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PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID LENNOX, SD PERMIT NO. 33 ECRWSS Postal Customer Welcome to the Small town living and so much more 38.5 Acre Industrial Park Elementary School Strong Local Fire Department 20 Minutes from Sioux Falls VOL. 7, NO. 5 MAY 2013 FREE E NTERPRISE THE WORTHING Your ofcial weekly newspaper! Become a subscriber, call 647-2284 I NDEPENDENT THE LENNOX Pet Clinic to be held May 11 On Saturday, May 11 a Pet Clinic will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Civic Center in Worthing. Worthing residents are encouraged to come and register their pets. Vaccina- tions will be available through Com- panion Animal Clinic out of Canton, SD. Vaccinations include: Dog and Cat Rabies and distemper, Cat Lukemia shots and Dog Bordetella. New Worthing Police Chief resigns Barely a month after he was hired, Brion Kimball resigned from his position as Worthing Police Chief. “Kimball was given a compelling offer by the City of Centerville and has chosen to remain there,” said Worthing Mayor Eric Saugstad. Kimball was working at Centerville when he accepted the position as Police Chief in Worth- ing in March. He had continued to work at both communities during the transition period. Saugstad said that they would be looking for a new police chief. “We’ve got a couple of good options that we’re pursuing right now, and hopefully we’ll have a new police chief soon,” he said. In the meantime, the City will continue to be under the protection of part-time police ofcers Travis Johns and Scott Gaalswyk. BY WENDY SWEETER At the April 8 meeting of the Worth- ing City Commission, State Rep. Jim Bolin, District 16, presented former mayor George Zahn with a commemo- ration. “One of the privileges you have in the Legislature is you have the chance to honor people. House commemora- tion 1016 for 2013 honors George and his wife, Janell, for their years of service,” Bolin said. Zahn thanked Bolin for the honor and commended the commission on a job well done. “A year ago tomorrow night I did something strange. I walked to the bal- lot box and felt relieved,” Zahn said. “I think it’s because of the people that I turned it over to. I knew that you guys would do a great job and I thank you. It’s been a nice retirement.” Mayor Eric Saugstad thanked Zahn for his service to the community. In other business, the commissioners approved March vouchers and salaries and the March 25 meeting minutes. Jon Fischer with Stockwell Engi- neers presented information about the lighting for the Safe Routes to School project. Working with Xcel Energy, they have come up with the plan to add 17 lights around the school area at a cost of about $2,700 for the lights themselves and then about $24,000 to Representative Jim Bolin honored George Zahn and his wife, Janell for their years of service to the Worthing community. Zahns honored for years of service BY WENDY SWEETER A fire started by a pickup at Countryside Convenience south- west of Worthing April 27 did not last long but totaled the pickup and damaged two gas pumps. Paul Garbers, owner of the con- venience store, said the man driving the pickup had borrowed it from a friend while traveling from Hudson to Tea when he stopped to fuel up around 6:20 p.m. April 27. “When he pulled up to the gas pump, going back on the surveil- lance camera, we saw a little puff of smoke come off his grill then,” Garbers said. He said watching the tape it was 6:19 p.m. when the pickup pulled in. Then the pickup smoked periodically for six minutes before it started on re. Garbers said some of the media reports have been misreported. Close call at Countryside Convenience move the electrical wires underground. The commissioners moved to approve the hiring of Xcel to install the under- ground wiring and the light poles. The commission also approved the rst reading of ordinance 2013-264-5 to amend ordinance 231 on animal noise. The amended ordinance would have a provision that would make owners subject to escalating monetary nes for each disturbance occurring within a one year period of time. Fine amounts will be based on a resolution set forth by the city commission. FIRE, page 3 Pictured at right: Worthing reman, Jarrod Hudelson checking out the truck that was involved in the Apr. 27 re at Countryside Convenience. Above: Work begins to repair the pumps damaged by the re. Damage was estimated to be $75,000 to $100,000.

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PRSRT STDU.S. POSTAGEPAIDLENNOX, SDPERMIT NO. 33

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Welcome to the Small town living and so much more

38.5 Acre Industrial Park Elementary School Strong Local Fire Department 20 Minutes from Sioux Falls

VOL. 7, NO. 5 MAY 2013 FREE ENTERPRISE

THE WORTHING

Your offi cial weekly newspaper!

