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FIRSTCHOICE SCHOLARSHIP First Dakota National Bank an- nounces the 2013-2014 FirstChoice Scholarship applica- tions are available. Sixteen $1000 Scholarships are awarded annu- ally to high school seniors or col- lege students attending a post-secondary accredited Amer- ican college, vocational technical school or university. Applicants are judged on leadership, school and civic involvement, satisfac- tory scholastic progress and demonstrated financial responsi- bility. Previous FirstChoice scholar- ship winners encourage you to apply. Kayla Gerlach, 2009 recipi- ent says, “First Dakota does a great job investing in their young customers. It’s nice to know I had help financially.” Jayna Specht, 2010 recipient, encour- ages students to apply. “The FirstChoice scholarship was a blessing for me. It lifted some of the burden of paying for college.” All applicants must have a FirstChoice Checking account to qualify. Applications need to be postmarked by March 11. Con- tact any First Dakota location for an application or download at firstdakota.com. First Dakota was founded in 1872 and holds the first bank charter issued in all of Dakota Territory. It has 14 full-service banking locations in 10 South Dakota cities. It also has five loan production offices throughout South Dakota and Nebraska. SOUTH DAKOTA ANGUS SCHOLARSHIP The South Dakota Angus Auxil- iary will be awarding scholarships for the 2013-2014 school year. To be eligible for the scholarship, the following requirements must be met. • Must be a member of the S.D. Junior Angus Association; • Must be a member of the Na- tional Junior Angus Association; • Must be actively involved with Angus cattle; • Must attend a S.D. univer- sity, college or vocational school for the 2013-2014 school term; • Must submit an essay of at least 500 words on the topic “Why Angus cattle are important to me”; • Must list school, church, and community involvement; • Must submit a recent photo; • Can only win a scholarship once; For a scholarship application, contact Shally Rogen at 48274 258th St., Brandon, SD 57005 or email her at rogenangus@al- liancecom.net. All completed scholarship applications are due by March 15. NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING SITE PLAN DEVELOPMENT FOR AUDUBON BEND JANUARY 16, 2013 HOLY FAMILY PARISH, 807 EMERSON AVE., WYNOT, NE 6:00-8:00PM The Corps of Engineers will host a public meeting to gather input on the formation of a conceptual site plan for the development of habitat and recreation features at Audubon Bend. The property is approximately two and one-half miles north of Wynot along the right descending bank of the Missouri River in Cedar County, Nebraska. The meeting will start with a brief presentation followed by an open house session. During the open house, the project team will be available to answer questions, provide information and gather public input on a host of potential future restoration actions. The public is encouraged to attend at any time between 6:00 and 8:00PM. Idle Hour Theatre Fri. 7:30 PM • Sat. 7:30 PM • Sun. 4 PM Students $ 2.00 Adults $ 5.00 JAN.11, 12, 13 Tripp, SD JACK REACHER DIGITAL UP AND RUNNING! Pancakes, Rolls, Eggs, Ham or Sausage, Milk, Juice or Coffee KC Hall 2700 N. Broadway Breakfast served second Sunday of the month. Knights of Columbus THIS SUNDAY 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. BREAKFAST Everyone Welcome! Try Our Monthly Special! 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Dear Tom and Ray: I am thinking of buying a new car, and I need to know if a four-cylinder or six-cylinder engine would be the wisest choice. I live on a hilltop, 2,400 feet above the valley, and the road to my home is about five miles up the long, steep hill. I have always driven a car with six or more cylinders, and I fear that a four-cylinder would not last long climbing the hill each day. What do you advise? — Mary TOM: There’s not an absolute answer to this, Mary. It would be like asking you if my brother should buy a shirt in XXL or XXXL. You’d be hard pressed to give him a good an- swer without seeing the specific shirt and the size of my brother’s spare tire. RAY: It was a 195/65 R16 as of yesterday. TOM: In general, engines are getting smaller and more powerful. So lots of people who used to buy V-8s are now buying sixes. And people who bought sixes are buying fours. And soon, people who’ve always bought fours will be buying three-cylinder en- gines! RAY: