Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo Winner girls basketball team advanced to the state tournament with a 67-38 victory over Redfield in the SoDak 16 on March 9 in Chamberlain. Pictured in front from left are Emma Jorgensen, Kelbi Meiners, Ellie Brozik, Morgan Hammerbeck, Maggie LaCompte, Josie Kludt, Katherine Jankauskas, Kylie Sachtjen and Olivia Swedlund. In back from left are head coach Larry Aaker, Aleya Miller, Cici Watson, Bella Swedlund, Jenna Hammerbeck, Kalla Bertram, Shannon Calhoon, Kelsie Sachtjen, Aryn Meiners, Brindy Bolander, Melanie Brozik and assistant coach Keely Bertram.
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Submitted Photo Winner 4th grade girls won their division in the Winner Quarterback Club basketball tournament on March 8. Pictured in front from left are Kailin Bennett, Katie Pederson, Zoey Sayler and Paisley Jo Hossle. Second row from left are Madeline Danforth, Alexis Bennett, Reese Halligan, Savanna Swedlund and Payton Sargent.
Submitted Photo The Centennial Quilt Guild held its retreat at Stukel Hunting Lodge in Gregory. In front from left are Rose Ruff, Annie Scott, Murrin Smith, Delonne Yeaton and Wilma Harter. Back row from left are Mabel Schmit, Carolyn Halgrimson, Miki Janecke, Jessie Elsasser, Joyce Scott, Mary Lou Urban, Sherry Rohde, Janelle Parker, Bev Cleveland and Joyce Heath. Not picture are Karen DeSmet and Chalsea Kerkvliet.
Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo Winner girls basketball coach Larry Aaker and team watch the end of the SoDak 16 game in Chamberlain as the Lady Warriors won the game and will advance to the state tournament.
Erin Tobin of Winner announced today that she is running for the South Dakota State Senate from District 21. Tobin, a Certified Nurse Practitioner cited public health and agriculture as two of her main focuses in her campaign.
“The overall health of South Dakota is a tremendously important issue at all levels of government, and I want to help keep the public safe and healthy. With a renewed focus on our well-being because of things that are happening in the world today, everyone understands that public health is a very important issue.
It would be beneficial for the district and state to have someone who understands and knows the importance of healthcare,” she said.
As a fourth-generation rancher, Tobin is also passionate about agriculture. She supports Country of Origin Labeling. “South Dakota ranchers have the best beef in the world, and they need to be able to market it,” she said.
Tobin feels she would do a good job in representing ag production and value-added agriculture in Pierre.
Along with her husband Travis, Erin is part of the family cow/calf and custom feeding operation.
Erin and Travis have two children: Gus in the 4th grade and Anna, kindergarten. “With two children in elementary school, education issues are also a high priority,” explained Tobin.
Erin graduated from Colome High School in 2001 and from South Dakota State University in 2005 with a B.S. degree in nursing. In 2010, she received her master’s degree as a nurse practitioner.
Tobin works at Avera Sacred Heart in Yankton as a hospitalist. She also does hospice care through Avera in the local area.
Tobin, a Republican, is the daughter of Brad and Kay Bolton of Winner.
Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo Kalla Bertram of the Winner girls basketball team gets a hug from her dad, Rahn, after the Lady Warriors defeated Redfield in the SoDak 16 in Chamberlain. Winner advances to the state tournament in Rapid City.
Brittney Hansen age 24 of Winner SD passed away peacefully with her parents by her side on Saturday March 7 2020 at her home in Winner, SD after a long battle with cancer.
Memorial service was held on Monday, March 16, 2020 at 10:30 am at the United Methodist Church in Winner, SD.
Burial will follow at a later date.
Brittney Ann Hansen was born to Mike and Dawn (Horan) Hansen June 15 1995. She joined 2 brothers at home who would forever be her protectors.
She grew up on a farm west of Winner, attended school in Winner graduating with honors in 2014, then graduating from MTI in 2016 while fighting stage 4 colon cancer.
Brittney always had a love for the farm and she spent a lot of time with her dad and Grandpa Bob. It was the start of her love for everything Ag. In high school she got a job working at All in One Shop for Frank and Lori Weaver.
What started to be some yard work quickly evolved into working on trucks and this girl could work circles around most. She would come home covered in grease but loved every minute of it.