Become a subscriber, call 647-2284INDEPENDENT

THE LENNOX

Pet Clinic to be held May 11On Saturday, May 11 a Pet Clinic will

be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Civic Center in Worthing.

Worthing residents are encouraged to come and register their pets. Vaccina-tions will be available through Com-panion Animal Clinic out of Canton, SD. Vaccinations include: Dog and Cat Rabies and distemper, Cat Lukemia shots and Dog Bordetella.

New Worthing Police Chief resigns

Barely a month after he was hired, Brion Kimball resigned from his position as Worthing Police Chief.

“Kimball was given a compelling offer by the City of Centerville and has chosen to remain there,” said Worthing Mayor Eric Saugstad.

Kimball was working at Centerville when he accepted the position as Police Chief in Worth-ing in March. He had continued to work at both communities during the transition period.

Saugstad said that they would be looking for a new police chief.

“We’ve got a couple of good options that we’re pursuing right now, and hopefully we’ll have a new police chief soon,” he said.

In the meantime, the City will continue to be under the protection of part-time police offi cers Travis Johns and Scott Gaalswyk.

BY WENDY SWEETER

At the April 8 meeting of the Worth-ing City Commission, State Rep. Jim Bolin, District 16, presented former mayor George Zahn with a commemo-ration.

“One of the privileges you have in the Legislature is you have the chance to honor people. House commemora-tion 1016 for 2013 honors George and his wife, Janell, for their years of service,” Bolin said.

Zahn thanked Bolin for the honor and commended the commission on a job well done.

“A year ago tomorrow night I did something strange. I walked to the bal-lot box and felt relieved,” Zahn said. “I think it’s because of the people that I turned it over to. I knew that you guys would do a great job and I thank you. It’s been a nice retirement.”

Mayor Eric Saugstad thanked Zahn for his service to the community.

In other business, the commissioners approved March vouchers and salaries and the March 25 meeting minutes.

Jon Fischer with Stockwell Engi-neers presented information about the lighting for the Safe Routes to School project. Working with Xcel Energy, they have come up with the plan to add 17 lights around the school area at a cost of about $2,700 for the lights themselves and then about $24,000 to

Representative Jim Bolin honored George Zahn and his wife, Janell for their years of service to the Worthing community.

Zahns honored for years of service

BY WENDY SWEETERA fire started by a pickup at

Countryside Convenience south-west of Worthing April 27 did not last long but totaled the pickup and damaged two gas pumps.

Paul Garbers, owner of the con-venience store, said the man driving

the pickup had borrowed it from a friend while traveling from Hudson to Tea when he stopped to fuel up around 6:20 p.m. April 27.

“When he pulled up to the gas pump, going back on the surveil-lance camera, we saw a little puff of smoke come off his grill then,”

Garbers said. He said watching the tape it was

6:19 p.m. when the pickup pulled in. Then the pickup smoked periodically for six minutes before it started on fi re. Garbers said some of the media reports have been misreported.

Close call at Countryside Convenience

move the electrical wires underground.The commissioners moved to approve

the hiring of Xcel to install the under-ground wiring and the light poles.

The commission also approved the fi rst reading of ordinance 2013-264-5 to amend ordinance 231 on animal noise.

The amended ordinance would have a provision that would make owners subject to escalating monetary fi nes for each disturbance occurring within a one year period of time. Fine amounts will be based on a resolution set forth by the city commission.

■ FIRE, page 3

Pictured at right: Worthing fi reman, Jarrod Hudelson checking out the truck that was involved in the Apr. 27 fi re at Countryside Convenience. Above: Work begins to repair the pumps damaged by the fi re. Damage was estimated to be $75,000 to $100,000.

