2015 SDNA Better Newspapers Contest News/Editorial Winners

2015 South DakotaBetter Newspaper Contest

Award Presentation

BEST

NEWS STORY

BEST

Weeklies Under 1,150

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

Isabel Dakotan


Robert Slocum

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY


BEST

Hamlin County Republican


LeeAnne Dufek

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

1st PlaceNEWS STORY


BEST

Rosholt Review


Mimi Larsen

1st PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

Weeklies 1,151-2,000

BEST

Freeman Courier


Jeremy Waltner

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY


BEST

Potter Co. News


Molly McRoberts

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

1st PlaceNEWS STORY


BEST

Chamberlain Oacoma Sun


Hannah (Baker) Ruhlman

1st PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Reporter and Farmer

Weeklies Over 2,000

Emre K. Erku

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Lakota Country Times

Weeklies Over 2,000

Karin Eagle

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

1st PlaceNEWS STORY

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Yankton County Observer

Weeklies Over 2,000

Dave Wyland

1st PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

Dailies Under 12,000

BEST

Mitchell Daily Republic


Jake Shama

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY


BEST



Anna Jauhola

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

1st PlaceNEWS STORY


BEST



Candy DenOuden

1st PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Jim Holland and Scott Feldman

3rd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Tom Griffith

2nd PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

1st PlaceNEWS STORY

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

John McLaughlin

1st PlaceNEWS STORY

BEST

NEWS SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceNEWS SERIES


BEST

Tea Weekly


Staff


BEST

2nd PlaceNEWS SERIES


BEST

New Era


Sarah Ebeling


BEST

1st PlaceNEWS SERIES


BEST

Arlington Sun


Frank Crisler


BEST



BEST





BEST



BEST

Hot Springs Star


John D. Taylor


BEST



BEST

Custer County Chronicle


Carrie Moore


BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Richie Richards


BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Brandon Ecoffey and Tom Crash


BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Ernestine Chasing Hawk and Richie Richards


BEST



BEST

Pierre Capital Journal


Lance Nixon


BEST



BEST



Staff


BEST



BEST



Staff


BEST


Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Patrick Anderson


BEST


Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Seth Tupper andJohn McLaughlin


BESTDailies Over 12,000


BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Seth Tupper


BESTFEATURE

STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST

Volga Tribune


Kathi Granum

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST

Hutchinson Herald


Erik Kaufman

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

2016

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST

Meade County Times Tribune


Deb Holland

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST




3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST

West River Eagle


Ross DuBray

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST

Hot Springs Star


John D. Taylor

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Natalie Hand

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Grant County Review

Weeklies Over 2,000

Dillon Dwyer

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Grant County Review

Weeklies Over 2,000

Holli Seehafer

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST

Brookings Register


John Kubal

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST



David Rookhuyzen

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY


BEST



Caitlynn Peetz

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

David Nicholson

3rd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Andrea Cook

2nd PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Seth Tupper

1st PlaceFEATURE

STORY

BESTFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST

Lyman County Herald


Lucy Halverson

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST



Deb Holland

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST

Parkston Advance


Karen Adkins-Runge

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST

Plain Talk


Sarah Wetzel

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST




2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST

True Dakotan


Kristi Hine

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Ernestine Chasing Hawk

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Richie Richards

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Talli Nauman

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST

Brookings Register


John Kubal

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST

Daily Press & Dakotan


Randy Dockendorf

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES


BEST



Lance Nixon

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Jodi Schwan

3rd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Staff

2nd PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Tom Griffith

1st PlaceFEATURE

SERIES

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

3rd Place


BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

Southern Union County Leader-Courier


Susan Odson

3rd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

2nd Place


BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

Hutchinson Herald


Erik Kaufman

2nd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

1st Place


BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

Arlington Sun


Frank Crisler

1st Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

3rd Place


BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

True Dakotan


Craig Wenzel

3rd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING


2nd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

West River Eagle


Ross DuBray

2nd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

1st Place


BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

West River Eagle


Jody Rust

1st Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

3rd Place

Weeklies Over 2,000

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING


Weeklies Over 2,000

Bernie Hunhoff

3rd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

2nd Place

Weeklies Over 2,000

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Tim Giago

2nd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

1st Place

Weeklies Over 2,000

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING


Weeklies Over 2,000

Brian J. Hunhoff

1st Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

3rd Place


BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING



Luke Hagen

3rd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

2nd Place


BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING



Candy DenOuden

2nd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

1st Place


BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING



Kelly Hertz

1st Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

3rd Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Bart Pfankuch

3rd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

2nd Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Pat Butler

2nd Place

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

1st Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTEDITORIAL

WRITING

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Patrick Lalley

1st Place

BESTLOCAL GENERAL

INTEREST COLUMN

BEST

3rd PlaceLOCAL GENERAL

INTEREST COLUMN


BEST

De Smet News


Donna Palmlund


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST

2nd PlaceLOCAL GENERAL

INTEREST COLUMN


BEST

Onida Watchman


Marileen Tilberg


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST

1st PlaceLOCAL GENERAL

INTEREST COLUMN


BEST



Jenna Aderhold


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN


BEST

Freeman Courier


Rachel Birnstiehl


INTEREST COLUMNIf I did one of those wine and paint nights, the instructor would be like “Wow, look at you, you are really good at wine.”

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN


BEST





INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN


BEST

Freeman Courier


Tim L. Waltner


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Olivia Hunhoff


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Reporter and Farmer

Weeklies Over 2,000

Emre K. Erku


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

James Giago Davies


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN


BEST



Lance Nixon


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN


BEST



Rob Nielsen


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN


BEST



Kelly Hertz


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

John Hult


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Jodi Schwan


INTEREST COLUMN

BEST


INTEREST COLUMN

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Stu Whitney


INTEREST COLUMN

BESTLOCAL HUMOROUS

COLUMN

BEST

3rd PlaceLOCAL HUMOROUS

COLUMN


BEST



LeeAnne Dufek


COLUMN

BEST

2nd PlaceLOCAL HUMOROUS

COLUMN


BEST

New Underwood Post


Chastity Julson


COLUMN

BEST

1st PlaceLOCAL HUMOROUS

COLUMN


BEST

Lyman County Herald


Lucy Halverson


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN


BEST

Freeman Courier


Dennis Schrock


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN


BEST





COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN


BEST



Carrie Moore


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Kristy Wyland


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Kiri Close


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Brian J. Hunhoff


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN


BEST

Brookings Register


Chuck Cecil


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN


BEST

Brookings Register


John Kubal


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN


BEST



Candy DenOuden


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Jacqueline Palfy Klemond


COLUMN

BEST


COLUMN

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Stu Whitney


COLUMN

BESTSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN


BEST

Lennox Independent


Anne Homan

3rd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN


BEST



Jason Ferguson

2nd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN


BEST

Freeman Courier


Jeremy Waltner

1st PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Brian Hunhoff

3rd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Grant County Review

Weeklies Over 2,000

Dillon Dwyer

2nd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

I’ll never forget when he was itsy bitsy and got stuck in the

water spout.

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

James Giago Davies

1st PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN


BEST



James D. Cimburek

3rd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN


BEST



Garrick Hodge

2nd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN


BEST



Brooke Cersosimo

1st PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Bart Pfankuch

3rd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Matt Zimmer

2nd PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Mick Garry

1st PlaceSPORTS

COLUMN

BESTSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING


BEST



Susan Odson

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BESTWeeklies Under 1,150

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

Hutchinson Herald


Erik Kaufman

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING


BEST



Joe Kavanaugh

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING


BEST



Carrie Moore

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING


BEST




2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING


BEST

Freeman Courier


Jeremy Waltner

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Brian Hunhoff

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Reporter and Farmer

Weeklies Over 2,000

Emre K. Erku

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Richie Richards

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING


BEST



Caitlynn Peetz

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING


BEST

Watertown Public Opinion


Roger Whittle

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING


BEST



Lance Nixon

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Ian Frazer

3rd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Mick Garry

2nd PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Matt Zimmer

1st PlaceSPORTS

REPORTING

BESTSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST

Tri-City Star


Paul Ekern

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST

Onida Watchman


LaJena Gruis

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST

New Era


Shane Merrill

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST

Lennox Independent


Anne Homan

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST

Plain Talk


Elyse Brightman

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST

Freeman Courier


Jeremy Waltner

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST

Mobridge Tribune

Weeklies Over 2,000

Jay Davis

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Natalie Handand Tom Crash

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

Weeklies Over 2,000

BEST


Weeklies Over 2,000

Brian Hunhoff and Jim Anderson

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST



Jeremy Hoeck

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST



Brooke Cersosimo

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES


BEST



Garrick Hodge

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Joe Kavanaugh

3rd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

Dailies Over 12,000

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

David Nicholson

2nd PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BESTDailies Over 12,000

