KEYSTONE CHAPTER #33, OESKeystone Chapter #33, OES,

met Thursday, June 17, at theMasonic Temple in Yankton, begin-ning with a potluck supper. WorthyMatron Carol Frey presided at themeeting. Buzz Mann, Mike Kline,Bud Kratz, Marilyn Kratz, MaryJohnson, and Christine Bryan werepro tems. The flag was presented inhonor of Flag Day.

Buzz Mann updated the chapteron their plan to co-host a style showSeptember 18 with The Center.Janelle Kribell, Nancy Kline, andJane Hornstra will assist CharlotteGilson who will chair the committeeplanning the event.

All fathers attending were hon-ored. Frey read an inspirationalpoem for Father’s Day.

June and July birthday cele-brants were honored. A coin marchwas held with proceeds going to theOES Nursing Home in Redfield.

The next regular meeting will beon Thursday, September 16, at theMasonic Temple, beginning with apot luck supper at 6:30. TheMemorial Service will be held at themeeting.

INTERCHANGEInterchange met on Monday,

June 21st at the Waterfront. Themeeting was called to order byPresident, Stacy Winterringer. Thepledge of Allegiance was recited. Noguests other than the speaker werepresent. The following announce-ments were made: StacyWinterringer announced the newBoard Members. They are SusanSchavee, Susie Frick and TammyMatuska. Paula Tacke will be thenew President and Kathy Jacobswill be the new Vice President. DebOverseth reminded everyone of theGoofy Golf event taking place onSunday, June 27th. She had ticketsto sell. Kathy Jacobs announcedthat the Librarians will be dressed inpirate costumes this week. She alsoreminded us that Interchange duesare due. Scholarship donations canbe made when you pay your dues.A separate check should be writtendirectly to Mount Marty College anda note that it is for the scholarshipfund should be on the check. TheWomen’s and Children’s Shelter isselling raffle tickets as a fund raiser.Kathy Jacobs has tickets for sale.They are also looking for men tosign up for “Walk a mile in hershoes” which will be held onSeptember 18th in conjunction withYankton Rib Fest. They are also

looking for teams to walk this year.Linda Stephenson announced thatDakota Territorial Museum needs anew building and they are hopingthat the Mead Building will work.They are trying to raise funds andone of the best ways is to get newmemberships. Family membershipsare $40. You can see Linda or go tothe museum for membership forms.The program speaker was Dr. LoriHansen. The program topic was theYankton Ambulatory Program. Shediscussed the statistics of the pro-gram. This model of MedicalEducation in Yankton is in it’s 20thyear. It is nationally recognized forit’s 3rd year medical program. It is abenefit to the Yankton Community.Yankton will be hosting an interna-tional conference on September30th, October 1 and 2 of 2011. It isvery exciting that the Yankton com-munity will be hosting this event.The 2010 event will take place inAustralia. The next meeting will beheld on June 28th at noon at theWaterfront. The hostess is ColleenCraig Davis. The speaker is GreteBodogard and the topic is “Artists inSchools”

TOASTMASTER CLUB 6217Club 6217 met June 10 with

David Fiebelkorn leading the invo-cation and Jane Miller handling theGeneral Evaluator duties at thenoon meeting in the BenedictineCenter.

Miller's team consisted of timerFiebelkorn, “ah” tracker MindySchweitzer, and grammarian EileenO'Connor. Miller asked O'Connor tointroduce the word of the day, 'lentic-ular'.

Miller also introduced two evalu-ators, Stan Sudbeck for MarieSteckelberg and MJ Rogers for TimBohn. The Best Evaluator's trophywent to Rogers.

There was a special challengefor the speakers, Steckelberg andBohn. Shortly upon arrival, theywere given newspaper articles.Their challenge was to prepare 3-5minute impromptu speeches byrelating the articles to a personalFather's Day experience.Steckelberg's speech, “Dad and I atthe Fair”, related years of childhoodmemories going to the SD State Fairwith her father. Bohn's speech, “MyDad the Handyman”, told a series ofantidotes about the lessons helearned from his father while on thefarm. Steckelberg received the BestSpeaker award.

The Table topics Master Steve

Anderson was welcomed by toast-master Muriel Stach. Andersonquestioned members about familysummer vacations. The BestRespondent was Schweitzer, whowishes to vacation in “Bermudawithout a cell phone but with lots oflow-key beach time”.

ASHHT TOASTMASTER CLUBOn June 17, Toastmaster MJ

Rogers called the Avera SacredHeart Hospital Toastmasters Club toorder at the Benedictine Center atnoon. He introduced guest DarrellAdamson. Then Rogers told sever-al facts about Flag Day and askedMelissa Bader to lead the pledgeand the invocation.

Speakers were Taylor O'Bryan,“Get Organized with Quicken” andMandy Bell, “Drive”. O'Bryan pro-moted organizational skills usingelectronic helps and Bell promotedreading a self-help book about whatreally motivates people. Bell tookthe Best Speaker award.

