The Winner middle school/high school will be having orientation and computer checkout meeting prior to school as in past years. The school is asking attendees to practice social distancing as possible.
The high school orientation and computer checkout for students entering grades 9-12 will be held in the Armory at 6 p.m. Aug. 10. Each student must have a parent/guardian accompany them to complete the required paperwork. Following this meeting students will turn in the required paperwork and be allowed to pick up their computer to take home. Each student will need to verify insurance or purchase school insurance coverage for $50 prior to taking their computer home.
Students who are unable to attend the orientation may pick up their computers on Aug. 12 at 1 p.m.
The middle school orientation for students entering grades 6-8 will be held at the Armory at 6 p.m. on Aug. 12.
Students will receive their schedules and other information during the orientation meetings.
After the orientation meeting in the Armory students and parents will be able to visit their classrooms and check out their lockers.
Face coverings will be recommended but not required for students and parents/guardians. If persons have a concern about sending your student to school, contact the building principal regarding alternate options.
Questions may be directed to the middle/high school office at 842-8125.
By Dan Bechtold
Editor
A round table discussion on community needs was held July 29 at the Holiday Inn Express.
The meeting was facilitated by the Rural Office of Community Services (ROCS).
Making presentations were Peter Smith, executive director of ROCS and Darci Bultje, community services director.
Smith went over some of the services ROCS provides. This includes transit, dining services, emergency services and weatherization.
Smith said in the area served by ROCS there are 17 transportation locations and 22 nutrition programs.
The group attending the roundtable did a community analysis of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in the Winner area.
“This brainstorming session is sort of a snapshot of your community,” said Bultje.
Some of the strengths identified by the group were:
Safe community to raise a family, youth activities, good healthcare system, good law enforcement, good schools.
Some of the weaknesses listed by the participants were: lack of housing, no shelter for homeless people and public transportation.
Smith explained he is very passionate about transportation and noted ROCS can be flexible with transportation needs.
“We want to help make your community an even better place to thrive,” said Smith.
Danny Brunmeier of Winner won the best of show in the car show held July 31 on Main Street.
Brunmeier won with his 1968 Buick GS 400.
Frontier Motors sponsored the car show which saw 56 entries.
Winners of the car show include:
Class 100 stock up to 1964
Shane Bingen, 1963 Ford Falcon, 1st and Roger Dice, 1964 Impala, 2nd
Class 200 Stock 1965-1972
Bob McCready, first, 1971 Chevy Monte Carlo; Jeff Swartz, 2nd, 1968 Plymouth Road Runner
Class 300 Stock 1973 to present
Sophie Lewis, 1st, 1981 Pontiac Grand Am; Paul Denke, 2nd, Dodge Challenger
Class 400 Modified up to 1964
Keith Gebhart, 1st, 1947 Mercury; Hoop Reimer, 2nd, 1946 Ford
Class 500 Modified 1965-1972
Gary DeMers, 1st, 1968 Chevy Camero; Rich Kolecka, 2nd, 1970 Mercury Cougar
Class 600 Modified 1973 to present
Jack Ducheneaux, 1st, 1984 Chevy Monte Carlo; Russ Lauritson, 2nd, 1974 Plymouth Duster
Class 700 stock pickup
Craig Schaeffer, 1st, 1978 Ford F150’ Bob Peterson, 2nd, 1968 Chevy
Class 800 Modified pickup
Rich Kolecka, 1st, 1954 Ford F100; Jack Ducheneaux, 2nd, 1967 Ford F100
Class 900 Street rod
Stan Bicek, 1st, 1930 Ford Model A
Class 1,000 Open Class
Alana Supik, 1st, Dune Buggy
Neil Spade, 2nd, homemade buggy
Frontier Motors also had a prize giveaway during the car show.
Vicki Marie (Deutsch) Moser, 55, of Winner, SD passed away on Thursday, July 29, 2021 at The Center at Lowry in Denver, CO.
Funeral service will be held on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021 11 a.m. at the Winner United Methodist Church in Winner, SD. Burial will follow in the Winner City Cemetery. A visitation will be held one hour prior to funeral service.
Vicki Marie (Deutsch) Moser of Winner, SD was born on April 22, 1966 in Valentine, Nebraska, to Fred Deutsch and Verna Marie (Kahler) Mayer of Winner, SD. She married Chad Moser on June 11, 2011. Vicki had three children, Mark and Michael O’Rear and Tina (Espinoza) Miller; and three stepchildren, Austin, Aspen, and Layne Moser.
