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Colome’s “Premier Ag”—Your Ag Needs First

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By Dan Bechtold

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Premier Ag has opened in Colome. Premier Ag is a locally owned and operated feed business providing customized feed rations delivered to the farm/ranch. The business is owned by locals Vince and Lenna Thieman. Their son, Holden Thieman, is the general manager of the business with Bob Gnirk as the assistant manager. Kenny Jorgensen is operating as the service specialist and Avery Davis is the livestock production specialist and Purina Feeds representative. The store office is managed by Darcy Assman.

The Thieman’s purchased the business from Hansen Mueller on May 25, 2022 with the grand opening on June 1. Thieman says Premier Ag store will provide the same services of the former Colome Farm Service providing grind-and-mix services and selling Purina products. The business is located at the same location as the legendary “Colome Farm Service” on Highway 18.

Thieman says his team plans to build up the business and serve the local community. “We want to distribute the best products to our customers at competitive prices prioritizing customer’s ag needs,” said Thieman.

The business sells bulk feeds, bagged feed, creep feeds, creep feeders, salt, mineral, corn—whole, rolled, cracked, as well as oats and liquid feed. The store offers grain bank storage to local farmers/producers.

Premier Ag also has the special ability to help ranchers customize their livestock rations and provide complete diets based on their livestock needs. It is the team’s goal to truly put “your ag needs first.”

Premier Ag has started to host public meetings to provide information to farmers and ranchers. A sheep and goat meeting was held Aug. 23 with nearly 40 people in attendance. There are plans in place for a cattle focused producer meeting in September with details coming soon.

Thieman says Premier Ag is an expansion of Thieman Hay which has been a locally owned business operating out of Colome for 20 plus years. With Holden Thieman coming home from college, Vince said it seemed like a natural fit. Holden has a degree in business and agriculture from Dakota Wesleyan University.

Future plans call for installing a new grain leg to speed up the unloading of grain commodities. This should handle 6,000 to 8,000 bushels an hour. The company also plans to put up more grain bins to increase storage. Currently, they have 240,000 bushels of grain storage capacity and are looking to by corn from local customers.

Thieman says, we are willing to working with customers…putting their ag needs first with Purina products as a core. Purina is a company with great research based products, and we look forward to working with a company that has over 100 years of experience in the feed business. Thieman also mentioned Premier Ag is family owned and operated and when making the decision of which feed company to partner with, Purina stood out. Not only does Purina hold high standards in their products as top of the line quality, but hold similar values to the Thieman Family in relation to taking care of customers and treating them like family.

The hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Premier Ag is closed Saturday, Sunday and holidays. For more information or to order products you can call Premier Ag at (605) 842-3619, email us at premierag@gwtc.net, visit our website at www.premier-ag.com or our Facebook page Premier Ag.

Ranch bronc, bull riding is Sept. 3

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Winner Area Chamber of Commerce will sponsor ranch bronc & bull riding Sept. 3 at the Tripp County rodeo grounds.

The Calcutta will start at 7 p.m with riding starting at 7:30 p.m.

The stock contractor is Sutton Rodeo of Onida.  Riders who want to participate can call 605 381-4251 or email suttonrodeo@venturecomm.net

The rodeo announcer will be Jared Slagler and the rodeo clown will be Allan Dessel.

Added feature will be mutten busten for kids ages 4-7. This will be limited to 10 kids and persons can sign up the night of the bull riding.

There will also be a calf scramble for kids ages 8-15. There will be two winners and each will receive $100 in Winner Cash.

There will be a concession stand provided by Teena’s Kitchen of Colome.

Karen Mae (Jerred) Sorber, age 77

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Karen Mae (Jerred) Sorber, age 77, of Orange City, Iowa, passed away on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, at the Happy Siesta Health Care Center in Remsen, Iowa. Services will be held at a later date. Arrangements are being completed by the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City.

Karen was born on Feb. 24, 1945, in Bassett, Neb., the daughter of James (Jay) Jerred and Evelyn (Anderson) Jerred. She grew up on her family’s farm near the small town of Wewela, South Dakota, and attended Keya Paha County High School in Springview, Neb., graduating in 1963.

On April 2, 1966, she married Kenneth Howard Sorber in Winner, South Dakota. They farmed near Wewela, until 1976, when they moved to Atlanta, Neb., and started a custom fertilizer business with Karen working as the bookkeeper. In 1990, they relocated to Okeechobee, Florida, where they remained until Kenny’s retirement in 1998. They then returned to the Midwest, settling in Anthon, Iowa, where Karen worked at the Post Office in the nearby town of Lawton, Iowa. Kenny passed away on July 18, 2005, at their home in Anthon, after more than 39 years of marriage.

