Winner High School girls basketball team defeated Crow Creek 86-30 Thursday night in Winner.
The Lady Warriors led 46-10 at the half.
Kelsey Bertram led the scoring for Winner with 35 points. She was followed by Bailey Volmer with 16 points and Sydney Fritz with 15.
Winner Area wrestling team took fifth place in the Stanley County Tournament and second in the Big Dakota Conference tournament both held Saturday in Ft. Pierre.
Parkston won the overall tournament and Stanley County won the Big Dakota.
Winner had four wrestlers place.
Cameron Biggins took second; placing third were Tyrel Haley and Kayleb Brozk with Colby Curtis taking fourth place.
Biggins, 126, lost in the championship as he was pinned in 3:03 by Luke Smith of Potter Co.
Haley, 152, won a pin in 1:36 over Jesse Mikrut, Wolsey-Wessington.
Brozik, 160, won 7-3 over Paul Waring of Miller/Highmore-Harrold.
Curtis, 113, lost 3-0 to Jackson Nockels of Kimball, White Lake.
“This is a unique tournament. There are 19 schools and only the top four place in each weight in the tournament. We were able to get four into the placing out of 10 kids,” said coach Matt Chambers. “We also had five other wrestlers still alive until the last wrestleback round. Tyrel, Kayleb, Colby and Cameron did a great job of working their way into placing matches. Wyatt Turnquist, Taylor Watzel, Ty Bolton, Jamin Dougherty and Cohl Turnquist also wrestled well but were just short of placing in the top four,” said the coach.
“As a team, I thought we improved overall from last week. I am also looking forward to the last few weeks of the season and seeing how much we can improve going into the regions,” said Chambers.
The next action for the wrestlers will be Feb. 14 at Huron.
Colome Cowgirls playd Chamberlain in the Highmore Classic on Saturday. Colome lost the game 53-31.
Taylor Hrabanek scored 10 points and Sarah Shippy added 8.
Hrabanek pulled down 6 rebounds and Shippy and Mariah Kinzer with 5 each.
Highmore-Harrold nipped the Colome boys basketball team 69-65 Saturday in the Highmore Classic.
The game was knotted at 11 at the end of the first quarter and then at the half Colome led 29-19.
“This was a tough game but very entertaining as both teams like to play fast and push the tempo,” said coach Drew Weber.
Reed Harter led the Cowboys with 24 points and Kelly O’Bryan added 17. Will Cahoy scored 9 points. Harter made 5 three point shots and O’Bryan connected on 3 three pointers.
Bonny Lou Lester, 71, of Winner, died Feb. 8.
Visitation will be held on Saturday, Feb.14 at 9 a.m. for family and close friends at the Christian Church in Winner followed by a Celebration of Life service at 10 a.m.
Bonny was born to the late Claire Hansen and Bernice Hansen, January 28, 1944, in Winner. She graduated from Winner High School in 1962 and received a degree in nursing from Clarkston College in 1965.
Bonny was a registered nurse for nearly 50 years working in labor and delivery, OB clinic and family practice. She was passionate about serving others and making a difference in their lives. Bonny was active in her local church. She enjoyed traveling and spending time with her extended family and close friends. The family farm was always her favorite place.
Bonny is survived by mother Berniece Hansen, brother Jerry Hansen and his wife Judy (Darcy & Joel Aakre, Della & Brice Thomas, Jason & Amy Hansen), brother Dennis Hansen and his wife Liz (Lana & Josh Kinsey, Corey Hansen & Amber Stevens) daughter Shannon Flaschner and her husband Dean with their children Noelle, Madison, Samuel, Mia and Jack; son Shane Lester and his children Brittany and Ava as well as many special great nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her father Clair ‘Red’ Hansen.
Chester “Burt” Arvin, 86
Mr. Arvin was born April 2, 1926 in Lilly, IL to James D. and Irene Arvin. In July 7, 1951, he married the love of his life and best friend, Margaret Ann Ayecock. They were inseparable for 63 wonderful years. Anyone who has ever made their acquaintance would agree that the two of them shared real true love and they were an inspiration to all.
Growing up poor during the Great Depression, he strived to give his children everything he never had which resulted in him becoming a very successful businessman. His two girls were his pride and joy, and he took them on many family vacations as he loved to travel. He made it to 49 of the 50 states, missing only Alaska. He took great pride in being honest and doing what was right. He loved telling stories of the old days. His favorite story was running his trap lines as a teenager in Pennsylvania where he trapped mink and sold the fur to make money.
