, and wishthem a Merry Christmas and agood New Year. The Midland School Christmasprogram had a crowd of parents,grandparents, and others as thekids performed the play, “Yo-ho-hoA Pirate’s Christmas.” Those littleones were just the cutest in theirpirate costumes. Nicki Nelson isthe school aid, works some withmusic, and worked with the stu-dents in kindergarten-eighth gradeon this Christmas program. Therewere 22 children in the pirate’sChristmas program which includedpre-school, as well. Ella Schofield,daughter of Lucas and BridgetSchofield, celebrated her fourthbirthday that day, so all the kidssang “Happy Birthday.” Santamade his usual stop with Christ-mas gifts for all the kids. And, asack full of goodies and a bright redapple were given out to the rest. Itwas a cute program! Thursday was the communityChristmas meal at the MidlandSchool. Amiee Block is the schoolcook and had ham, potato casseroleand decorated sugar cookies aspart of the menu. With parents andgrandparents, and anyone else whowanted to come for that meal, therewas a larger crowd then usual. SoJenna Finn and Katie Sammons

were Aimee’s helpers. Music direc-tor, Ben Latham, of the KadokaArea school, came from Kadokathat day with his Midland studentsentertaining the folks with Christ-mas carols. We were saddened to learn thatLois (Wilson) Hall of rural Midlandpassed away, with her funeralbeing in Pierre Saturday morning.Lois was one of those people whoenjoyed history, knew a lot of localhistory, had a unique sense ofhumor, was a rural school teacherfor many years, and was just plaininteresting, as she shared stories ofgoing to school in Midland, gradu-ating with the Class of 1946. Lois’mother, Mary Wilson, and myaunt, Esther Schanzenbach, wouldvisit in the basement of this homeon Main St. in Pierre. The menfolkwould go to the cattle sale and Es-ther and Mary wpuld spend the af-ternoon visiting. Mom, Phil and Iwent to that basement to see Es-ther one time. If memory serves mecorrectly, you went down the stepsto that basement apartment on theoutside of the building. I rememberit being nice and cozy on a cold win-ter’s day. With each of those folks,such as Lois, a big part of our his-tory goes with them. Our sinceresympathies to the family of LoisHall. I visited a bit with Larry Vennerof Pierre this Friday morning, ask-ing how Alice is doing. Larry andAlice had just gotten back from abit of an outing. There is just some-thing about getting out of the house

for a bit, that makes a person feelbetter. Larry reported that Alice isgetting some weaker, her eyesighthas been affected, and her voice isweaker making it more difficult totalk, but that she continues to bewithout pain, for which they arethankful. Anyone who knows Alice,knows how much she enjoys visit-ing, her ready laugh, her love forlife. For them each day is gift, withthe future for Alice being uncer-tain, they cherish this precioustime with family and friends. Theirfaith in a loving, caring God is animportant part of their journey.Our prayers continue to be withthem! Don and Sally Ehlers have anew great-grandson! Brody Jameswas born December 19 to Tyler andStephanie Gisi, Newcastle, Wyo.,weighing 9 lbs. 13 oz. He has twinfive-year-old sisters, Madison andAlexis. Proud grandparents areMarty and Cheryl Hook, Mobridge.Congratulations! Karel Reiman was in Rapid Cityonce again as her 93-year-oldmother, Goldie Eisenbraun, hasbeen in the Rapid City hospital.Goldie was being moved from thehospital to the Clarkson Care Cen-ter. Karel left for Rapid Wednesdaymorning and she, her brother andsister, Ed and Paula, Rapid, gottheir mom settled in at Clarkson.Karel arrived back home Thursdayevening and is busy getting thingsready for family coming home forChristmas. Tony and LaVon Nemec,Gillette, Wyo., attended the funeralservice of Tony’s classmate andfriend, Andy Olesen, at Rockford,Ill. Judy Fosheim rode to the fu-neral service with Richard andCelia Doud. Jack and LaVona Kir-patrick, Hayes, and Arnold Gerton-son and his wife of Colorado werealso at the funeral. Gene and Au-drey Jones attended the serviceand then drove to the home of theirdaughter, Brenda Neiman, andfamily at Verona, Wis., which is 90miles from Rockford. Our sinceresympathies to Andy’s family.

*** The senior citizens met at thesenior center December 14 for theirmonthly meeting and potluck.President Kandus Woitte called themeeting to order and led in theklag salute. The minutes of the No-vember meeting were read and ap-proved. The treasurer’s report wasgiven. George Stroppel moved toapprove and George Anderson sec-onded and motion was approved. One card was sent. The bulletinboard was done. No maintenance

was done. The meeting was ad-journed.

Mickey Woitte, Secretary It is 11:15 this Friday morning,time to get my news in for nextweek, as it was to be sent by noontoday. News is short this week, as

with news collected twice in oneweek, folks haven’t done a wholelot. They are busy getting ready forfamily coming home for Christmas.So I will close by wishing each ofyou and very Merry Christmas anda good New Year.

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(continued from last week) Kevin Neuhauser attended afarm auction Saturday afternoon,and that evening he and Mary at-tended birthday gatherings forKathy (Marso) Harford as well asMonte Whidby. Kevin and Maryspent Saturday night in town, andSunday Kevin and fellow Shrinershad their annual fruit delivery tolocal nursing homes. Kevin saidthey will be in Miller next week-end, celebrating the holidays withthe Schlecter families. Bill and Polly Bruce went toRapid City last Thursday, and theyspent the night with David andRobin Bruce in their new home.Friday, Bill and Polly spent the daywith Dennis and Betty (Bruce)Casey. Betty is Bill's sister, and shenow resides in a nursing home dueto her battle with Alzheimers.Betty was able to go out to lunchwith Bill, Polly, and Dennis, andthey had an enjoyable time. Billand Polly spent Friday night withDavid and Robin and headed backto the ranch Saturday. When theygot home, they discovered that theynow have a new back door – anearly Christmas present, installedby their son, Vince Bruce. What agreat surprise! There was no Masson Sunday, because their priestwas ill. Monday, Bill and Pollywere in Pierre, making arrange-ments for their family Christmasgathering to be held the weekendafter Christmas. I spoke with Marge Briggs, andshe said her place is an "emptywell" as far as news is concernedthis week. But, she did want towish everyone a Merry Christmasand Happy New Year. And shewanted to remind folks that "givinga present isn't the big thing. Re-ceiving God's present is what is im-portant. For unto us a Child isborn; unto us a Son is given." Nels and Dorothy Paulson werein Pierre last Wednesday deliver-ing Christmas presents. Sunday,Dorothy attended church – therewas a good crowd, and Julian and