Soon after Kenny’s passing, Karen spent a few years living near her children’s families in Orange City and Exeter, New Hampshire, before settling in Williamsburg, Iowa to be close to Lori’s family again. In October of 2021, she relocated to Orange City along with the Trevino family. She enjoyed solving crossword puzzles, playing board games, walking, attending bible study, and especially attending every sports event her grandchildren participated in, near and far. However, due to her declining health, she became a resident of the Happy Siesta Care Center in December, 2021.

Karen was currently attending the New Hope Evangelical Free Church in Orange City. She had previously been a member of the Life Church in Coralville, Iowa, where she often served as a door greeter, and of the Morningside Assembly of God in Sioux City, Iowa. She left a legacy of a prayer warrior for her family, a true American patriot, and a strong woman of faith through a beautiful servant’s heart — always willing to help others in any way that she could.

Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Lori and Roy Trevino, of Orange City, Iowa; a son and his wife, Kevin and Anne Sorber, of Exeter, New Hampshire; six grandchildren, Gaetan, Graeson, and Alaena Trevino, and Grant, Benjamin, and George Sorber; four sisters Nancy Jerred; Dorothy, and her husband, David Shallcross; Jane, and her husband, Eldon Peters; and Veda, and her husband, Harold Parlet; and a sister-in-law, Carol Jerred.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her brother, Merton (Gene) Jerred.

Geraldine Valla, 93

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Geraldine Valla, 93, of Winner, SD passed away on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022 at the Winner Regional Long Term Care Center in Winner, SD.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022 at 10 a.m. at the Assembly of God Church in Winner, SD. Burial followed in the Winner City Cemetery.

Geraldine Jeanne Valla was born in rural Winner, South Dakota to Joseph and Mary (Nemec) Valla on Jan. 4, 1929.  She passed into the presence of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Aug. 20, 2022.

Geri (Geraldine) attended her first year of school in Spencer, NE and eleven years in Winner Public Schools graduating from Winner High School in 1946.  After graduating from high school, she attended North Central Bible College in Minneapolis for three years.

In September 1952, she began employment at Schramm Furniture as a bookkeeper and worked there for 50 years.  Upon retirement, Geri volunteered at the local thrift store.

Geri found Jesus to be her personal Lord and Savior at a  revival meeting in Gregory, SD at age 16. 

She was one of the founding members of Winner Assembly of God Church where she worshipped God faithfully and served in many capacities until health dictated otherwise.  Geri was a tremendous encourager and supporter of her church and community.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Paul, her sister Lillian Flescher, and her sister Marian Morris. 

She is survived by her niece Louise Palovitch and her great-niece Deb Estes, both of Fontana, Calif.

Four named all tourney

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Four members of the Winner/Colome Pheasants baseball team have been named to the all tournament team. The announcement was made by the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Association.

Chosen from the Pheasants are Dillon Lambley, Chandler Bakley, Derek Graesser and Luke Bamberg, a pickup player from Corsica-Stickney.

Kelly O’Bryan of the Colome Chaos was a pickup player for Kimball-White Lake and was named to the all tourney team.

Ranch bronc, bull riding set

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Winner Area Chamber of Commerce will be sponsoring a ranch bronc & bull riding on Sept. 3 at the Tripp County rodeo grounds.

The Calcutta will start at 7 p.m. and rodeo action will start at 7:30 p.m.

The stock contractor is Sutton Rodeo.

The announcer will be Jared Salgler and the clown will be Allan Dessel.

An added feature will be a calf scramble for kids ages 8-15.

Riders are to call 605-381-4251.

There will be an added purse of $2,500 in the ranch bronc ride and $2,500 in bull riding.

This event is all part of the Labor Day celebration in Winner.

Cross country team opens season Friday

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The Winner Area cross country team will open the season at the Winner Invitational on Aug. 26. The meet will be held at the Winner Country Club.

The returning lettermen for the boys are Joseph Laprath, Chaz Blotzky, Hayden McMurtrey

The only letterwinner for the girls is Melanie Brozik.

Making up the boys team will be Joseph Laprath, Hayden McMurtrey, Chaz Blotsky, Donny De’Sersa, Matthew Calhoon and Taitin Ringing Shield.

The two Colome runners on the team are Laprath and Ringing Shield.

Brozik is the lone varsity runner for the girls. Middle school runners include Avery Manke and Cameron Olson.

The runners who graduated are Sidda Schuyler, Kade Watson and Kylar Meek.

The boys team qualified for state last year and coach Jayd Schuyler says they will be competitive again this year. “I look for a competitive boys team. Our goal is to win the regional and qualify for state,” said Schuyler.

The coach said Brozik’s goal is to qualify for state on her own.

The team has been holding practice twice a day running in the morning and late afternoon.

Assistant coach is Reagan Nielsen.