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When you are making decisions

at the nursery as to what tomato plants to buy, maybe a lot of you gardeners use some of the same criteria that I do when I am looking at the actual health of the plant. I worked for about six years at Johnson’s Evergreen Farm and Nursery that was located right here in Lennox. I know I am dating myself by saying that, but a lot of my gardening skills today were learned while working for Dale and Gladys Johnson. They taught me that the actual stem of the plant is very important to a healthy start. A good thick stem means a good start for your plant. So I root around in the plants until I fi nd the thickest ones I can get. I have about three nurseries that I prefer and I am sure you have your favorite sources also.

Another thing I was taught long ago by the Johnsons was to never shy away from a tall plant as long as it had a healthy stem. You can basically “bury” the plant by digging a very deep hole so that only a few leaves are showing. In some cases I have even used the trenching method where you dig a hole, but if it still isn’t deep enough you can make a trench to lay the rest of the plant down into

Choosing the right tomato plants

In 1792, a competi-tion was held. The monetary prize promised to the win-

ner was $500. The challenge was simple: design the Capitol and the “President’s House.” Nobody won. At that time our infant country may have been chock full of revolutionaries, but in the way of accomplished archi-tects, well, let’s just say our strengths laid elsewhere.

Luckily, an amateur architect named William Thornton submitted a late entry that satisfi ed the picky choosing committee headed by one Thomas Jefferson. Using the Louvre and the Paris Pantheon for inspira-tion, Thornton’s submis-sion was described as an admirable combination of “grandeur, simplicity, and beauty.” It marked a unique beginning to an iconic build-ing that contains the history

of a nation.Originally referred to

as the “Congress House,” Jefferson insisted instead on calling it the Capitol, a word rooted in Latin that has associations with the Ro-man temple of Jupiter Opti-mus Maximus on Capitoline Hill. William Thornton’s original design of the Capitol looks very different from today’s Capitol. The main reason for that would be size. Kentucky became the fi fteenth state to join the union in June of 1792, and Thornton somehow managed not to predict the manifest destiny of the United States, so things got pretty squeezy

fairly quickly, and for much of its history the Capitol has either been needing expan-sion, undergoing construc-tion, or recently having

fi nished renovation.

Thorn-ton’s blueprint was submitted on January 31, 1793 and construction began in September of that same year. (It is safe to say things moved quicker in

the late eighteenth century.) George Washington, along-side eight other Freemasons dressed in full Masonic regalia, laid the cornerstone. Though construction did not fi nish for another eleven years, Congress was fi rst

held in the building in 1800 at the urging of President John Adams in a bid to garner more Southern votes in the upcoming presidential election. Church services were regularly held in the Capitol until the Civil War.

Soon after the Capitol’s fi nishing touches were ap-plied in 1811, it was touched by violence for the fi rst time. The War of 1812 saw some unhappy British troops briefl y occupy Washington, D.C. and go willy-nilly burning public buildings. Construction from this in-cident continued until 1826 and produced something new- a dome. Though not the dome we see today atop the Capitol, we have the Brits to thank for the style of the Capitol, which has endured.

It was in the 1850’s that hosted the largest expansion of the Capitol, and almost

as if setting the stage for the upcoming Civil War, work was largely performed by slaves. This expansion doubled the size of the Capitol, as the union itself had doubled with Califor-nia joining our exclusive club, courtesy of Mexico, in September of 1850 (state number thirty one). And this particular expansion brought us the grandiloquent dome sitting high above the Capi-tol to this day, which weighs upwards of nine million pounds. Then, it seemed like the dome was too much for the rest of the building, so the wings were further widened.

Hopping a century for-ward, the dome underwent its fi nal restoration. The heavy Corinthian columns that once supported the dome were brought down and replaced along with hundreds of blocks of

original stone. The columns can now be viewed near the Mall seemingly in an ode to Persepolis, and the stones act as governmental paper-weights in a maintenance yard in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

The last modifi cation to the Capitol began in 2000 and gave us the Capitol Visi-tor Center. A 1998 shooting forced the issue of funnel-ing visitors more effi ciently through the building, and eight years and around half a billion dollars later, it was completed. Your correspon-dent can personally testify to the beauty of the under-ground Visitor Center, which is ornamented with statues from many states as well as a replica of the “Statue of Freedom,” which decorates the dome’s peak.

And that, dear readers, is your U.S. Capitol experience for the week!