Coreen Roseth served lunch. Nelshas taken advantage of the snowcover to burn garbage that piled upduring the hot, dry weather.Dorothy said they stored thegarbage in an empty bin, and it isnice to have the trash gone! Mon-day, Nels and Dorothy were inPhilip and Murdo on business.Tuesday, they are planning to go toCorsica to attend the Christmasprogram at the nursing homewhere Dorothy's sister, Wilma, re-sides. Weather permitting, that is. Reminder: Christmas services atDeep Creek Church will be Sun-day, December 23, at 5:00 p.m., fol-lowed by a potluck meal. Everyoneis welcome. Randy and I were in Union Cen-ter Thursday to pick up some sup-plies, and the fog was really thick!We nearly drove past Union Cen-ter, because we couldn't see it!Dylan Neuhauser was here Satur-day helping with some fencing andwelding projects. Saturday night,we attended the birthday party forMonte Whidby in Pierre. Monday,Todd Mortenson and Ed Briggsstopped by for some socializing andcribbage playing. This week, I am grateful for com-munity halls, especially the KirleyHall and Hayes Hall. And I'mgrateful for those who work hard tokeep them maintained. The hallsserve as gathering places for ourarea, and they are host to schoolprograms, community plays, BBgun practice, 4-H club meetings,crafting meetings and numerousother events – all events that helpkeep the communities intact! Weare truly fortunate to have thebuildings and the activities. Incities, it isn't uncommon to noteven know the person on the otherside of your apartment wall or inthe house next door. That isn't thecase here, and I, for one, am glad.

Moenville Newsby Leanne Neuhauser • 567-3325

The Midland Elementary School students, under the direction of Nicki Nelson, performed “Yo Ho Ho ~ A Pirate Christmas”as their Christmas program. This musical production takes place on Captain Jake's pirate ship anchored offshore near theSpanish Main just days before Christmas. The crew is swabbing the deck, tying up the ropes, polishing the brass and clean-ing. The captain gets some new crew members who soon find out that this ship is different from most pirate ships. Theynever rob and plunder, they only clean. The captain likes a tidy ship, and he does not like Christmas. Captain Jake comesfrom a long line of pirates and that's what he thought he had to be. He discovered the rest of the pirates had decorated theship for Christmas. He also discovered that he was missing something about Christmas, and that he doesn't have to be apirate. The crew sails home to have the biggest Christmas party the seven seas has ever seen. Shown is the entire crew.

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Midland school Christmas program

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Santa and Mrs. Clausat Philip’s Gem theatre

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Philip’s Quade Slovek made a physical statement, that under no uncertain terms,the ball was in his possession. The Philip Scotties strong-armed Kadoka 89-32.

Photo by Robyn Jones

The Philip Scotties boys’ basket-ball team not only defeated theKadoka Area Kougars on theKougars’ home court, Monday, De-cember 17, but did so in an over-whelming and resounding fashion. The game was a non-districtmatch, with the Scotties aligned inDistrict 14B, and the Kougars inDistrict 13B basketball. The first quarter was obviouslylopsided in Philip’s favor. The Scot-ties racked up 23 points and al-lowed only two points by theKougars. The second quarter was prettymuch a repeat, at least offensively,with Philip gaining another 21points. Defensively, the Scotties al-lowed 11 points to be put on thescoreboard by their opponents. The second half was a continua-tion of the run-away action. Philipstacked up another 29 points, whileKadoka fought for another eight.The final quarter saw just a littlemercy from the Scotties. Philipeased another 16 points onto thescoreboard, while Kadoka showedits best quarter by fighting for 11points. Philip accepted the 57 ad-vantage in the victory over KadokaArea. 1 2 3 4 Philip 23 44 73 89 Kadoka 2 13 21 32 Field goals: 21/58 – 36%. Free throws: Philip – 17/27 – 63%,Kadoka – 6/9 – 67%. Three-point goals: Philip – 10/18 –56%. Philip scorers: Thomas Dolittle –18, Tristen Rush – 16, Nelson Holman –14, Blake Martinez, Brody Jones andWyatt Schaack – 7 each, Tate DeJong –6, Paul Guptill – 5, Gunner Hook – 4,Quade Slovek – 3, Cassidy Schnabel –2. Kadoka Area scorers: Kenar Van-derMay – 10, Chris Anderson – 8,Shane Ring – 5, True Buchholz – 4,Kahler Addison – 3, Logan Chris-tensen – 2. Rebounds: Philip – 47. Philip lead-ers: Rush and DeJong – 8 each,Schaack – 6, Doolittle – 4, Holman,Martinez, Jones and Hook – 3 each,Schnabel, Guptill and Slovek – 2 each,Gavin Brucklacher, Kruse Bierle andBen Stangle – 1 each. Assists: 14. Leaders: Holman andRush – 3 each, Martinez and Doolittle –2 each, DeJong, Brucklacher andHook – 1 each. Steals: 18. Leaders: Martinez – 4,Hook – 3, Holman, Rush, Doolittle,Brucklacher and Schaack – 2 each, De-Jong –1. Blocks: 5. Leaders: Martinez – 3,Hook – 2. Turnovers: 14. Fouls: Philip – 12, Kadoka –20.

The Philip junior varsity, withhelp from seven players who later

played during the varsity game,also handily defeated their Kadokaopponents. Though the Philip of-fense was not quite as devastating,the defense was just as unforgiv-ing. In the final quarter, the Scot-ties allowed Kadoka to claim onlytwo points. 1 2 3 4 Philip 21 32 54 65 Kadoka 4 15 21 23 Field goals: 22/62 – 36%. Free throws: Philip – 15/28 – 54%,Kadoka – 7/11 – 64%. Three-point goals: Philip – 2/12 –17%. Philip scorers: Jones – 15, Martinez –11, Stangle – 9, Brucklacher – 7, JacobKammerer – 5, Bierle, Jace Giannonattiand Sam Stangle – 4 each, Schaack, ToddAntonsen and Ryan Van Tassel – 2 each. Kadoka Area scorers: Yuki Hot-

sumi – 7, Wyatt Enders – 4, Aaron Janis –3, Brendon Porch, Zack Stone, Sam PrettyBear and Emery Little Thunder – 2. Rebounds: Philip – 42. Philip leaders:Bierle – 7, Guptill – 6, Schaack – 5,Jones – 4, Martinez and Van Tassel – 3each, B. Stangle, Chase Wright, Gian-nonatti, Garrett Snook, S. Stangle andKeegan Burnett – 2 each, Brucklacher andAntonsen – 1 each. Assists: 5. Leaders: Martinez – 2,Jones. Schaack and Burnett – 1 each. Steals: 27. Leaders: Jones – 7, Mar-tinez , Brucklacher and B. Stangle – 3each, Bierle, Guptill, Giannonatti, Kam-merer and Van Tassel – 2 each, Schaack –1. Blocks: 7. Leaders: Martinez andBierle – 2 each, Brucklacher, Schaack andGiannonatti – 1 each. Turnovers: 5. Fouls: Philip – 16, Kadoka –23.