General Evaluator DavidFiebelkorn named the speech eval-uators. They were Jennifer Wubbenfor Bell and Bader for O'Bryan.Wubben gave Bell credit for notusing notes and for creating interestin the topic. Fiebelkorn presentedWubben with the Best Evaluator tro-phy.

Eileen O'Connor used severalAmericanized Yiddish words toinspire creative impromptu speech-es from the members. The 3-way tiefor Best Respondent went to KaryBeltz, Sheryl Schwartz and MurielStach.

The rest of Fiebelkorn'sEvaluation team consisted of Beltzas the “ah” counter, Schwartz as thetimer, and Steve Anderson as gram-marian. Anderson's word of the daywas “scuttle”, with suggested usesnot only for boating but also for per-sonal lives.

AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARYYankton American Legion

Auxiliary met on June 21, 20 10,President Betty Adam presiding.

Gert Boyles reported on GirlsState recently held at the Universityof South Dakota; Yankton girlsserved in several positions and onereceived a scholarship; alsoAuxiliary members helped at regis-tration, worked in the “store” andattended Friday nights’ finale.

Helen Simpson, Membershipchairman, said we ended the yearwith 112 members, five new VIMmemberships, four new members,two deaths and one unpaid mem-bership; Helen asked the ladies tohelp recruit new members; she alsoasked for any changes in names,phone numbers or addresses fornext year’s member books.

President Betty read correspon-dence from District SevenPresident, Kathy Hornstra.

Mae Tienken gave an interestingreport on the American Legion &Auxiliary Convention recently heldat Spearfish, SD. The winner of theSamsung Scholarship given at GirlsState was present and spoke as didthe National Auxiliary President.

As the installing officer, Gertinstalled the following persons toserve for the 2010-2011 year:President – Betty Adams; lst VicePresident - Joyce List; 2nd VicePresident – Theresa Brandt;Secretary – Sue Koepp; Treasurer –Priscilla Mazourek; Sergeant atArms – Martha List & Mary Kuchta;Chaplain – Kathleen Ekeren.

The ten cent cup was won byMarillyn Obr, she donated it to theAuxiliary.

A delicious lunch was served byMarillyn Obr and Floris Woodhouse.

There will be NO meetings inJuly and August, the next meetingwill be September 20 and the pro-gram given by Girl Staters. Lunch

hostesses will be Judy Eisenmengerand Helen Simpson.

CATHOLIC DAUGHTERSCOURT WILLARD #967

The June meeting opened with theinstallation of new officers for the newterm. District Deputy Kathy Harenswas mistress of ceremonies and leadthe new officers in their pledge ofoffice. New officers are Janice Cass,Regent; Bev Schmidt, Vice Regent;Kerri Konechne, Financial Secretary;Mary Althoff, Secretary; and MaryJohnson, Treasurer. Representingthe State Court was Second ViceRegent Barb Wiechmann fromWagner, SD.

Court chaplain Msgr Hermanngave a blessing to the new officersand Fr Bob Lacey, State Chaplain,addressed the membership briefly.A Court reception followed the cere-mony with the June committee serv-ing ice cream sundaes.

Regent Janice Cass opened abrief business meeting.

Old business: • Memorial Flags were placed in

the Yankton cemeteries on thegraves of deceased members.Many members met and placed theflags on the Thursday beforeMemorial Day and the Lemon familycollected them the following week.

Leah Smith volunteered to makeabout 10 additional flags.

• Thanks to all the outgoing offi-cers for their service the past twoyears, and to Sherryl O’Rourke forher beautiful work with the Courtnewsletter.

New Business: • Pillow Cleaning with Kraft

Pillowing cleaning service will beheld at Link Auditorium, Friday July9th, 2010. Posters were available toadvertise the event.

• House Of Mary Shrine July10th, 2010 Bishop Swain will cele-brate a Mass to dedicate a new StJoseph statue for St Joseph’schapel at the shrine. Ct Willard willbe serving a brunch following theMass.

• Spiritual retreat for all CDAmembers will be held at Broomtree ,Oct 8-10, 2010, with Fr Bob Laceyas the retreat master. Sign up withform from May State Newspaper.

• Announced that we will be pub-lishing a membership booklet withthe new committees for next year.

• More members are needed forleading the rosary for wake servic-es.

The meeting was adjourned andMsgr Hermann lead us in a closingprayer.

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SISTER CLEOPHA WINNERS

Jodi Salvatori, RN, ICU, andMelissa Kludt, RN, Peds of AveraSacred Heart Hospital, are therecipients of the 2010 SisterCleopha Scholarship forContinuing Education.

The Sister CleophaScholarship was established as ascholarship for nursing staff ofAvera Sacred Heart Hospital toattend workshops. This scholar-ship was established through theBenedictine Health Foundation

as a permanent scholarship inthe memory of Sr. Cleopha.

