As members of the Elks-USA from across the nation
gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, from July 5–9, Catherine M. Mayes, of Winner, was installed as district deputy to the Elks National President for the lodges in the West District of the South Dakota Elks Association.
Mayes was installed at the Order’s 151th Elks National Convention currently under way in Indianapolis, Indiana, where over 9,000 members and guests were present. She will serve a one-year term.
By The Mail-Sun, Sheldon Iowa
SHELDON, Iowa — Former Tripp County resident Jack Duffy was surrounded by old friends and admirers during a return to the northwest Iowa town where he worked for more than three decades.
The longtime director of education at East Elementary School in Sheldon, Iowa, came “home” for the dedication of the Jack B. Duffy Reading Room in his honor on July 3. Dozens of people attended the event and seized the chance to say thanks to a man who devoted three decades to the school.
By Sen. Billie Sutton
The Blue Ribbon Task-Force on Teachers and Students that was created by Governor Daugaard, of which I am a member, kicked off its first official meeting on July 7th.
There are 26 total task force members from all across South Dakota, half is made up of legislators and half is made up of members of the general public. The other 13 members are legislators and Governor’s office staff. As you can see, the task force is made up of a very diverse and qualified group of caring South Dakotans. We are lucky to have local Superintendent Erik Person from Burke on the task force. He will be a valuable asset representing the small schools in our district. This group definitely has its work cut out for it as we move forward in solving South Dakota’s teacher shortage crisis. I am excited for the opportunity to address unanswered questions and find solutions to make sure we keep and attract the best and brightest teachers to our state and cement the success of future generations.
The overarching goal of the task-force is to answer this question:
What possibilities are there to meaningfully fund education for our kids and our communities?
In order to answer this question we will have to take into account the 151 separate school districts and 128,294 students educated in our schools. Every school district has unique needs and challenges, which makes accomplishing meaningful reforms a complicated task. It’s a worthwhile and rewarding task, though and I believe education should be the most important focus of both the legislature and the general public as 1/3 of our state’s general fund budget goes towards funding K-12 education.
Early on in this process the Governor laid out three goals for education that I wholeheartedly agree with. As South Dakotans, we should all want:
A quality system of schools focused on student achievement;
A workforce of great teachers; and
An efficient, equitable funding system that supports those goals.
By Dan Merritt, Advocate Reporter
“For as the lightning flashes in the east and shines to the west, so it will be when the Son of Man comes,” it says in the Bible.
Well, it’s not exactly the “Son of Man” who’s come to Winner to fill empty pulpits here.
But two “sons of men” have arrived at this time to pastor churches in town and the area — Tyler Greathouse and family coming from Chicago out of the East.
He’s at Carter Gospel Fellowship Church, Carter. But he lives in Winner.
And the other, George Kraft and family, comes from Ajo, Ariz. out the West.
He’s at the Assembly of God Church, Winner, living the parsonage directly next to the church facility.
By Dan Merritt, Advocate Reporter
Some young adults lay on the floor in the Tripp County ambulance building at Winner, Tuesday night (June 30).
And others were feeling them.
Sometimes they laughed. Which can cause an emergency care provider to jump a bit, according to John Hofeldt, an EMT at Colome.
He’s helping with a summer EMT course being taught at Winner by field emergency treatment specialist Katheryn Benton of Chamberlain.
She’s a critical care paramedic, manger/director of the Missouri Valley Ambulance Service, and a state training officer for SDEMTA among a number of other teaching and faculty designations.
Sometimes when checking out a person in an emergency — feeling arms, legs, shoulders, back, ribs to determine injuries — an EMT can hit a “ticklish” spot and evoke laughter. Or an unconscious person can jerk suddenly.
Which can cause the EMT to rear back a bit. Especially an inexperienced one. It’s not the best scenario, Hofeldt indicated.
But there are many sudden, surprising things that can happen when dealing with people in health crisis, he indicated.
One has to adjust quickly/appropriately. Be cool.
By Dan Merritt, Advocate Reporter
Announcement by Jeb Bush that he’s running for President June 15 last week didn’t send people into the streets here in Winner or the area, ringing bells and expressing joy.
He’s the third Bush in 27 years to announce he’s seeking the nation’s highest office.
He’s one too many for Mack Cox who was part of a phone poll of Winner and Winner area citizens conducted by the Advocate on Monday and Tuesday, June 15 and 16.
Names were randomly picked from the phone book.
When it comes to being President, “I just don’t like three out of the same family. Two’s plenty,” Cox said.
He’s respectful of the Bushes — the father George and his son George W. (Jeb’s brother). “But I just don’t want a third one.”
There are plenty in the running to choose from.
A problem at the WAPA substation in Winner shut off power to the city of Winner and also affected Rosebud Electric customers Thursday afternoon. No details were available what tripped off the substation.
The power was off from about 1 to 3:30 p.m.
WAPA sent a man to Winner to check on the substation and they were able to get the power back on.
WAPA was back in Winner on Monday to check on the substation, which is located south of town, to make sure everything was working order.
Gene Welch received a certificate for 20 years as a highway contract carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. He works out of the Winner Post Office.
His route includes the Millboro, Wewela, Clearfield and Keyapaha areas. He has 144 boxes on his route. Welch travels 200 miles a day.
Welch started work at the post office in 1995.
By Dan Bechtold, Editor
A powerful storm with dangerous winds ripped through Tripp County Sunday night.
There was a tornado warning issued for Winner but it expired at about 9 p.m. Rain, thunder, lighting and strong winds were recorded in Winner. At one point the wind speed was 76 miles per hour.
Winner received .56 inches of rain.
However, there were other places that received a lot more rain.
Tresh Swedlund who lives west and north of Winner along Highway 183 received 5.25 inches of rain in an hour and twenty-five minutes.
Persons in the Ideal area received over five inches of rain. The wind in this area was so strong that it blew the roof off the former Ideal School. The wind gusts at Ideal were recorded at 71 miles.
There were reports of the power off in the Ideal area.
Also, south of Winner residents were without power for a time during the storm. The power in Winner remained on as the wind blew Sunday night.
North of the Colome area a tornado was spotted around 9 p.m. and the sirens went off in Colome. The tornado did not touch the ground.
In Tripp County, there reports of water over the road. In fact, on Highway 183 near the Ideal turnoff, cattails were washed onto the highway.
Monday crews from the Tripp County Highway department were inspecting roads for damage.
Prior to the storm, Sunday’s temperatures were very hot and humid providing energy for the storm to build.
Winner/Colome Legion baseball team defeated Platte 3-0 in 11 innings June 26 in Platte.
“This was one of the best Legion games I have seen in a long time,” said coach Drew Weber. “Both teams were solid defensively,” added the coach.
Reed Harter started on the mound and pitched 9 scoreless innings giving up 4 hits, 6 walks and striking out 8.
Kelly O’Bryan came in and picked up the win in relief.
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