And because of advanced technolo- gies, like direct injection and turbo charging, people aren’t giving up any power when they’re moving down in size and weight. TOM: So there’s no general rule anymore. There are underpowered sixes and overpow- ered fours. What you get depends on the technologies in the engine and the car the en- gine is paired with. RAY: Sometimes the manufacturer will lay out a choice of engines for you. Pickup trucks are a great example of that. Some people use their pickup trucks as suburban commuter vehicles. So a six-cylinder engine may be all they need. Others may haul heavy equipment with their pickup, and they need the addi- tional towing capacity of a V-8. TOM: But we’ve also seen cases where a manufacturer will offer a lower-powered, older-technology “base” engine just to be able to advertise a low starting price. In that case, almost no one wants the base engine. RAY: And then there are cases in which the base engine is really all anybody needs. The manufacturer just offers a more powerful engine to satisfy the egos of folks who want to overdo it and pay more. The Honda Ac- cord comes to mind, with its great 185-horse- power four-cylinder engine, and its unnecessary 278-hp six. TOM: In general, you’ll pay more not only to buy a six-cylinder engine, but also to re- pair and maintain it over the life of the car. RAY: We just test-drove the brand-new Ford Escape. It’s a small SUV that used to come with four- and six-cylinder engine op- tions. Interestingly, it has three different en- gine options now, but they’re ALL four-cylinder engines. We drove the middle one; a turbocharged, 1.6-liter four, which is tiny by SUV standards. But we were surprised to find that it had as much power as anyone might need in normal driving. TOM: So I wouldn’t necessarily recom- mend a six-cylinder for you, Mary. What I would recommend is that you avoid some- thing whose reviews use the word “under- powered” a lot (unless those reviews are in enthusiast magazines like Car and Driver, which consider everything underpowered). RAY: Once you narrow down your car choices, feel free to write back to us, and we’ll give you any specific thoughts we have on those particular car-engine combinations. But don’t be afraid of modern four-cylinder engines as a class. There are more of them than ever that provide plenty of power. ——— Tom and Ray share secrets on how you can save tens of thousands of dollars on your cars over the next 20 years in their pamphlet “Should I Buy, Lease, or Steal My Next Car?” Send $4.75 (check or money order) to Next Car, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. ——— Get more Click and Clack in their new book, “Ask Click and Clack: Answers from Car Talk.” Got a question about cars? Write to Click and Clack in care of this newspaper, or email them by visiting the Car Talk website at www.cartalk.com. © 2013, Tom and Ray Magliozzi and Doug Berman CAR TALK Tom and Ray Magliozzi Smaller Engines Have Power, Too BY TED KOOSER U.S. Poet Laureate Kansas is flat and we all know that. So, where does a boy go when he feels like sledding down a hill? Casey Pycior, raised in Kansas, tells us. SLEDDING IN WICHITA As cars pass, laboring through the slush, a boy, bundled against the stiff wind in his snow suit, gloves, and scarf, leans on his upright toboggan, waiting his turn atop the snow-packed overpass— the highest point in town. First one car exits, and then another, each creeping down the icy ramp. The brown grass pokes through the two grooves carved in the short hill. As the second car fishtails to a stop at the bottom, brake lights glowing on the dirty snow, the boy’s turn comes. His trip to the bottom is swift— only a second or two— and he bails out just before the curb. It’s not much, but it’s sledding in Wichita. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. Poem copyright © 2011 by Casey Pycior and reprinted by per- mission of the poet. Introduction copyright © 2012 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts. Life In Poetry Where Do You Sled On A Flat Landscape? SCHOLARSHIPS away from it in parabolic curve to- ward the ground. “As soon as object #2 disap- peared behind background trees and houses I heard a herd of cows about a mile away freak out briefly,” the report reads. “Nothing really happened; no cows were harmed and the diving craft didn’t crash.” Looking around, he said about four more similar lights were ob- served. On Friday night, the man said he saw about six of them. Approxi- mately 