Freemasons in Masonic regalia laid first cornerstone of Capitol

John’s Journey

▼John Pribnow

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To the Editor:Bullying. When most

people hear that word they think of someone being teased or made fun of. When I hear that word, I think of eighth grade. I still don’t completely understand what prompted the events of those fi ve months, but of the several girls that were manipulated into becoming part of this clique, one girl in particular took the role as the ringleader. This girl was relentless in her attempts to tear me down; she would call me and harass me with threats and text messages that were very graphic in nature and even went as far as threatening my little brother, at the park.

I knew that I couldn’t give up; I needed to fi ght on and with the love and support of my friends and family, that’s what I did. We fi led police reports with all of the supporting text mes-sages and cell phone call logs and on June 6, 2011, we were granted the fi rst ever juvenile protection order in Lake County on mine and my brother’s behalf. Today I look back and I am so thank-ful that God was watching over me and protected me from hurting myself so that I can be here today as an advocate against bullying.

My goal is to share my story so parents everywhere

are aware of how big of a problem bullying is and also so kids can feel comfortable talking to their parents about the issues they’re having. I know, being a teen, it’s hard to accept that your parents are your best support system. In my situation my parents were there for me no matter what, and I’m sure that’s the case for you too.

My advice to parents is to be understanding. I know when I first started trying to tell my mom how bad it was getting she didn’t want to believe me; she thought I was being dramatic. I can understand how hearing that your child is being put through such a hard time is diffi cult as a parent. It’s easy to think that your child just wants attention which, in some cases, could be. That’s when kids start to feel like there isn’t anywhere left to turn. In summary, listen to what your kids have to say, help them to get through it and encourage them to talk to a school counselor. Talk-ing about it and getting the word out is the most benefi -cial way to stop bullying all together.

Taylor B., 16, Madison

Taylor is participating in the Miss South Dakota Outstanding Teen Pageant in Hot Springs this June and she will use Stomp Out Bul-lying as her Platform.

Letter to the editorso that you aren’t running the risk of not getting it into the ground far enough and leaving a lot of exposed stem. The plant will quickly develop a lot of roots along the stem that is buried so that helps to

develop a good root system for the plant.

A plant that has had a good healthy start will also have a

lot of roots in their small starter pots. If you can see a lot of roots in their root ball then that means they haven’t been recently transplanted at the nursery and that they are ready to have another transplant take place. I also “tickle the toes” of the root ball, gently easing the roots apart, to give the roots a chance to stretch out in their new placement quickly.

There are a lot of after care items that people use to help their tomato plants along. Like I said in the last column, tomatoes love heat, and if a sudden cold snap

comes around you may be in trouble. I have lost plants not so much from frost, but due to the very cool temperatures after planting. Sometimes they get a blue tint and I know within a week to seeing that color that I might as well give up and start with new plants. They just can’t seem to snap back for me. Many people use items like a wall of water plastic covers. Some use their tomato cages and wrap plastic wrap around the outside to hold in heat. This is where it is fun to just talk to people that come to our stand on a daily basis. There are probably as many different ideas as there are gardeners on how to give tomatoes a perfect start.

Depending upon your soil you may need to feed your plants, and tomatoes love acid. There are fertilizers specifi cally formulated just for tomatoes if that is the route that you want to go. A lot will depend upon the care you have given your plot through the years and what your general fertilizer needs are for your whole garden. I am not here to give you specifi c brands. Again that is part of your yearly records as to what

you like for brands and amounts. I do know you can have a soil testing done. We wanted to have an old cow yard converted into a gardening patch and knew that we would be fi ghting a battle for years to come with several items, so I sent off a soil sample. I was disappointed to say the least when the information I got back was far from helpful. I needed my degree to be in Agriculture or be a lifetime farmer to understand that little information sheet! Sometimes ignorance is bliss, so we planted in the cow yard knowing the battle with weeds would be uphill. We DIDN’T start with tomatoes in there because we knew the soil would be too rich and now after three years we are maybe ready to give that a try. By the way planting in a cow yard has brought us many surprises as we till each year. We have uncovered bricks, rocks, washing machine parts, horseshoes, machinery parts and on and on. Moral of the story, your garden plot may yield far more than you expected!