The next Scotties’ game will beFriday, January 4, in Murdo versusthe Jones County Coyotes, startingat 5:30 p.m.

The Bison Lady Cardinalshosted the Philip Lady Scottiesbasketball team, Thursday, De-cember 20. Philip could put in only one bas-ket, and that a free throw, the en-tire first quarter. Starting in thesecond quarter, though, the Scot-ties grabbed the lead and never letgo. Though a continuous barrage of111 attempted field goal shots,Philip sank 20 for an average of 18percent. This barrage was madepossible by the team’s 37 steals andthree players getting rebounds inthe double digits. At the finalbuzzer, the Scotties had more thandoubled their opponent’s score, fora clear 48-19 win. 1 2 3 4 Philip 1 19 35 48 Bison 5 9 14 19

Field goals: 20/111 – 18%. Philip scorers: Bailey Radway – 17,Jordyn Dekker – 14, Madison Hand – 8,Krista Wells – 7, Katie Hostutler – 3,Holly Iwan and Katlin Knutson – 2 each. Bison top scorers: Sydney Arneson –7, Kiana Brockel – 4. Rebounds: Philip – 56. Bison – 20.Philip leaders: Hand and Radway – 16each, Dekker – 13, Brett Carley – 5,Hanna Hostutler – 3, Justina Cvach – 2,Iwan and Knutson – 1 each. Assists: 9. Leaders: Knutson – 5, Handand Dekker – 1 each. Steals: 37. Leaders: Hand – 8, H. Hos-tutler and Dekker – 6 each, Radway – 5,Iwan and Knutson – 2.

Blocks: 4. Leaders: Radway, H. Hos-tutler, Cvach and Dekker – 1 each. Turnovers: Philip – 26, Bison – 33. Fouls: Philip – 16.

The Philip junior varsity begantheir game by shutting out theiropponents in the first quarter.They allowed only four points byBison in the second quarter, nonein the third, and only one in thefourth quarter. Philip averaged 10points per quarter, for a devastat-ing 40-5 victory.

1 2 3 4 Philip 12 20 31 40 Bison 0 4 4 5

Field goals: 16/70 – 23%. Three-point goals: 0/04 – 0%. Philip top scorers: K. Hostutler – 10,Knutson – 7, Carley – 6, Ellie Coyle andAshton Reedy – 4 each, Megan Williams,Ta’Te Fortune and Peyton DeJong – 2each, Kaci Olivier – 1. Bison top scorers: Tessa Kopren andMarranda Hulm – 2 each. Rebounds: Philip – 40, Bison – 24.Philip leaders: Cvach – 8, K. Hostutler –6, Carley – 5, Olivier, Knutson andReedy – 4 each, Coyle and DeJong – 3each, H. Hostutler, Fortune and TyanaGottsleben – 1 each.. Assists: 7. Leaders: Olivier and Coyle –2 each, Carley, H. Hostutler and Knut-son. – 1 each. Steals: 34. Leaders: Oliver and H. Hos-tutler – 6 each, K. Hostutler and Knut-son – 5 each, Carley and Cvach – 4 each,Coyle – 2, Reedy and Gottsleben – 1 each. Blocks: 16. Leaders: Carley – 5, K.Hostutler – 3, Knutson and Cvach – 2

each, Coyle, Reedy, Gottsleben and De-Jong – 1 each. Turnovers: Philip – 15, Bison – 24. Fouls: 14.

Lady Scotties bite Bison 48-19

Thomas Doolittle and Tate De-Jong have been chosen as semifi-nalists for the Coca Cola Scholarsscholarship program. From 111,000 applicants, 2000students were chosen as semi-final-ists. Of those, only 11 are fromSouth Dakota. From these semi-fi-nalists, 250 students will be chosenfor a $10,000 or $20,000 scholar-ship. The official notification lettersreceived by Doolittle and DeJongincluded, “You have been selectedas a semifinalist in the Coca-ColaScholars Program. Because so fewof the total number of applicants(nearly 111,000) for the Coca-ColaScholars program are advanced assemifinalists, we consider this anoutstanding achievement. As one of2,000 semifinalists, we hope thatyou see your selection as affirma-tion of your ability to distinguish

yourself academically and person-ally.” The next step for the Philip HighSchool students was to download,complete and submit the semifinal-ist forms. This gave them an oppor-tunity to elaborate further on theactivities and accomplishments ref-erenced in their initial applica-tions. Notification informing them ofthe reading committee’s decisionwill be mailed in early February.Those selected as Coca-Cola Schol-ars must attend the Coca-ColaScholars Weekend, April 18-21,2013, at the Scholars Foundation'sexpense during which time theywill be interviewed for one of 50National Scholar awards of$20,000. The remaining 200 schol-ars will receive regional scholarawards valued at $10,000.

Two local finalists for

Coca Cola scholarship

AARP/Retired Teachers Association

City of PhilipCradles to Crayons Day Care

Riders and Racers 4-H Club

Deer hunters who have unfilledantlerless deer tags for the WestRiver and East River deer seasonswill have nine additional daysavailable to harvest antlerless deerbeginning December 29 and endingJanuary 6. Tom Kirschenmann, SouthDakota Game Fish and Parks ter-restrial chief, reminds hunters tobe aware of the regulation changefrom the past several years. “Over the past several seasons,

‘any deer’ tags have converted to‘antlerless’ tags for the extendedseason,” Kirschenmann said. “Thatis not the case this year. Only un-filled ‘antlerless’ tags will be validduring the late season.” The changes were made as partof deer herd management objec-tives to direct additional antlerlessharvest in the areas of the statethat need it most while curtailingthe doe harvest in areas where it isnot needed.

Anterless deer only season

Thursday, December 27, 2012 • The Pioneer Review • Youth in our Community

May your world be �lledwith warmth, joy & good cheer …Wishing you a

Happy New Year!

Philip Motor, Inc.