11 lights were spotted around 1 a.m. Saturday night. As the report was being written around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, the wit- ness said they were directly over- head. “I can see the shape of it (maybe triangle or stealth fighter shape),” he states. “There are no military bases around here or any- thing else that should bring so much aircraft other than the usual traffic of private planes, crop duster planes and medical helicop- ters.” The sheriff’s office has received no other reports of strange aerial activity. MUFON allows photos to be at- tached to the reports but none were submitted. Klancnik said it’s not the first instance of a possible UFO sighting in the region in recent times. “I’ve had about six different re- ports within 100 miles of Yankton of a lot of different UFO sightings,” he stated. “Most of them have to do with orange lights.” For example, a witness reported May 17 of last year that two sets of orange orbs were spotted in the sky at Pickstown. “They appeared only for a few seconds then disappeared,” the Pickstown report states. “I tried to get the images on my camera and it was unsuccessful. (Fifteen min- utes) later a squadron of jet fight- ers circled the area and looked like they were sweeping the area around the (site). At first, we thought it was military training ac- tivities with flares. The more I thought about it, flares don’t stay stationary. Or do they?” Klancnik said he planned to conduct an interview with the wit- ness in Yankton. During his investi- gation process, he attempts to gauge the reliability of the individ- ual to make sure they aren’t just making up a story. “For all of the reports we re- ceive, 98 percent of them are ex- plainable,” Klancnik added. “About 2 percent are not, and that’s the stuff that makes us wonder.” You can follow Nathan Johnson on Twitter at twitter.com/AnInland- Voyage Lights From Page 1 SCHOLASTICS CHADRON STATE COLLEGE CHADRON, Neb. — Jared Bartos of Verdigre, Neb., qualified for the fall 2012 dean’s list at Chadron State College. The dean’s list, which requires a grade-point average of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale, consists of 384 names. Students must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours of course- work during the semester to qual- ify.
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FIRSTCHOICE SCHOLARSHIP First Dakota National Bank an-
nounces the 2013-2014FirstChoice Scholarship applica-tions are available. Sixteen $1000Scholarships are awarded annu-ally to high school seniors or col-lege students attending apost-secondary accredited Amer-ican college, vocational technicalschool or university. Applicantsare judged on leadership, schooland civic involvement, satisfac-tory scholastic progress anddemonstrated financial responsi-bility.
Previous FirstChoice scholar-ship winners encourage you toapply. Kayla Gerlach, 2009 recipi-ent says, “First Dakota does agreat job investing in their youngcustomers. It’s nice to know I
had help financially.” JaynaSpecht, 2010 recipient, encour-ages students to apply. “TheFirstChoice scholarship was ablessing for me. It lifted some ofthe burden of paying for college.”
All applicants must have aFirstChoice Checking account toqualify. Applications need to bepostmarked by March 11. Con-tact any First Dakota location foran application or download atfirstdakota.com.
First Dakota was founded in1872 and holds the first bankcharter issued in all of DakotaTerritory. It has 14 full-servicebanking locations in 10 SouthDakota cities. It also has five loanproduction offices throughoutSouth Dakota and Nebraska.
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The South Dakota Angus Auxil-iary will be awarding scholarshipsfor the 2013-2014 school year. Tobe eligible for the scholarship, thefollowing requirements must bemet.
• Must be a member of the S.D.Junior Angus Association;
• Must be a member of the Na-tional Junior Angus Association;
• Must be actively involvedwith Angus cattle;
• Must attend a S.D. univer-sity, college or vocational schoolfor the 2013-2014 school term;
• Must submit an essay of atleast 500 words on the topic“Why Angus cattle are importantto me”;
• Must list school, church,and community involvement;
• Must submit a recent photo;
• Can only win a scholarshiponce;
For a scholarship application,contact Shally Rogen at 48274258th St., Brandon, SD 57005 oremail her at [email protected]. All completedscholarship applications are dueby March 15.