Keep digging in the dirt till next time.

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Worthing City Hall HoursLocated at 208 South Main Street

Mon.—Thurs.: 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. & Fri.: 7:30 a.m. - 12 noon

Phone: (605) 372-4113 Fax: 605-372-2194Mail: PO Box 277, Worthing, S.D. 57077

CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS Monday, May 20, 2013

and Monday, June 10, 2013 Regular Meeting @ 7 p.m.

Each meeting begins at 7 p.m. with the exclusion of special meetings. Meetings are now being held in the Worthing Civic Center (American Legion Building).

All meetings are open to the public except for Executive Session, which is used only to discuss legal

and personnel issues.

PLANNING COMMISSION MEETINGS Monday, May 13, 2013 at 6 p.m.,

Worthing City Hall

Planning Commission Meetings: Each meeting begins at 6 p.m. with the exclusion of special meetings.

Meetings are held at Worthing City Hall. All meetings are open to the public

Worthing City Offi cialsEric Saugstad, Mayor: 270-2614,

Darren Van Houten, Public Utilities: 212-4908, [email protected]

Todd Gannon, Public Works: 254-3229, [email protected]

Troy Larson, Finance & Revenue: 201-6644, fi [email protected]

Carrie McDannel, Public Safety: (605) 941-0665, [email protected]

Jeff Tanner, City Administrator: 372-4113,[email protected]

Kay Heiberger, Finance Offi cer: 372-4113,fi nanceofffi [email protected]

Jake Sees, Maintenance Lead, 251-4555, [email protected]

Marie Albertson, Administrative Assistant/Utility Assistant, 372-4113, [email protected]

Jason Schroder, Zoning Administrator: [email protected]

WORTHING CITY-WIDE

CLEAN-UP DAYMAY 18TH, 2013

1. No Hazardous materials such as paint, paint thinners, weed killers, pesticides.

2. No leaves or grass.

3. No car/truck batteries.

4. Tires are an extra charge: A. 16” and under are $2.25/tire B. 17” and over are $10.00/tire

5. We accept appliances; however, we ask that you load them by the back door.

6. No electronics, including cell phones, pagers, handheld video games, calculators, radios, walkie-talkies, small mp3, CD players, cassette players, digital and elec-tronic cameras, computers, print-ers, scanners, copy machines, fax machines, televisions, VCRs, disc players, DVD players, stereo re-ceivers, to name but a few.

Thank you on behalf of Bolte’s Sunrise

Sanitary Services and the City of Worthing

• There will be adult volleyball this summer. If anyone is interested, please contact Crystal at 605-940-4653.

• The Worthing Park & Rec is having a bean bag fundraiser during Worthing Days! More details to come!

• Reminder to turn in summer t-ball, softball, and baseball registration forms into city hall as soon as possible.

■ FIRE, from page 1Garbers said the man

came into the store to get his receipt, then went back out to leave. When he tried to start the pickup, that is when it started on fi re. He said the tape shows the pickup bursting into fl ames at 6:25 p.m. He got his son out of the pickup and tried to go back and move it away from the pumps but it would not move.

Three employees in the store cut the power to the pumps. Garbers, not there when the fire started, got a call from his pastor who happened to be at the station at the time. While Garbers drove back to the station, his pastor and employees called the fi re department, poured buckets of water on the pickup and used four fi re extinguishers. Garbers pulled the pickup out from under the canopy with a skid loader.

“Most people don’t know

that there’s two safety valves in the pump – one up on top and one on the bottom,” Garbers said. “The one up on top held so it never even got to the bottom one which shuts off the supply of fuel to it.”

Worthing fi re chief Jon Hanson said shutting off the pumps really reduced the damage this fi re could have caused.

“The biggest thing that helped was the gas station attendant that hit the stop button, the automatic shut-off,” Hanson said. “It was a car fi re, otherwise it could have been bad.”

Hanson said the fire was out pretty quickly. The Worthing firefighters put the pump and canopy out fi rst and then put the pickup out. As far as damage, the pickup is a total loss. Gar-bers is estimating the dam-age to the store at $75,000 to $100,000.