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BEST

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Mick Garry

1st PlaceSPORTS

SERIES

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

3rd Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

Onida Watchman


Sheila Ring

3rd Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

2nd Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

Hill City Prevailer News


Carol Walker

2nd Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

1st Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING



Staff

1st Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

3rd Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING



Jason Ferguson

3rd Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

2nd Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING



Brian Hunhoff and Jim Anderson

2nd Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

1st Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING



Norma Najacht

1st Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

3rd Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING



Roger Whittle

3rd Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

2nd Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING



Nick Lowrey

2nd Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

1st Place


BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

Brookings Register


Jill Fier

1st Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

3rd Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Michael Klinski

3rd Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

2nd Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Bart Pfankuch

2nd Place

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

1st Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTHEADLINE

WRITING

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Jim Stasiowski

1st Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO3rd Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

New Era


Sarah Ebeling

3rd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO2nd Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO



Susan Odson

2nd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO1st Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

Bowdle Pride


Tara Beitelspacher

1st Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO3rd Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

West River Eagle


Patty Peacock

3rd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO2nd Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

Freeman Courier


Jeremy Waltner

2nd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO1st Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

Freeman Courier


Tim L. Waltner

1st Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO3rd Place

Weeklies Over 2,000

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

Native Sun News

Weeklies Over 2,000

Tommy Robinson

3rd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO2nd Place

Weeklies Over 2,000

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO


Weeklies Over 2,000

Vi Waln

2nd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO1st Place

Weeklies Over 2,000

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO


Weeklies Over 2,000

Jerry Matthews

1st Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO3rd Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO



Rob Nielsen

3rd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO2nd Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO



Lee Zion

2nd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO1st Place


BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO



Elizabeth “Sam” Grosz

1st Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO3rd Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Josh Morgan

3rd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO2nd Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

Argus Leader

Dailies Over 12,000

Jay Pickthorn

2nd Place

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO1st Place

Dailies Over 12,000

BESTSPOT NEWS

PHOTO

Rapid City Journal

Dailies Over 12,000

Chris Huber

1st Place

BESTFEATURE

PHOTO

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO


BEST



LeeAnne Dufek

3rd PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO


BEST



Susan Odson

2nd PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO


BEST

Dakota Dunes North Sioux City Times


Amber Burg

1st PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO

BEST

3rd PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO


BEST



Carrie Moore

3rd PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO

BEST

2nd PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO


BEST

Clark County Courier


Kimberly Harrington

2nd PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO

BEST

1st PlaceFEATURE

PHOTO


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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 | A17

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VeteransHonor • Valor • Inspiration • Courage • Sacrifice

INSIDE THIS SECTION

Roles have changed for veteran

Frank BartlettSee page 20

Jeff Andersen trains allied troopsSee page 21 Joel Hovland

follows in his father’s footsteps See page 21

Renee Runyan joins the Army See page 22

Tom GriffithJournal staffBELLE FOURCHE | Leroy Hill, one of

the few survivors of “the forgot-

ten battle of the forgotten war,”

died last March without ever

really telling anyone about his

experiences in the Korean War.

Even his multi-page historical

account of “The Hill Family in

Butte County,” completed late in

life and exploring virtually every

accomplishment of everyone in

his extended family, glosses over

his wartime experience, stating

simply, “I was drafted in 1951

and I am a combat veteran of the

Korean War.”Only a soldier’s letter home, a

fistful of medals and a delicate,

small white flower, flattened and

framed and hanging in the cozy

den of his Belle Fourche house

for more than a half-century,

provide any evidence of the chaos

and carnage Leroy witnessed on a

faraway hill so long ago.

“I’m opening a drawer and

looking at it at this very moment,”

Harlene Hill said last week as she

pondered the flower and 58 years

of marriage to the man who found

it. “I’m holding it in my hand

right now.”Wednesday will be the first

Veterans Day since her husband’s

death. She acknowledged it would

be a difficult day, but the memo-

ries and the flower sustain her.

The 78-year-old, white-

haired widow, who still does

water aerobics six times a week,

turned the framed flower over

and read the typed message her

husband wrote when he was dis-

charged from the U.S. Army and

returned home.“My flower,” Leroy wrote. “On

July 15th, 1953, I was in a battle in

Korea known as Christmas Hill.

We received so much artillery and

mortar fire from the Chinese that

our ground looked like it had been

plowed.“The next morning, amid the

smell of death and destruction, I

found this beautiful flower that

had just bloomed. It told me

God is still working for peace on

Earth. It gave me great joy.

“I picked the flower, and

mailed it to my mother, who

pressed it between the pages of a

book and gave it to me upon my

return. It still gives me great joy

and is precious to me.”

Harlene sighed after she read

the inscription by her husband,

a witty man always quick with a

clever quip, but one who never

discussed all he had seen during

his service to his country.

“This man was an incredible

optimist,” she said. “He believed

in the best of everybody. That’s

really the story of the flower.

Most people would look out there

and see the devastation and the

death, but he saw this tiny little

flower which symbolized hope

and trust and the belief that the

world could be a better place.”

Their 49-year-old daughter,

Rebecca Hardy of Red Lodge,

Mont., agreed with her mother

and recalled growing up with the

seldom-discussed “fragile, deli-

cate little flower” on the wall of

their family home.“I think it meant that there

is always a new beginning, and

there is never an end,” Becky said

last week, before hustling off to a

class in conversational Spanish.

“As bad as things get, there is

always tomorrow, and you should

always be hopeful, because God

always has a greater plan.”

Becky’s husband, Don, has

spent some of the last half-year

since his father-in-law’s death

researching Leroy’s service and

documenting his survival in a bat-

tle that stands alongside such epic

struggles as Heartbreak Ridge,

Bloody Ridge and Sandbag Castle.

One account of the Battle

of Christmas Hill claims, “245

went up and 13 came off,” while

another states 925 U.S. soldiers

were wounded in action and 375

were killed, not including scores

of “KATUSAS,” the Korean sol-

diers who fought with the U.S.

Army.Don Hardy recently wrote of

the unlikely survival of Leroy Hill,

and the coincidences that marked

his life and his death. Combined

with Leroy’s own account of the

battle, taken from his lengthy

letter to his parents, they paint a

picture of a humble yet fearsome

warrior who expected to die on

the battlefield that rainy night in

1953.

Tiny fl ower tells the tale the soldier kept to himself

On this year’s Veterans Day, a remembrance of a forgotten battle of the forgotten war

Sean Ryan, Journal staff

Harlene Hill, of Belle Fourche, holds the framed flower that her late hus-

band, Leroy, picked after surviving the battle of Christmas Hill on July 15,

1953, during the Korean War. Leroy picked the flower after heavy artillery

and mortar fire that made the ground looked like it had been “plowed.” He

sent the fragile flower to his mother, who pressed it in a book and gave it

to him upon his return.

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SPORTSlakota country times THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015 •C1

By Tom CrashTimes correspondent

RAPID CITY—Some peo-ple start the countdown for the annual Lakota Nation Invitational the day after the LNI ends; the wait is over, the 39th Lakota Nation gets un-derway Wednesday, Dec. 16 and runs through Saturday, Dec. 19 at the Rushmore Pla-za Civic Center in Rapid City.

For some, the annual LNI is the 16 team boys and 16 team girls basketball tourna-ments but LNI is much more than the basketball tourna-ments.

“A few years ago, the hand game tournament surpassed the basketball tournaments, this year there will be over 40 hand game teams,” said Bryan Brewer, LNI executive director, “but we have such a variety of events; last year there were over 2,500 stu-dents involved in the Lakota Nation.”

LNI events also include Lakota language Bowl, Knowledge Bowl, archery competition, wrestling, business plan competition, Art show, education com-ponent for players, Rapid City Conversation and com-munity breakfast, student scholarships, public service awards, honoring of coun-selors, Desert Storm veter-ans, cheerleading compe-tition, Poetry Slam, Teca Wacipi Okolakiciye, Jr. ROTC competition and SD Distin-guished Service awards.

White River fi rst entered the LNI in 2008, the Tigers won that tournament and have won the tourney four of the six years they have par-ticipated – this year they are the #1 seed for the boys and the defending champs. Al-though they lost several key players, White River has re-loaded and is ready to defend their title.