Vicki was well known for her kindness and loving service to others. She was a nursing assistant for many years, an expression of her care and concern for others. She enjoyed doing arts and crafts. She loved baking, especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Her children and grandchildren remember her as a generous and loyal mother and grandmother.
Moser is preceded in death by her parents, Fred Deutsch and Verna Marie (Kahler) Mayer; and stepfather Del Mayer.
Moser is survived by her husband, Chad Moser; her sister, Valerie Jo Benko (John); her brother, Alan W. Deutsch (Susan); her children, Mark O’Rear, Michael O’Rear, Tina Marie Espinoza Miller (John Allan); and her stepchildren, Austin Moser (Jill), Aspen Moser (Jon), and Layne Moser. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Jerimiah Valdez, Kaylee and Mark Jr O’Rear; Trinity Castro-Wade and Kaiden and Bailey O’Rear; Aliyah, Kaitlyn, and Lakely Miller; and her step-grandchildren, Hazel and Bentley Moser and Keegen, Kamden, and Karter Burdette.
Richard Bertram, 73 of Winner, SD passed away on Saturday, July 31, 2021 at the Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls, SD.
A Celebration of Life and luncheon will be held on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021 at the Colome American Legion in Colome, SD. The family will begin meeting people at 11:30 a.m. with food and fellowship to follow.
Rosabel (Rose) Snethen, 96, of Miami, OK, formerly of Clearfield, SD, passed away on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at the Wind Ridge Nursing Center in Miami, OK.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 10 a.m. at the Church of Nazarene in Winner, SD. Burial followed in the Winner City Cemetery.
Rosabel (Rose) Snethen was born Oct. 28, 1924 on a farm in Gassman Township, Tripp County, South Dakota. Parents were David and Marjorie (Larson) Erickson. The farm was on a White River bottom, 13 miles north of Hamill, SD. School was difficult and several teachers lived with the family and had class in the living room for Rose and sister Ruth.
Rose attended Winner High School in 1939 and graduated in 1941. She then attended Van Sant Business college in Omaha, Neb., and was employed in Omaha until marriage to Maurice Snethen on Jan. 26, 1946.
Maurice and Rose purchased a farm in Rosedale Township, Tripp County, SD which was their home until 1981. Rose was active in the Winner Methodist Church, 4H and extension club. Five-year-old twins, Sandra Brozik, Gregory, SD and Randy Snethen, Dallas, TX were adopted.
In 1982, a home was purchased in Miami, OK. Because of Maurice’s failing health beginning in 1978, ten winters were spent in south Texas.
Several hobbies were enjoyed by Rose which included leathercraft, bead craft, and Hardanger Embroidery. Rose also was a volunteer at the Baptist Hospital, Miami for several years.
In 1998, she learned to use a computer. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Miami.
Preceding her in death was Maurice Snethen, parents Marjorie and David Erickson, sisters Ruth Christensen and Dolores Fecht.
Survivors include Sandra Brozik, Randy Snethen, and brother Don Erickson plus grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren.
Harley Edward Furrey, 90, of Quinn, South Dakota, formerly of Todd County, South Dakota, passed away on May 2, 2021.
A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021 at 10 a.m. at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Winner, South Dakota, followed by a luncheon at St. Mary’s Hall. A private family burial was held on May 7, 2021 at the Winner City Cemetery.
Born on Aug. 15, 1930 at Ashurst Hospital in Rosebud, South Dakota, Harley was the first child of Harrison and Louise (Whiting) Furrey of Okreek, South Dakota. He was baptized on Aug. 25, 1930 in St. Francis, South Dakota, and remained a devoted member of the Catholic Church.
Harley grew up on farms in Todd County, South Dakota, where the family eventually settled at what became known as The Furrey Place, five and one-half miles south of US Highway 18. He graduated from Winner High School and kept in touch with his classmates throughout his lifetime.
A Korean War veteran, Harley was an active duty Marine from 1952 until 1954, being meritoriously promoted to Corporal in 1953 and receiving an honorable discharge. After his military service, Harley returned to the farm and in 1963 married Alice Neuharth. They had three children: Lisa, Vincent, and Paul. Alice passed away in 1998 from multiple myeloma, and in 2003 Harley married Kathy (Sieler) Clark of Quinn, South Dakota.
