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KEYSTONE CHAPTER#33, OES
Keystone Chapter #33, OES,met Thursday, Jan. 16, at theMasonic Temple, Yankton. ChrisBryan, Worthy Matron, presided.Final plans were made for the Of-ficial Visit of Kristy Erickson, As-sociate Grand Matron, on Feb.22, 2014. School of Instructionwill be at 2 p.m. with the eveningmeeting at 7 p.m. Members andguests will have supper at PizzaRanch between meetings.
Carol Frey gave the auditor’sreport for 2013.
Janelle Kribel hosted the so-cial hour featuring a Valentine’sDay theme.
The next regular meeting willbe Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7:30p.m. at the Masonic Temple inYankton.
YANKTON TOASTMASTERCLUB 1294
Yankton Toastmaster Club1294 met Saturday, Jan. 18, at7:30 a.m. at the Fry’n PanRestaurant. The meeting wascalled to order by PresidentSteve Hamilton. The invocationwas given by Roy Wilcox fol-lowed by Roy leading the Pledgeof Allegiance to the flag. JeremySkrenes was introduced as theToastmaster of the meeting. Hecalled on grammarian JohnSwenson to give the word of theday, which was “opacity” andmeans clarity. Table Topics waslead by Joy Winther on “Just ALittle Please” from the Compe-tent Communicator, TheresaRentsch on “Bless Your Heart”
from the Comp. Comm. manualand Kathy Hejna on “Identifyinga Need” from the PersuasiveSpeaking manual. Master Evalu-ator of the meeting was JanaLinne, who evaluated the meet-ing and called on Janice Kruse toevaluate Janice Stone, MikeArens to evaluate Theresa andKevin Buhl to evaluate Kathy.Presentations were also given bygrammarian John S., AhCounter/Nail Dropper MattStone, timer Jack Oahlseid andVote counter John Swensen.Table Topic winners were Jackand Roy, best speaker wasTheresa and best evaluator wasKevin.
INTERCHANGEInterchange met at noon on
Jan. 20, 2014, at Avera SacredHeart Hospital/Northern Lights.The meeting was called to orderby President Frani Kieffer, andthe Pledge of Allegiance was re-cited.
The following announce-ments were made: GourmetGuys tickets for the Jan. 25 eventare now on sale at the library andHy-Vee; the Yankton Women’sand Children’s Center annualfundraiser, Heart to Heart, is Feb.8 with tickets available fromKathy Jacobs; tickets for Womenof Distinction are available fromthe Chamber committee mem-bers for the Feb. 17 event; Wil-son & McKee will performScottish, Irish and acoustic musicat the G. A. R. Hall on Jan. 23, 7p.m., with free admission.
Hostess Pam Rezac lead atour of the new Northern Lights
addition, explaining the new ad-dition and reallocated space inthe current hospital that was a re-sult of the building project.
Next meeting is at noon onMonday, Jan. 27, at Minerva’s.Nancy Sternhagen, SchaapSternhagen & Co. CPA PC, ishostess. Kelsie Thoreson, TeenProgram & Court Coordinator,will present on the new TeenCourt program in the Yanktonarea.
LADIES VFW AUXILIARY The meeting of the Ladies
Auxiliary to Ernest Bowyer V.F.W.Post 791 opened by PresidentJoyce Stahlecker. Roll call, open-ing prayer, patriotic instructions,pledge to the flag and the StarSpangled banner was song.
Reading of the last meetingread by Schramm and Treasur-ers report by Stoddard. Readingof bill, Correspondence and Gen-eral by Schramm. Stahlecker in-troduced Linda Zimmerman whois a cancer victim and thankedthe Auxiliary for the cancer dona-tion. Committee reports weregiven: Church by Christensen,Funerals by Schramm, had twothis month, Edwin Olson andDoris Peterson. National Homeby List, ask to save Campbellcoupons and by National HomeLife Memberships. Hospital bySlowey, Cards to members weresent, members cancer Donationand a report on HSC with 16 vol-unteers, 20 hours and 60 Bene-fited.
No unfinished business. NewBusiness: Margie Olson Thankedeveryone for their help and assis-
tance at the time of Edwin’sPassing Away. She presented acheck to Cancer Aid and Re-search. Stahlecker reported onthe funeral luncheon. She ask forVolunteers to take the Christmasdecoration down after the meet-ing.
Stanage then advised thatSlowey and herself would like tobe replaced with new Volunteersat the HSC Parties beginning inJune.
Cash donation were byBroders, Olson and Born. A dis-cussion and motion was made toset up a new State ConventionFund (for the upcoming conven-tion at Yankton) and place thesefunds in that account. QuarterlyAudit Report was read and car-ried. Report of Trustees givingand carried.