“We lost height but we will have more speed and quick-ness, I like the team to play up-tempo, full court and this team will be able to do that,” said Eldon Marshall who is starting his 13th season as head boys coach, “we need to work on team chemistry, we need to play team defense so it’s second nature.”

Justice Morrison will be the point guard, Nick Young will play inside and work the boards while Russell Leader Charge, Dru Espinoza, Gun-ner Piper and Lucas Iron Heart wrap up the starting lineup. White River opened their season with a 113-18 win over Jones County this weekend.

“LNI is special, all of our players look forward all year to this tournament, it’s an LNI family,” said Marshall, “as a coach, it is an early sea-son challenge that will give us a better sense of what we need to work on.”

Cheyenne Eagle Butte ac-tually tied White River for the #1 seed but White River’s better fi nish gave the top seed to the Tigers. We have a lot of players with good skills, we have players who are athletic and know the game, stated Rob Mendoza, Cheyenne Eagle Butte coach, we have good size as well, we just need to come together as

a team, bring together the re-turning players with the new ones.

Grant Kohlus is back, he averaged 17 points a game, Brexton Traversie returns after averaging 14 points and eight rebounds a game last year – starters will include 6’5” Sam Lebeau, Brennan Iron Heart and Wyatt Jewett. CEB opened the season with a 76-58 win over Miller. CEB opens the tourney at 11:30-am in the arena against Crow Creek.

“Many people thought we should be the #1 seed, I’m glad we’re at the #3 seed, last year we were the one seed and it put pressure on the team and we weren’t as mo-tivated as we needed to be,” said Christian McGhee, Red Cloud coach in his fourth LNI, his teams have gone

3-1 each year fi nishing 2nd, fi fth and second last year, “the tourney is open, White River, CEB, Little Wound and maybe the newcomer Win-nebago.”

Red Cloud opened their season Saturday night at home with a 73-65 win over Spearfi sh – we were a bit nervous, turned the ball over too much and didn’t box out very well, added McGhee, we have Kobey O’Rourke, Robert Looks Twice, Marty Richards and Terrell Pulliam back, we’ll be competitive.

Last March, Red Cloud defeated Pine Ridge in the Region 7A girls semis, got by Little Wound in the fi nals and went to state; this year they were selected as the #1 LNI seed, CEB is #2, Todd County is #3 with Little Wound #4.

“Getting out of Region 7A last year made us more of a target but for us it has mo-tivated us, we worked hard this summer, we were in the league in Rapid City, we went

to team camps and NABI and the girls were in the gym,” said Amanda Carlow who is in her fourth year as head coach at Red Cloud, “I’ve been with our seniors since they were freshmen; sure the team is looking at LNI but I’m looking at how we can improve each game; we have a solid core of seniors coming back, we have leadership.”

Seniors Trista Merrival, Schaevon Brewer, Leahnna Vitalis and Koty LeBeau started with sophomore Jas-mine Derby in the fi rst game Saturday at home against Spearfi sh – we did not box out very well, we had no in-tensity on defense and fouled too often in a 58-41 loss; we’ll improve, added Carlow.

Red Cloud opens Wednes-day morning at 10Am in the ice rink against Crow Creek, Little Wound takes on Low-er Brule at 11:30am, Todd County plays Tiospa Zina at 1pm and CEB opens against Crazy Horse at 2:30pm.

In addition to the teams, top players to watch out for include Justice Morrison and Nick Young at White River, Grant Kohlus and Brex-ton Traversie at CEB, Red Cloud’s Kobey O’Rourke and Terrell Pulliam, Shilo Tall-man and Jeremiah Hopkins at Little Wound and Buzz Jordan at St. Francis. For the

girls, watch out for Trista Merrival and Leahnna Vitalis at Red Cloud, Dawnee Keck-ler and Gabbie Norris at CEB, Janay Jumping Eagle at Little Wound, Stevie Lone Dog at Todd County and Shaylene Richard at Pine Ridge.

With the exception of a few consolation basket-ball games scheduled for St. Thomas More and South Middle School, all of the many events of this years LNI will be at the civic center. Events include two 16 team boys and girls high school basketball tournaments, wrestling, archery, cheer-leading, Jr. ROTC honor guard and hand game com-petitions as well as knowl-edge and language bowls, an art show and art auction, a Teca Wacipi Ololakiciye pow wow for school children, sto-rytelling, business plan com-petition, a poery slam.

This year’s event also in-cludes an honoring of Desert Storm veterans on Friday at 4pm followed by a Wiping of Tears ceremony and the an-nual grand entry that fi lls the arena fl oor to capacity.

And the BEAR characters return for both halftime pre-sentations and information sharing on a variety of issues including staying away from alcohol and drug abuse and suicide awareness.

White River opens with strong win over Jones

CountyWhite River raced out to

a 65-6 halftime lead Friday over Jones County on their way to a 113-18 win to open the 2015/16 season.

“We have a lot of work to do yet on our team defense and team chemistry,” said Eldon Marshall, starting his 13th season at White River, “we did hold Jones County to single digit scoring in each quarter 2, 4, 6 and 6 points.”

Dru Espinoza led six Ti-gers in double fi gures with 27 points, two rebounds, six as-sists and seven steals, Justice Morrison helped out with 19 points, two rebounds, two assists and four steals, Isaiah Knife added 18 points, six re-bounds, one assist, six steals and one block, Yamni White Hat chipped in 15 points, two rebounds, three assists and four steals while Lucas Iron Heart had 10 points and 10 rebounds with three assists, two steals and one block and James Leader Charge fi n-ished with 10 points, fi ve re-bounds and one steal.

CEB downs Miller 76-58 for fi rst win

Grant Kohlus exploded for 30 points, Brexton Tra-versie helped with 18 points and 11 rebounds while Bren-nan Iron Hawk chipped in eight points while pulling down 11 rebounds in CEB’s 76-58 win over Miller to open the Brave’s season. CEB plays Crow Creek at 11:30am Wednesday in the fi rst round of LNI.

Little Wound’s strong second half closes out

St. FrancisFriday, Little Wound found

itself down most of the fi rst half to visiting St. Francis, 6’6” freshman Tex Janis hit the fl oor midway through the second quarter, hitting for six points, a blocked shot and a rebound to spark the Mus-tangs to a 28-27 halftime lead on their way to a 69-52 win.

Shiloh Tallman led the way with 20 points and 11 re-bounds, Derek Looks Twice had 12 points while Jeremiah Hopkins added 11 points in

the cause. Buzz Jordan led the Warriors with 21 points, Shane Witt fi nished with 13 points.

On Saturday, the Mus-tangs travelled to Crow Creek, leaving town with a 62-57 victory.

Red Cloud splits doubleheader with

Spearfi shTwice in the fi rst half, Red

Cloud boys held a 12 point lead over the visiting Spar-tans only to allow it to be cut to fi ve points at the half; in the second half the Crusad-ers went up 16 points 69-53 but ended up with an eight point 73-65 win.

Terrell Pulliam knocked down six threes and Ko-bey O’Rourke fi nished with a double double 17 points and 13 rebounds while Rob-ert Looks Twice and Jack Fast Wolf both chipped in 11 points.

The Lady Crusaders held a 14-13 lead after one, couldn’t maintain it though going down 33-26 at the half on their way to a 58-41 loss. Red Cloud was outrebounded 30-19, struggled to get stops on defense and didn’t shoot well. Leahnna Vitalis hit here threes and led the team with 11 points and fi ve rebounds. Originally, Red Cloud was scheduled to open Thursday at Little Wound but a gas leak closed the school early with the game being postponed.

Pine Ridge opens with two straight wins

Tuesday, the Lady Thor-pes opened their season with a 62-54 win over St. Francis and followed it up with a 71-26 win over Hot Springs.

Against St. Francis, Shay-lene Richard led the Lady Thorpes with 24 points, three rebounds, fi ve assists and six steals, Shyanne Gray Grass added 21 points and 14 rebounds. Neola Spot-ted Bear led St. Francis with 19 points and nine rebounds while freshman Matee An-derson fi nished with 12 points and 13 rebounds.