Close call at Countryside Convenience

Free Drop Off Day at Lincoln CountyTransfer Station

Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

the Lincoln County Transfer Station will sponsor a free drop off day. Only resi-dents of Lincoln County may drop off

acceptable items.

Large Household Appliances &Automotive Batteries are Acceptable.

The Lincoln County Transfer Station WILL NOT ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING:

This is your opportunity to clean up and avoid the deposit of unwanted materials in road

side ditches or unacceptable pits. If you have questions, please contact the Lincoln County

Transfer Station at 372-4503.

Steel Fence Posts

Steel Bed Frames

Electronics

Tires

Fence Wire

Animal Carcasses

Grass Clippings

Stoves/Fireplace Ashes

Construction Materials

Burning Barrels (unless not burned in for 2

weeks prior to disposal)

Hazardous Waste

Tree Limbs/Branches (un-less they are shorter than

4 feet in length)

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Nick Weisenbach is a three year board member of the Lennox Ambulance.

He and his wife, Megan, live in Worth-i n g , w h e r e he is a lso a member of the Worthing Fire Depar tment . He works at Heiman Fire Equipment.

Nick is an EMT and has been with the Lennox Ambu-lance for one year.

He chose to volunteer be-cause he want-ed “to help them out and to help the Worthing community and Worthing Fire Department.”

In his spare time Nick enjoys hunting, drag racing and softball.

His favorite EMS or safety tip: If in doubt, call 911.

Nick Weisenbach recognized as Lennox Ambulance volunteer

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Monday, May 6: Mini Bagels, Corn, Caulifl ower, Peaches, Milk

Tuesday, May 7: Chicken nuggets, smile potatoes, broccoli, fruit cup, milk

Wednesday, May 8: Turkey on a bun, steamed carrots, oven fries, apple sections, caramel, milk

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Friday, May 17: Pizza, Corn, Pear Sauce, Milk

School’s Out!

Have a Safe and FunSummer Vacation!

Important school dates:

Last day of school: May 17, 2:00 dismissal

2013-14 School Year

Open House: Aug. 13 (5 :30-6 :30 p .m. a t Worthing Elementary)

First Day of school,2013-14 school year: Tuesday, Aug. 20

Students from Worthing Elementary were chosen by their classmates in April for consistently demonstrating the character of Citizenship. Students pictured above, from left to right, include: Brey-anna Kitzler, Kelsey Bontje, Austin Metivier, Grace Schroeder, Sawyer Hansen, and Aubrey Bunkers.

Worthing students recognized by peers

The Worthing Preschool through Third Grade visited the Washington Pavilion on Friday, April 19. The students thorough-ly enjoyed the interac-tive, hands-on exhibits at the Kirby Science Center! Students were able to explore space, learn about tornadoes, rock climb and more! In the afternoon, Worthing Elementary students attended the exciting Seussical performance.

Worthing students enjoy trip to Washington Pavilion

FIELD TRIP

The Lennox School Dis-trict Board of Education 41-4 met on April 8 for their regular monthly meeting.

Numbers from the recent kindergarten round up were shared. Lennox Elementary Principal Darin Eich said that during kindergarten screening there were 61 students from Lennox, and 21 students from Worthing. He added that there were eight students that have not gone through screening, making a total of 90 students for Kindergarten and Jr. Kindergarten.

Eich said that he knew of 13 people interested in the Jr. Kindergarten program.

Superintendent Robert Mayer said that the District could gain an additional 5-10 kindergarten students before the next school year begins.

In other discussion items, Mayer said that the board should be aware of the sig-nifi cant changes that will be coming to health care in this country.

Business Manager An-gela Arlt shared some of the information that she has received from Sanford Health Plan.

The new rules will need to be in effect July 1, 2014. Although the “look-back pe-riod” will start this July. The “look-back” is to determine hours of employees.

Arlt said, “We are going to have to start our look-back period and keep track of everyone’s hours, sub-stitute teachers, coaches and if they work 30 hours per week, we will have to offer health care insurance to them.”