Happy new Year from Dr. ron & Laurie Mann & staffHappy new Year from Dr. ron & Laurie Mann & staff

All’s well that ends wellAll’s well that ends wellThe year’s end brings us no greater pleasure than to thank you, our most

cherished patients, for a year beyond measure.Best wishes to you and yours in the coming year.

See you next year!We’re putting on our best to say,Hope you enjoy a great holiday!

And when at last the year is through,We’d like to continue to serve each one of you!

Happy New Year & Many Thanks for Choosing Us!!

Philip Livestock Auction

Thor Roseth &

Employees

Twenty-seven students fromBrigitte Brucklacher’s personal fi-nance class at the Philip HighSchool recently completed theEverFi Financial Literacy pro-gram. This Web-based programuses the latest in new media tech-nologies – video, animations, 3-Dgaming, avatars and social net-working – to bring complex finan-

cial concepts to life for today’s digi-tal generation. First National Bank in Philippartnered with EverFi, Inc. tobring the interactive financialmanagement program to PhilipHigh School students at no cost tothe school. “I appreciate the FNB sponsor-ing this program for the personalfinance classes. The Everfi pro-gram provides reinforcement of fi-nancial concepts as well as intro-duces new information to stu-dents,” said Brucklacher. The 10-unit course offered sixhours of programming aimed atteaching, assessing and certifyingstudents in a variety of financialtopics including credit scores, in-

surance, credit cards, studentloans, mortgages, taxes, stocks,savings, 401k, and other criticalconcepts that map to national fi-nancial literacy standards. Theplatform tracks the progress andscore of every student. Studentswho successfully complete thecourse receive a certification in fi-nancial literacy, a mark of distinc-tion on college applications and re-sumes. “We have made this commitmentin our community because of ourstrong belief that if we can bettereducate the students of today, thenthey will become the financially re-sponsible citizens of tomorrow,”said Ray Smith, president of theFirst National Bank in Philip.

Finance classes by First National Bank

Class One. Back row, from left: personal finance instructor Brigitte Brucklacher, Dustin Hand, Josh Quinn, Nick Hamill, BrianPfeifle, Carl Poss, Wyatt Schaack, Seth Haigh (hidden) and Colter King. Second row: Ryan VanTassel, Casey Reder, ColtonTriebwasser, Reed Johnson, Gavin Brucklacher and First National Bank in Philip’s Crystal Eisenbraun. Front: DeseraeWilliams, Kaci Olivier, Jade Berry, Bailey Radway and Jordyn Dekker.

Class Two. Back row, from left: personal finance instructor Brigitte Brucklacher, Brooke Nelson, Lakin Boyd, Sam Johnson,Quade Slovek, Rachael Kocherberger, First National Bank in Philip’s Crystal Eisenbraun, and Jaime Reimann. Front: ChaneyBurns, Thomas Doolittle and Sam Stangle. Courtesy photos

by Del Bartels In starting up its 2012-2013 sea-son, the Philip chapter of Fellowhipof Christian Athletes met Tuesday,December 18, at 7:15 a.m. in BettyBerry’s classroom at the PhilipHigh School. The student-directed group is ad-vised by Berry and Tom Parquet.This meeting’s Bible verse that wasdiscussed was Mark 10:43-44,“Whoever wants to become greatamong you must be your servant,and whoever wants to be first mustbe slave of all.” A modern analogywas being a team’s waterboy; animportant role, though a humblingjob that most people don’t want. After some group discussion, theconcluding questions were “As acompetitor or a coach, is it easier toserve or be served? Why?” Parquet confessed that, with thesurrounding communities offering

concern and fundraisers for hiswife’s recent kidney transplant, hefound that being served is farharder. He has been accepting and

grateful, but feels it is easier andmore comfortable to be on the giv-ing end.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

The student directed group will meet once a month, discussing a pre-chosen Bibleverse and how it relates to the attending individuals. Photo by Del Bartels

These elementary students areSuper Scotties for November 2012.They have earned the distinction

through different individual displaysof good character. Each teacher selects

at least one of their students at theend of each month.

Super Scotties

Rainee Snyder1st grade

Danessa Heltzel2nd grade

Reese Henrie3rd grade

Eryka Johnson5th grade

Pedro Dennis6th grade

Elementary Students of theMonths for November

Allison Williams3rd grade

McCoy Peterson3rd grade

Mattisen RecklingKindergarten

Dilyn Terkildsen4th grade

The release time children of the First Lutheran Church in Philip presented their Christmas program, Wednesday, December19. Shown above, the program included a live nativity scene. Preschool students playing the part of the animals in themanger scene were Camden Fitzgerald, Ellis Baer, Allie Kjerstad, Chevy Konst, Memphis Konst and Tierny Arthur. Kinder-garten students were Josie Jones, Fayth Martin, Even Kroetch and Talan Haynes all as shepards, Tayanna Arthur as Mary,and Grayson Martin as Joseph. First graders included Kade Fitzgerald, Adam Kanable, Jess Jones and Cohen Reckling all

Lutheran release time program

Brian Pfeifle – juniorHappy, optimistic student in classand in the hallways. Does a good

job on his work. Good aboutmaking up his assignments.

Philip High SchoolDecember 2012 Students of the Month

Rachel Parsons – sophomoreVery bright and helpful.

Respectful of others.Completes excellent work.

Keagan Fitch7th

Volunteers an-swers in class.

Very careful withhis work. Uses his

time wisely.

Shay Hand8th

Uses study halltime wisely. Al-

ways polite. Pre-pared for class.

Does her best onall assigned work.

Nick Donnelly8th

Works hard.Turns work in ontime. Willing tohelp others. Al-ways prepared

with assignments

Madyson Morehart7th

Very conscien-tious about work.

Attends to theclassroom assign-ment. Helps other

students.