Scores from rst weekBoysCrow Creek 53-49 Flandreau IndianCuster 64-46 OelrichsLittle Wound 69-52 St. FrancisTodd County 51-40 ValentineWhite River 113-18 Jones CountyRed Cloud 73-65 Spear shCEB 76-58 MillerLittle Wound 62-57 Crow CreekMarty 93-69 SanteeTiospa Zina 66-58 WilmotNew Underwood 54-35 DupreeEdmunds Central 65-35 WakpalaHerreid-Selby 65-39 McLaughlinEureka-Bowdle 90-15 WakpalaGirlsLittle Wound 76-42 Crow CreekPine Ridge 71-26 Hot SpringsTodd County 66-30 ValentineCEB 76-48 MillerSt. Francis 82-42 Bennett CountyMarty 58-29 SanteePlenty Coups 61-31 TakiniWakpala 34-31 Herreid-SelbyFlandreau Indian 42-34 Crow CreekTodd County 90-32 Bennett County

Day one LNI schedule for boys(arena) White River vs. Crazy Horse 10amCEB vs. Crow Creek 11:30amRed Cloud vs. Oelrichs 1pmLittle Wound vs. Tiospa Zina 2:30pmSt. Francis vs. Omaha Nation 4pmWinnebago vs. McLaughlin 5:30pmCuster vs. Pine Ridge 7pmLower Brule vs. Todd County 8:30pm

Day one for girls(ice rink)Red Cloud vs. Crow Creek 10amLittle Wound vs. Lower Brule v11:30amTodd County vs. Tiospa Zina 1pmCEB vs. Crazy Horse 2:30pmMcLaughlin vs. Winnebago 4pmCuster vs. St. Francis 5:30pmOmaha Nation vs. White River 7pmPine Ridge vs. Oelrichs 8:30pm

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White River boys, Red Cloud girls #1 seeds for 39th LNI Tourney

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Meet SBHS’s Class of 2015

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» Read about it on A16

» Read about it on A9

Kris HubbardMeade School District

Meade School District’s long term debt has been a discussion item at numerous meetings of the school board including the April meeting when Toby Morris, senior vice president of public finance with the financial ser-vices firm of Dougherty & Com-pany, addressed the board about financing for capital improve-ments.

Morris, principal consultant for the district during the past 10 years, has been working with School District Business Man-ager Brett Burditt on developing a financial strategy for the dis-trict regarding large scale capital improvements.

“This was precipitated by the enrollment surge in our district that left both Sturgis Elementary and Piedmont Valley Elementary at or near capacity,” said Burditt. “The first step we took was an analysis of the district’s assets. An appraisal was completed at Sturgis Brown High School east campus and the land at Stur-gis Elementary was reviewed to determine future expansion pos-sibilities.”

Burditt said the school board then turned its attention to the Piedmont/Summerset area when it declared Stagebarn School as surplus and awarded a contract for demolition of the structure and then acquired six additional acres adjacent to the property at Stagebarn for future growth.

“It was in this time frame that Mr. Morris began his discussions with the board about future capi-tal improvement projects in the district and possible financing strategies,” said Burditt.

Morris has provided an in-depth analysis of the district cap-ital outlay fund and its ability to generate revenue as well as long term indebtedness of the Meade School District through 2030.

“An important parameter of debt to capital outlay revenue has been the focal point of Mr. Mor-ris’s presentations,” said Burditt.

“Regardless of what the proj-ect may be, the district should try to keep the debt to revenue ratio of 1.5:3 which basically means the district should not obligate any more than $1.50 of the maximum $3.00 capital outlay mill levy toward debt. Compliance to this ratio helps the district maintain an AA-rating with the financial industry and enables Mr. Mor-ris to secure competitive interest rates from lending institutions,” explained Burditt.

It was at the April 2015 meet-ing that Morris provided the board with this culmination of data to assist them with planning for future growth in the district.

Morris’ services for the dis-trict have included the west gym construction and the Sturgis Wil-liams Middle School renovation.

He also assisted in the Sturgis Elementary project in 2009 and Piedmont Valley Elementary in 2011.

Now that the assessment has been done, the Meade School Board has a better idea of their options concerning a middle school in the Stagebarn area.

The board at its Tuesday meeting was to consider a con-tract with Architecture Incorpo-rated to design a possible middle school in the Stagebarn area.

Board to considerspendingoptions

Area residents were amazed at high temperatures in the 30s and record breaking snow on Mother’s Day weekend in the Northern Black Hills.

Another May storm was the hot topic on the History of Sturgis & Meade Coun-ty’s Facebook page. That storm struck the Black Hills on May 3-4, 1905.

The late Eugene H. McPherson, of rural Meade County, recalled the storm in a story he shared on the National Weather Service website.

“It set in with a warm rain and toward evening it turned colder and began to snow. Soon the wind came up quite strong and the blizzard was on,” he said.

The storm sounds eerily like winter storm Atlas of October 2013.

“The loss in horses was the heaviest this country ever experienced before or since. It was common to find as many as two or three up to twenty five dead horses in draws or pockets where they had gone for shelter,” he wrote.

There were no immediate reports of livestock losses.

In South Dakota, where ranchers are still recovering from the devastating early fall blizzard in 2013, “I think we’re going to come through this one OK,” said Silvia Christen, executive director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association.

“Some areas certainly have deep snow — 8 to 15 inches — and it certainly wasn’t easy on the livestock,” she said. “But many

of our ranchers were still on their winter pasture where (cattle) have protection, there was a very very accurate forecast, and the wind didn’t blow so strong.”

The storm dumped more than 8 inches of snow on southern North Dakota and more than a foot on western South Dakota’s Black Hills over the weekend. It continued into Monday morning in south-eastern North Dakota and north central

South Dakota, with another couple of inches of snow and strong winds making travel hazardous in some areas.

The storm broke daily snowfall records in Rapid City on both Saturday and Sun-day that had stood for a half century or more, according to National Weather Ser-vice reports.

Snow storm breaks records, helps with drought conditions

Courtesy photosABOVE TOP: Traeton Monahan and his younger brother, Torin, play in the snow near their home in Blucksberg addition. ABOVE BOTTOM: Taesha Monahan and her mom, Jen, with the snowman the Monahan’s built on Mother’s Day Sunday.

Voters 100% in favor of the town of Bu� alo Chip

Deb HollandMeade County Times-Tribune staff

STURGIS | Following the offi-cial canvass of the votes by the Meade County Commission today, Buffalo Chip will offi-cially become South Dakota’s newest town.

On Thursday, Buffalo Chip voters unanimously gave their community the nod for incor-poration.

All 43 of them.Buffalo Chip Campground

CEO Rod Woodruff says that despite news to the contrary, he

won’t be on the town governing board.

“I still own all the land,” he said. “I don’t think the city gov-ernment should tell me what to do with the land.”

Following the canvass, the town will seat a governing board and other city staff as needed.

Asked if the city would build a new city hall, Woodruff said there are “plenty of buildings that could be used.”

“I don’t know that a building would be required. That seems like a waste of money,” he said.

Woodruff has long envi-sioned a time when his busi-ness venture would morph into a motorcycle-friendly town.

Deb Holland, Meade County Times-Tribune staffThursday morning, Meade County Auditor Lisa Schieffer explains the particulars of verifying the absentee votes to Election Judges Nyla Griffith, Greg Smith and Carol Woodruff.

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ObItUarIes · evelyn beug, 92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sturgis

· timothy Gibson, 54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belle Fourche

· Maurice Hanify, 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belle Fourche

· Leslie Harrison, 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rapid City

· Lillian Hopson, 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sturgis

· darren ‘bubba’ Jacobsen, 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . Sturgis

· rita Preszler, 70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belle Fourche

· James saunders, 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rapid City

· Lydia ‘arlene’ strohschein, 84 . . . . . . . . . . Sturgis

· Misty stuart, 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belle Fourche

· nancy Veal, 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belle Fourche

· edwin Wierzbicki, 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Newell

colleen brunner

Butte County Post correspondent

neWeLL | If the results of a few of the nota-

tions on some of the silent auction items

were any indication, when the results are

tabulated the fundraising efforts can be

considered a success as the Newell Lions did

it again with a pancake supper for Brenda

Eichler.Eichler was diagnosed with breast cancer

on July 7 and began chemotherapy treat-

ments on July 13. She has two weeks left in

this round of treatment before she heads

into surgery.“I didn’t think anything of it at first

when they found a lump in my breast,” said

Eichler, after attending the fundraiser at the

NVN Senior Center Friday night in Newell.

“They took that out and it was like, no big

deal. But then I found one (lump) in my arm-

pit and I thought, ‘oh no.’”

It turns out that it was a big oh no, and

that Eichler did have a major concern.