In 1945 Chester entered the military and was assigned to the 787th MP BN. He was stationed in Paris, France during WWII where one of his duties was to guard German POWs. He looked back on his time there very fondly and loved to relive those days by speaking French and storytelling.
In 1946 he left military service and returned home to continue in the family business of beekeeping. He partnered with his brother, Roy, and began Arvin Bros. Bee Farms, which he ran until retirement in 1988. Chester was known to be an expert in his field and was highly respected.
He loved fishing with his good friend Herman McRae, cutting up and having fun. He was always the life of the party and had a laugh that would make anyone smile.
Survivors include his loving wife, Margaret Ann Arvin of Texarkana, AR; two daughters and son-in-law, Burdena (Fred) Weidner of Winner, SD, Patricia Arvin of Texarkana, AR; one sister, Myrtle May of Palestine, TX; six grandchildren: Bobby Anderson, Nathan Weidner, Chandra Cudmore, Crystal Anderson, Tiffany Weidner and Ashley Jorgensen. Ten great-grandchildren: Matthew Anderson, Kaylea Cudmore, Dustin Blacksmith, Ethen and Alexzander Cudmore, Karsten Anderson, Natalie Clairmont, Chloe Clairmont, Greyden and Griffyn Weidner; as well as many other family members and special friends.
He is preceded in death by his parents, one brother, and six sisters.
We lost our hero today.
Margaret Ann Arvin, 84
On February 8, 2015, Margaret Ann Arvin, 84, of Texarkana, AR went to be with her man, Chester.
Margaret Ann Ayecock was born November 5, 1929, at Tillar, AR, to Miles and Mabel Ayecock. She enjoyed playing on the basketball team at Tillar High School, and graduated there in 1947.
When working at Kresses department store in Pine Bluff, she met the love of her life, Chester Burton Arvin, and married him on July 7, 1951, for a union that would last 63 glorious years. She joined him in his profession of beekeeping with whatever needed done—from sewing bee screens for his semi-trailer truck to extracting honey brought in from the bee yards. Margaret was such a fast, efficient worker that Burt always said he couldn’t have accomplished what he did without her.
Margaret & Chester made their home in Foreman, AR, where they wintered their bees, but also lived near Colome, SD, each summer where they took the bees for the summer honey crop. They had two daughters, Burdena Kay and Patricia Lynn. Margaret faithfully packed the trunk of her car to travel back & forth each year following the bee trucks.
Margaret was a faithful mother teaching her children to kneel at night by their bedsides to pray, and regularly going with them to Sunday School at both the First United Methodist Church in Foreman, AR, and Calvary Chapel Church south of Colome, SD. She was currently a member of SugarHill Methodist Church of Texarkana, AR.
In 1980 her first grandchild, Bobby, was born and he was the joy of her life.
After retiring in 1988, the couple parked their new RV at Burdena & son-in-law Fred’s ranch south of Winner, SD, for several summers and were nearby to help both of their girls & spoil the grandkids. All of the grandchildren adored both Grandma & Grandpa (Pa).
Survivors include two daughters and son-in-law, Burdena (Fred) Weidner of Winner, SD, Patricia Arvin of Texarkana, AR; one sister, Artie Halford, of Dumas, AR; one brother, Terry Ayecock, of Tillar, AR; sister-in-law Margaret Ayecock-Frank; six grandchildren: Bobby Anderson, Nathan Weidner, Chandra Cudmore, Crystal Anderson, Tiffany Weidner, Ashley Jorgensen; and ten great-grandchildren: Matthew Anderson, Kaylea Cudmore, Dustin Blacksmith, Ethen and Alexzander Cudmore, Karsten Anderson, Natalie Clairmont, Chloe Clairmont, Greyden Weidner, and Griffyn Weidner; as well as many other family members and special friends.
She was preceeded in death by her loving husband by only three days; her parents, two brothers, and three sisters.
The South Dakota Army National Guard’s 155th Engineer Company has received an alert order for possible mobilization to Kuwait.
The 155th and its 162 assigned members are scheduled for deployment in the August 2015 timeframe. The unit’s headquarters is in Rapid City with its Detachment 1 in Wagner. The unit includes five to six persons from the Winner area. Of the company’s 162 members, 90 are from Wagner and the surrounding area.
The 155th is a vertical engineer company capable of providing engineer support in the construction of base camps as well as constructing, repairing and maintaining other vertical infrastructures in support of units within a brigade combat team, division or corps.