She also worked for Rick at the Pix Theater,(Rick always said she made popcorn almost as good as he did)
In the summer of 2017 she did her internship at Grossenburg Implement in Philip SD. Bill Manke took her under his wings and taught her so much.
She also enjoyed working with all the employees there paying extra special attention to Bill Kelly seeing who could out prank the other, and Bobbi always new she was up to something by the look on her face.
She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016 but still managed to graduate college. She wore many hats in her 24 years, she was a farm girl, a student, a theater employee, and even a bartender.
She had a personality that made everyone feel special and she could master almost everything she tried.
Her first job after college was at the Farmer Rancher Co-op in Ainsworth NE as a sales agronomist, the drive got to be too much so from there she worked at the Country Pride Co-op in Winner where she made some lifelong friends.
And then CHS opened in Winner she was offered a job there. The cancer became more of a factor in her everyday life and she had to quit working and take care of herself.
She had a love for so many things, farm life, golfing hunting fishing reading and friends and family. With family being the most important.
She leaves behind her parents and brothers Jason of Billings, Mont.; Joshua of Pierre SD and her fur baby SJ, Uncle Mark Horan (Cathy) of Mitchell, SD and their daughter Aubree(Jason) of Owatonna, MN Jeff(Jeri) of Rapid City SD Karren(Dylan) of Ree Heights, SD Brad(Denetta) Horan of Rapid City SD and grandmother Beverly Hansen of AZ.
Brittney was preceded in death by her grandmother Delores Hansen that she never met and grandfather Robert Hansen and grandparents Jack and MaryAnn Horan.
Bonnie Eldridge, 85, of Winner, SD passed away on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at the Winner Regional Health Care Center in Winner, SD.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 2 p.m. at the Mason Funeral Home in Winner, SD. Burial followed in the Winner City Cemetery.
Bonnie L. Sedlacek was born on June 27, 1934 in Winner, SD to Louie Sedlacek and Maude Johnson. Her childhood was spent on a farm site near Hidden Timber and the present site of Assman Implement.
Bonnie was the youngest of three children her brother Joe (Lucille), sister Lenora (Herb) Debuhr were older than she was.
As a child she sought out the company of the family pets to run and play with; which fostered a love of animals, especially cats, that lasted all of her life.
The family moved to Winner when Bonnie was about thirteen years old.
Bonnie met her future husband at her brother-in-law’s motorcycle shop. Bud Eldridge and Bonnie were married on Nov. 5, 1950.
Bud and Bonnie spent the first couple of years on Bud’s family homesite on Bull Creek; they then purchased a farm site about 12 miles east of Winner where they raised crops, chickens, and children; the three C’s of farming.
The children Jeannie, Brad, Ellen, and Laurie ran and played and weeded in mom’s garden until 1966 when they family moved to Winner.
Bud continued farming with his son in law Allen and grandson Travis the rest of his life. Bonnie had a position as a butcher assistant at the Westside Market until the store sold out.
At which time, she went to work at the nursing home in 1970 for Pete and Judy Gregor, first as an overnight CNA and later as a cook.
In about 1978, Dr. Greg Hermson sought out Bonnie to work at his dental practice as his main chairside assistant and later she took over as office manager until her retirement in 1996.
Between the years of 1969 and 2020: Jeannie got married to Richard Brickman and had two sons Michael (Cora) and James (Joan). Brad joined the National Guards and had a son Lonnie.
Ellen married Allen Schwandt and had a son Travis (Carissa), Laurie (Cam) had two children Brandi (Mike) and Logan.
Bonnie became and unofficial “mom” to her only granddaughter Brandie (Mike) Johnson.
Bonnie has numerous great grandchildren and great great grandchildren; Kaitlyn (Zack), Moya, Keely (Chris), Brianna (Quinten), Barrett, Sienna, Taylor (Kayla), Steffan (Destiny), Charyzma (Tyler), Kristen, Dustin, William, Natalia, Paisley, Bayn, Brent, Emma, as well as many nieces and nephews.
During these years, mom not only loved her expanding family but also her many changing and evolving flowerbeds which were the highlight of her springs and summers while they were in bloom.
In the fall she always had to add some little new thing to the bed to delight her the next year.
We her daughter’s will tend to and love her family and flowers so she can delight in them for years to come as she looks in from her next place.
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