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Vets Day Program Planned for Nov. 10

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A Winner school/community veterans day program will be held on Thursday, Nov. 10 in the Winner Armory at 10 a.m.

Winner High School and middle school student council are sponsoring the event and invite all veterans and the public to attend.

Chloe Bartels, student council president and Samantha Schuyler, student council vice president, will give the welcome.

Voice of Democracy speeches will be given by high school and middle school students.

The Winner High School band and chorus will perform.

The POW/MIA ceremony will be presented by Abby Marts and Casey Stickland.

The recognition of veterans will be conducted by the 7th grade student council.

Coffee and cookies will be served following the program.

Immediately following the program in the Armory, the Winner Legion Auxiliary and the Winner VFW Auxiliary will host a soup and sandwich luncheon at the Winner Legion.

The kindergarten students will sing for the veterans at the Legion.

WHS Honor Roll

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Seniors
Honor – Chloe Bartels, Amanda Boerner, Bethany Cable, Drew DeMers, Shannon Duffy, Luke Engel, Wyatt Ewing, Brea Heth, Sydney Hollenbeck, Kenzie Irick, Skyler Jermolenko, Chase Kingsbury, Krockett Krolikowski, Cameron Kuil, Abi Leyden, Izak Moleterno, Hannah Peterson, Samantha Schuyler, Molly Sperlich
Merit – Trevor Bertram, Sidney Bohnet, Kayleb Brozik, Tre’Zen Doren, Nathan Erickson, Avery Gilchrist, Liz Jankauskas, John Kludt, Trace Larson, Kyran Meek, Alex Meiners, Emily Moser, Isaac Naasz, Jayden Schroeder, Rachel Sherman, Ryan Sherman, Jordan Turgeon, Jacob Woods
Juniors
Honor – Mary Calhoon, Riley Calhoon, Madyson Frazier, Ronae Klein, Nick Lantz, Zach Lapsley, Samantha Marts, Levi McClanahan, Brekkyn Nagel, Lauren Norrid, Macy Olson, Ian Tunnissen
Merit – Michalea Bachmann, Dalton Baker, Ty Bolton, Carter Brickman, Elisabeth Duffy, Macie Ferwerda, Justus Gregg, Hannah Hanson, Madelyn Hanson, Matt Hartley, Daesha Klein, Hanna LaCompte, Lexie Nedved, Charles Novak, Alex Schaeffer, Matthew Smither, Nathan Smither
Sophomores
Honor – Bayli Beehler, Sierra Hansen, Gabriel Kocer, Sophia Lewis, Gracie Littau, Abby Marts, Makenna Petersen, Alexis Richey, Nolan Sachtjen, Casey Stickland, Andrew Taylor, Madi Thieman, Logan Tunnissen, Brandon Volmer, Tyson Westendorf, Sadie Woods
Merit – Taylor Audiss, Elijah Blare, Shea Connot, Kassie Cox, Luke Hennebold, Liliann Jelinek, Katy Lantz, Makayla Petersen, Hunter Shopene, Wyatt Turnquist, Tedra Vrbka
Freshmen
Honor – Austin Bicek, Jacob Clay, Kiersten Durrin, Kara Ewing, Jaynne Gregg, Morgan Hammerbeck, Emmarie Kaiser, Isabelle Leyden, Ryder Mortenson, Ethan Niehus, Abby Pajl, Trevor Peters, Addy Root, Heather Rowe, Kenndal Turnquist, Ethan Vesely
Merit – Joren Bruun, Landon Debus, Jack Ducheneaux, Michael Good Shield, Phillip Jorgensen, RaeLynn Kemp, Jalen King, Kameron Meiners, Loren Moeller, Austin Olson, Jayce Palmer, Shaelyn Peneaux, Dawson Phillips, JaiWanda Roubideaux, Marlee Schaeffer, Saige Schuyler, Charlotte Shopene, Leah Small, Alicia Stands, Gage Watson, Jayd Whitley
Eighth Graders
Honor – Megan Brozik, Shannon Calhoon, Evan Farner, Hayley Hanson, Taylor Headrick, Katherine Jankuaskas, Arista Kaiser, Maggie LaCompte, Mackenzie Levi, Steven Lin, Aryn Meiners, Kayla Natoli, Delanie Nelson, Preston Norrid, Marlie Schuyler, Landon Thieman
Merit – Brennan Bachmann, Meagan Blare, Zach Bohnet, Bailey Brown, Taya Burleson, Kady Cable, Jesse Colson, Presley Foudray, Brady Fritz, Jackson Hansen, Dawsyn Kahler, Deja Kucera, Allie Lapsley, Aissa Long Crow, Gennefier Schuppan, Shelby Scott
Seventh Graders
Honor – Finn Bartels, Ellie Brozik, Jenna Hammerbeck, Hattie Hespe, Emma Jorgensen, Gilon Kraft, Adrienne Lewis, Elvis Lin, Marissa Meiners, Michael Olson, Kaleb Osborn, Kolbie Osborn, Charley Pravecek, Bella Swedlund, Jackson Vesely
Merit – Parker Baker, Shayla Bice, Adam Bohnet, Alex Bohnet, Torre Buus, Joey Cole, Taralyn Cordier, Katie Dreyer, Quintanya Eagle Elk, Shelby Guerue, Hailey Hollenbeck, Kaden Keiser, Ashton Klein, Kylar Meek, Aaron Monk, Owen Monk, Alani Old Lodge, Elijah Peterson, Kelsey Sachtjen, Sidda Schuyler, Ryan Sell, Keyleigh Stands, Trinity Vrbka, Madaline Watzel, Achilles Willuweit
Sixth Graders
Honor – Brindy Bolander, Melanie Brozik, Maggie DeMers, Justin Hausmann, Ainsley Henderson, Tessa Mann, Aleya Miller, Dalton Petersen, Blake Volmer
Merit – Kendyl Bachmann, Ethan Bartels, Mali Beehler, Luke Boerner, Silas Chasing Hawk, Faith Covey, Illyana Crabb, Shayne Day, Kiley Felix, Cam Irick, Trista Kierstead, Joselin Kludt, Tayden Mathis, Kelbi Meiners, Rowdy Moore, Pierce Nelson, Riley Orel, Hunter Osborn, Jack Peters, Rylee Root, Clay Sell, Mallory Thayer, Leah Wiechelman