But she has great support from both fam-

ily and community. Her husband, Tracy,

and daughters, Brittney Eichler, Samantha

Kinghorn, Kimberly and Katie Eichler, as

well as good friends Dave and Holly Ollila

put together an awesome offering of items

for the silent auction. One jar of salsa and a

bag of tortilla chips had a $50 bid. And there

were dozens of offerings from food items

to paintings to several beef items from the

Kinghorn family.

The Newell Lions Club routinely plans

pancake supper fundraisers for a variety

of causes, but the highest attended always

seems to be when they raise funds for

someone with health needs. Most people

don’t understand the costs of dealing with

the type of diagnosis Eichler just received,

believing that insurance will take care of it.

But the high cost of treatment, travel and

meals incurred in making treatment ses-

sions and often loss of income for the per-

son suffering needs to be taken into account.

Organizations like the Lions help soften the

blow.

Community comes out in

droves for Eichler fundraiser

colleen brunner, butte county Post correspondent

Brenda and Tracy Eichler said they were very thankful to the Lions Club for the fundraiser supper and all who donated and bid on silent auction

items at the pancake supper Friday night .

emily niebrugge

Journal staff

The Belle Fourche Area Com-

munity Center is undergoing

$3,764 repairs after a pipe burst

Monday morning in a mechani-

cal room on the west side of the

building.It appears that a hairline frac-

ture from a sudden change in

pressure caused the pipe to burst,

said Michelle Deyo-Amende with

the REC Center at Monday night’s

city council meeting.

Additionally, Deyo-Amende

said it also appeared to the com-

pany that there is no glycol left

in the pipes, which acts as anti-

freeze. The council on Monday

night approved the $3,764 pipe

repair, but the glycol repairs

could cost an additional $6,000

to $7,000.The repairs should be com-

plete by Friday, and Deyo-

Amende is hoping those repairs

will not affect pool use because

of high humidity levels, especially

for the third and fourth graders

taking swimming lessons.

“We’re already getting some

water on the inside of the win-

dows, but I don’t think we’ll

have to close the main part of the

building,” Deyo-Amende said.

Also at the meeting, the coun-

cil voted to sign the new Code

Red contract between the city

and the county. The system can

be used for emergency situations

such as winter storms, thunder-

storms, tornadoes, flooding and

missing children.

Belle Fourche pays about

$4,500 a year for the system, and

cost is based on population. The

vote Monday night was to extend

the contract another year, said

Police Chief Scott Jones.

The Belle Fourche Area Com-

munity Center’s roof repair

City OK’s funds for BFACC repair

emily niebrugge

Journal staff

As Runnings prepares for the

move from a 13,000 square foot

store to a 60,000 square foot

location, a groundbreaking is set

for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the

new location at the intersection

of Highway 85 and Highway 34.

Co n s t r u c t i o n i s a l rea dy

underway at the intersection for

the store that will expand more

than four times in size.

The hope is to be completely

moved by fall 2016, bringing in

a handful of new employment

opportunities. Having available

parking at the new location will

be a major benefit, said Belle

Fourche Store Manager Brandon

Freed.Freed also said the location

with the highways intersect-

ing should be a good area for

the store, which will sell an

expanded selection of farm and

ranch goods, clothing, footwear,

pet supplies, sporting goods,

hardware, tools, lawn and garden

items and more.

“We’re just excited to have

space and excited to have all the

offerings that Runnings has for

Groundbreaking for new Runnings

location will be this Thursday

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By EVAN HENDERSHOT

The Daily Republic

The Palace City Lions

Club is doing its part to keep

Mitchell safe.

The local organization pre-

sented Mitchell Chief of Public

Safety Lyndon Overweg with a

check for $7,000 at Monday’s

City Council meeting in City

Hall.Palace City Lions President

Craig Bennett and a contin-

gent of club members attended

the meeting to share with the

public their reasoning for mak-

ing the donation.

“The recent issues surround-

ing other city’s police and fi re

departments had us wondering

what we can do to assist our

invaluable group of men and

women that keep our streets

and homes safe and secure,”

Bennett said.

The $7,000 will be split

between the fi re and police

divisions of the department,

with the police division receiv-

ing the majority of the funds

for a docking and downloading

station for its recently pur-

chased body cameras.

The $4,650 portion of the

donation will save Mitchell

police offi cers time and allevi-

ate concerns about body-worn

cameras not functioning cor-

rectly due to an excess of data

stored on the device.

The donation follows a Sept. Of cials thank Palace City Lions for donation

Early detection can save lives

By EVAN HENDERSHOT

The Daily Republic

While the meningococcal

vaccine is not perfect, it

has drastically reduced the

number of meningococcal

disease cases in the United

States over the past 20

years.In September, a fi rst-y

ear

Dakota Wesleyan University

student, Beau Keeter, died

of bacterial meningitis

shortly after experiencing

fl u-like symptoms. Although

the 19-year old’s father,

Jim Keeter, questioned

the effectiveness of the

vaccination, South Dakota

Department of Health’s epi-

demiologist highly recom-

mends the vaccine.

“What you do with the

vaccine is you’re protecting

people by lowering the risk,

but you’re not lowering the

risk to absolute zero,” said

Lon Kightlinger.

Kightlinger said the

meningococcal vaccination,

which Jim Keeter said his

son received before attend-

ing college, has an effective-

ness up to 95 percent with-

in the fi rst year of receiving

the vaccine. Within fi ve

years of the vaccination, the

effectiveness hovers around

75 percent.

Shortly after Keeter’s

death in September, the

South Dakota Department

of Infectious Diseases noti-

fi ed DWU that Keeter had

tested positive for bacterial

meningitis. Kightlinger said

the disease of the brain and

spinal cord membrane can

cause people to lose their

limbs, cause deafness or

seizures and even result in

death.Kightlinger said the vac-

cine is the driving force

behind the sizable drop

in cases of meningitis in

the United States over the

past 20 years. In 1994,

Kightlinger said, there were

2,886 cases. Ten years later,

in 2014, the number of

cases dropped exponentially

to 433.

Kightlinger said people

should get the vaccination

when they are 11 years

old and should follow that

with a booster later in life.

High risk groups for men-

ingitis include people with

immune defi ciency, people

who have had their spleen

removed and those in their

fi rst year of life in a college

dorm or army barracks.

Keeter, who was found

dead in his Dayton Hall dor-

By JAKE SHAMA

The Daily Republic

A jury has ruled in favor of Avera Queen

of Peace Hospital in a suit brought by a for-

mer Avera doctor who felt she was wrong-

fully fi red.

The trial, which lasted fi ve days at the

Davison County Courthouse in Mitchell,

stems from Sonia Hernandez’s fi ring in

January 2012 after completing six surger-

ies with Avera. The jury made its decision

Monday.

“Safe patient care is of primary impor-

tance to the hospital, and we really thank

the jury for affi rming that Avera Queen of

Peace did the right thing here,” said Lisa

Marso, attorney for Avera.

The lawyers agreed in court that two of

Hernandez’s surgeries resulted in injuries,

and complications stemmed from another.

Hernandez believed her termination was

a breach of her three-year contract, which

was terminated because Avera said patient

care and safety was at imminent risk from

Hernandez’s actions.

Marso and Matthew Murphy defended

Avera against claims made by Hernandez’s

attorney, Eddie Lucio, that the equipment,

instruments and staff at the hospital were

to blame for the injuries.

“We disagree with the jury’s verdict, but

By AMBER HILES

The Daily Republic

The top cause of fi res in Mitchell

involves cooking.

Startling fi re statistics and family prepa-

ration training were presented by Mitchell

Fire Marshal Marius Laursen at a public

informational session Monday at Blarney’s

Sports Bar and Grill in Mitchell.

“If you start something on the stove,

keep track of it,” Laursen said. “If you get

distracted, turn the stovetop off or remove

it.”Laursen said people have made a habit

of using the oven as extra storage in their

kitchen, anything from tupperware to

bags of chips. Then, it is only a matter

of forgetting the items are stored on the

racks before turning the oven on.

If a fi re does happen on the stovetop,

Laursen said taking it to the sink to run

water over it is the worst way to handle it.

“Water on hot oil or grease expands it

to thousands of times larger,” he said.