Philip Junior High SchoolDecember 2012 Students of the Month

as wise men, and Sarah Huston as an angel. Second graders included AliSchofield, Macy Martin and Gracie Fitzgerald all as angels. Courtesy photo

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At a time when the news couldbe pretty bad coming from rural li-braries in the James River Valley,many area communities reportthat their libraries are holdingtheir own or even thriving. The library in Britton, whichmoved to fine new quarters in2002, is a social gathering spot forthe community. “There is always ajigsaw puzzle in the works and cof-fee available,” said Britton PublicLibrary head librarian, PeggySatrang. “Some people come in twoor three times a week to put piecesin the puzzle, and others come injust to have a cup of coffee and visita little bit. It really is a communityplace. It’s busy, but it’s a good placeto be.” Nationwide, the report fromrural libraries is not so upbeat. Inthe face of a dire financial situa-tion, “library administrators andtrustees are grappling with incred-ibly difficult decisions to reduceservices, programs and staffing,”according to a presentation givenat the Association of Small andRural Libraries conference in Sep-tember. When budgets are tight,local government officials some-times question the relevance of li-braries in an increasingly digitalworld. “A public library helps keep thestatus of the community on an in-tellectual level and provides a won-derful pastime for many people,”

said Anita Lowary, Groton’s city fi-nance officer. It can also be a place where peo-ple can gather on neutral ground. “A lot of times in rural areas, thelibrary can be a focal point for thecommunity,” said Al Peterson,president of the North Dakota Li-brary Association. “The nice thingabout a library, it’s open to anyoneand everyone. You don’t have to berich, you don’t have to be poor. Youdon’t have to be Catholic, you don’thave to be Lutheran. You can beanybody you want to go to a li-brary.”

Doing more with less In the Dakotas and elsewhere,the costs that rural libraries haveto pay are going up: “Books costmore, anything you want to docosts more,” said Annie Brunskill,past president of the South DakotaLibrary Association. The funding that libraries re-ceive from their local governmentsoften doesn’t go up quite as quicklyas costs do, and with the nation-wide economic slowdown in recentyears, some budgets have been cut.The budget of Brunskill’s home li-brary in Philip, for example, wastrimmed a year ago, and Grotonlost a significant part of the fund-ing it used to receive from thecounty when the bookmobile wasstill in service. But rural libraries have anothersource of funds if the regularbudget isn’t enough – the usersthemselves. When communitymembers see a need, they oftenstep up to fill the gap. Avid readersin the community often donate newbooks right after they have readthem, and area librarians reporttheir recent fundraisers have beenquite successful. “People are so generous. It’s un-real,” Satrang said of her Brittoncommunity. “We also have had acouple substantial donations frompeople who have passed away.”

Busy places The population of many rural

areas is going down, and book-stores in larger areas have closed,which might lead a person to guessthat rural libraries have fewer pa-trons than they used to. That is not what is actually hap-pened. “The number of peopleusing them has gone up,” Brunskillsaid. Another factor is that the worldexpects people to have online ac-cess, so if they don’t have Internetat home the library serves thatneed. For example, people lookingfor jobs search for openings online,and many employers prefer onlineapplications now, Brunskill said. Peterson added that as peoplemanage their own budgets and seethe cost of books and other mediarising, they often opt to check outbooks or DVDs from the library in-stead of purchasing them. Some patrons have also realizedthey can get just about anythingthey want through interlibraryloan. They may not have cable, butif they want to see the TV show“Dexter” (a Showtime channel ex-clusive), they can request full sea-sons from their library, Petersonsaid.

Changing technology As library patrons pick up e-readers such as Kindles and Nooks,librarians have done what they canto serve those new readers of e-readers. Not all rural libraries areable to offer e-books yet. Groton, forexample, needs to upgrade theirequipment before they can offerthat service, Lowary said. “If you have a small budget, it’skind of out of reach,” Brunskillsaid. “We have to balance the costof e-books against hardcoverbooks.” Libraries also serve as a place forthe public to use the Internet, andsetting up that system can taketechnical expertise that many li-brarians don’t have. Money fromthe American Recovery and Rein-vestment Act has funded broad-band initiatives nationwide that

Rural libraries survive and thrive with community supportcan help with that. In South Dakota, the S.D. Broad-band Initiative provides a freetechnological assessment for allcommunity anchor institutions,which includes libraries but alsoapplies to city offices, health carefacilities, YMCAs and more. Thenthose institutions can apply for agrant to help with needed technol-ogy upgrades.

A role for theforeseeable future

Overall, rural libraries in theDakotas are holding their own orthriving, but there are some thatare struggling. Brunskill said the

difference is sometimes related todeclining population, but the effortof the people involved mattersmore to how the library is doingthan numbers do. “If you’ve got people who really,really think highly of their library,it doesn’t matter whether it’s asmall town or medium sized town,that library going to get a lot ofsupport from that community,”Brunskill said. Many rural libraries are servingan important niche in their com-munities, as a social gatheringspace as well as a place to gatherinformation.

Community Home Health

Haakon County Young Women

Karyl’s Angel Tree

Haakon County Sheriff’s Officeand Philip Police Department

Legal Notices Deadline: Fridays at Noon Thursday, December 27, 2012 • The Pioneer Review •

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND

NOTICE OF INFORMAL

PROBATE AND APPOINTMENT OF

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE

IN CIRCUIT COURTSIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA ):SS

COUNTY OF HAAKON )

ESTATE OF )LeROY M. ROSETH )

Deceased. )

Notice is given that on the 4th day of De-cember, 2012, Duane W. Roseth, whoseaddress is 20075 Manilla Road, Midland,SD 57552, and Julian T. Roseth, whoseaddress is 19925 Manilla Road, Midland,SD 57552, were appointed as personalrepresentatives of the estate of LeRoy M.Roseth.

Creditors of decedent must file theirclaims within four months after the dateof the first publication of the notice or theirclaims may be barred.

Claims may be filed with the personal rep-resentatives or may be filed with the clerkand a copy of the claim mailed to the per-sonal representatives.

Dated this 4th day of December, 2012.

/s/Duane W. RosethDuane W. Roseth20075 Manilla RoadMidland, SD 57552

/s/Julian T. RosethJulian T. Roseth19925 Manilla RoadMidland, SD 57552

Janet MagelkyHaakon County Clerk of CourtsPO Box 70Philip, South Dakota 57567605-859-2627

Gay Tollefson, AttorneyTollefson Law OfficePO Box 848Philip, South Dakota 57567605-859-2783

[Published December 13, 20 & 27, 2012,at the total approximate cost of $61.01]

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND

NOTICE OF INFORMAL

PROBATE AND APPOINTMENT OF

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE

IN CIRCUIT COURTSIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

PRO #12-12

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA ):SS

COUNTY OF HAAKON )

ESTATE OF )WANDA BERNICE HEEB, )

Deceased. )

Notice is given that on the 12th day of De-cember, 2012, Barbara L. Kroetch, whoseaddress is PO Box 514, Philip, SouthDakota 57567, was appointed as per-sonal representative of the estate ofWanda Bernice Heeb.

Creditors of decedent must file theirclaims within four months after the dateof the first publication of the notice or theirclaims may be barred.

