Tripp County 4H Shooting Sports: Match 1 Results

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Match 1 is the first of two matches the shooters can qualify for state match. South Dakota Shooting Sports State Match is April 28th, 29th and 30th at the Expo Center in Ft. Pierre. There are nearly 3000 competitors at State.

Archery: Scores based on possible 150 points, decimal is number of bull’s-eyes out of 30 shots. Compound Bow With Sights and Release: Faith Covey 147.12, Luke Hennebold 140.11, Spencer Calhoon 138.08, Lexi Klein 137.05, Bailey Fairbanks 132.04, Ashton Klein 131.04, Melanie Brozik 127.03, Ava Craven 126.08, Sully Shippy 125.04, Jack Anderson 124.08, Parker Baker 124.04, Madison Weidner 123.02, Hunter Osborn 121.01, Jayd Whitley 120.06, Matt Brozik 119.01, Tane Pravecek 117.06, Browdy Kocer 115.02, Megan Brozik 114.06, Alexis Love 114.03. Compound Bow with Sights and No Release: Tessa Mann 98.00, Rylee Schroeder 95.00. Compound Bow without Sights: Selah Harris 84.00, Lilly Nelson 82.01.

Recurve archery Open Class George Clark 127.09. Compound Open Class: Wade McClanahan 150.28, George Clark 150.21. Recurve bow without sights Parker Baker 75.01.

Guns: Possible score 300. 22 Rifle: Parker Baker 269.01, Wade McClanahan 263.04, George Clark 257.03, Cody Amidon 256.04, Spencer Calhoon 253.01, Madison Weidner 253.01, Luke Hennebold 252.02, Megan Brozik 249.05, Tane Pravecek 243.02, Katie Welker 224.00, Julianna Larson 206.00 Browdy Kocer 195.02, Selah Harris 175.01. Air Rifle: Clay Sell 211.00, Spencer Calhoon 184.00. Air Pistol: Clay Sell 139.00, Parker Baker 128.00, Joey Anderson 123.00, Derek Fenenga 118.00. BB gun: Parker Baker 337.00. Precision 22 Rifle: Wade McClanahan 228.00. 22 Pistol: Parker Baker 258.02.

Donald James Phillips, 85

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Donald was born on June 24, 1931 to Myrtle (Wolf) and Clifford Phillips in Winner, SD. Donald attended Banner Grade School in northern Tripp County until the fourth grade. He then attended St. Mary’s Catholic School and graduated from Winner High School in 1949.

His parents moved from Banner Township to Todd County in 1949. Donald lived with his parents in Todd County until 1951 when he joined the army. He served for two years. After being honorably discharged, he returned to Todd County and became partners with his father on the family’s ranch.

He married Mary Lou Dougherty in 1955. To this union six sons were born. In 1962 they moved to the Ideal community. They made their home on the Bill Wohlleber place. Don liked cattle, but his heart was in farming. Don milked cows for over 40 years on the farm that he loved. He was a substitute mail carrier for 20 years.

Don is remembered as a quiet, loving and attentive husband, father, and grandfather. Even though he suffered a life-altering medical event at the age of 65, Don remained a vital part of his family and is dearly loved.

Patrick Doom, 45

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Patrick Charles Doom was born November 1, 1971, to Charles and Ingrid (Hage) Doom in Pipestone, MN. Patrick lived in Currie, MN through his elementary years when his family then moved to Winner, SD where he attended and graduated from Winner High School. He attended Southwest State University in Marshall, MN.

Patrick was united in marriage to Leah Dykstra on October 4, 1997 in Sioux Falls, SD where they lived until the time of his death. Their marriage was blessed with the birth of two children, Kyle Austin and Karly Elizabeth.

Patrick worked at Wells Fargo EFS for over fourteen years where he developed many lifelong friendships. His sense of humor, contagious smile, and positive work attitude were an inspiration to many.

Patrick’s life was forever changed in March 2015 with the diagnosis of cancer. His motto was that he would fight until the doctors told him there was nothing else they could do and he did just that. Patrick’s Caring Bridge became an outlet for him to express his faith and allowed him to demonstrate his gift of writing in being an inspiration to all who read it.

Patrick Doom, 45, was received into the arms of his Heavenly Father on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at his home in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family.

Merle Elliott, 87

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Merle James Elliott was born July 14, 1929 on the family farm east of Colome. His parents were Chauncey and Mary (McElroy) Elliott. Merle attended rural Saathoff School and graduated from Colome High School in 1947. He then attended college. In 1948 Merle met his future wife, DeEtte Stenson, and they married on Oct. 8, 1950.