Christensen made a new bagto carry our large flags and theold bag was washed.
The next meeting will Feb. 11at 7:30 p.m.
AMERICAN LEGIONAUXILIARY
Roy Anderson Unit #12American Legion Auxiliary meton Jan. 20, 2014, with PresidentBetty Adam presiding. Therewere 16 members present.Chaplain Kathleen Ekeren wasabsent and President Adam of-fered the opening prayer, fol-lowed by the Pledge to the Flag.Members sang America theBeautiful, recited the Preamble tothe Constitution of the AmericanLegion Auxiliary and observed amoment of Silent Prayer.
Six officers answered RollCall after which the 16 memberspresent introduced themselves.Minutes of the November 18meeting were read and finding noadditions or corrections were ap-proved. Priscilla Mazourek pre-sented the Treasurers report thatwas also approved on motion byNatalie Frick second by TheresaBrandt. Membership reports thatthere are currently 108 paid upmembers. This year’s quota hasbeen set at 120 members.
Monies toward the BakeessBake Sale have been arrivingvery slowly. Members were re-minded that this is a majorfundraiser for the Auxiliary andthat there is still time to makecontribution.
Letters have been sent to alljunior girls concerning GirlsState.
Mae Tienken, CommunityService Chair, introduced mem-bers of the staff at the Girls andBoys Club who presented infor-
mation concerning that organiza-tion. Question and Answer ses-sion followed.
Watch for announcementsconcerning the Legislation Pro-gram. The Legislators will beconducting a Cracker barrel at 10a.m. at Sacred Heart Pavilion.
Brandt and Frick made mo-tion and second to contribute $20toward Citizen of the Year pro-gram. Motion carried.
Motion made by Marlys Listsecond by Mae Tienken waspassed to pay for the purchase ofstamps.
President Adam read the let-ter from District 8 President LindaYoungbluth.
The coin march netted$19.40.
President Adam offered aclosing prayer and the meetingwas adjourned. The next meetingwill be held Feb. 17, 2014.
Rose Robinson and DianneBahn served lunch.
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BY BRENDA K. JOHNSONP&D Correspondent
Look for people dedicated to a place likeSpirit Mound and its prairie restoration andyou’ll find a few of them gathered to seed sixacres at the base of the mound.
It’s a brisk calm afternoon in late fall at theSpirit Mound National Historic Site off High-way 19 north of Vermillion, just before ex-pected snowfall. Earlier in the season theLewis & Clark Spirit Mound Trust opted for ag-gressive management to deter smooth bromeencroachment of this plot between the trail tothe mound and the highway. Native flower andgrass prairie restoration has been underwayfor more than a decade, and a few areas re-main resistant to management.
“This six acre plot was rescued fromsmooth brome,” Eric VanderStouwe said.
VanderStouwe is the South Dakota Game,Fish, & Parks district supervisor for themound, as well as Adams Homestead nearSioux City, Lake Alvin near Harrisburg, andstate parks at Newton Hills, Union, and GoodEarth at Blood Run near Sioux Falls. Vander-Stouwe helped with Spirit Mound prairierestoration years before his current position.SD Game, Fish, & Parks and National Park Serv-ice are partners with Spirit Mound Trust to ad-minister and manage the site.
“[The plot] had been seeded with nativegrass like most of Spirit Mound in fall of 2001,but it never flourished,” he said. “This plot wasold pasture. There was a little Switchgrass andBig Bluestem that popped through, and thatmay have always been in the seed bank.Brome can be an invasive species if not man-aged.”
“This past season [2013] was the ‘year ofthe brome’ here,” Jim Heisinger said. He isEmeritus Professor of Biology at the Universityof South Dakota and President of the SpiritMound Trust. “We had such a cool, wet spring,favorable to brome. The six-acre plot had beenplanted with native grasses but brome tookover.
“We took an aggressive route to get rid ofthe brome with glyphosate herbicide severaltimes in the season to get rid of the brome inthe seed bed,” VanderStouwe said. “Brome hassuch a thick thatch layer, at least two inches.Brome was here many years. We asked the Ver-million Fire Department to come out and do acontrolled burn to kill any remaining bromeand to burn the thatch layer.”
The year before, in regular managementpractice to get rid of brome in native grass,they had burned the six acre plot in late Maywhen the brome was more vulnerable and be-fore the warm season grasses broke dormancy.But brome came back. In contrast, the areaalong the trail to the mound has respondedwell with regular management.
“This coming year I plan a more aggressiveplan for this plot with timely mowing to mowthe brome off at the four to five leaf stage toknock it back,” VanderStouwe said.