The law also requires

the insurance to “be afford-able”. Employees can not spend more than 9.5% of their income on health care. Arlt said the District does have personnel that do not meet that rule. Informa-tion may change as more is learned on how the law will be implemented.

A special board meeting was set for the purpose of discussing the Worthing assessment, which accord-ing to Mayer “was rather extraordinary.” That special meeting was held Apr. 29. Jeff Tanner, City of Worth-ing City Administrator; Eric Saugstad, City of Worthing Mayor; Todd Gannon, City of Worthing Public Works Commissioner; Jon Fisch-er, Stockwell Engineers; and Larry Nelson, City of Worthing Attorney gave a presentation on the Worth-ing infrastructure project that will be taking place around the Worthing El-ementary School.

In other business: Mayer brought up that

the school calendar already approved has spring break scheduled over the girls basketball state tournament instead of the boys. It was determined to leave it as is.

Discussion on the Chan-cellor School property also took place. After discussion, the board approved selling the Chancellor property, allowing a combination bid of both building and land, and the building and land separately.

The lowest bus bid from Harlow’s Bus Sales was accepted for a 71 passenger bus.

The lowest bid was ac-cepted from Great Plains

Worthing City personnel meets with school boardRoofing for the Lennox Elementary Roof project.

The following resigna-tions have been approved by the board: Carla Diede, Mid-dle School Math Teacher; Greg Bryan, Middle School Science and Assistant Foot-ball Coach; Todd Smidt, Worthing Elementary 3rd Grade/Middle School Girls Basketball/Middle School Track; Kari Smidt, Lennox Elementary 1st Grade; and Jack Pinkerd, Lennox El-ementary 5th Grade.

The following hires for the 2013-2014 school year were approved: Matthew Luze, Middle School So-cial Studies/Reading and Head Footbal l Coach; Paul McVey, Head Boys Basketball Coach; Mike Oltmanns, Assistant Boys Basketball Coach; Angela Temme, Middle School Math Teacher; Robin Mohr, Middle School Science and Middle School Volleyball; Jeff Larsen, Lennox El-ementary 4th Grade and Freshman Boys Basketball (Larson is a fi rst year teach-er, not former LHS Coach); Sara Baaken, LWC Middle School Band Director; and Amy Lundquist, Lennox Elementary 1st Grade.

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Eastern Farmers Coop held a food and funds drive March 1-20 to help people in need. With the help of their employees, customers, sales reps, and local busi-nesses, EFC raised a total of 168,553 meals. EFC is a CHS local business unit with locations in Minne-sota, including Luverne, Magnolia, Kanaranzi and Jasper. EFC has locations in South Dakota, including Garretson, Brandon/Corson, Baltic, Crooks, Canton, Tea, Davis, Hurley, and Worthing. CHS Nutrition in Corson joined EFC in their efforts. EFC donated the funds raised to Feed-ing South Dakota, Sioux Falls and Second Harvest

Heartland, St Paul MN. Both of these are regional food banks that distribute food to many programs across their respective states.

Along with these dona-tions, CHS, Inc. also con-tributed $21,000 (105,000 meals) which went to our local food pantries and pro-grams. This adds up to a total of 273,553 meals that were given to local people in need! More than 3.2 million meals were raised within the entire CHS, Inc system Har-vest for Hunger campaign. Checks are being given to local programs this week. A sincere thank you to all that donated food, funds, and time towards the Harvest for Hunger program.

Eastern Farmers Coop raises meals for hungry families

Volunteers helping out during the fundraiser at the Lennox PIzza Ranch are pictured above and include Dave Reiners (Worthing), Brian Lind (Worthing), Gene Lueb (CHS Market Development Managers), Tim Neuroth (Brandon Safety) and Phyllis Hauger (Brandon and Worthing Ag).

After last week’s ice storm, communities around the area were left with clean-up work to be done. The community of Worthing, made quick work of it during their community wide clean-up day on April 13. The City of Worthing and the Worthing Fire Department coordinated the clean-up effort with volunteers from the city of Worthing.

Citizens were asked to put their tree branches along the curb and volunteers would pick them up and bring drop them off by the elevator. The vol-unteers started at 8:30 am and fi nished at 3:30 p.m.

