Doctor Spends Month in Winner

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Dr. Muna Ashraf is spending a month in Winner as part of her family practice residency.

She started work at Winner Regional Clinic April 6 and will leave May 1. She will return to Sioux Falls where she has two months left on her residency.

In September, she will start  work for McGreevy Clinic in Sioux Falls.

The doctor graduated from the University of South Dakota Medical School in 2012 then went into a family practice residency program at Center for Family Medicine in Sioux Falls.

This is not her first visit to Winner, as a sophomore in medical school, Ashraf spent a month working with doctors at Winner Regional Clinic.

In Winner, she has been seeing patients at the clinic and being on call in the emergency room at the hospital.

“In a small community, I enjoy the variety of being able to do emergency medicine plus also work in the clinic. I enjoy the warmth of people in a small community. They are very kind,” she said.

Ashraf has a degree in computer science graduating from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, graduating in 2000. For five years she worked in the computer field at Citi Bank and Sencore. For these firms she did a lot of programming.

Ashraf is a graduate of Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls and always had an interest in science. While working with computers, the doctor found she missed working with people.

For three years, she worked with people with disabilities at Lifescape and also took pre-med classes.

“I enjoy interacting with patients and I have a passion for medicine,” she explained.

Development Corporation Elects Directors

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Directors were elected at the annual meeting of the South Central Development Corporation on April 21 at Winner Country Club.

The directors are Chuck Keiser, Phil Husher, Don Bice, Mike Trosen and Charlie Grossenburg.

Mark Schweigert is retiring on May 1 as the Tripp County Economic Development director. The office of economic development will move to the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce office on Main Street. Karla Brozik, Chamber director, will serve as the interim development director.

Community Connections Received Accreditation

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By Dan Bechtold, Editor

Community Connections Inc. of Winner has achieved a four year person centered excellence accreditation.

A three person  team visited  Winner April14-17 to conduct a review CCI.

Community Connections was the first agency in the United States to go through accreditation using a new model– “Person Centered Excellence.”

The three women who reviewed the agency were from the Council on Quality and Leadership. For over 40 years, CQL has provided international leadership in designing progressive practices in services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and people with mental illness.

Olsons Win Fishing Tournament

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The team of Vern Olson and Brandon Olson won first place in the Billy Bolander Memorial fishing tournament on April 25. The pair caught 12.07 pounds of fish.

There were 50 fisherman in the tournament at Roosevelt Dam.  The awards were presented at Stormys.

Second place went to Bryce Hauf and Jake Luse with 11.31 pounds of fish.

Herman Qualifies for State in Discus

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Winner High School track athletes competed at the Pierre Legion Relays on Friday.

Delores Herman had a state qualifying throw in the discus with a throw of 114-7. She took third place. Herman also placed 5th in the shot put with a throw of 35-7.

The medley relay team took fourth place in 4:33.1.  Runners were Sydney Fritz, Hayley Halverson, Alexis Richey and Chloe Bartels.

On the boys side, Nathan Galbraith took third place in the 400 in :51.5.

Other results of the WHS boys include:

Shot put—Brendan Harter, 5th, 46-1

Discus—Harter, 6th, 133-1

400 relay—6th, :46.2, Nick Hossle, Isaac Naasz, Riley Calhoon and Tyrel Haley

1600 relay—5th, 3:35.3, Coleton Schuyler, Sam Naasz, Kayleb Brozik and Nathan Galbraith

Medley relay—6th, 3:56, Nick Hossle, Riley Calhoon, Kayleb Brozik and Luke Engel

 

Winner Teams are Big Dakota Conference Champs

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Winner boys and girls track team won the Big Dakota Conference track meet held in Mobridge on April 21.

The WHS boys won first place with 157 points with Miller taking second with 105 points.

The Lady Warriors won the meet with 108 points with Mobridge-Pollock taking second with 102 points.

For the girls, Deloris Herman won both the shot put and the discus. The Winner senior threw the shot put 35-6 and the discus, 102-1.

Alexis Richey won the 400 in 1:07.08.

Other results of the WHS girls include:

400—Hayley Halverson, 4th, 1:09.02

800—Chloe Bartels, 2nd, 2:42.50; Richey, 5th, 2:51

1600—Bartels, 4th, 5:52.59

3200—Bartels, 2nd, 13:28.25

Long jump—Rachel Sherman, 4th, 12-2.5

Shot put—Kyran Meek, 4th, 30-1

Discus—Brindi Felix, 3rd, 90-6; Casey Norrid, 4th, 88-6

4×100 relay—3rd, :57.03, Rachel Sherman, Sydney Fritz, Kelsey Bertram and Kyran Meek

4z200 relay—2nd, 2:00.47, Rachel Sherman, Sydney Fritz, Kelsey Bertram and Sydney Schuyler

4×400 relay—3rd, 4:57.37, Alexis Richey, Kelsey Bertram, Kyran Meek and Sydney Schuyler

4×800 relay—2nd, 11:11.72, Haley Halverson, Sydney Schuyler, Alexis Richey, Chloe Bartels

Medley relay—4th, 5:06.87, Sydney Fritz, Kelsey Bertram, Hayley Halverson and Sydney Schuyler

The Winner High School boys were led by Coleton Schuyler who won the 800 in 2:05.55; Kayleb Brozik who won the high jump in 5-6; Brendan Harter who won the discus with a throw of 135-11

The Warriors won first place in two of the relays.