Merle entered the Army in 1951 and was stationed in Korea with the 25th Infantry Division. He also served with the 1st Marine Division and the Turkish Brigade. He spent eighteen months in Korea, returning to the States in 1953.

Merle and DeEtte purchased a service station in Colome which they operated for three years. Merle then returned to college at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. When he finished with his studies there he and DeEtte moved their family to California where he graduated from San Francisco College of Mortuary Science with a degree in Mortuary Science. The family then moved to Santa Cruz, CA where he became associated with a mortuary there. After ten years, he sold his interest in the mortuary and having an Associate Degree in real estate appraising, he became a real estate appraiser until his retirement in 1991. Upon his retirement he and DeEtte traveled extensively for a year before moving to the Colome area where they built their retirement home.

Merle enjoyed hunting, fishing, and traveling. While in California he and his fishing buddies would dive for abalone and fish for steelhead and salmon.

Merle and DeEtte had a family of four children, Kathleen, Lance, Kevin, and Colleen. He was the happy grandpa of three grandchildren, Mollie (Jason) Donner, Mitchell Elliott, and Alec Nickolls, and four great grandchildren, Marissa, Jacob, Madelyn, and Jack Donner.

Merle was a lifetime member of the Catholic Church having been baptized, confirmed, and married in St. Isidore’s Catholic Church in Colome. He was a lifetime member of the Colome American Legion and served on the Colome Township Board for many years. Merle was a member of the California Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association and a member of the American Institute of Appraisers.

John “Jack” Elder, 88

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Jack was born on June 21, 1928 in Winner, SD to John Melville and Elizabeth M. (Dougherty) Elder. He attended St. John’s the Baptist Catholic Church in Witten, SD throughout most of his life until the church closed and joined the Immaculate Conception Church in Winner, SD.

Jack attended schools in Progressive township (Red Hill) country school just a mile from his home and then attended Witten High School until his graduation.

After graduating from high school he stayed on the family farm north of Carter until the time of his death where he spent his life on the farm raising crops and cattle and attended most cattle auctions from Martin to Yankton and anywhere in-between. He and his father raised registered Hereford cattle and also had a large feedlot for fat cattle. Jack made many trips to Huron and Sioux City with butcher cattle.

On Feb. 23, 1952, Jack married Gladys Hansen of Carter, and to this union three children were born: Gary, Tammie and Lori.

Jack was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Elks Lodge, a school board member, township board, and was also a substitute rural mail carrier out of Carter.

Alice M. Petranek, 105

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Alice (Gooby) Petranek was born Oct. 27, 1911 at KeyaPaha, South Dakota, the seventh child of William and Della (Rodd) Gooby.

She graduated from Colome High School in 1931 and attended Southern Teachers College at Springfield, SD, where she received her teachers certificate in 1932, teaching first grade. She taught six years in rural school in Tripp County. She received her state teachers certificate in 1937.

Alice married Kenneth Schweigert on August 21, 1937. He died on May 13, 1947. Alice taught in the Colome Independent School from 1941- 1949. During her time in Colome she taught 1st through 4th grades, high school business classes and coached girls basketball.

On June 23, 1948, Alice and Ed Petranek were married and a son, Rod, was born February 27, 1950. In August of 1950 the family moved to Belle Fourche.

Alice became a stay at home mother, but during this time she was a Sunday School teacher, MYF teacher, Brownie and Girl Scout leader, Den mother for Cub Scouts, substitute teacher, teacher for the Adult Education Program, which pertained to teaching literacy, typing and shorthand.

She went back to school and received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Black Hills College in 1961, and her Master Degree in 1971. After receiving her degree, she taught one year in rural Butte County and 17 years in Belle Fourche Independent School. She taught a total of 47 years before retiring in 1979. Alice enjoyed teaching and was dedicated to the teaching profession, always trying to make school work interesting and fun.

She was an active member of the community. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, American Legion Auxiliary, Alpha Delta Kappa, Eastern Star, Daughters of the Nile, Manthano Club, Business Professional Women, National and State Education Associations, Tri-State Literacy, Hospital Auxiliary, and the Cancer Society.

Her honors include, ADK Queen for the Day in 2004, Teacher of the Millennium in 2001 and she and Ed were Parade Marshals for the Black Hills Roundup in 2009.

SOUTH DAKOTA BECOMES 36TH STATE TO REQUIRE HANDS-ONLY CPR TRAINING IN SCHOOLS

 

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Governor Dennis Daugaard signed Senate Bill 140 on March 10, making South Dakota the 36th state in the nation to require that every high school student in the state receive training in Hands Only CPR prior to graduation.