Colome Advances to Start Championship

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In the Class 9B semifinal game Saturday, one play was the difference in deciding the victory.

That one play went to the Colome Cowboys who defeated Corsica-Stickney 28-27 on a two point conversion by Jackson Kinzer.

With 40 seconds left in the game, Kelly O’Bryan scored a touchdown to pull Colome within one point. Kinzer ran the ball in for the two points and it was celebration time for the Cowboys.

Kinzer said; “The pitch has been working going left and that is what we did and it worked.”

Flora Hanson, 96

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Flora Ellen was born on Jan. 30, 1920 to Harvey and Frances (Kaplan) Newland in the Norden, Nebraska area.

Flora attended school through the 8th grade in the Sparks and Norden Nebraska area. She also attended high school for a short while in Millboro, South Dakota. She was then needed at home to help her mother care for her father who was in poor health.

September 13, 1937 Flora and Ernest Hanson were united in marriage and to this union seven children were born.

Flora was a stay at home mom and was very committed to her husband Ernest and her family. She was also very involved with her church which she and Ernest helped establish in their community which is now known as the Shadly Valley Church. Together they would house the missionaries and evangelists that came from time to time.

Flora was an excellent cook and many people were fed at her table. Flora loved the farm and working with her family. She was very strong and committed to the tough things as Ernest struggled with many health issues. She had a heart that was so strong and committed to the Lord. It was always about pleasing Jesus and she always instructed her family in His ways.

Flora’s cinnamon rolls were always the best. She toiled in her garden and she had a love for the country and all of the animals and along with Ernest built their farm from the bottom up and was never known to complain.

Theresa Elizabeth Ruth (Betty) Devish, 93

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Theresa Elizabeth Ruth (Betty) Devish was born May 22, 1923. She was the sixth child of George and Theresa (Salzmann) Kenzy. She was born at the farm home near Iona, SD. Her brothers were Sam, Carl, Paul, Leo, and John. She attended school in the community, starting at Iona High School and later graduating from Gregory High School in 1940. She became a certified teacher attending Springfield Teachers College. Elizabeth Kenzy taught at the McKinley School near Iona in 1943. She lived with her parents behind the school, and would get there first to light the wood and coal burning stove.

On August 25, 1950, she married Floyd Devish. To this union joined a son ,Mark and a daughter, Mariann. In 1959, Betty cared for her parents in Gregory. Floyd owned the dry cleaners in Gregory until 1962. “Moving west”, they made their home in Winner, SD, where Floyd ran the Pheasant Cleaners, and then Modern Cleaners. Betty taught second grade and later Title teaching at West Side Elementary. She spent summers attending USD inVermillion, SD, and then received her Masters in Education. She was a member of Alpha Delta Kappa, and later she was the treasurer for the retired Winner Teachers group in which Arvis Simkins and she managed together. When Floyd passed away in 1978 at the age of 52, she continued to teach until 1991.