Salvatori, used the scholar-ship to attend the Press Ganeysymposium “Improving theHealth of Heath Care.” Kludtused her scholarship to attend aconference in Wyoming on HotTopics in Primary Care. Theaward was presented to Salvatoriand Kludt by Kelly Kathol,Executive Director of theBenedictine Health Foundation.

SUBMITTED PHOTOJodi Salvatori (left), RN, ICU, and Melissa Kludt (right), RN, Peds ofAvera Sacred Heart Hospital, are the recipients of the 2010 SisterCleopha Scholarship for Continuing Education. The award waspresented to Salvatori and Kludt by Kelly Kathol (center), ExecutiveDirector of the Benedictine Health Foundation.

Salvatori, Kludt Named SisterCleopha Scholarship Winners

Yankton Volunteer Receives JA Leadership Award The JA Worldwide®

Headquarters in ColoradoSprings, CO has honored JeralGross of First National BankSouth Dakota for his outstand-ing service and support toJunior Achievement ofYankton’s economic educationefforts. Jeral was recently pre-sented with the JA WorldwideBronze Leadership Award at theJA Yankton board retreat.

The Bronze LeadershipAward recognizes superior lead-ership and support for JuniorAchievement. Jeral has servedas the Board Chair, Fund DriveChair and he has been an activevolunteer in the classroom.

"We are proud to have Jeralas part of our team and appreci-ate his dedication and guidance.His commitment and leadershipto JA of Yankton has been

invaluable." said Kristie Fiegen,President of Junior Achievementof South Dakota, Inc.

Junior Achievement ofYankton provided traditionalprogramming in 33 public andprivate classrooms and reachedover 700 students during the2009-10 school year. In addi-tion, 15 executive-level volun-teers impacted over 200 highschool students with ethics edu-cation through JA Excellingthrough Ethics. Across SouthDakota, JA volunteers impactedover 43,000 students in the2009-10 school year. Theseclassroom volunteers served asrole models and used hands-onactivities to teach young peopleabout financial literacy, entre-preneurship, and work readi-ness.

SUBMITTED PHOTOKayla Bickett, JA District Director, presents the JuniorAchievement Bronze Leadership Award to Jeral Gross of FirstNational Bank South Dakota during the JA Yankton annual boardretreat.

RIVERBOAT DAYS DONATION

SUBMITTED PHOTOPictured is Cleo Reiff of Wal-Mart presenting a check to DickHunhoff, a member of the Board of Directors of Yankton RiverboatDays. Riverboat Days is one of the region’s largest celebrations.Hundereds of volunteers make this free event possible. It consistsof top-notch entertainment, a parade, arts and crafts, food vendors,continuous shows in the apitheater and many more forms of enter-tainment. The date of this year’s Riverboat Days is Aug. 20-22.

RECYCLING ELECTRONICS

People were anxious, asalways, to get rid of thoseunwanted and outdated com-puters and TVs at theElectronic Recycling collec-tions hosted by the NortheastNebraska ResourceConservation & Development(RC&D) Council and the Cityof Wayne. The horse trailer,van, pickups, and trucksquickly filled up! Eighteen(18) volunteers were glad toassist by unloading all the oldelectronic equipment thatarrived. These environmen-tally-friendly events are agreat way to practice goodstewardship of naturalresources.

The collections atNiobrara, Plainview andWayne brought in 334 moni-tors, laptops, and TVs, all ofwhich have hazardous materi-

als in them. Other items recy-cled were towers, printers,keyboards, computer mice,VCRs, telephones, power sup-plies, bunches of cords,speakers, and more. Peoplecame from 12 communitiesand 136 households and busi-nesses were served.

The Northeast NebraskaRC&D has previously spon-sored three events like this in2006, five in 2008 and three in2009 in cooperation with theDepartment of EnvironmentalQuality granting programs.This year there were no grantdollars used for this project.

The RC&D Council is madeup of private citizens doingpublic good. Two of their pri-orities, protecting the environ-ment and conservingresources, coupled with citizenneed guided their desire tohost these recycling events.

RC&D Hosts ElectronicsRecycling Event In Nebraska

SUBMITTED PHOTOPictured are a few of the items collected during the RC&Delectronics Recycling Event held recently in Nebraska.

BOY’S AND GIRL’S CLUB

SUBMITTED PHOTOFirst Dakota’s Market Manager, Marc Mooney is shown presentinga check in the amount of $5,000 to the Yankton Boys & Girls ClubUnit Director, Mike Johnson. Also on hand for the presentation wasRob Ness, Operations Officer of First Dakota, and J.D. O’Grady,Just For Kids (JFK) Unit Director, along with many of the childrenwho enjoy the benefits of the Club.

WOMEN’S SHELTER

SUBMITTED PHOTOYankton’s First United Methodist Church Worship Committee soldhearts (in honor of or in memory of) for Mother’s Day as a fund rais-er for the Yankton Women’s/Children Center. They raised $355.00for the Center. Pictured L to R: Rural Advocate Camille Mertins,Worship Committee Chairman Evie Sime, Executive DirectorDesiree Slaba and Pastoral Assistant Bob Cappel.