WHAT TO SOW“A lot of discussion went into the discus-
sion about what forbs [wildflowers] and nativegrass seed to plant and getting the seed,” saidMark Wetmore, Vice President and Treasurerof the Spirit Mound Trust.
One of the trust board members, DianneBlankenship, has provided hand-collectedseed from near Sioux City. Some seed for thisplanting was purchased by the trust, with onesource as Millborn Seeds of North Sioux City,South Dakota.
“Dianne gets forb and grass seed that arefor different levels,” Heisinger said. “In 320acres, you have the dry mound [hill] area andthe wetter [and flatter] Spirit Mound Creekarea. We want diversity of plants.” Many kindsof upland and lowland plants are found in na-ture and draw many kinds of birds and otherwildlife.
“That’s why we opted for some stiff sun-flower seeds for birds to perch on,” he said.“The only jackrabbit I’ve seen for years washere.”
Wetmore named some of the forb seeds in-cluded in this day’s sowing: silky aster, roughblazing star, purple coneflower, leadplant, andstiff stem sunflower, along with several speciesof native grasses.
“We try to select seed from as close by thesite as we can so they will have the same ge-netic traits,” VanderStouwe said. “Dianne andMark followed a pattern set earlier for the seed
mixes and quantities of each species in themix.”
“Today’s mix is about 70% forbs and 30%native grasses, with Little Bluestem as thedominant species of grass,” VanderStouwesaid. “In some plantings [elsewhere], I’ve used60% forbs and 40% grasses. On ConservationReserve Program land, it might be 90% grassand 10% forbs, if any.” Use of the land andawareness of competition between plantspecies are two of the factors for determiningspecies percentages in the mixture. “Calibra-tion of this mixture of seed may not be so defi-nite, but Mother Nature does her calibrationonce the seed is dispersed.”
Late fall is a good time to plant forbs. Hesaid that forbs take cold stratification, a periodof cold in nature, along with naturalfreeze/thaw to help break seed shells for germi-nation. Seeds are ready to grow when condi-tions are right. “This enables forbs to have aneven start with native grasses.”
“There’s a discussion among prairierestoration people about whether it is better todrill or broadcast seed,” Heisinger said. “Broad-casting favors forbs because when you drillseed, they may be planted too deep.”
“You want forb seeds to be about 1/3 inchdeep in soil. Some drills come with a 1/2-inchsetting. If you broadcast seed, some may beeaten or drift away or may not get soil contactthey need. Hope is that Mother Nature will helpwith that,” VanderStouwe said.
TIME TO SOW VanderStouwe puts all the forb and grass
seeds together in a bag and mixes the diversesize and shape seeds well, except the hand-col-lected stiff stem sunflower, which will be dis-persed separately due to its extra stems andchaff. He sets the calibration on the Game Fish& Parks Vicon broadcast spreader that hebrought to the site on a trailer. He will drive asmall tractor to pull the spreader.
“We try to disperse seed about nine to tenpounds per acre on prairie plantings.
He pours the seed into the funnel-shapedcontainer on the spreader. “This sling seederconsistently sifts and disperses the variety ofseed.” Seed is then slung back and forth in abroadcast area. He sets the arm that slings theseed two feet off the ground. It is a calm day forseed dispersal.
VanderStouwe tests the spreader for flowand rate of dispersal. He places a seed catchbag on the sling arm of the spreader and thenmoves the engaged spreader a short distancewith the tractor. He weighs the seed that is dis-persed into the bag, and with a formula, deter-mines that the calibration is correct for thissix-acre plot.
He shows a Truax hand spreader that hebrought in case it is needed. It helps fluffy seedbe dispersed.
Ready to sow, VanderStouwe pulls theVicon broadcast spreader to the bare soilwhere brome was killed and thatch burned,and drives the tractor back and forth in a pat-tern across the six acres. Heisinger will handbroadcast the stiff stem sunflower over theplot after the rest of the seed is dispersed.
Heisinger watches the spreader in actionand points out more opportunities for SpiritMound visitors in addition to its historic nota-tion when the Lewis & Clark Expeditionstopped here. An ecology student from SouthDakota State University studies the diversity ofants here. Kinds of ants are related to diversityof plants. A University of South Dakota studentis documenting the diversity of plants at SpiritMound. Birders of the region have learned toinclude the mound on their fieldtrips becauseuncommon birds are drawn to the cover andkinds of plants found here. As he talks, somevisitors have arrived to walk the trail for freshair and exercise.
After seed dispersal is done, Vanderstouwegives context to this plot restoration. He saidthat a primary seed mixture was spread overthe whole Spirit Mound site in the fall of 2001.Then specific trail corridor and mound mix-tures were sown. The trail from the parking lotto the mound and about fifty feet to either sideof the trail is now established with forbs andnative grasses.