Pictured here are just some of the hardworking fi remen and volunteers that helped.

When the going gets tough, Worthing gets going

Above: George Wallenstein loads up fallen branches on a trailer; At right: Jeremy Forrest and Justin Wallenstein fi ll up the truck with downed branches from around town.

Jake Sees in payloader, clears the branches.

At left: Todd Gannon, Jeremy For-rest, and Mike Straatmeyer cleaning up branches.

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Members of the Lennox High School archery team headed west on Apr. 5-6 to defend their 2012 State Archery title at the 2013 State competition held at the Rapid City Civic Center.

With LHS also hold-ing Prom Saturday night, several of the participating students shot on Friday to head back. Those shooting Friday were Josh Goe-man, Taylor Clay, Shelby Schoffelman, Jake Gund-valdson, Geneva Petrich, and Christian Petrich. After shooting, those students had to wait for their results until everyone fi nished on Saturday morning.

Thirty-seven school districts participated in the State Shoot which included 540 students.

Shooting Saturday morn-ing for Lennox were August Meyer, Brianna Johnson, Cody VanDenBosch, Thomas Hagendorn, Brady Rupp, and Ben Wolf.

The State title is de-termined by the top eight scores of each participating school, minimum of three females and three males.

Lennox not only claimed the State Championship for the second year in a row but one of their own also captured individual State honors as Josh Goeman took fi rst place with his score of 289.

“The kids earned it,” said LHS Archery Team coach Josh Kirchner. “They spent three months working very hard to im-prove each and every day and the results speak for themselves. I am proud of their effort and I hope they had as much fun as I did.”

As a team Lennox garnered a score of 2120 to claim the top honors.

Archery team captures back-to-back State TitlesArchery team captures back-to-back State Titles

The Lennox High School Archery State Team pictured above, from left to right, (front row): Thomas Hagedorn, Shelby Schoffelman, Geneva Petrich, Josh Goeman, Taylor Clay, Shannon Clay, Brianna Johnson, Coach Josh Kirchner; (back row): August Meyer, Jake Gundvaldson, Ben Wolf, Brady Rupp, Christian Petrich, and Cody VanDenBosch.

Dakota Christian took sec-ond with 1967 and Avon fi nished third with 1958.

For Lennox, Clay fi nished in fi fth place with a score of 269; Meyer sixth (269), Johnson eighth (265), Schoffelman ninth (265), Clay 11th (261), VanDenBosch 18th (254), Gundvaldson 30th (248), Hagedorn 31st (247), Rupp 33rd (246), Wolf 40th (243), G. Petrich 51st (236), and C. Petrich 86th (210).

The team will be lose seniors: Goeman, Clay, Gundvaldson, and C. Petrich.

“I am excited to see who steps in to fi ll those spots,” said Kirchner.

As a team, the Len-nox archers qualifi ed for Nationals and individually, Goeman and Clay also

qualifi ed. However, Na-tionals will be held May 11, the same day as LHS graduation, so the Len-nox team will be unable to attend.

The Lennox Archery team would like to thank the following spon-sors: Glenn Wika, Cody VanDenBosch, Kermit Tesch, Mary Jane O’Kane, Dave’s Service and Repair, Allen and Dawn Wolf, Kevin and Lorie Schof-felman, Mark and Dodi Petrich, James and Jennifer Goeman, Bobby & Cheryl Williams, Todd & Jenni-fer Edwards, Otis’ Bar & Grill, Exchange Insurance, Valley Exchange Bank, The Lennox Independent, Ringen Dental Clinic, Lennox American Legion Post 174, The Only One Lounge, Thomas Rupp,

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At right: Archers compete at State out in Rapid City.

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The competitive 12U Extreme girls’ softball team won the ‘Border Battle’ tourney in Mason City,

Iowa the last weekend in April. The team features girls from Lennox, Worthing, Brandon Valley, Har-

risburg and Sioux Falls. The Border Battle Tournament was a NAFA Regional qualifi er tournament.

Their championship qualifi es them for a bid in the NAFA National tournament this summer.

Extreme defeated Edina, MN 9-0 and Mason City Wildcats 14-2 on Saturday, and New Prague,

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