The unit will report to Fort Bliss, Texas, to complete several weeks of theater-specific training prior to deployment overseas.
This will be the second mobilization for the 155th which deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Noble Eagle in 2002-2003.
Nine years ago Marla Bull Bear did a vision quest, something traditionally done by young men to seek life guidance. She hiked a summit above the pine timber reserves on the Rosebud Reservation, her home, and waited quietly for answers.
The reason behind the vision quest was a feeling that she, and other community leaders needed to do something about a rash of suicides that occurred on the Rosebud about 10 years ago. They met with at the St. Francis school in 2002 to brainstorm solutions. Roy Stone, a medicine man from Mission, opened the program with a prayer and spoke of the Lakota circle of life. Other leaders offered their perspectives. Later, someone surveyed the youth to see if any of the ideas had an impact. Most teens mentioned one particular speaker: the medicine man.
“I thought about that for a while and then I realized that he was different because he spoke about their culture and they must have wanted that connection,” says Marla Bull Bear, a camp founder. She and several friends brainstormed and came up with the idea of a summer of camps designed to connect the teens with their Lakota roots.
After the first summer Bull Bear was happy with the success of the camps but had a feeling she must do more. She and six female friends then did the vision quest, 24 hours on the summit. Meditating about what path her life should take. “That helped me clarify what I need to do,” she said. That was 9 years and 6,000 campers ago.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe provided ten acres on the site of Milk’s Camp, a near forgotten village founded by the renowned Chief Milk. Most original residences are now gone, but there is a pow wow grounds remaining along Ponca Creek and an Episcopal Church. Chief Milk is buried on a hill above the old church.
The youth retreats are known as Family Camp. At least four camps are held every summer, each four days long with a different theme. Harvest camp in early June is based around the Indian culture’s edible and medicinal herbs. Three hundred have been identified on the camp’s grounds including wild turnips, purple coneflower (the root eases toothaches) sweet grass used for smudging and wide-leaf wild sage that was brought from Bear Butte.
The other themes are hunting, leadership camp and horsemanship. Bullbear and her assistants don’t have the time or resources to track the success rate of the youth who have attended camps. In fact, they hardly have the resources to run the camps. “We run on a shoestring,” she told a South Dakota Magazine writer. “The tribe has helped. The state has helped. If we had $100,000 a year we would be flourishing. We are probably operating on half of that.”
To raise more money, Bull Bear and her helpers at the Native American Advocacy Program are inviting tourists to Milk’s Camp for retreats, reunions or group gatherings. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn the about Lakota culture while sleeping in canvas tipis and lodge houses. Bull Bear helps that welcoming visitors will raise enough revenue to continue the Family Camps in summer.
During the dead of winter it’s fun to think of riding horses on green grass, searching for while turnips, singing around the campfire and taking nature walks. We all feel that way, but none more so than the kids from Rosebud and Pine Ridge who attended Family Camp. If you are making summer vacation plans in February, check out the website at www.lakotanaap.org to see what they have to offer for non-campers. You might learn something new.
The tall prairie grass would have rolled like waves sweeping across a windy bay.
Stan Johnson imagined how the wind would have swept the prairie grass 100 years earlier as he traveled near Milbank on a passenger train.
In 1941, Johnson’s parents allowed him to travel alone from Chicago, Ill., to Tacoma, Wash., on the Olympian, one of America’s greatest luxury trains of pre-World War II days. Johnson’s stepfather was a conductor on the Olympian and, although he was only 13, Johnson had already made many trips by train from the West Coast to Chicago. Johnson described the journey in “The Milwaukee Road Olympian: A Ride to Remember,” published by the Museum of North Idaho.
The Olympian was operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the Milwaukee Road) between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. It featured elegant air-conditioned cars, comfortable berths and gourmet dining. The Olympian entered South Dakota near Big Stone City about 5 hours after pulling out of the St. Paul Union Station at 8:40 a.m. Central Time, according to one of the book’s reproduced timetables.
The many Irish and Dutch families who settled near Milbank raised grain and built windmills that ground grain into flour. By the time Johnson traveled through Milbank, the sole windmill stood in the center of town as a historical monument.
The Olympian traveled past Webster, Bristol, Andover, Groton and Bath, all known as ’10-mile towns’ because of the spacing between sidings, Johnson wrote.