Claims may be filed with the personal rep-resentatives or may be filed with the clerkand a copy of the claim mailed to the per-sonal representative.

Dated this 12th day of December, 2012.

/s/Barbara L. KroetchBarbara L. KroetchPO Box 514Philip, South Dakota 57567

Janet MagelkyHaakon County Clerk of CourtsPO Box 70Philip, South Dakota 57567605-859-2627

Gay Tollefson, AttorneyTollefson Law OfficePO Box 848Philip, South Dakota 57567605-859-2783

[Published December 20, 27, 2012, &January 3, 2013, at the total approximatecost of $61.01]

NOTICE OF PUBLICHEARING ON REQUEST TO

TRANSFER MALTBEVERAGE LICENSE

Notice is hereby given that a public hear-ing will be held before the Philip CityCouncil at its regular meeting on January07, 2013, at 8:15 p.m. or as soon afterthat hour as practical. This hearing will beheld in the Community Room of theHaakon Co. Courthouse on the request totransfer the malt beverage license aslisted below.

Transfer From:

Russell & Dorothy Hansen – Rock &Roll Lanes

Located Lots 08 – 21 inclusive, Block01, Highway Addition, City of Philip, SD:one (01) Retail On/Off Sale Malt Bever-age License.

Transfer To:

Marty or Debbie Gartner – Lucky StrikeLocated Lots 08 – 21 inclusive, Block

01, Highway Addition, City of Philip, SD:one (01) Retail On/Off Sale Malt Bever-age License.

Any interested person may appear andwill be given an opportunity to be heardeither for or against approval of any or allof the above listed request for malt bev-erage license transfer.

Monna Van Lint,City Finance Officer

(Published December 27, 2012, at thetotal approximate cost of $15.52]

Proceedings ofWest River Water

Development District

November 15, 2012

CALL TO ORDER: The West RiverWater Development District convened fortheir regular meeting at Al’s Oasis in Oa-coma, SD. Chairman Joseph Hieb calledthe meeting to order at 1:00 p.m. (CT). Roll call was taken and Chairman Hiebdeclared a quorum was present. Direc-tors present were: Joseph Hieb, CaseyKrogman, Marion Matt, Veryl Prokop andLorne Smith. Also present: Jake Fitzger-ald, Manager; Amy Kittelson, Office Man-ager for WR/LJ; Dave Larson, LarsonLaw PC.

ADDITIONS TO AGENDA: None

APPROVE AGENDA: Motion by DirectorProkop, seconded by Director Matt to ap-prove the agenda. Motion carried unani-mously.

APPROVE MINUTES: The minutes ofthe October 11, 2012, meeting were pre-viously mailed to the Board for their re-view. Motion by Director Smith, secondedby Director Krogman to approve the Oc-tober minutes. Motion carried unani-mously.

FINANCIAL REPORT: A. APPROVAL OF BILLS: Joseph Hieb- $56.61, Casey Krogman - $56.61, Mar-ion Matt - $56.61, Veryl Prokop - $56.61,Lorne Smith - $56.61, West River/Lyman-Jones RWS - $51,000.00, PenningtonCounty Courant - $57.19, Lyman CountyHerald - $66.50, Murdo Coyote - $71.84,Todd County Tribune - $66.34, PioneerReview - $59.78, Kadoka Press - $76.02,US Postmaster - $71.40. Motion by Direc-tor Prokop, seconded by Director Matt toapprove the District bills. Motion carriedunanimously. B. DISTRICT FINANCIAL STATUSREPORT: The financial status of the Dis-trict to date was previously sent to theBoard. A copy of the October FinancialReport is on file at the District office inMurdo. Motion by Director Matt, sec-onded by Director Prokop to approve theOctober Financial Report. Motion carriedunanimously.

REPORTS: A. MANAGER'S REPORT: ManagerFitzgerald presented his November reportto the Board. Motion by Director Smith,seconded by Director Krogman to ap-prove the Manager’s Report. Motion car-ried unanimously. B. OTHER REPORTS: None

USGS GAGING STATIONS: ManagerFitzgerald received the proposed joint

funding agreement between the Districtand USGS for monitoring and operationof streamflow gages at White River nearKadoka and White River near WhiteRiver. They are seeking funding in theamount of $11,280 with USGS contribut-ing $9,270. The Board requested Man-ager Fitzgerald invite Joyce Williamson toa board meeting, so she can give an up-date and answer any questions the Boardhas before a decision is made. Motion byDirector Prokop, seconded by DirectorMatt that this item be tabled. Motion car-ried unanimously.

WR/LJ GRANT AGREEMENT: ManagerFitzgerald presented to the Board theyearly agreement that provides a grant of$50,000 to West River/Lyman-JonesRural Water Systems, Inc. Motion by Di-rector Matt, seconded by Director Krog-man to approve the grant agreement for$50,000 to West River/Lyman-JonesRural Water Systems, Inc. Motion carriedunanimously.

ADJOURNMENT:There being no further business, themeeting was adjourned at 1:10 P.M. (CT).

ATTEST:Amy Kittelson, Recording SecretaryJoseph Hieb, Chairman

[Published December 27, 2012, at thetotal approximate cost of $36.06]

NOTICE OF SOLID WASTE

APPLICATION ANDRECOMMENDATION

By The Department of Environmentand Natural Resources

The South Dakota Department of Envi-ronment and Natural Resources (DENR)has received a permit renewal applicationfrom the city of Philip to continue opera-tion of a Type IV restricted use solidwaste facility located ½ mile south and ½mile west of Philip. The legal descriptionis the NW¼ SE¼ of Section 23, T1N,R20E, Haakon County. The total acreageof the site is 5 acres. The facility will servethe city of Philip and the surroundingarea. The permit renewal will be grantedfor a period of five years as provided forunder South Dakota Codified Law(SDCL) 34A-6-1.16.

DENR has reviewed the application andinformation submitted, has reached a ten-tative decision and recommends to theBoard of Minerals and Environment(board) that the permit be reissued to theapplicant to continue operation of thesolid waste facility.

The recommendation for renewal of thispermit is subject to the applicant’s com-pliance with the Administrative Rules ofSouth Dakota (ARSD) 74:27 and a totalof 32 permit conditions. The permit con-ditions include general requirements (10conditions), design and construction re-quirements (3 conditions), operating re-quirements (9 conditions), recordkeepingand reporting (2 conditions), closure re-quirements (7 conditions), and financialassurance (1 condition) as have been de-termined to be necessary to ensure thefacility complies with the environmentallaws of this state.

