The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced that the city of Winner public water system and the system’s operation specialists have been awarded a drinking water certificate of achievement award.
The system specialists are Danny Ayers, Calvin Cerv, Mark Leibrich, Josh Anderson, Mike Brown and Lynn Tilton.
Agent Wendy Mortenson of Winner was the American Family Insurance 2016 Agent of the Month for the month of April.
Mortenson has been an agent with American Family since September of 2011.
Winner youths competed in the USA state freestyle and Greco wrestling meet Sunday in Harrisburg.
In the 9-10 division, Karson Keiser got first in freestyle and first in Greco at 70 pounds.
In the 11-12, Riley Shippy got first in freestyle and first in Greco at 105 pounds.
In 13-14, Kaden Keiser got first in freestyle and first in Greco at 91 pounds.
In 15-16, Wyatt Turnquist placed first in freestyle and first in Grego in 113 pounds.
The Colome City Council honored Glenn Sealey for his 34 years of service to the city of Colome at their recent meeting.
Sealey began his public service in 1982 and was instrumental in many city improvements over the years.
He spent most of those years as a councilman with a stint as mayor and retired from his position as Ward 2 councilman effective May 2.
Area students were honored at Dakota Wesleyan University during the school’s honors night on April 29.
Michael Rohde, Colome, received an alumni medal for scholarship in biology.
Sara Husher of Winner received the St. Joseph Hospital endowed scholarship. Husher also received the Sigma Zeta award in science and mathematics.
Tyler Vavra of Winner received the F. Dwain Randall scholarship.
Honors in scholarship winners were Austin Calhoon of Winner; Anthony Husher of Winner; Michael Rohde of Colome; Tyler Vavra, Winner; Sara Husher, Winner.
Scholar-athlete awards were presented to Anthony Husher, Austin Calhoon, Sara Husher.
Skylar Forgey of Dallas, earned all-American status is track and field. She received the podium at the national meet for the first time in her career taking fifth in the 1,000 meter run.
In men’s golf, Anthony Husher is a NAIA/Daktronics All-America scholar athlete.
Winner Area girls golf team won first place at the Stanley County Invite. The Lady Warriors shot a 273.
Ronae Klein placed second with an 86 and Liz Jankauskas placed 4th with an 88.
Also golfing for the varsity were Sam Marts and Addy Root.
In the junior varsity division, Cheyenne Dougherty won first place with a 101.
Also golfing on the JV team were Lauren Norrid, Kiersten Durrin, Jordyn Seegers and Macy Olson.
Three Winner High School relays teams qualified for the state meet at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays this weekend in Sioux Falls.
The boys and girls medley and the boys mile relay team all qualified.
The Lady Warriors medley relay team placed 9th in 4:27.9. Runners were Hayley Halverson, Alexis Richey, Sam Schuyler and Chloe Bartels.
The boys medley placed 4th in 3:40.022. Runners are Riley Calhoon, Cameron Kuil, Luke Engel and Kayleb Brozik.
The boys mile relay team took 7th in a time of 3:33.802. Runners were Luke Engel, Riley Calhoon, Kayleb Brozik and Cameron Kuil.
“The kids love running at Howard Wood because they get to run against very good competition and it gives them a good measuring stick of where they are at compared to the rest state,” said coach Larry Aaker.
Seven of the eight relays that Winner ran ended up running their best time so far this season.
Cameron Kuil qualified for the state track meet in the 200 at the Miller Invitational on May 3. Kuil won the 200 in :22.49.
The Winner girls mile relay team won first place in 4:22.94. Runners were Hayley Halverson, Chloe Bartels, Alexis Richey and Samantha Schuyler.
Matt Campbell of Colome won first place in the discus at the Freeman track meet. The Colome High School junior threw the discus 169-03.
In the shot put, Campbell took fourth with a throw of 44-01.
Matt Campbell of Colome placed third in the discus at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays Saturday in Sioux Falls.
Campbell threw the discus 157-9.48.
In the shot put, Campbell placed 11th a throw of 47-11.75.
Holden Thieman ran the 400 in :52.95.5. The Colome athlete also competed in the long jump.
Kelly O’Bryan competed in the triple jump.
Taylor Hrabanek competed in the long jump and Jaclyn Laprath ran both the mile and two mile.
Laprath ran the mile in 6:06.24 and the two mile in 12:54.11.
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