When their father died in 1971, Harley and his brother, Bill, formed Furrey Bros. partnership, which they operated until Bill’s death in 2018. The two brothers were known both for their daily morning farm meetings over coffee and for their prodigious memories of the history of the people and places of Todd County and the Rosebud Reservation. They welcomed visitors both familiar and new, whether family, neighbors, or hunters, and always had time for conversation, coffee, and cake.
In recent years, Harley and Kathy lived near Quinn, South Dakota, where he enjoyed his role of stepfather, step-grandparent and step-great-grandparent, as well as his chats with neighbors and tourists at Wall Drug. He was diagnosed with a back fracture after entering the Philip Hospital in February 2021 and was transferred to the Philip Nursing Home a few weeks later.
Harley is survived by his wife Kathryn Clark Furrey of Quinn; children, Lisa Rivero (Al) of Wisconsin, Vincent Furrey (Loretta) of Arizona, and Paul Furrey (Christine) of Colorado; sisters, Dorothy Schultz (Charles) of Wyoming and Mary Cournoyer of Florida; grandchildren, Albert Rivero (Jamie), Gavin Furrey, Anna Furrey, Charley Furrey, and Corbin Furrey; stepchildren, Jeffrey Clark, Randall Clark, and Laurie Hindman, and their children and grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, neighbors, and friends.Harley was preceded in death by his parents, Harry and Louise Furrey, his wife Alice (Neuharth) Furrey, his brother, William “Bill” Furrey (Laurine), and his half-brothers, Gerald Furrey and Del Furrey.
The Mid Dakota Fair in Winner will be in full swing Wednesday through Saturday.
The fair started Aug. 3 and runs through Aug. 7.
The theme is “Making Fun in 2021.”
The fair events on Wednesday, Aug. 4, will be held in the late afternoon and early evening.
The rocket prep will be at 5 p.m. in the 4-H Center. The launch will be at 5:30 p.m.
The dog show check in will be at 5:45 p.m. followed by the show at 6.
Tripp County 4-Hers can check in rabbits and poultry from 6-8 p.m.
Thursday will start with dairy cattle and goat check in from 8 a.m. to noon.
The companion animal check in will be from 8-8:30 a.m.
Sheep, swine and goats can be checked in from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
The companion animal, rabbit and poultry shows will begin at 9 a.m.
The practice for the fashion revue will be at 2 p.m.
The Youth in Action finals will be at 3 p.m.
The ice cream social will start at 6:30 p.m. followed by the style show at 7 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 6 is a full day and it starts early with the BankWest country breakfast from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m.
There will be a new building this year for the sheep, swine and goats.
Starting at 8 a.m. will be the swine, sheep and market goat shows.
The dairy goat and dairy show will be at noon.
The livestock judging contest will start at 3 p.m.
Kids can sign up for the pedal tractor pull at 4:30 p.m. with the pull at 5 p.m.
The community picnic sponsored by Farm Credit Services will be from 5-7 p.m.
The corn cob eating contest will start at 7 p.m.
Ag Olympics will be at 7:30 p.m. as teams will be competing against each other.
You don’t want to miss the community breakfast on Saturday Aug. 7 from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. This is sponsored by Winner Livestock Auction Co and First Fidelity Bank of Winner and Colome.
This year the beef show has been moved to one day.
Starting at 9 a.m. will be the beef showmanship, breeding beef show, market beef show and club pen of 3 show.
The top beef awards sponsors are: Peterson Beel LLC, Covey Custom Applications, First Fidelity Bank, Brozik Angus, DeJong Ranch, DeJong Ranch North, DeMers Ranch, Forgey Angus, Graesser Angus, Jeremy Schroeder/Greenwood Red Angus, Larson Ranch, Littau Angus, Littau Land and Cattle, Novotny Angus, Odden Charolais and red Angus, Ollerich Brothers and Petersek Raven Angus.
There will be a pie contest this year and persons can bring prepared pies to the 4-H Center at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The livestock round robin will start at 4:30 p.m.
The public is invited to attend the beef barbeque from 5-6:30 p.m. The barbeque will be a free will offering.
The small animal showcase will be start at 6:45 p.m.
The pie auction and premium sale will start at 7 p.m.
A youth dance will be held from 9-11:30 p.m. with music by Outlaw DJ.
There will be a silent auction during the fair and it will close at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
There will be youth inflatables games in the lot north of the 4-H Center. The inflatables will be on Friday and Saturday.
Buggy rides on Saturday will be from 3-5 p.m. provided by Neil and Theresa Ewing and Keith Moody.
There will be a concession stand inside the 4-H center during the fair and the 4-H Leaders will have a pop and snack stand outside during the shows.
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