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HOLY FAMILY PARISH, 807 EMERSON AVE., WYNOT, NE 6:00-8:00PM
The Corps of Engineers will host a public meeting to gather input on the formation of a conceptual site plan for the development of habitat and recreation features at Audubon Bend. The property is approximately two and one-half miles north of Wynot along the right descending bank of the Missouri River in Cedar County, Nebraska. The meeting will start with a brief presentation followed by an open house session. During the open house, the project team will be available to answer questions, provide information and gather public input on a host of potential future restoration actions. The public is encouraged to attend at any time between 6:00 and 8:00PM.
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NEWS DEPARTMENT: [email protected] 5PRESS DAKOTANlife
BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Dear Tom and Ray: I am thinking of buying a new car, and I
need to know if a four-cylinder or six-cylinderengine would be the wisest choice. I live on ahilltop, 2,400 feet above the valley, and theroad to my home is about five miles up thelong, steep hill. I have always driven a carwith six or more cylinders, and I fear that afour-cylinder would not last long climbing thehill each day. What do you advise? — Mary
TOM: There’s not an absolute answer tothis, Mary. It would be like asking you if mybrother should buy a shirt in XXL or XXXL.You’d be hard pressed to give him a good an-swer without seeing the specific shirt and thesize of my brother’s spare tire.
RAY: It was a 195/65 R16 as of yesterday. TOM: In general, engines are getting
smaller and more powerful. So lots of peoplewho used to buy V-8s are now buying sixes.And people who bought sixes are buyingfours. And soon, people who’ve alwaysbought fours will be buying three-cylinder en-gines!
RAY: And because of advanced technolo-gies, like direct injection and turbo charging,people aren’t giving up any power whenthey’re moving down in size and weight.
TOM: So there’s no general rule anymore.There are underpowered sixes and overpow-ered fours. What you get depends on thetechnologies in the engine and the car the en-gine is paired with.
RAY: Sometimes the manufacturer will layout a choice of engines for you. Pickup trucksare a great example of that. Some people use
their pickup trucks as suburban commutervehicles. So a six-cylinder engine may be allthey need. Others may haul heavy equipmentwith their pickup, and they need the addi-tional towing capacity of a V-8.
TOM: But we’ve also seen cases where amanufacturer will offer a lower-powered,older-technology “base” engine just to beable to advertise a low starting price. In thatcase, almost no one wants the base engine.
RAY: And then there are cases in whichthe base engine is really all anybody needs.The manufacturer just offers a more powerfulengine to satisfy the egos of folks who wantto overdo it and pay more. The Honda Ac-cord comes to mind, with its great 185-horse-power four-cylinder engine, and itsunnecessary 278-hp six.
TOM: In general, you’ll pay more not onlyto buy a six-cylinder engine, but also to re-pair and maintain it over the life of the car.
RAY: We just test-drove the brand-newFord Escape. It’s a small SUV that used tocome with four- and six-cylinder engine op-tions. Interestingly, it has three different en-gine options now, but they’re ALLfour-cylinder engines. We drove the middleone; a turbocharged, 1.6-liter four, which istiny by SUV standards. But we were surprisedto find that it had as much power as anyonemight need in normal driving.
TOM: So I wouldn’t necessarily recom-mend a six-cylinder for you, Mary. What Iwould recommend is that you avoid some-thing whose reviews use the word “under-powered” a lot (unless those reviews are inenthusiast magazines like Car and Driver,which consider everything underpowered).
RAY: Once you narrow down your carchoices, feel free to write back to us, andwe’ll give you any specific thoughts we haveon those particular car-engine combinations.But don’t be afraid of modern four-cylinderengines as a class. There are more of themthan ever that provide plenty of power.