The new law adds more than 10,000 Hands-Only CPR-trained young adults to South Dakota communities each year by requiring that schools offer a 30-minute Hands-Only CPR training class within a required course at some point in the students’ high school career. Individual school districts maintain control over when the course is offered, keeping local control over curriculum decisions. In addition, the trainings are offered to schools at no charge through a partnership with the South Dakota Emergency Medical Services Association. Local EMS agencies have agreed to provide the trainings to school districts free of charge.

“Having a new generation of lifesavers in our communities will have an incredible ripple effect for years to come,” said Eric Van Dusen, President of the South Dakota Emergency Medical Services Association. “We know that young adults trained in CPR at school will save lives by knowing what to do during those precious few minutes after someone suffers sudden cardiac arrest.”

Nearly 424,000 people have sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital every year, and only 10.4 percent of them survive, most likely because they don’t receive timely CPR. Given right away, CPR doubles or triples survival rates. Teaching students Hands-Only CPR in a rural state like South Dakota could save thousands of lives by filling our communities with young adults trained to give cardiac arrest victims the immediate help they need to survive until EMTs arrive.

“In addition to saving lives, this legislation will also give high school students the opportunity to have hands-on training and exposure to a career in healthcare and, possibly, on their local EMS agency. Our rural areas have a need for trained healthcare workers, and by exposing kids to Hands-Only CPR training, we are giving them an important glimpse into a potential career field,” said Van Dusen.

SB 140 unanimously passed the Senate last month and passed the House last week with a vote of 65-3. The bill was originally sponsored by 12 senators and 10 house members. Senator Larry Tidemann was the lead sponsor of the bill in the Senate and Representative Jean Hunhoff was the lead sponsor of the bill in the House.

HAPPY GOLD HUNTER

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By Katie Hunhoff

We met the miners early on a Sunday morning on Rockerville’s only street. I was hoping they would look like miners because I knew my eight-year-old son Steven had some colorful preconceptions of how our first mining expedition might go.

Steven, a rock hound since the day he was born, wasn’t disappointed. Don Hamm and Gary Mallams weren’t riding mules or carrying shotguns, but the officers of the Black Hills Prospecting Club do look the part of rugged miners.

Off we drove, deep into the pine forest toward Deadman Gulch. Finally, after 10 miles of rugged mountain trails and a hundred questions from Steven, we arrived at the club’s Garnet Claim.

We parked along the trail, grabbed pails, shovels, pans and a pickaxe from Don’s truck, and hiked down into the cool gulch. A clear mountain stream ran on one side of a 10-foot high bank. “Watch for rattlesnakes and mountain lions,” cautioned Gary. Suddenly, Steven wanted to carry the axe.

At the claim, Don and Gary each shoveled a scoop of clay dirt from the bank into 5-gallon buckets. Wearing tall rubber boots, they stepped into the stream, which was inches deep but flowed fast, clear and cool.

They began the process of panning — swirling the dirt and minerals around and around — as they told their stories. Gary has been in the Hills for 46 years, but still calls himself a Missouri hillbilly. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service, and then became involved in manufacturing wood furniture parts for the lumber industry. “My regret is that I came here as a young guy and didn’t get involved until 10 years ago,” he told us.

They soon encouraged Steven to help. Gary showed him how to let the water fall away by holding the pan at an angle and swirling slowly. I was anxious that any gold specks might fly out of the pan with the muddy water and gravel. Gary insisted that gold is heavy enough to stay put while mica, the legendary imposter known as fool’s gold, will float away.

Gary said the tools of the mining trade can be expensive for serious prospectors. “My wife said, ‘I thought golf was expensive, until I got into this.’ There’s always a new thing to buy. But we enjoy it. It’s just like fishing or hunting, we’re enjoying the outdoors.”

Panning kits for children and adults new to the hobby can be had for the price of a pizza at outdoor stores in the Black Hills. Kids are not likely to find gold without some help, however, so you may want to consider a guided mining trip at the Big Thunder Mine in Keystone, Black Hills Caverns west of Rapid City or the Broken Boot Mine at Lead. Visit the Clock Shop in downtown Rapid City and take a look at the Icebox Nugget, the largest chunk of Black Hills gold found in the last 120 years.

Don was working with a sluice box in the stream as he told his story. He learned to pan and sluice from his father, Bob Hamm, who grew up working around his father’s steam-powered lumber mill in Deadman Gulch and watching miners working Spring Creek.