In the event of an oil or grease fi re,

Laursen said the fi rst thing to do is

stay calm. Taking the oxygen away

from fi re “kills it,” so he told a group of

nine Mitchell residents who attended

Fire marshal shares

safety tips, tricks

Laursen: Each home should have six to eight re alarms

Avera wins

termination

suit against

former doctor

Jury rules in hospital’s

favor in ve-day trial

with ophthalmologist

Meningococcal vaccine highly successful,

up to 95 percent effective, says state of cial

Fall favorite

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Tougher gun sale laws

Survey says over half of Americans

want stricter rules. A8

Voting changes

More SD counties might operate

satellite voting centers in ’16. A3

Online: mitchellrepublic.com

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Mitchell Fire Marshall Marius Laursen, presented fi re safety information for families to nine individuals at a public informational session

Monday afternoon at Blarney’s Sports Bar and Grill in Mitchell.

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Jeremy Daugherty doesn’t

know where his camper ended up

after Sunday’s tornado in Del-

mont, but he did find the baby blue

tailgate to a 1980s-era Chevrolet

pickup in his yard.That tailgate came in handy

Tuesday, serving as a ramp into

the trailer he and his family were

filling with the salvageable con-

tents of his leveled home.

With no insurance on the inheri-

ted home, no vehicle of his own

and no plan for what to do next,

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Sally Gill of Sioux City, Iowa, surveys the remains of her brother’s demolished home Tuesday in Delmont. A tornado Sunday morning tore

through the town, about 35 miles southwest of Mitchell. Eighty-four structures were damaged or destroyed. Nine people were injured.

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PIERRE — National Security

Agency employees soon will be

able to count their cybersecurity

training at the agency toward

college credit at Dakota State

University under a proposal the

state Board of Regents ap-

proved at a Tuesday meeting.

The agreement will allow

NSA employees to earn up to 50

academic credits toward a 120-

credit undergraduate degree in

Cyber Operations from Dakota

State University in Madison for

completing certain training at

the agency. The deal is the first

of its kind for the NSA and a

higher education institution, ac-

cording to a report to the board.

“We’re tickled pink. We’re ab-

solutely thrilled that we’ve done

this,” said Josh Pauli, a cyberse-

curity professor at Dakota State

University who worked with the

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treatment plant during that span.

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in 2003,” said Darin Freese, Sioux

Falls’ water program coordina-

tor.“That’s impressive,” Freese

said. “More impressive is the city

has grown by more than 33,000

people since then.”

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A tradition turns into the art of givingBy Beth Sherard-Fennel Anh Drury left Vietnam when she was 16 years old and pursued a life in the United States of America. Now she uses her cooking gift to help others. “My grandmother was an awe-some cook,” Drury said. “I learned a little bit from her, but I didn’t really do a lot of cooking after I came over because I was real busy with school and all that. But I started making egg rolls when I was in high school; I was known for that. People loved my egg rolls. But not until after I got married did I start to do more cook-ing.” In the last five years, Drury has started cooking Vietnamese food again. Her inspiration came from Peggy La, owner of the Hong Kong Market. La handed Sam [Drury’s daughter] a red envelope and said, ‘Li Xi.’ “The Vietnamese New Year, the tradition is to give money to kids, a dollar or two in there, just some-thing fun,” Drury stated. “And so I kind of thought, ‘You don’t have to give her anything.’ Because I really hadn’t been hon-oring that and she said, ‘Why not? It’s Vietnamese tradition.’ And so, she said that to me I thought, ‘You know, why not?

I’m going to start making things for my daughter and doing the Li Xi thing at Vietnamese New Year/Chi-nese New Year.” Drury’s daughter has severe al-lergies to all dairy, nuts, peanuts, egg whites, pears, cats and dogs. So it’s easier for Drury to make things for her daughter, that she knows she can eat. She is glad that she started making Vietnamese food again be-cause now her daughter knows what the food is like and it’s becoming easier for her to make them. “They take time,” Drury said. “They have many steps. And the more I make, the easier it gets. It’s fun.” Drury enjoys cooking for others, not just her daughter. “If I had my way, I’d be cook-ing for everyone else, in the world,” Drury laughed. “And so most people that know me, businesses, butcher shop, mailmen, anyone I know in the hospitals, clinics, I always take things for them.”

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Leber to retire at end of school yearBy Beth Sherard-Fennel The Dakota Valley School Board accept-ed the retirement request of Superintendent Al Leber at its meeting Monday night. His resignation is effective as of June 30, 2016. However, he stated that he would like to stick around after his resignation and see the new Dakota Valley High School completed. The board expressed its sorrow at seeing him leave and wished him the best. School board member Steve Kistner was sworn in and takes the place of previous board chair Scott Sexton. School board member Co-rey Reiff was elected president of the school board and James Heeren vice-president. The minutes from June 8 were approved. The financial items were approved after a couple questions on some of the bills. A run-through of the budget for Fiscal Year 2015 was presented. Administrative reports were presented, in-cluding a brief run down of the Summer Pro-gram given by High School Principal Jerry Rasmussen. Twenty-eight students are cur-rently in the program making up homework and classes that weren’t finished during the school year. He said that as soon as students finish their coursework, they are able to leave the Summer Program. Meetings times were set by the board for the second Monday of every month at 7 p.m.

in the Dakota Valley Ad-ministrative Office. Board members were appointed to the following committees: Buildings and Grounds, Kam Smith and Kistner; Finance, Smith and Kistner; Library and Technology, Reiff and Heeren; Policy Commit-tee, Reiff and Kevin Hoff-man; NSCDV Recreation, Heeren; DVBC and AS-BSD Legis. Liaison, Re-iff; Hardship Fund (Sick Bank), Smith; Wellness, Heeren and Hoffman; and Curriculum Committees, Science, Hoffman and Math, Kistner. The rest of the appointments were ap-proved: Rodney Freeman of Huron, SD as Legal Council; School District Liaison Offi-cer, Union County Sheriff for rural areas as Truancy Officer; Superintendent of Schools as School Lunch Hearing Officer; Robert’s Rules of Order as parliamentary procedure for board meetings; Liberty National Bank as Depository for School Funds; Dakota Dunes/North Sioux City Times as Legal Newspaper; KMEG-TV as official Television Station; and 102.3 FM as official Radio Station.

The yearly authorizations were approved. The Superinten-dent and Business Manager are official purchasing agents, cus-todian of all financial accounts, custodians of the activity ac-count (Trust and Agency) and all Federal and State Programs for the School District. The Busi-ness Manager was approved to use an automatic payment plan to pay utility bills and electronic transfers of school district funds for the high school bond pay-ments and the elementary school bond payments. The superinten-dent was approved to close the

school in emergency situations and in cases of inclement weather and setting a chain of command in case the superintendent is absent. The superintendent and the Director of Spe-cial Services were appointed to sign Public School Exemption (Home School) Petitions. The Director of Special Services was also ap-pointed as the district’s representative for the SD Consolidated Grant and Flow Through (IDEA) Application. The board approved the compensation schedule for the board of education members as $65 for regular, special and all board relat-ed meetings with a monthly $25 deduction to

the board fund and $50 for all board assigned committee meetings. The following rates for substitute em-ployees will be the same: $100 for certified teachers, $125 after 20 days worked and $155 after 40 days worked and $85 for non-certi-fied teachers. Rates for substitute secretaries, non-certified para-professionals, AA/Praxis Degree para-professionals, certified (BA/BS Degree) para-professionals and custodial per-sonnel will be raised from $10.50 per hour to $11. The mileage, meals and lodging for autho-rized employees and board travel will remain the same. The price for yearbooks increased from $41 to $42. Admission prices for JV/varsity events and activity ticket prices will be as follows: K-12 student (per event), $3; adults $5; K-12 activity tickets, $25; adult activity ticket, $35; family activity ticket, $120 and over the age of 62, no charge. The board approved the rates for Delta Dental Plan renewal at single for $36.16 and family for $100.06; Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield for single, $475.91; employee and spouse, $974.66; employee and child(ren),

Al Leber

A zoo visitBecca Wanner from the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls presented to a crowd of over 100 children and 60 adults at the North Sioux City Library Tueday morning. The presen-tation included several live critters.

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Local woman develops organic skin care line, showcases ‘Face Value’

Melissa Chipps/SUNOn Monday, March 24, K-2 Chamberlain Elementary School students performed in their spring concert, “Spring into Action”. This was the kindergartners first performance as grade school students.

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Brenda Ward’s product, Face Value, displayed with some of the ingredients used to make it.

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On a quest for money-saving tips four years ago, Brenda Ward of Chamberlain got lost in the pages of a book about “going green”. What she found helped her do far more than save money. Ward discovered a personal mission for healthier living that helped her launch a skin care business.

“Cosmetic companies aren’t required to identify all of the ingredients in their products, and once I realized I was coating my skin, my body’s largest organ, in things like formaldehyde and parabens, I had to take action. What we put in and on our bodies shouldn’t poison us,” Ward said.

