Country Pride Cooperative recently donated $600 to the Dakota Senior Meals program in Winner.
Country Pride teamed up with the Land O Lakes Foundation’s matching grant program to make the donation.
“As a cooperative we are dedicated to giving back to the communities where we have members, employees and facilities,” said CEO Mike Trosen.
By Dan Bechtold, Editor
For 35 years, Chuck Keiser has worked hard to help people with insurance and real estate needs.
He has served as the agent at Fidelity Agency for all those years. Now, Chuck is retiring and handing the duties over to another well qualified individual.
A retirement open house honoring Keiser will be held Feb. 17 from 1-3:30 p.m. in the lobby of First Fidelity Bank of Winner. The public is invited to attend and wish Chuck well on his retirement.
Winner Community Playhouse is planning a production to be presented in mid-March.
“The Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens” will be presented March 9, 10, 11 and March 16, 17 and 18 at the playhouse.
The cast includes: Candace Patmore, Brandy Biggins, Barb DeSersa, Tami Comp, Kenzie Irick, Maurice Gustafson, Kallie Foudray, Donna Howland, Linda Watson, Doug Nelson, Dan Patmore and Charles York.
The play is directed by Sandra York with Dan Patmore as the technical director.
This is another in the series of plays on the Verdeen family from Sweetgum, Texas.
Rehearsals are underway for this production.
Winner Area wrestling team took fifth place at the Huron tournament on Saturday.
The Warriors had six wrestlers place. Wyatt Turnquist took 1st; Atlas Willuweit and Kayleb Brozik, both 2nd; Kaden Keiser, 3rd; Jayden Schroeder, 4th and Aaron Gilchrist, 6th.
The next action for the wrestlers will be the regional tournament which is Saturday, Feb. 18, in Wagner. Wrestling starts at 10 a.m.
Five Winner area wrestlers placed on the state middle school tournament in Pierre on Saturday.
Placing were: Riley Shippy, 2nd; Owen Duffy, 3rd; Joey Cole, 4th; Kaleb Osborn, 5th and Riley Orel, 6th.
Winner boys basketball team fell to McLaughlin by a score of 76-71 after a fierce battle at the end of the game on Friday.
Drew DeMers led the scoring with 33 points followed by Wyatt Ewing with 10, Luke Engel, 9; Trevor Bertram and Brandon Volmer with 6 each.
Bertram pulled down 5 rebounds and DeMers had 4 steals.
The battle between the Winner High School boys basketball team and St. Francis came down to the wire.
In the end, St. Francis nipped the Warriors 47-46 in the final three seconds of the game.
DeMers led the scoring with 15 points, followed by Waytt Ewing, 14; Isaac Naasz, 10 and Trevor Bertram, 5.
Brandon Volmer pulled down 9 rebounds, Naasz, 6 and Chase Kingsbury, 4. Bertram had 4 assists.
Platte-Geddes nipped the Colome boys basketball team 50-47 Thursday in Platte.
The Cowboys had four players in double figures—Kolton Salonen with 13, Kelly O’Bryan, 11; Layton Thieman and Holden Thieman with 10 each.
Holden Thieman pulled down 6 of Colome’s 18 rebounds. Salonen grabbed 5 rebounds. Holden Thieman had 5 steals.
A strong second quarter propelled the Colome Cowboys to a 66-40 victory over Menno on Saturday.
Holden Thieman scored 16 points followed by Kolton Salonen, 13; Kelly O’Bryan 11; and Jackson Kinzer, 10.
Salonen grabbed 11 of Colome’s 29 rebounds. Holden Thieman grabbed 8.
Kelly O’Bryan scored 19 points as the Colome Cowboys defeated North Central 69-41 on Feb. 7.
Kolton Salonen added 16 points.
The Cowboys out-rebounded North Central 33-24. Holden Thieman pulled down 11 rebounds with Salonen grabbing 6.
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