Monthly Archives: June 2022

By Dan Bechtold

Editor

Nathaniel Biebert is the new pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of Winner.

He was installed on May 8 and his first service was May 15.

Originally from Wisconsin, he came to Winner from a church in south Austin,Texas, where he had served for five years.

The new Winner pastor went to a Lutheran preparatory school in Watertown, Wis. Following high school, he went to Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minn., for four years. Following college he entered the seminary and went to a Wisconsin Lutheran seminary in Mequon, Wis.

His seminary training included a vicar year in Amherst, N.H.

After seminary he was assigned as a staff pastor at Nebraska Lutheran High School in Waco, Neb.

Following a year there he served a dual county parish in Wisconsin, northwest of Wausau. He served these churches for 6 ½ years. He was then assigned to a church in south Austin, Texas.

The main thing that drew him to Winner was the fact this church has been without a pastor for over two years.

One change he plans to make is re-instating bible classes. They had to be canceled due to the vacancy in the church.

Biebert’s father serves as a pastor of a Lutheran church in Neillsville, Wis.

Ever since he was in the sixth grade Biebert has wanted to be a pastor. He said his father held devotionals around the dinner table each morning and evening. “That made an impact on me more than anything else. He instilled in us the love of Jesus and his word. I wanted to share that with others is why I became a pastor,” he said.

The new Winner pastor comes from a large family. He is the oldest of 8, seven boys and one girl.

Biebert enjoys studying God’s word. “I love digging into the Hebrew and Greek in the scriptures to prepare a good sermon.”

As a pastor, he likes to get to know people and share God’s word with them.

“I love preaching,” he said.

He enjoys the friendly community of Winner. “I love the wide open spaces and rolling hills”’

Biebert loves to fly fish and hopes to get a chance to do that in the Black Hills. He is also looking forward to getting into pheasant hunting.

The friendliest of the people in Winner is evident to him. He explained more people have stopped by his office the first month he was here than ever stopped to see him in Austin.

He and wife Katherine enjoy living in Winner.

He looks forward to leading the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church family. “Without Jesus I would not be who I am and what I am,” he said.

Winner Regional Health is hosting its annual Health Fair on June 10 from 6:30 a.m. to noon.

This year there will be over 32 booths to provide the community with a wide array of health information and services.

The event will be held in the new section of the clinic and the hospital. A free breakfast will be provided from 6:30 – 10 a.m.

Some of the services that will be provided that day is a wellness panel, which consists of a CBC with differential, Comprehensive Metabolic Panel, Lipid Panel, Glycated Hemoglobin (A1C) and TSH for $80. Nursing will be providing free blood pressure testing, respiratory therapy will be providing free spirometry testing along with information on asthma, COPD, and smoking cessation and the clinic will be providing a free colorectal cancer FIT test. In addition, there will be a wealth of information made available ranging from the South Dakota Department of Social Services, nutrition, poison control, career opportunities, sustaining long-term memory, disability services, insurance coverage, funeral service planning, local religious events and church times, breast cancer support groups, fitness, and the opportunity to learn more about the community’s newest emergency flight services. For more information, please call (605) 842-7100.

This event will serve as a  one-stop-shop, with over 32 internal and external booths that have come together to serve the community, consisting of: nursing, Southern Belle Cattlewomen Association, OB and ER, Winner Resource Center, pharmacy, Nutrition Services, South Dakota Department of Social Services – Child Protective Services, Outpatient Services, South Dakota Department of Social Services – Economic Assistance, Community Health and Home Health, South Dakota Department of Social Services – Aging, Human Resources, Southern Plains, Respiratory Therapy, Hearing Health Center, Physical Therapy, Community Connections, Long Term Care Social Services, Golden Prairie Manor, Better Choice/Better Health, The Insurance Center, Krystine Ernest Fitness, lab, Main Gate Counseling, Radiology, Sisters and Survivors, Mason Funeral Home, Clinic, Winner Ministerial Association, LifeServe Blood Center, and Pink Posse.