Ward, who is a licensed physical therapist and co-owner of Cornerstones Therapy Services in Chamberlain, immediately began researching and experimenting with all-natural, primarily organic ingredients. She was determined to develop safe, effective beauty products.

For the first two years, Ward researched and perfected beauty products for her own use. Then, she shared those products with

close family and friends. At their urging, she launched At Face Value and began marketing her body butters, face lotions, masks, scrubs and bath salts through local farmers’ markets.

“When people buy my products, I want them to know they can trust the label and quality I put into every jar. Making sure people can take my products ‘at face value’ is important,” the Burke native said.

With a full-time career and family, Ward’s skin care line has to fit in the nooks and crannies of her life. Because the products do not contain preservatives, like formaldehyde, their shelf life is limited. The fresh nature of her business means customers must be willing to wait occasionally.

“Unless refrigerated, my lotions have a shelf life between 30 and 60 days,” Ward said. “I want my customers to have the freshest products possible, so I make new batches before each market. Creating custom blends for specific customer needs is also a really big part of what I enjoy.”

The At Face Value line includes a variety of product options, and Ward

works hard to ensure items are reasonably priced. Currently, a four-ounce glass jar of body butter costs $6 while a custom created facial elixir runs about $25 per two-ounce bottle. Bath salts and diaper balms start at $3.

“What I do isn’t for everyone,” Ward said. “I always want people to tell me what they don’t like about a product.”

Though content with both of her careers, Ward looks forward to expanding her lines. She has plans to seek independent quality testing this summer and

is currently working to develop sunscreen.

“I get busier [with At Face Value] every year, so I can see a stand-alone business someday,” she said. “What I know has been self-taught, so for right now, I’m happy to see how far it’s already come.”

To contact Ward about her products, call her at (605) 730-1471 or email her at [email protected]. The At Face Value line will be available for purchase at Fabulous Finds in Chamberlain or during area farmers’ markets and fairs.

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The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe is seeking public input to identify and evaluate environmental concerns for the $52.5 million Golden Buffalo Casino proposed to be built in Oacoma.

A public scoping meeting will be held Thursday, March 27, on the casino sought to be built on a portion of 92-acres of tribe-owned trust land on the west side of Oacoma, land that was purchased in 1989 and took over 15 years to receive federal trust status.

The casino would prospectively be relocated from where it currently sits on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation to a new site in Oacoma, making it the first off-reservation Native American gaming facility in the state.

The proposal includes the first phase of the project to cost an estimated $34 million and take 24 months to construct. The first phase will include the primary components of a truck travel plaza, hotel future lobby and administrative services area, casino, restaurants and conference center, paved parking lots and driveways, landscaping and site lighting, and associated

utility and drainage improvements.

The second phase would be constructed as need dictates and be paid from casino revenues at an estimated cost of $18.5 million. The completion of the second phase would see an added water park, all season event center, hotel room tower, RV park, additional parking lots and driveways, additional landscaping and site lighting, and any further associated utility and drainage improvements.

The scoping process will identify and evaluate environmental concerns of the public related to: land and water resources; air quality; noise; biological, cultural, historical and archaeological resources; resource use patterns; traffic and transportation; public health and safety; hazardous materials and wastes; public services and utilities; socio-economics; environmental justice; visual resources/aesthetics; and cumulative, indirect and growth-inducing effects.

Two meetings will be conducted in separate locations. The first one will be held in Lower Brule at

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Justin Graves, with the Association for Career/Technical Education, thanked the school board at the meeting on Monday, March 24, for allowing him to travel to the 2013 National ACT Convention and Career Tech Vision Conference. The event was held last December at a school in Las Vegas. California.

Graves stated that there were many highlights from his trip, but his favorite part was visiting the trade expo where the vendors demonstrated what is new in technology and pushed for different technical classes.

“The big thing this year was robotics, they had six or seven booths where they were really pushing robotics for stem and different programs like that,” he said. “They also have welding simulators, which were basically a computer used to test mid-welding skills.”

According to Graves, the welding simulators are a complete set up and have a printout of results to show individual student

accuracy. The simulator also saves on consumables while their skills are being perfected. “The initial cost to get into welding is expensive, but nobody gets hurt or burned with a simulator,” he said.

Another highlight from the event for Graves was the main speaker who is a lifetime teacher of pre-education. “She had nothing good to say about standardized testing. Her big spiel was down with standardized testing and more hands-on education in the schools,” he told the board.

He also attended a workshop that shared ideas on FFA and ways to gain more community involvement in the program; and received tips on starting an alumni association in town.

“All of these things are going to help me day to day,” said Graves. “It helped to know what is coming

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RAPID CITY –– Many Native Americansfelt secure when five years ago, it was an-nounced that the son of one of Indian Coun-tries closest allies was appointed to the postof U.S. Attorney for the District of SouthDakota.

Brendan Johnson, son of retired SenatorTim Johnson (D-SD), was nominated by Pres-ident Barak Obama, and was unanimouslyconfirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 40th U.S.Attorney for S.D. in October of 2009.

Johnson resigned his post last month, butNatives can rest assured, Johnson plans tocontinue the fine fight for Native Americanrights.

Johnson, along with his colleague NorthDakota's U.S. attorney, Tim Purdon, left theU.S. Attorney’s office to join Robins KaplanLaw firm. Both men chaired the Native Amer-

ican Issues Subcommittee at the Departmentof Justice throughout the Obama Administra-tion.

At Robins Kaplan in Sioux Falls, Johnsonsaid he looks forward to taking on environ-mental disputes and equal rights issues be-tween Native Americans and the State ofSouth Dakota and big corporations.

“We will be available to represent tribes,stand up for tribes, be their voice and hope-fully equal the playing field,” Johnson said.“We want to be there on behalf of tribes orNative American individuals to make surethat they have the strongest legal team theycan have, standing shoulder to shoulder nextto them.”

During Johnson’s tenure as U.S. Attorney,South Dakota’s Indian tribes were justlyserved as he leaves behind a legacy of tri-umphant legal battles.

The very first Native issue Johnson tackledas U.S. Attorney involved the Yankton Sioux’sdispute with the State and Charles MixCounty who were seeking to disestablish theirreservation.

“Litigation had gone on for close to 20 yearsand I am really proud that we were successfulin that lawsuit. And we were able to preventthe Yankton Sioux Reservation from beingdisestablished. So that is something that hasbeen important to me,” Johnson said.

As U.S. Attorney he also helped file a briefin the OST v Van Hunnik case, being heard inthe Federal Courthouse in Rapid City, on be-half of the Oglala and Rosebud Sioux Tribes

Johnson resigns as U.S. Attorney

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RAPID CITY –– Ernestine Chas-ing Hawk will be promoted to edi-tor of the Native Sun Newseffective April 1. She is a longtimeemployee of Publisher Tim Giagoand got her start with him at theLakota Journal.

Giago said, “Ernie, as she isknown by all of us at NSN, is oneof the best Native American jour-

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Accident leadsto road closure

By Talli NaumanNative Sun NewsHealth & Environment Editor

RAPID CITY –– When NancyKile saw the hazmat truck head-ing to the Chadron waste collec-tion site, she all but panicked,dreading that the driver woulddump its load of chemically con-taminated soil at the place whereshe obtains compost to enrichher garden.

The Chadron waste collectionsite has been producing nutrient-laden compost from grass clip-pings and leaves for freedistribution to customers since1992, in what the Solid WasteAgency of Northwest Nebraska,or SWANN, calls “one of ourmost successful recycling pro-grams.”

Kile, a Crawford, Nebraskanative and enrolled member ofthe Oglala Sioux Tribe, said “theidea of that soil being dumpedthere bugged me because I getmy compost there.”

She followed the trail of thehazardous waste unleashed inthe uranium mining and pro-cessing town of Crawford andnow is set to tell the tale of whatshe discovered –– as part of afree Benefit Concert for the BlackHills to celebrate World WaterDay March 22 at the Dahl ArtsCenter in Rapid City.

The Canadian-owned CamecoCorp. has been mining andmilling uranium for nuclearpower at its Crow Butte Re-sources site two miles from herhome town since 1991. The com-pany is seeking license renewaland permits to expand at twoother mining sites, one 30 milessoutheast of the Pine Ridge In-dian Reservation, and the otherlocated between Crawford andPine Ridge.