Johnson realized the area through which the train was passing had once been prime buffalo hunting country. Now Johnson saw migratory birds, and hoped in vain to see coyotes and pheasants.
The Olympian pulled into Aberdeen’s brick depot on time at 3:50 p.m. and stopped for 10 minutes as train and engine crews were changed.
“The place was planned as a railroad town and had fulfilled expectations,” Johnson wrote. “There was a train in or out of the city every 18 minutes in 1920. West of town were Milwaukee-run stockyards for cattle, sheep and hogs, and in town there was a large freight yard and engine terminal facilities, including a roundhouse.”
Four railroads went through Aberdeen in 1941, and branch lines radiated from the city.
At Ipswich, a town that had once led the nation in the shipping of bison bones that were used for fertilizer, the grade began to climb. A small geological marker near Selby noted the edge of the Great American Desert and the beginning of the true West. Johnson’s plans for this trip’s introduction to the West began in Mobridge.
During summers in the 1930s and 1940s, Lakota dancers met the Olympian when it made a 12-minute stop at Mobridge. It became an event eagerly anticipated by train passengers.
“The Indians dressed in the most gorgeous of ceremonial outfits: full eagle-feathered headdresses, buckskin fringed leggings and skirts with beadwork, small bells and porcupine quills sewn in intricate designs, and exquisite handmade moccasins with still more beadwork on their feet,” Johnson wrote.
The group would dance several short dances to the beat of a small drum that one of the children would play.
“It was exciting to be there close to them and to witness something unquestionably genuine and real. It was like someone operating a window back into history,” Johnson stated.
After leaving the depot at Mobridge, Johnson looked down into the yellow-brown water of the Missouri River as Olympian crossed the Missouri River bridge. The first train steamed across the bridge in March 1908.
“The trusses of the bridge, angled for strength, slipped past the window on an oblique pathway that caused them to appear to be moving first up and then down, almost as though they were involved in some sort of rhythmic dance. The bridge was long, nearly as long as 10 football fields laid end to end, so there was plenty of time to enjoy the experience,” Johnson wrote.
Johnson realized that the Missouri River divided the state into two different areas: the prairie grassland of the west side and the crop farming of the east side. He also noted that South Dakota landscape could be characterized as being one of two types. “Either it is gently rolling grassy plains with low rounded hills, or a harsher, sterner countryside of hills and gullies eroded by the sun and wind and water, watched over by higher and sharper hills.”
The Olympian reached Lemmon at 7:30 p.m. Mountain Time.
“The town and countryside looked like a movie Western gunfight set, but historically Lemmon had been known as one of the places where ranchers raising sheep and cattle and those farming got along especially well,” Johnson wrote.
The Olympian soon entered North Dakota, and Johnson continued on his memorable ride to Tacoma. Johnson became, among other things, an elevator operator, a newspaper reporter and an academic psychologist. But mostly, he remained a man who knew and loved railroads.
PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations (SDDTR) has partnered with the South Dakota Department of Agriculture (SDDA) to highlight ‘Cooperation in Agriculture’ during this legislative session at the State-Tribal Relations Events on Feb. 25 and 26 in Pierre.
“Agriculture is key to both the state and the tribes,” said Steve Emery, Secretary of Tribal Relations. “We have brought together a great mix of people in the ag industry from state, tribes and federal entities that reflect our theme ‘Cooperation in Agriculture.’”
Events start with a State-Tribal Listening Session from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CST on Wednesday, Feb. 25, followed by a Legislative Reception from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. CST. Secretary Emery will be honored by Gov. Daugaard for his recent appointment to the Governor’s cabinet. These events are by invitation only.
“When working together, opportunities in agriculture are endless for both our state and tribes,” said Lucas Lentsch, South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture. “We hope this event opens doors for both agricultural and tribal leaders to explore the many possibilities.”
On Thursday, Feb. 26, tribal, federal and state agricultural booths will be available in the Capitol Rotunda from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. CST. A Rotunda Ceremony will be held from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. CST featuring a welcome from Gov. Daugaard as well as comments by tribal leaders.
The tribal honor guard, Rosebud’s Sincagu Lakota Warriors, will be present. Tribal singers and dancers from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate’s Tiospa Zina and Enemy Swim Tribal Schools will perform and a traditional buffalo stew will be prepared and served by the Lower Brule High School ProStart Culinary Program with supplies donated from InterTribal Buffalo Council and Lakota Thrifty Mart. Events in the Capitol Rotunda are free and open to the public.
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