The Driven to Serve Campaign will be selling the remaining tickets for the New 2021 Jeep Renegade raffle. In addition,  there will be a silent auction for all donated potted plants or flowers. If you would like to donate one for the event, please drop off at the main entrance of the Long Term Care between Monday June 6 and by noon on June 8.

All proceeds from the Jeep raffle and the silent auction go towards the Driven to Serve Campaign for a 3D mammography at Winner Regional Health.

The big event at the health fair will be the drawing for the

Jeep Renegade. The drawing will be at 11:30 a.m. in front of long term care.

 While you do not need to be present to win the Jeep, you may want to be present to win the added

$500 maintenance package to go with the Jeep, if you are to win. The $500 package was donated by the following

community partners, which includes four oil changes from Frontier Motors, a complete car  detail by Storms Car Care, $100 ind fuel by the Gus Stop C Stores, and four car washes by Town and Country Sales (Burger’s Car Wash). At 11 a.m. the health care center will be  recognizing the donors of the Jeep and getting a photo of them. At 11:15 a.m., Joyce Heath will shave the pink goatee and hair of the executive director of the Winner Regional Health and Wellness Foundation, while dawning bright pink tube socks, shorts, and a custom breast cancer awareness t-shirt. At 11:30 a.m., the drawing of the Jeep Renegade will be held. At 11:45 a.m., if the winner of the Jeep Renegade is present, the executive director will personally wash the Jeep.

The first Winner Area Chamber of Commerce summer night of the season will be held June 9.

The event will be held on the first block of Main Street from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

The sponsor will be Jon Pochop Ameriprise.

There will be about 200 bicycle riders in Winner that night as the Ride Across South Dakota will be making their overnight stop in Winner.

Mike Scott, executive director of the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce, said the bike riders will be welcomed to the event.

There will be four food vendors. Scott noted there will organizations serving root beer floats, shaved ice, cotton candy.

There will be a kids zone featuring a bouncy house, obstacle course, lawn mower train, rock painting, roping plus other games.

The band will be Neo Johnson of Sioux Falls.

Persons are invited to bring their lawn chairs and enjoy the evening.

Other summer nights planned are July 15 in Colome and Aug. 12 in Winner.

Scott added the citywide garage sales are coming up June 24-25. Persons who want their sale listed need to call the Chamber office at 842-1533 by June 21. There will be flyers printed listing the garage sales.

Work on the start of Phase 2 of the Highway 44 and 18 project was set to start on May 31.

 Two-way traffic is scheduled to be installed on S.D. Highway 44 from Plum Street to Sale Barn Rd. On May 31, and will remain in place for the duration of the project. A 12-ft. wide width restriction will be in place where two-way traffic is being used.

A truck detour will also be put in place that utilizes S.D. highway 49, through Colome, and U.S. Highway 18 into Winner.

Motorist are asked to be aware of suddenly slowing traffic, changing work zone locations, reduced speeds through the work zone, and construction workers and equipment adjacent to the driving lanes.

The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church spring fest will be held June 4 at St. Mary’s Hall.

The doors will open at 5 p.m.

The event will feature a tailgate party theme.

The meal will include burgers, brats & hot dogs with salads.

Persons are asked to wear their favorite sports apparel.

Persons will be able to place a bid on silent or live auctions.

The live auction and raffle for a tractor and cash prizes will be held from 7-9 p.m.

There will be music and games for kids.

Tickets are available at Grossenburg Implement, Hobby Shoppe, Marty’s and the parish office.

All are welcome. Come and enjoy a good time.

The LifeServe Blood Center 2-day blood drive held in Winner on Monday, May 23 and Tuesday, May 24 had a fantastic turn-out!  Total for both days, 99 donors registered and 104 units of life saving blood was donated.   There were generous donors that came out to help boost the local blood supply!  The units donated at the blood drives can help save up to 312 hospital patients!   The Southern Belle Cattlewomen and Tripp County 4-H  sponsored and hosted the blood drive.

The next blood drive in Winner is scheduled for Wednesday, July 20 and Thursday, July 21 at the Winner City Office. Please call LifeServe Blood Center at 800-287-4903 or www.lifeservebloodcenter.org to schedule your appointment.