Bob — now 92 and still panning — and Don mined 50 ounces of gold in 1972, enough to give them bragging rights as the third largest gold producers in South Dakota for that year.” Though they still find gold on their private claim, Don said, “You’re not going to get rich.”

Steven was sorry to hear that, but Gary regained his attention when he said, “Look at that!” He pointed to a flake of bright yellow mineral in the bottom of Steven’s near-empty pan.

‘There are a lot of things that look like gold, but gold don’t look like nothing else,” said Gary as he scooped the flake and a bit of water into a vial and gave it to the happiest kid in the gulch.

Retailers Welcome Court Decision on Tax Fairness Law

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The South Dakota Retailers Association (SDRA) today welcomed a summary judgment by Circuit Court Judge Mark Barnett regarding South Dakota’s lawsuit against three large online retailers. SDRA says the ruling is precisely what is needed to move South Dakota one step closer to tax parity between South Dakota brick and mortar stores and giant out-of-state companies.

Although the ruling resulted in the entry of a judgment in favor of out-of-state online retailers, Judge Barnett’s Order specifically recognized that he was bound by existing United States Supreme Court precedent “…even when changing times and events clearly suggest a different outcome; it is simply not the role of a state circuit court to disregard a ruling from the United States Supreme Court.”

This week’s decision by Judge Barnett is an important and necessary step toward U.S. Supreme Court reconsideration of now-outdated tax precedents set by the Court in cases from half a century and a quarter of a century ago.

Last year, South Dakota passed a law, SB 106, requiring large out-of-state companies that sell goods into the state to collect and remit South Dakota sales tax on those purchases. The law applies only to businesses whose sales in the state exceed $100,000 annually, or that make 200 or more separate transactions in the state in a year.

Following passage of SB 106 last year, the State of South Dakota filed a lawsuit seeking a determination that the state may validly require out-of-state retailers that conduct significant business in the state to collect and remit the state’s sales tax on purchases made in the state, even if they do not have a physical location in South Dakota.

The state’s lawsuit was filed one year after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy recognized in his concurring opinion in DMA v. Brohl that, “[t]he Internet has caused far-reaching systemic and structural changes in the economy” so that “a business may be present in a State in a meaningful way without that presence being physical in the traditional sense of the word.” Justice Kennedy called on the “legal system [to] find an appropriate case for this Court to reconsider” its prior decisions in 1967 and 1992.

When SB 106 was enacted last year, the bill itself and the State of South Dakota acknowledged that only the U.S. Supreme Court can overturn the 1992 Quill v. North Dakota decision that restricts states from requiring remote sellers that do not have a physical presence in the state from collecting the taxes already owed on those purchases. To reach the U.S. Supreme Court, however, the case must first go through the South Dakota circuit court and the South Dakota Supreme Court. Today’s ruling checks off that first step.

The South Dakota Retailers Association played a key role in the discussions that led the state to pass SB 106 and to file suit against out-of-state online retailers.

“Right now, giant out-of-state conglomerates are able to avoid collecting and remitting taxes only because of a loophole that was created before there was an internet, and before e-commerce,” said SDRA Executive Director Shawn Lyons. “Online commerce is expanding dramatically, and the tax inequity gap between in-state retailers and out-of-state online retailers is widening. We are encouraged that this ruling gets us one step closer to having the U.S. Supreme Court take another look at this crucial tax issue, and one step closer to tax fairness.”

State Senator Gary Cammack, owner of Cammack Ranch Supply in Union Center, South Dakota and president of SDRA’s Board of Directors, agrees.

“Only the U.S. Supreme Court can overturn the 1992 court decision, and Judge Barnett’s decision helps us move the issue along,” Cammack said. “Larger online retailers should play by the same rules as the small businesses on Main Street, and this ruling is one of the necessary steps in accomplishing that.”

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley also praised the decision.

“South Dakota retailers should have a fair and equal playing field with other large out-of-state companies that have been benefiting from an outdated sales tax structure,” said Attorney General Jackley. “The South Dakota Retailers Association and their retail partners should be commended for their diligent work on this case and serving as a strong voice for South Dakota’s retail industry.”

Lyons said it’s important to note that the law passed by South Dakota last year did not implement a new tax.

“When South Dakotans make purchases, whether that’s in a store in their hometown or online from a company based in another state, the consumer has a legal obligation to pay taxes on those purchases,” he stated. “The law we passed in South Dakota in 2016 says the burden shouldn’t be on the customer, it should be the responsibility of those huge companies to collect and remit the tax. When you get down to it, this is just simply a matter of fairness all the way around.”