The cross country schedule includes:

Aug. 26—Winner Invitational

Aug. 30—at McCook Central

Sept. 6—at Scotland

Sept. 15—at Chamberlain (Big Dakota meet)

Sept. 17—at Lyman

Sept. 24—at Platte-Geddes

Sept. 27—at Todd County

Sept. 29—at Burke

Oct. 3—at MVP

Oct. 13—Regional in Chamberlain

Oct. 22—State at Huron

Cowgirls open on the road

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The returning letterwinners on the Colome volleyball team are in front from left Westlie Cahoy, Ashlyn Hoffine, Jordyn Ring and Landi Krumpus. In back from left are Maura Luedke, Toree Ringing Shield and Devan Dougherty.

The Colome girls volleyball team opened the season yesterday (Aug. 23) when they traveled to Armour to play TDA.

The returning letterwinners are Westlie Cahoy, Ashlyn Hoffine, Jordyn Ring, Landi Krumpus, Maura Luedke, Toree Ringing Shield and Devan Dougherty.

Others on the team are Sophie Hofeldt, Libbie Petersek, Emma Vandenbark, Shayleena Kingsley, Shanna Connot, Kalene Preslicka, Aspyn McKenzie, Raylynn Dehing, Raelynn Kingsley, Leticia DeNoyer, Emme Nelson, Keasha Kartak, Gracie Rohde and Savanah O’Bryan.

Taylor Hrabanek is the new head coach for the Cowgirls. She graduated from Colome High School in 2016 and played volleyball all four years.

The coach explained the team has been doing a lot of team building exercises and working on communication. “Now we are starting to work on rotation and get on the court to get playing time in,” she said.

Hrabanek says the girls are excited and she is excited for them. “Their enthusiasm is pretty high and they want to go far in the region.”

There are seven seniors and Hrabanek says they are the leaders. “I have some juniors who are right are right up there with them,” said Hrabanek.,

“I am excited to see where we go.”

The seniors are Devan Dougherty, Sophie Hofeldt, Ashlyn Hoffine, Landi Krumpus, Libbie Petersek, Jordyn Ring, Toree Ringing Shield.

The team only lost 2 seniors—Kasie Leighton, Katie Welker.

The assistant coach is Casey Shippy.

The Colome volleyball schedule includes:

Aug. 23—at Tripp, Delmont, Armour

Au g. 25—at Burke

Aug. 30—Crow Creek, home

Sept. 1—at Platte-Geddes

Sept. 3—Gregory Tourney

Sept. 6—Lyman, home

Sept. 12—Marty, Home

Sept. 19—St. Francis, home

Sept. 22—at Avon

Sept. 24—Wessington Springs tourney

Sept. 27—at ACDC

Oct. 1—Great Plains Conference tourney at Lake Andes

Oct. 6—at Stanley Co.

Oct. 11—at Gregory

Oct. 13—White River, home

Oct. 15—Thunder Nation tourney

Oct. 18—Jones Co., home

Oct. 21—Centerville, home

Oct. 24—at Kimball/White Lake

Oct. 25—at Corsica-Stickney

Oct. 31-Nov. 1,3—Regions

Nov. 8—Sodak 16

Nov. 17-19—State

12 lettermen on dance team

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Twelve lettermen will return for the Winner competitive dance team.

The Lady Warriors will open the season Aug. 27 at the Gregory Invitational.

The returning letterwinners are Chloe Taggart, Amanda Edwards, Lena DeMers, Amanda Blare, Kendyl Bachmann, Emily Sachtjen, Bailey Fairbanks, Addi Heenan, Suchi Chaudhari Josey Kludt, Leah Wiechelman and Trista Kierstead.

Coach Sarah Taggart says there will be 12 girls doing hip hop and 9 pom.

There are five seniors—Kendyl Bachmann, Josey Kludt, Trista Kierstead, Amanda Blare, Leah Wiechelman.

The team lost two girls who graduated—Marissa Meiners, Adrienne Lewis.

This year the girls had a different choreographer. Summer Dance Connection of Sioux Falls provided the training. They came to Winner this summer for a 2.5 day camp.

Taggart said the girls have a good start to the season. “We are looking forward to a much higher score in pom because of the increased difficulty of the turns the girls learned at camp,” explained the coach.

Last year, Winner placed third in hip hop and were only 4.5 points away from first place.

The team took 5th in pom.

The home meet for Winner will be Sept. 10. The state meet will be in Watertown.

Taggart said the end of January she will start a middle school dance group.

Related to dance there will be a Warriorette dance camp for students K-5th grade. This will be Sept. 17 from noon to 4 p.m. in the auxiliary gym.

Then the girls will perform at the halftime of Winner and Lead-Deadwood football game on Sept. 17. This dance camp and football game are on a Saturday.

The dance schedule includes:

Aug.27—Gregory Invitational

Sept. 3—Pierre Spirit Invite

Sept. 10—Winner Invitational

Oct. 1—Roosevelt Invite at the Pentagon

Oct. 8—Mitchell Invite

Oct. 10—Faulkton Invite

Oct. 21—State at Watertown