VanderStouwe is pleased with visitor atten-dance at Spirit Mound National Historic Sitethese days. He uses a car counter and NationalPark Service formula to estimate visitors. “Thepark welcomed nearly 16,000 visitors in 2012and the count peaked over 17,500 in 2013.”
SDSU Extension YouthGardening Grants AvailableBROOKINGS — The South Dakota School
Garden Grant and SDSU Extension Seed Bankare now open to help support garden-based ed-ucation projects in South Dakota.
The South Dakota Department of Healthand SDSU Extension have announced thelaunch of the South Dakota School GardenGrant. This partnership will help newly startingschool garden projects launch programs fo-cused on growing and consuming fruits andvegetables.
This program provides K-12 schools withfunding and development support to help themlaunch successful garden projects. Award win-ners will receive project coaching from SDSUExtension staff, 20 seed packets, and $1,000 forpurchasing construction supplies, tools/equip-ment, plants and programming materials.
Applications and grant requirements be-come available on iGrowSDLocalFoods.org inthe “Resource Library” on Jan. 15. Applicationsare due Feb. 3, with award winners announcedon Feb. 12.
Additionally, the SDSU Extension Seed Bankis offering 50 educational gardens up to 20seed packets. The seeds are intended for edu-cational gardens (new or established) inschools, learning centers, daycares, for 4-H oryouth clubs, community gardens or other non-profit groups with educational garden pro-grams (youth or adult) in the state of SouthDakota.
Seed packets were donated from a numberof individuals and businesses to assist withthese types of gardening efforts. The seeds arepackaged for the 2014 and 2013 growing sea-son. The Extension Service is storing the seedsand coordinating the seed bank effort.
Qualified projects must include an educa-tional component with at least 15 participants,meaning they must have a formal programwhere the garden is being utilized as a tool forteaching and learning. Seeds are given on a first-come, first-serve basis, based on applicationdate. Applications will be accepted until Feb 28or until 50 gardens are awarded packets.
To apply participants must complete theSeed Bank Application located on iGrow.org atiGrowSDLocalFoods.org in the “Resource li-brary” beginning Jan. 15.
Deliver or mail all application to the SDSUExtension Regional Center in Sioux Falls, at2001 E. 8th St., Sioux Falls, SD 57103. Or emailthe applications to Christina Zdorovstov, SDSUExtension Community Development Field Spe-cialist at [email protected] must complete a short follow-upreport to summarize participation and projectimpact.
If individuals are interested in donatingseeds packaged for the 2014 growing season,contact Zdorovtsov at 605-782-3290 [email protected]/. Unopenedseed packets less than one year old are pre-ferred.
Extension Food EntrepreneurWorkshops Slated For Mitchell
BROOKINGS — SDSU Extension is present-ing a series of trainings for those interested inmarketing locally grown food and developingprocessed foods Feb. 5, 12 and 19 in Mitchell.
The series will include three sessions run-ning from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Each ofthese classes can be registered for individually.The training will be held at the SDSU RegionalExtension Center in Mitchell.
———2014 Mitchell Workshop details: • Feb. 5, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Food Safety —
Processing for Farmer’s Markets: Handlingfood safely, sampling, hand washing stations,home processed foods allowed at market in-cluding canned and baked goods.
• Feb. 12, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Starting a Com-mercial Licensed Kitchen — Introduction toFood Labeling: Opening a licensed kitchen- reg-ulations, equipment, and facility, safe food han-dling practices, foodservice managersanitation certification, types of licenses andoverview of food labels.
• Feb. 19, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Enhancing YourFarmers Market — Community Supported Agri-culture (CSA’s): Your market display, specialevents added touches, EBT/SNAP benefit uti-lization, and building a CSA business- models,box contents, marketing lessons learned.
Participants should visitwww.igrow.org/events to print a registrationform for this training. Return the registrationform to: SDSU Regional Extension Center inSioux Falls, Attn: Chris Zdorovtsov, 2001 E. 8thSt., Sioux Falls, SD 57103.
For more information contact ChrisZdorovtsov at 605-782-3290 [email protected].
Rescued From The BromeEffort Continues
For More WildflowersAt Spirit Mound
ABOVE: Late in the growingseason, sunflower-like nativeforbs and grasses adorn thetrail walk to the top of SpiritMound. RIGHT: Eric Vander-Stouwe of South DakotaGame, Fish & Parks dis-perses wildflower seed atSpirit Mound with a Viconbroadcast spreader just be-fore the first snow in late fall.Before re-seeding, invasivesmooth brome was killed andthe brome thatch burned atthis six-acre plot of the na-tional historic site. (Photos:Brenda K. Johnson)
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