In accordance with SDCL 34A-6-1.14,DENR’s recommendation for approval willbecome the final decision of the permitapplication and this permit will be reis-sued 30 days after publication of this no-tice. A person adversely affected or hav-ing an interest adversely affected by theDENR’s recommendation for approvalmay petition the board for a contestedcase hearing. The petition must complywith the requirements of ARSD74:09:01:01. If a petition for such a hear-ing is not filed within 30 days of this pub-lication date, a permit will be formally andfinally granted at that time.

A copy of all recommended terms andconditions are available from DENR andmay be obtained upon request from:South Dakota Department of Environ-ment and Natural Resources, WasteManagement Program, 523 East CapitolAvenue, Pierre, South Dakota 57501-3182, Attn.: Don Rosowitz, telephone(605) 773-3153.

Steven M. Pirner, SecretaryDepartment of Environment and Natural Resources

[Published December 27, 2012, at thetotal approximate cost of $27.44]

When you get this news, Christ-mas will be over and we wisheveryone a joyous Merry Christ-mas. It isn’t only about gifts. So much for that no fail fantasyfudge, the only good thing I canthink of is that it isn’t runny! It’shard to mess up boiling sugar, mar-garine and evaporated milk, but Ithink my evaporated milk gotahead of itself! Thanks Dorothy Fortune for call-ing about the Buswell/Markwedplace. Dorothy said they own theland, situated by Mona Bucholzproperty off the 11 Mile Road andshe has some pictures of the oldhouse before it was cleaned away.In looking through the “CentennialAtlas of Haakon County” it was nota homestead land because noBuswell was listed. "Those who don't read have noadvantage over those who can't."Daysies Tony Harty visited with ShirleyHair Monday. His sister, Monicaand Pat Weaver, were visitors athis home in the afternoon. Tony at-tended the basketball games therest of the day. Monday morning, I took theHaakon County Prairie Transpora-tion van to Rapid City for appoint-ments, going by way of Philip. Sandee Gittings took Daniel Jor-dan home Tuesday morning. Tuesday, Tony Harty deliveredsome baking tins and other itemsto Shirley Hair when he visited. Healso stopped by our place for a visitin the afternoon. Don and Vi Moody returned fromRapid Wednesday night to findthat their solar lights weren'tworking to guide them home, butthe big yard light was on thatBrant and Lance Sundall installedwhile they were in Rapid. Theywere certain this light was brightenough to light all of JacksonCounty. Anyway, it seems pack-ages are arriving from near and farat Vi and Don's. A package of pearscame from Harry and David andthese boys must know SouthDakota weather very well becausethey were in the mailbox and noteven frozen yet. A secret Santa saidit was from friend Nancy Gaylordin Bradford, Conn. Tony Harty visited L.D. andShirley Hair Wednesday after get-ting his mail. He went out for din-ner then got busy and whipped upa triple batch of his spinach dipthat he shares with so many. Wednesday, Ralph and CathyFiedler attended the West Elemen-tary Christmas program at BlackHills State University in Spearfish,to watch their grandson, Loman.He was the last of the five grand-children to perform. He played ajail elf in “Surfin’ Santa.” Lomanwill move to Creekside Elementarynext year. Wednesday was a blustery,windy day, and we were thankfulnot to have a foot of soft snow toblow around. The snow that ar-rived Monday night stayed put. Imade a van trip to Philip in themorning. Kinsey and Kelsey Gittings wentto Rapid City with Beth StewartThursday. Don and Vi Moody ran aroundthe ranch and looked at all the re-cent changes happening with theearthmoving equipment work thatVi didn't have a chance to look atyet, so that was interesting. Thecattle were all scattered along thecreeks and contented as littlelambs. All was in order and Vi de-cided she would have a few days toget a “leg up” on her certified publicaccountant before the year ends.They got their illuminations work-ing at their driveway entrance. Letthere be light! Thursday evening, Ralph andCathy Fiedler went to the DonKlumb home in Spearfish to helpcelebrate granddaughter Tessa’s

14th birthday with a pizza party.Other guests were Lorene Klumb,Eric, Derek Schmacher and Jazminand Eric, Sherry Hanson and fam-ily and Braden Roter, a friend ofTessa’s. After supper, Tessa openedher birthday gifts then everyoneenjoyed cupcakes that Bradenmade. Thursday visitors at our placewere Phyllis Word, Tony Harty andMelissa Patterson. Bill made a pickup on his way past Moody’s cornerand came with a couple of cute tree

ornaments. Vi wondered if I knewabout the little white ball she sent,it was a 1969 or 70 era bobble. Therace car, #33, Bill knew the driver,thanks kids for thinking of us. The hull-less popcorn is deli-cious, too. Thursday, Tony not only visitedhere, but visited with Russ Hattelto wish him a Merry Christmas. “May the light of your faith shineso that it will illuminate the heartof another.” Daysies

Betwixt Places Newsby Marsha Sumpter • 837-2048 • [email protected]

This column will be short thisweek due to an early deadline.Most of us are busy cooking, bak-ing, and finishing up the shoppingin preparation for Christmas.

Donna and Tina Staben hostedthe Milesville Community ClubChristmas party Tuesday eveningat 5:00. We enjoyed a soup supperfollowed by filling sacks with good-ies for those living alone, elderly, orjust because. A gift exchange andrevealing our Secret Sisters andsnacks rounded out the evening.Attending were Gayla Piroutek,Linda Gebes, Karen Carley, ErinHovland, Marcia Eymer and JaniceParsons. Last Thursday night, most ofthe Smith family gathered inPierre to view the trees at the Capi-tol, then had supper out. Includedwere Dave and Tonya Berry andfamily, Will and Toni Anders andfamily, and Cory and Deb Smithand Deb's daughter, Caite.

Donnie and Marcia Eymer metJerry and Joy Neville, SharonCoyle and Shirley Parsons for sup-per in Philip Thursday. KaylaEymer, who was on call at thePhilip hospital, joined them forsupper, then went back to work.

Later, the six of them played cardsat Sharon's house. A week ago Thursday, Leo andJoan Patton took Irene Patton outfor lunch. Leo and Joan were inPierre for a shopping trip.

