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The Bruce Nielsen family have been named the farm and ranch family of the year by the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce.
The award was presented at the annual banquet on Jan. 12.

Bruce and Dennise Nielsen live on the family farm that Bill and Norma Nielsen purchased in 1958. Bill and Norma raised eight children.

The Animal Clinic of Winner was named the business of the year by the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce.  The firm was honored at the Chamber’s annual banquet on Jan. 12.

The Animal Clinic is dedicated to providing caring, compassionate health care to those animals that provide for us, not only a living bug also the great joy of friendships as beloved pets. “We are grateful for the great trust and friendship our clients have shown by allowing us the opportunity to provide the health care for their animals,” says the staff

The Spirit Gems competed in the Winter Chill in Yankton on Sunday, Jan. 8.   All four teams competed and the majority placed second.

The teams competing were the senior team known as Pink, junior team known as Shimmer; Glitz (6-8 year olds) and Glitter Bugs (3-5 year olds). The Glitz team took fourth place.

The next competition for the Spirit Gems will be Jan. 29 at the Valentine Classic at the Sioux Falls Arena.

The group is also getting ready for the national contest in February in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

John Meyer of Office Products Center of Winner was among the business owners and operators who served as business delegates for a legislative briefing sponsored by the South Dakota Retailers Association on Jan. 9.

As part of the business delegate program, business people from each legislative district are invited by SDRA to participate in a legislative briefing regarding key issues expected to be considered during this year’s legislative session.

The briefing kicked off with Gov. Dennis Daugaard providing an overview of the issues he planned to address in his state of the state address.

Attendees also heard presentations from speaker of the house Mark Mickelson of Sioux Falls, senate minority leader Billie Sutton of Burke, secretary of labor and regulations Marcia Hultman and SDRA executive director Shawn Lyons

The outhouse museum has moved. Just like Dallas and Winner and many of the early towns that were picked up and moved when the railroad missed them.  The South Dakota Outhouse Museum has moved 10 miles west this past summer to Colome. Owner Richard Papousek has reset and added several new, old outhouses plucked from the surrounding countryside.

The museum now features some of the more colorful characters of Colome’s past outhouses. There is seven outhouses in the new old collection including king of the dogs outhouse from Burke.

One celebrates Chris Colombe and his antics to get the town of Colome started. And another is from the small inland town of Dixon where Rattlesnake Pete ran the local barber, bath, outhouse, Emporium. Pete was famous for personally knowing Calamity Jane and after his death they discovered he was actually a woman.

Another is Frank Zimmerman’s outhouse as he was the early day hardware king of Colome. His outhouse has wheels on the back for easy moving to the new location.  It is said this outhouse could be found in the middle of Colome Main Street after many a Halloween night.

Papousek said he decided to reassemble the collection after many requests for tours and the humor it provided.  Besides, he says Colome has welcomed its potty humor with open arms.

The museum is located behind the Sign Inn located on Colome’s Main Street. Just ask any friendly local and they will guide you to its location.

Persons can check out Facebook at Colome SD Outhouse Museum.

Area students have been named to the fall semester dean’s list at the University of South Dakota.  Named to the list are Mariah Kinzer of Colome; Cohl Turnquist, Whitney Labahn, Michelle Novak, Bailey Volmer, Tessa Lester, Colby Curtis, all of Winner; Josey Blare, Carter.

Two Winner students have been named to the fall semester dean’s list at Augustana University, Sioux Falls.  Reagan Nielsen and Rachel Pahlke were named to the dean’s list.

Area students have been named to the fall semester dean’s list at Black Hills State University.  Named to the list are: Halley Shippy, Colome; Sean Bice, Molly Connot, 4.0 grade point average and Jessie Pravecek, all of Winner.

Area students have been named to the fall semester president’s list at Mitchell Technical Institute.  Named to the list are Forrest Cerv of Winner; Chase Hrabanek and Taylor Hrabanek, both of Colome.