She enjoyed traveling to Sioux Falls to help with her grandchildren Michael and Nichole Devish. They loved grandma’s mashed potatoes and pies! In 2002, along with her brother Paul from Idaho, Betty moved to Oacoma and Chamberlain, SD, to help with raising her grandsons, Matthew and Marc Schwenk. They too loved grandma’s cooking! She to kept her home in Winner, traveling back and forth. Along with her friends and sister-in-laws, she would travel near and far; Betty never meant a stranger. She was also an avid reader, and enjoyed ordering many books,music tapes, and videos from Reader’s Digest! In her earlier years, she loved to dance. She was a very kind and gentle soul, loved by her family, friends, cats, especially Shadow and many former students.

Betty continued to live to the present with her daughter and grandsons in Chamberlain, SD. Her health had declined previously at home, and continued to decline during a short respite care stay at the Aurora-Brule Nursing Home in White Lake, SD, upon her death on October 29, 2016. She had entered hospice care earlier in October.

The Many Nicknames of South Dakota

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The Mount Rushmore State. The Sunshine State. The Swinged Cat State.

Of all the nicknames for South Dakota, perhaps none is more unusual than” The Swinged Cat State.” This nickname originated from remarks made by South Dakota’s first governor, Arthur C. Mellette, according to an article from the South Dakota State Historical Society – State Archives.

In 1890, South Dakota was in the midst of a drought. Mellette was doing everything in his power to help settlers and keep them from leaving the state. On a trip to Chicago for aid, Mellette was met by Moses P. Handy, a friend and newspaperman. Handy asked Mellette, “Well, governor, how is South Dakota?” Mellette replied, “Oh, South Dakota is a swinged cat, better than she looks.” By swinged, Mellette meant “burnt” or “singed,” according to the article. The next day, the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper had a story about Mellette, governor of the “swinged cat State.”

“Coyote State” might have been its first nickname, and while most people probably assume the nickname was inspired by the state animal, it may actually have been inspired by a horse.

According to Volume IX of South Dakota Historical Collections Compiled by the State Department of History, a race took place in October 1863 at Fort Randall between horses owned by two soldiers from Company A Dakota Cavalry and a major from the 6th Iowa Cavalry. The major’s horse was badly beaten. A soldier from the Iowa infantry remarked “that the Dakota horse ran like a coyote.” The owners immediately gave their horse that name, which became applied to the entire Dakota Company and to all residents of the state. With a nod to the number of artesian wells in the state, another South Dakota nickname is “The Artesian State.” With plains, hills, mountains, cities, towns, farmland, pasture, lakes, rivers, hot weather and freezing cold, South Dakota has also been called “The Land of Infinite Variety” and “The Land of Plenty.”

Weather is a factor in two of South Dakota’s nicknames. As “The Blizzard State,” it shares a nickname with Texas because of both states being subject to frequent storms. And while “The Sunshine State” is Florida’s official nickname, it was also South Dakota’s slogan for decades.

In 1992, the sun set on “The Sunshine State” as South Dakota’s official nickname. State Rep. Chuck Mateer, a Republican from Belle Fourche, introduced legislation that year to change the state’s nickname from “The Sunshine State” to “The Mount Rushmore State.” “Everybody’s got a lot of sunshine, but we’re the only ones who’ve got Mount Rushmore,” he was quoted as saying in an article in the Jan. 26, 1992, Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Getting the bill passed wasn’t all sunshine for supporters. Opponents argued that dropping the nickname “The Sunshine State” would cause people to think the state was in a “frozen tundra,” according to Republican Rep. Mary Edelen of Vermillion in the Feb. 1, 1992, Argus Leader. Others in favor of keeping the sun shining on South Dakota said that the state’s American Indian population did not want South Dakota to be known as “The Mount Rushmore State.”

The legislation did pass and was signed into law by Gov. George S. Mickelson, who favored the new nickname. Who knows what the future will hold for South Dakota’s nicknames? While “The Mount Rushmore State” might seem set in stone, clearly nicknames come and go.

This moment in South Dakota history is provided by the South Dakota Historical Society Foundation, the nonprofit fundraising partner of the South Dakota State Historical Society at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre. Find us on the web at www.sdhsf.org. Contact us at info@sdhsf.org to submit a story idea.