Dan and Gayla Piroutek, GeneDeuchar, Roy Warner, and KellyBlair all attended the Deep CreekSchool program last Wednesdayevening. A large crowd attended towatch as the five students andteacher, Theresa Deuchar, stirredeveryone's hearts toward Christ-mas. Erin, Tim and Daniel Logan, St.Louis, Mo., flew into Rapid Citylast Thursday. They were met byDan and Gayla Piroutek. Afterlunch, they toured Dinosaur Parkin Rapid City. The Logan familywill stay in Milesville until Christ-mas Day when they fly home. Last Wednesday, Karen Carleyspent the day with her mother,Mildred O'Grady. After spendingtwo weeks in the Rapid City hospi-tal, Mildred was released and shereturned to the nursing home inNew Underwood. My hope is that each of youwere able to be with family andfriends this Christmas season.

Milesville Newsby Janice Parsons • 544-3315

by U.S. SenatorTim Johnson (D-S.D.)

South Dakota physicians are un-able to get ahold of their patients toprovide follow-up care. A police dis-patch center in Nebraska was un-able to connect with a law enforce-ment center in South Dakota.Small businesses across our stateare losing business because poten-tial customers can’t reach them onthe phone. Over the last couple years, ruralSouth Dakotans have experiencedlong distance phone calls that arefailing to complete or have poorquality. It appears that some longdistance providers are failing toproperly terminate calls to avoidpaying required fees that help payfor telephone service in rural areas.I am working closely with SouthDakota small businesses, tele-phone customers, and rural tele-phone providers on this issue, andjust last week, I recruited 35 othersenators to work with me to find asolution. The lack of reliable phone serviceis both a safety and economic issuefor rural America. I first heardabout this issue from a small busi-ness in Canistota. Since then, Ihave heard from many individualsin our state about the persistentproblem of long distance telephonecalls not being completed. Resi-dents need to have phone servicethat allows them to receive urgentcalls, and small businesses need re-liable phone service to operate.Rural phone customers affected bythis problem are rightfully frus-trated and demand a solution. Last month, I invited Wall resi-dent Denny Law to Washington,D.C., to help emphasize the sever-ity of these problems. Denny is thegeneral manager and CEO of

Golden West Telecommunications,which provides telephone service toa large portion of southern and cen-tral South Dakota. Telephone com-panies, like Golden West, havebeen working to fix the call termi-nation problems. It can be difficultfor small rural wireline companiesto pinpoint where the problems oc-curred because the long distancecalls are often dropped before theyreach their telephone networks.Denny’s presentation and my per-sistence helped senators from allover the country understand themagnitude of the issue and join mein calling on the Federal Commu-nications Commission to resolvethis problem. The ball is now in the FCC’scourt. When I pressed the FCC onthis in early 2012, they released adeclaratory ruling that warnedlong distance providers by reiterat-ing the federal prohibitions againstblocking, choking, reducing or re-stricting telephone traffic. How-ever, the agency has not yet takenenforcement action, and, as manySouth Dakotans know, the prob-lems are still occurring at analarming rate. I am hopeful the ef-fort I recently led will lead to fixingthis problem, but I need your help,as well. The FCC is conducting an inves-tigation and wants to hear fromconsumers. South Dakotans shouldgo to http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/rcc/RCC_Form2000B.html. Likemany other challenges we face inrural America, this issue doesn’tget the attention it deserves. How-ever, I was able to get one-third ofthe U.S. Senate on board, which isno easy task. I will continue work-ing and am confident we will find asolution.

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The Haakon County Public Li-brary, in partnership with thePhilip chapter of AARP/RetiredTeacher Association, will host adiscussion Thursday, January 28,on the book “One-Room CountrySchool: South Dakota Stories.” The community discussion willfollow the monthly soup supper,AARP/RTA meeting. The libraryboard and the Philip Book Clubwill providing desserts and barsduring the discussion. The hosts welcome all currentand former teachers and schoolboard members, and all other com-munity residents to attend theevening’s discussion. DorothyLiegl, discussion scholar with theSouth Dakota Humanities Council,will be guiding the evening’s event. Books are available at the librarycourtesy of a grant from the SouthDakota Humanities Council. Thebook is a collection of experiencesfrom people all over the state, in-cluding several from HaakonCounty. Readers should recognizemany of the names and locations

included in the book. The book isedited by Norma C. Wilson andCharles L. Woodard, and publishedby the South Dakota HumanitiesCouncil.

A large map will be available tohelp pinpoint the locations of theoriginal country schools in HaakonCounty, with input from attendees.Everyone is invited to bring oldphotos of Haakon County schools toshare. Please bring them in a plas-tic sleeve with your name attached. The event will be held at the BadRiver Senior Citizen Center inPhilip, Monday, January 28, withthe meal beginning at 6:00 p.m.The hosts ask that residents pre-register by calling the library at859-2442. According to Anne Brunskill, li-brary director, the books may bepicked up at the library, but, aspart of SDHC’s lending library,they will need to be returned. How-ever, if individuals would like tohave a copy of their own, the li-brary can order extra books at adiscount, if there are 10 or more re-quests. If enough information and pho-tos are made available, there maybe a follow-up meeting at some fu-ture date.

“One Room Country School” bookstudy to launch local discussions

The South Dakota Departmentof Agriculture and South DakotaState University Extension willhold forums across the state to dis-cuss South Dakota’s vision for live-stock production this Januarythrough March. “South Dakota has progressive,forward thinking entrepreneurswho understand the exciting poten-tial of today’s agri-business mar-ketplace,” said South Dakota Sec-retary of Agriculture Walt Bones.“We’re starting the conversationabout the challenges and advan-tages South Dakota has to increasethe number of livestock in ourstate.” All forums are scheduled tobegin at 6:30 p.m. local time, butare subject to change. For more in-formation, contact Sarah Caslin,SDDA livestock development spe-cialist at 605-773-3649 or visithttp://sdda.sd.gov.Jan. 14 – Aberdeen LivestockJan. 15 – Mobridge LivestockJan. 21 – Ft. Pierre LivestockJan. 22 – Herried LivestockJan. 23 – Martin LivestockJan. 24 – Philip LivestockFeb. 4 – Hub City LivestockFeb. 6 – Bales ContinentalFeb. 8 – Glacial Lakes Livestock

Feb. 25 – Platte LivestockFeb. 26 – Magness LivestockFeb. 27 – Madison LivestockFeb. 28 – Kimball LivestockMarch 5 – Mitchell LivestockMarch 6 – Yankton LivestockMarch 7 – Sioux Falls RegionalMarch 11 – Belle Fourche LivestockMarch 12 – St. Onge LivestockMarch 13 – Faith LivestockMarch 14 – Lemmon LivestockMarch 18 – Miller LivestockMarch 19 – Presho LivestockMarch 20 – Winner LivestockMarch 21 – Chamberlain Livestock

Forums on next generationof livestock production

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