The
local Pheasants Forever banquet will be held Oct. 21 at the Winner Community
Center from 5:30 to 10 p.m. The community center is the former middle school
gym.
There
will be games, raffles, live auction. It is estimated that 70 guns will be
given away.
This
year the meal will be catered by County Fair Foods.
Among
the auction items will be an outdoor fire pit and a neat welcome sign.
There
will be the usual Pheasants Forever hat and jewelry auctions.
Mike
Scott is the president of the local chapter of Pheasants Forever. Other
officers are Jeremy Clay, vice president; Tom Kauer, treasurer and Tom Mathis,
secretary.
James
Mathis is the youth coordinator. The chapter held it youth pheasant hunt on
Sunday, Oct 2.
There
are 480 members in the local chapter.
All are
welcome to attend the banquet and tickets can be obtained from Pheasants
Forever members.
Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo Kelbi Meiners and Blake Volmer were crowned the princess and warrior at the Winner High School homecoming coronation on Oct. 6. The Winner High School seniors will reign over the homecoming activities.
Submitted Photo This picture was taken at the Pink Flamingo event in Winner. These women are all breast cancer survivors from the local area. This picture represents 181 years of breast cancer survivorship.
To its owner, the FFA jacket is a physical reminder of the personal accomplishments achieved through the organization – a symbol of commitment and dedication for all who wear the corduroy. This fall, the SD FFA Foundation celebrated 15 years of the Blue Jacket Program and awarded its 3000th FFA jacket to a member. In October, 404 South Dakota FFA members from 81 chapters, will receive their own FFA jackets – carrying forward that long-standing tradition of pride, dignity and honor. Jackets were sponsored by various individuals through the SD FFA Foundation program, welcoming new members into the fabric of FFA.
FFA members filled out the Blue Jackets
Bright Futures FFA Jacket Program application, answering short essay questions
about their FFA experience and goals, competing to earn their own FFA jacket
instead of purchasing one.
Winner and Colome FFA members who received
a jacket are:
Winner—Roper Moore and Brianna Gilchrist,
sponsored by Wendy Mortenson agency.
Winner
Area Chamber of Commerce is again sponsoring a scarecrow making contest.
The
contest is open to all businesses, organizations and individuals in Tripp
County.
There is
no theme this year except the scarecrow must have some type of Welcome sign.
Persons
are to take a picture of the scarecrow and send to the Chamber’s email by Oct.
14 by 5 p.m. with an application. The chamber’s email is thechamber@gwtc.net.
Contest
winners will be posted on Facebook on Oct. 28.
First
place will receive $300 in Winner Cash, second place $200 in Winner Cash and
third place $100 in Winner Cash.
Mike
Scott, executive director of the Chamber, asks persons to be creative in designing
their scarecrow.
Also the
Chamber has other things coming up this fall. They are preparing for the
pheasant hunting season which starts on Oct. 15.
The
Chamber is asking businesses and their employees to wear orange or Hunt SD
shirts the first two Fridays of Pheasant season. Businesses are asked to submit
a picture of their employees in their shirts for a chance to win a prize.
Hunt SD
shirts are available at the Chamber office.
Over a
month away but a very nice program coming to Winner is “A Prairie Christmas.” Following the Parade of Lights on Nov. 26 is
Prairie Christmas which will be presented at the Winner Community Playhouse at
7:30 p.m.
Longtime
broadcaster and storyteller Jeff Gould adapts his nationally syndicated A
Prairie Christmas radio program to the stage.
The
Parade of Lights plus a live stage show will be a winning combination on Nov.
26. Both sponsored by the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce.
Winner Warriors Live Photo A sendoff for the Winner golf team was held Sunday morning. Pictured from left are assistant coach Jim Halverson, Maxton Brozik, Ryder Halligan, Karson Keiser, Carter Craven, Landon Calhoon and coach Larry Aaker. The state meet was Oct. 3-4 in Aberdeen.
Submitted photo Winner High School/middle school students competing in the local oral interp contest on Oct. 1 are in front from left Grace Brown, Jocelyn Soles and Peyton Jensen. In back from left are Amanda Edwards, Noah Manke, Maggie DeMers and Addi Heenan.
Winner
High School/middle school hosted an oral interp invitational on Oct. 1.
School’s that attended were Wagner, Chamberlain, Stanley County and Little Wound.
Superior
ratings for Winner team were Peyton Jensen, humorous; Jocelyn Soles,
storytelling; Maggie DeMers, poetry; Amanda Edwards & Addi Heenan, duet;
Grace Brown, serious and Addi Heenan, storytelling.
Excellent
ratings were Noah Manke, humorous; Amanda Edwards, poetry.
Helen Bateman, 82, of Winner, SD passed
away on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 following complications from Covid.
A memorial service was held on Saturday,
Oct. 1, 2022 at 11 a.m. at the Church of the Nazarene in Winner, SD. Visitation
was held one hour prior to the services. Burial will be held at a later date.
Helen was born on Nov. 19, 1939 in
Waterbury, Neb., to the parents of Goldie and Lynn Frank. Her dad was in the
Air Force so Helen grew up traveling around the world. After high school she
came to Dallas, SD where she met Bill Lebert. They got married and lived out on
Bill’s family farm in rural Dallas. Here they raised their four children:
Tammy, Joan, Carla, & Oren.
Going from city life to farm life was a big
change for Helen, but she did it with so much love and hard work. She loved
cooking, baking, and gardening along with being involved in family circle, the
church, and get together with all her friends and neighbors.
Helen and Bill lost their son, Oren, at a
very young age to a tragic farm accident. Life moving on was hard for Helen. As
time went by and the girls grew up, they began to leave the farm. Tammy joined
the military and later got married and had a son, Roy. Joan married Larry
Sargent who was also a farmer and they had two sons, Craig and Will. Carla went
off to school in Mitchell but never married.
Helen remarried BJ Bateman. They traveled a
lot but ended up settling down in Winner. By this time Helen has great
grandkids who she loved so deeply: Jude, Oren, Elsie, Wakely, Wynn, Morgan,
Isabella, Jazmyne, & Alyxzandria.
Helen lost her husband BJ to cancer in
2009. Helen and Carla then moved in together where Carla helped take care of
her until Carla passed away due to Covid in October of 2021.
Helen and her little dog Angel then moved
to the Golden Prairie Manor. Everyone there just loved her. She would always
say how nice everyone was. She had so much love for everyone.
Helen will be dearly missed by her family
and friends.
Helen is preceded in death by her husband,
BJ, her son, Oren Lebert, and daughter Carla Lebert. Her grandson, Will
Sargent, parents, Lynn and Goldie Frank, and siblings, Jack, Mick, Phil, Margret
Ann, Pat, and Betty.
She is survived by her children: Tammy
Turner, Joan (Larry) Sargent; grandchildren: Roy Turner, Craig (Heather)
Sargent; great grandchildren: Jude, Oren, and Elsie Sargent; Wakely and Wynn
Sargent, Isabella McNeal, Jazmyne and Alyxzandria Turner; siblings Dick Frank
and Diane Vetor, close family Therese
& Jayd Knodell and Morgan, along with in laws and many nieces and
nephews.
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