———Tom and Ray share secrets on how you
can save tens of thousands of dollars on yourcars over the next 20 years in their pamphlet“Should I Buy, Lease, or Steal My Next Car?”Send $4.75 (check or money order) to NextCar, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
——— Get more Click and Clack in their new
book, “Ask Click and Clack: Answers from CarTalk.” Got a question about cars? Write toClick and Clack in care of this newspaper, oremail them by visiting the Car Talk website atwww.cartalk.com.
© 2013, Tom and Ray Magliozzi and Doug Berman
CAR TALKTom and Ray Magliozzi
Smaller Engines Have Power, Too
BY TED KOOSERU.S. Poet Laureate
Kansas is flat and we all know that. So, where does a boy go whenhe feels like sledding down a hill? Casey Pycior, raised in Kansas, tellsus.
SLEDDING IN WICHITA As cars pass, laboring through the slush, a boy, bundled against the stiff wind in his snow suit, gloves, and scarf, leans on his upright toboggan,waiting his turn atop the snow-packed overpass—the highest point in town. First one car exits, and then another, each creeping down the icy ramp. The brown grass pokes through the two grooves carved in the short hill. As the second car fishtails to a stop at the bottom, brake lights glowing on the dirty snow, the boy’s turn comes. His trip to the bottom is swift— only a second or two— and he bails out just before the curb. It’s not much, but it’s sledding in Wichita.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation(www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is alsosupported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright © 2011 by Casey Pycior and reprinted by per-mission of the poet. Introduction copyright © 2012 by The PoetryFoundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as UnitedStates Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congressfrom 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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away from it in parabolic curve to-ward the ground.
“As soon as object #2 disap-peared behind background treesand houses I heard a herd of cowsabout a mile away freak outbriefly,” the report reads. “Nothingreally happened; no cows wereharmed and the diving craft didn’tcrash.”
Looking around, he said aboutfour more similar lights were ob-served.
On Friday night, the man saidhe saw about six of them. Approxi-mately 11 lights were spottedaround 1 a.m. Saturday night.
As the report was being writtenaround 6:30 p.m. Sunday, the wit-ness said they were directly over-head.
“I can see the shape of it(maybe triangle or stealth fightershape),” he states. “There are nomilitary bases around here or any-thing else that should bring somuch aircraft other than the usualtraffic of private planes, cropduster planes and medical helicop-ters.”
The sheriff’s office has receivedno other reports of strange aerialactivity.
MUFON allows photos to be at-tached to the reports but nonewere submitted.
Klancnik said it’s not the firstinstance of a possible UFO sightingin the region in recent times.
“I’ve had about six different re-ports within 100 miles of Yanktonof a lot of different UFO sightings,”he stated. “Most of them have todo with orange lights.”
For example, a witness reportedMay 17 of last year that two sets oforange orbs were spotted in thesky at Pickstown.
“They appeared only for a fewseconds then disappeared,” thePickstown report states. “I tried toget the images on my camera and itwas unsuccessful. (Fifteen min-utes) later a squadron of jet fight-ers circled the area and looked likethey were sweeping the areaaround the (site). At first, wethought it was military training ac-tivities with flares. The more Ithought about it, flares don’t staystationary. Or do they?”
Klancnik said he planned toconduct an interview with the wit-ness in Yankton. During his investi-gation process, he attempts togauge the reliability of the individ-ual to make sure they aren’t justmaking up a story.
“For all of the reports we re-ceive, 98 percent of them are ex-plainable,” Klancnik added. “About2 percent are not, and that’s thestuff that makes us wonder.”
You can follow Nathan Johnsonon Twitter at twitter.com/AnInland-Voyage
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S C H O L A S T I C S
CHADRON STATE COLLEGECHADRON, Neb. — Jared Bartos
of Verdigre, Neb., qualified for thefall 2012 dean’s list at ChadronState College.
The dean’s list, which requires agrade-point average of at least 3.5on a 4.0 scale, consists of 384names. Students must be enrolledin at least 12 credit hours of course-work during the semester to qual-ify.