Other results of the Winner Warriors include:

100—Nick Hossle, 4th, :11.56; Tyrel Haley, 6th, :11.59

200—Windsor Barry, 4th, :23.78; Haley, 5th, :23.88

400—Nathan Galbraith, 2nd, :53.41

110 hurdles—Haley, 3rd, :16.55; Sam Naasz, 4th, :17.31

300 hurdles—Haley, 2nd, :44.18; Naasz, 4th, :45.24

800—Kayleb Brozik, 2nd, 2:15.34

Long jump—Nick Hossle, 2nd, 17-3; Riley Calhoon, 4th, 16-7.5; Windsor Barry, 6th, 16-5.5

Triple jump—Barry, 3rd, 36-9.5

High jump—Brendan Harter, 2nd, 5-6

Shot put—Harter, 2nd, 43-5; Trevor Sachtjen, 5th, 38-0; John Kludt, 6th, 37-6

4×100 relay—4th, :49.40, Jayden Schroeder, Isaac Naasz, Riley Calhoon, Levi McClanahan

4×200 relay—1st, 1:39.12, Nick Hossle, Isaac Naasz, Sam Naasz and Windsor Barry

4×400 relay—1st, 3:43.81, Coleton Schuyler, Kayleb Brozik, Sam Naasz and Nathan Galbraith

4×800 relay—2nd, 9:10.74, Luke Engel, Izak Moleterno, Kayleb Brozik, and Coleton Schuyler

Medley relay—2nd, Nick Hossle, Riley Calhoon, Isaac Naasz and Nathan Galbraith.

“Great effort by all the student athletes,” said coach Larry Aaker.

“On the boys side, we were able to place someone in every event except one and that really helps when you’re trying to win a meet. We expected the boys to do very well  but they needed to go out and perform well  and they did,” said Aaker.

On the girls side, the coach said the team knew it was a going to be a close race and could possible come down to the last race, which it did. “All the girls stepped up and did what they were asked to do and were able to come away winning the team title by six points,” said the coach.

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Colome Team Places 5th

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Colome boys and girls track teams both placed fifth at the Kimball/White Lake Invitational on April 23.

Jackson Kinzer won the triple jump in 37-0.

Other results of the Colome boys team include:

Triple jump—Andrew Laprath, 5th, 34-2.

100—Cole McCarty, 5th, :11.88; Chase Hrabanek, 6th, :11.89

200—Hrabanek, 4th, :24.53; Reed Harter, 5th, :24.76

300 hurdles—Andrew Laprath, 4th, :52.58

1600—Cody Heath, 6th, 5:32.40

Long jump—Cole McCarty, 2nd, 18-4.5

Discus—Cody Heath, 4th, 96-5

4×100 relay—2nd, :48.09, Chase Hrabanek, Cole McCarty, Jackson Kinzer and Reed Harter

Medley relay—3rd, 3:58, Reed Harter, Cole McCarty, Chase Hrabanek and Jackson Kinzer

On the girls side, Jaclyn Laprath won the mile run in 5:57.88.

Other results of the Colome girls include:

300 hurdles—Morgan Hofeldt, 3rd, 1:00.28

800—Taylor Hrabanek, 2nd, 2:53.85; Lauren Week, 6th, 3:10.41

3200—Laprath, 2nd, 13:22.31

Long jump—Hrabanek, 3rd, 14-1.50

Triple jump—Week, 4th, 29 ½

4×200 relay—6th, 2:10.85, Lauren Week, Morgan Hofeldt, Mariah Kinzer, Taylor Hrabanek

4×800 relay—4th, 11:30.72, Morgan Hofeldt, Lauren Week, Jaclyn Laprath and Taylor Hrabanek

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Academic Awards Presented to WHS Teams

Winner is one of several schools that have received academic team achievement awards for the 2014-2015 winter season.

All varsity fine arts groups and athletic teams that achieve a combined grade point average of 3.0 or higher are eligible to receive the South Dakota High School Activities Association academic achievement team award.

Winner High School teams that won the award are: girls basketball cheerleaders, boys basketball cheerleaders, boys basketball team, wrestling team, girls basketball team and one act play.

Initiated during the 1996-97 school year, the academic team achievement award program is designed to recognize varsity athletic teams and fine arts teams for their academic excellence.

Duane Dale Blare, 79

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Duane Dale Blare, 79, was taken by his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Sunday, April 19, 2015.  He was born to Dale and Josephine Blare on October 22, 1935 in the farm house near Hamill.  He has lived pretty much his whole life on the homestead farm out by Hamill.  He graduated from Winner High School and played sports, pranks and the yoyo.  There he met Ruth Colleen Minchow at the Young Peoples’ Meetings whom he then married on October 3, 1954.

He accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior and they joined the Orthodox Presbyterian Church where he served his Lord in whatever way possible.  Raising four children on the farm, he really enjoyed farming, raising cattle, observing how his family grew in the Lord.  Most everyone would agree that he had a happy and caring manner towards anyone he would meet.  Whether a good handshake, a big smile or most of the time a big hug, you knew he cared and wanted to help.  He hardly ever pushed himself on people but had a way of drawing you in to him.