Cody Haiar of Frontier Motors & Frontier Motors Ford was named the 2023 franchised dealer of the year.
The award was presented at the South Dakota Auto Dealers Association annual convention in Deadwood.
Haiar purchased Frontier Motors in 2015. Haiar purchased Harry K Ford and changed the named to Frontier Motors Ford.
The award winner is very involved in the community. He has worked with Junior Achievement.
He served on the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors from 2014-2017.
Haiar hosts a Frontier Motors Open golf tournament. The tournament was held June 17 at Winner Country Club.
The auto dealership hosts a food drive each year in December for the local food pantry.
Haiar was honored for running a successful auto dealership and working to make Winner a better place to live.
By Dan Bechtold
Editor
There will be a lot going on with the Highway 18 project in Winner in the next few weeks.
The South Dakota Department of Transportation and Reede Construction, Aberdeen, held a weekly update on June 20.
A long paving pour was held June 21 from South County Road to Taft St.
A few weeks after the Fourth of July the paving will be from Taft St. to First Fidelity Bank.
All the water main is in on the north side of the highway. However, there will be some testing of the new main and there may be some temporary outages while the testing is being completed.
Brad Norrid of the DOT said the big news was that June 26 traffic was switched to the new concrete from South County Road to Country Club Motel. Motorists are asked to take care in making the transition to the new concrete highway.
Pedestrians will be on the north side of the highway. There will be pedestrian crossings between Frontier Ford and Country Club Motel. The area will be signed and the crossings will remain the rest of the project.
While traffic will be on the new concrete crews will be removing the asphalt on the south side of the highway from the bridge to South County Road.
“Please pay attention to what is going on,” said Norrid. The speed limit will be 25 miles per hour.
Highway update meetings are held weekly each Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the city council chambers.
June “Junebug” Violet Freilinger, 93, of Monona, Iowa died Friday, June 16, 2023 at Ossian Senior Hospice, Ossian, Iowa. June was born June 10, 1930 to Leonard and Freida (Schmidt) Hofeldt in Milboro, South Dakota. She graduated from Winner High School in 1948 and attended two years of college in Minneapolis, Minn.
On Sept. 22, 1951 June was united in marriage to Roderick Joseph Freilinger at St. Patricks Catholic Church in Monona, Iowa. Six children were born to this union. They made their first home in Yuma, Ariz., until Rod was discharged from the Air Force. Upon being discharged they then moved to Frankville, Iowa, where they farmed for several years until Rod started Freilinger Construction.
June then did the secretarial duties for Freilinger Construction and raised 6 children and a large garden. She enjoyed sewing, gardening and canning for her family. Rod and June had many good times with the Volney crew and surrounding neighbors. They also traveled to many LICA conventions. She taught CCD, was a member of the Rosary society and a Catholic Daughter.
Upon raising her family, she then took a job cooking at Pink Elephant, Crow’s Nest and then the Boat, where she met many people and so enjoyed cooking and joking with the busboys and cooks. “Junebug” as many people knew her, loved to joke and enjoyed people. She enjoyed her church activities and traveling with the Heritage Club, taking several trips overseas. June loved to travel and enjoyed her annual trips “out home” to Millboro, South Dakota. South Dakota and her family still residing there, were always very special to her. She knew that road well!!!
Most of all “Junebug’s” proudest moments were when all her family was around her. She loved her birthday parties where everyone was together, always commenting LOOK WHAT I DID”. June made each of her grandchildren a jean quilt sewn with all the love she could give. She enjoyed taking her grand kids on outings. Always a good treat at Grandmas! She put her cooking skills to good use serving her family some fabulous meals. June truly loved all 85 of us, and was blessed with all the Junebug trinkets we could find!
June will always be remembered as “Junebug”, with her very caring heart, her joking personality and always thinking of others before herself. June loved life and people.
Surviving June are her children, Brad (Cheryl) Freilinger of Monona, Iowa, Barb (Ron) Moellers of Ossian, Iowa, Brian (Brenda) Freilinger of Decorah, Iowa, Bonnie Lange of Monona, Iowa, Beverly (Brent) Blanchard of Guttenberg, Iowa and Beth (Jake) Sweeney of Monona, Iowa; sixteen grandchildren, Heather (Chad) Bettman, Angie (Brent) Mohs, Reggie (Sarah) Freilinger, Elizabeth (Brian) Riley, Dustin (Katie) Moellers, Dereck (Starlette) Moellers, Devin (Carol) Moellers, Randy (Melissa) Freilinger, Brent (Jamie) Freilinger, Blake (Brenda) Lange, Melissa (Matt) Egan, Matt (Shauna) Lange, Marshall (Leah) Lange, Emily Blanchard, Bradley Sweeney and Jason (Maddi) Sweeney; a multitude of great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
June was preceded in death by her parents, Leonard and Freida Hofeldt; husband, Roderick Freilinger on Oct. 26, 1982; son-in-law, Dave Lange; three grandchildren, Shane Rodas, Eric Rodas and Dexter “Doc” Lange; and two brothers, Lee (Joann) Hofeldt and Loren Hofeldt.
Mass of Christian Burial was at 10:30 am on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Monona, Iowa with Rev. Martin Coolidge as the celebrant.
Burial followed at St. Patrick Catholic Church Cemetery, Monona, Iowa.
Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Monona, Iowa is helping the family with the arrangements.
Jim Smith, 71, of Witten, SD passed away on Saturday, June 17, 2023 at the Winner Regional Healthcare Facility.
Memorial service was held on Friday, June 23, 2023 at 2 p.m. at the Carter Gospel Fellowship Church in Carter, SD. Burial will be held at a later date.
Alan James “Jim” Smith was born on March 3, 1952 in Billings, Montana. He lived in Roundup, Mont., until he joined the Army in 1970and served overseas in Taiwan .
Jim then returned home for a short time before moving to Powell, Wyo., where he met Marlyce and they were married in 1976. Jim and Marlyce lived in Powell where Jim worked in the Oil Patch until they moved to Witten, South Dakota in 1990.
While in Witten Jim had many different jobs doing farm work, working for Grossenburgs and the State of South Dakota. Jim also worked in Alaska building ice roads and then road construction until he retired.
Jim loved fishing and hunting and visiting with friends and family.
He was preceded in death by his father Luther G. Smith, mother Alice, brother Larry and sister Sandee Lekse.
Jim leaves behind his wife Marlyce, sister Dixie Taylor, nieces; Michelle Foeller and Deana Netherton, nephew Danny Lekse and his daughter Skyler, brother-in-law Michael Weathermon his wife Debbie and nephews Cody Weathermon, Nicholas Foeller and Cameron Kinney.
Government offices and some businesses in Winner will be closed July 4 to observe the Independence Day holiday.
The Tripp County courthouse will be closed July 3 and July 4 as well as the Tripp County Library.
All state offices in Winner will be closed both July 3 and July 4.
The Winner city office will be closed on July 4 and will be open on July 3. There will be a city council meeting on Monday, July 3.
The Winner Post Office will be closed July 4 and there will be no mail delivery.
The Winner senior meals will not be serving a meal on July 4.
All financial institutions in Winner and Colome will be closed July 4.
Southern Plains Behavioral Health Services will be closed July 3 and July 4.
The Winner Advocate will be closed on July 4.
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