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Volume 140Number 107 The Dakotas’ Oldest Newspaper | 20 PAGES | www.yankton.net
PRESS&DAKOTAN
SATURDAYAugust 30, 2014
South Dakota Country Music Hall of Fame Presents:
Elaine Peacock & Friends Youth Program Th e So u th Da ko ta Co u n try M u sic H a ll o f Fa m e (SDCM H o F) w ill gath er at th e So u th Da ko ta
State Fa irgro u n d s in H u ro n , SD, o n S atu rd ay, Au gu st 30 fo r a very specia l sh o w . Ela in e Pea co ck & Frien d s Yo u th Pro gra m w ith featu red gu est Ra ch el W o o d .
The show will be presented on the Farm Bureau Dakotaland Stage at Gate 3 starting at 6 p.m. For details visit us on the web at southdakotacountrymusichalloffame.org or
contact the South Dakota Country Music Hall of Fame at 605-310-2441.
Ready To Roll
BY RANDY [email protected]
arly South Dakota settlers blazed trailswith their horses and wagons, creating anew life and a new state.
Their pioneering spirit will return nextmonth, celebrating the state’s 125th an-niversary with a modern-day wagon trainrunning from Yankton to Pierre.
Next Wednesday, area residents will gather at theYankton rodeo grounds to kick off the 250-mile wagonride. The rodeo grounds are located a half-mile west ofthe Highway 50-81 intersection on the north side of Yank-ton.
The wagon train should provide an exciting and his-toric sight for all visitors, said South Dakota Magazinepublisher Bernie Hunhoff.
“Gerald Kessler, the wagon master, said there weregoing to be 40 wagons, so there may be over 100 people,”said Hunhoff, one of the kick-off organizers. “If that holdstrue, it will be a long wagon train.”
A special invitation is extended for young people toview the wagon train and learn more about their state’shistory, according to one of the event’s organizers.
“Bring your children and grandchildren,” urged Car-men Schramm, executive director of the Yankton AreaChamber of Commerce. “This will be their memory ofour state’s 125th birthday, and we’ll have a good time.”
Yankton Gears Up For StartOf Modern-Day Wagon Train
BY JORDYNNE [email protected]
Members of the DakotaPrairie Quilt Guild havestitched together a quilt thatwill soon be South Dakotahistory. The quilt is made outof “orphan blocks” of pastguild projects. It will be sentoff with wagon master GeraldKessler for the state’s quin-centennial wagon train.
The wagon train will startin Yankton on Sept. 3 and endat the state capitol in Pierreon Sept. 20.
Kessler plans on takingthe quilt on the 17-day wagontrain for people across thestate to sign.
“It will be a great addition
to the wagon train. I think it’sa swell idea,” Kessler said.“When we’re done, it will behistory.”
Kessler and SharonHeisinger, president of theDakota Prairie Quilt Guild,plan to present the quilt tothe state Cultural HeritageCenter in Pierre.
Quilt guild members JoyceBrunken of Yankton who hasbeen making quilts since 1979and Ber Peitz of Hartingtonwho has been making quiltssince 1977 put together theorphan quilt.
Branken said that the quiltguild had a lot of extra or-phan blocks that needed to
BY ROB [email protected]
Some were caught by surpriseThursday night when a tornadotouched down with no prior warningin the Mayfield area north of Yankton.
This surprise extended to the Na-tional Weather Service (NWS), accord-ing to NWS meteorologist Mike Fuhs.
“It’s fairly uncommon for a tor-nado to touch down in the environ-ment we had (Thursday) night,” Fuhssaid.
He explained that Thursday’s at-mospheric conditions were commonfor this time of year and that it wassomewhat baffling to see them pro-duce a tornadic storm.
“There was a little service warmfront there and there was also lowpressure just to the south of Yank-ton,” he said. “Honestly, during thecourse of the summer, this type of sit-uation happens all the time and torna-does will not form. Why this decidedto get going out of this one cell is stilla bit of a mystery to me — why it de-cided to touch down instead of justremaining a funnel cloud. ... Therewas some weak rotation being shownon the radar, but other storms will
Yankton Co.Tornado Called
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KELLY HERTZ/ P&D Members of the Dakota Prairie Quilt Quild made a quilt tosend off with wagon master Gerald Kessler on the wagontrain September 3. Kessler will take the quilt on the 17 daytrip across the state for people to sign. Guild members BerPeitz of Hartington (left) and Joyce Braken (right) hold thequilt that will soon be a part of South Dakota history. Thequilt will be given to the state Cultural Heritage center onceit is done.
KELLY HERTZ/ P&DThis tornado, which struck in northeastYankton County Thursday night, took res-idents and meteorologists by surprise.National Weather Service meteorologistMike Fuhs told the Press & Dakotan Fri-day the storm formed in conditions nor-mally unfavorable for tornadoes.
TORNADO| PAGE 18
QUILT | PAGE 18
KELLY HERTZ/P&DYankton Convention and Visitors Center Director Stephanie Moser, left, and Yankton Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Carmen Schrammdisplay the South Dakota state flag and the 125th anniversary flag in from of the Dakota Territorial Capitol in Riverside Park. They are working withothers on the South Dakota 125th Anniversary Wagon Train, which hits the road Thursday from Yankton for a 17-day trip to Pierre. A program and cel-ebration will be held Wednesday at the rodeo grounds on W. Highway 50.
Orphan Quilt To Be APatchwork Of History
WAGON | PAGE 18
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