Cameco is the largest uraniumproducer in the United States. Itsmines in Nebraska andWyoming provide more thanhalf of domestically produceduranium used to generate elec-tricity at nuclear power plants.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe is con-testing Cameco’s application tothe Nuclear Regulatory Commis-sion for license renewal andmine expansion at Crow Butte.The tribe has argued that the in-situ leach (ISL) uranium recov-ery project is on tribal territory“secured by treaty, and notwithin the territory or on landsof the United States or any of itssubdivisions by which the NRCmay exercise any lawful jurisdic-tion.”

A tractor-trailer delivering hy-drochloric acid to the CrowButte uranium mining andmilling site just south of Craw-

ford went off the road, spillingthe chemical in early February.

The accident led to road-clo-sure, evacuation and cleanup byfirst-responders, including theNebraska State Patrol, DawesCounty Sherriff and fire depart-ments, as well as other membersof the Nebraska Hazardous Inci-dent Team.

Crow Butte and other in-situleach uranium mining andmilling plants mix hydrochloricacid with ammonia to precipitateuranium from solution in whichit is dissolve, so it can be concen-trated into a radioactive powderknown as yellow cake, which isthen shipped to processing facil-ities

When spilled, hydrochloricacid forms a mist that can havean erosive effect on human skin,eyes and other organs, accordingto the Nebraska Hazardous Ma-terials Association.

Kile documented the spill andlater, on Feb. 10, followed thehazmat truck to the Chadronwaste collection site. There shespoke with personnel, whose an-swers to her questions revealedthat the truck was only weighingits load before proceeding to de-posit it at a landfill further northin Dawes County, she said.

“SWANN cannot accept liq-uids or hazardous materials,”says the agency of local govern-ment sanitation operators. “Thiswould be in violation of Ne-braska Department of Environ-mental Quality (NDEQ)regulations,” SWANN says.

The landfill 15 miles north ofChadron on Highway 385, does

not, however, have a lining, ac-cording to what personnel ex-plained to Kile. The explanationwas that the Ogallala Aquifer is900 feet below the facility, mak-ing it deep enough to exemptSWANN from lining the pit, shesaid.

According to the NebraskaDepartment of EnvironmentalQuality, radioactive mine andmill waste from Crow Butte,such as filters, which cannot bedeposited in the Dawes Countylandfill, are shipped to anotherstorage and mill site in Blanding,Utah.

Two people at the Crow Buttefacility are in charge of recordingthe radioactive properties of thefilters and packaging them in so-called “super sacks” to transportthem from Nebraska to Utah, theNDEQ told Kile.

The White Mesa Mill south ofBlanding recycles radioactivewaste to make yellow cake forsale to government utilities andother customers, in a taxpayersubsidized arrangement that hasdrawn a lawsuit from the GrandCanyon Trust.

Kile warned that proposals formore uranium mining andmilling in the Pine Ridge IndianReservation area would createconditions for more accidentslike the hydrochloric acid spill atCrow Butte.

“This industry has groomedmy hometown, encompassed it,and now look at it,” she said.“When you continue to supportin-situ leach mining withoutbeing fully aware of what it’sdoing to the soils and to the

water, then it just seems like aslow suicide to me.”

Azarga Uranium Corp., for-merly Powertech UraniumCorp., is seeking NRC licensingand EPA water rights to conductin-situ leach (ISL) mining at the10,580-acre site 50 miles west ofthe Pine Ridge Reservation in theBlack Hills.

Azarga’s proposal is the firstfor in-situ leach mining in thestate of South Dakota. The com-pany, with most of its holdingsin China, wants rights to 9,000gallons per minute of the Madi-son and Inyan Kara aquifers.

Caution should be exercised inthe permitting, because Azargais a foreign company, accordingto concert speaker TatyanaNovikova.

“Experience proves that thetransnational uranium miningbusiness is not environmentallyresponsible, and its deadly re-sults are evident in water, soiland air contamination,"Novikova said.

“Local citizens have to use allthe opportunities available toprevent transnational miningbusiness, because the conse-quences of uranium extractioncould last the hundreds ofyears,” she said.

Dr. Lilias Jarding, founder ofthe Rapid City-based CleanWater Alliance and associate pro-fessor at Oglala Lakota College,will explain the ISL technique atthe benefit concert, as well as op-portunities for public participa-tion in the permitting process.

COURTESY/Nancy Kile

Hazmat crews left materials at the spill site after spreading sodium bicarbonate on the hydrochloric acid to help neutralize itand building berms to prevent the toxic uranium mining chemical from spreading.

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From P&D Staff ReportsThe 500 are down to 15.The Onward Yankton commit-

tee on Thursday issued its list of 15 semifinalists for Yankton’s next “big idea.” The 508 submissions were collected during a 100-day campaign that began in the spring.

“We were really happy with the diversity of the submissions,” com-mittee member John Andrews said in a press release. “They covered tourism, education, economic

development and recreation, just to name a few categories. And it was clear that people put a lot of thought into their plans. It was dif-ficult to narrow the field to 15.”

Andrews praised the quality of the submissions. “We kept saying, ‘I wish we

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Yankton’s Ability Building Services (ABS) can continue

to live up to their mission statement of “Providing Peo-

ple with Enriched Lives.”ABS recently received a grant of $5,000 that will en-

able the organization to provide up-to-date computers

and iPads to the people they service. “We provide a variety of community-based supports

for people with intellectual disabilites,” explained Car-

rie Winterringer, quality assurances coordinator. “It’s all

person-based on what they want to achieve with their

lives.“We will have individualized training for each per-

son’s needs and wants,” she added. “It can be anywhere

from teaching the person how to use an app on the iPad

to communicate to helping someone use it for sensory

therapy to showing them how to look for jobs online.”

Upgrading their technology was something ABS

employees have wanted to do for a while.“We have already purchased some computers and

iPads,” said Sharon Oien, program manager. “We plan to

provide things like learning money management and how

to use various computer programs like Word. Computers

go obsolete so quickly, and this has been a huge benefit

for us to get upgraded equipment.”“There’s so many awesome apps out there that can

help with different areas of life and learning new skills,”

Gunman Kills 4 In Attacks On Military Sites • 3A

BY ROB [email protected] it’s been hard to miss

the smoky haze that has envel-oped the region at times over the last few weeks, the smoke is having no discernable effect on the region’s weather.Speaking during the Great

Plains and Midwest Climate Outlook webinar on Thursday, Brian Fuchs, climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, said smoke from fires in Canada and Alaska hasn’t changed the weather patterns, contrary to some speculation.“From the discussions that

have gone around, most of the state climatologists that I heard back from were saying they were not seeing an impact,”

Fuchs said. “There had been some work done as far as look-ing at what this does mean for the diffused solar radiation coming in with response to the

smoke. For the most part, there was going to be little impact, if any, due to that smoke in the atmosphere.”Fuchs said this comes de-

spite the sheer size of the fires to the northwest.“What really stood out for

me was looking at the northern prairies of Canada and just the sheer number of significant fires greater than 2,500 hectares,” he said. “Even up in Alaska, I know at one point in time at the

* * *

BY RANDY [email protected] — Two months

after a tornado devastated the community, the Delmont Disas-ter Relief Fund has surpassed $200,000 in donations, a town official said Thursday.Mayor Mae Gunnare re-leased the donations figure for

the first time. The needs are still great and the disaster fund will remain open, she said.“The relief is definitely needed,” she said. “We ask people to keep it coming. Every

donation counts.”The Douglas County com-munity of about 235 residents was hit hard by a May 10 tor-nado. The Mother’s Day twister moved through Charles Mix and Douglas counties before demol-ishing the west end of Delmont.

The National Weather Service rated the tornado as an EF-2 with winds reaching 130 mph. The storm injured nine people but didn’t cause any fatalities.

The storm damaged or de-stroyed 84 structures – includ-ing Zion Lutheran Church and the new fire hall -- in and around Delmont.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rejected the state’s request for individual assistance for

tornado victims. In turn, relief efforts have relied heavily on the private sector, including church groups and a variety of fundraisers across the region.This weekend, a line-up of

bands – including a one-time reunion of the band Ivory -- will play Saturday at the Twin Riv-ers Old Iron grounds to benefit the tornado relief fund, Gunnare said.

The mayor anticipates the relief fund will continue taking donations through at least the first part of 2016. The residents’ needs will likely change as they make decisions on rebuilding their homes or other struc-tures, she said.“If they need Sheetrock, how

can we help them?” she asked. “Or they may need volunteer groups to help put rafters up.”The American Red Cross has

BY ALISSA [email protected] County and city officials met

Thursday with state representatives like State Secretary of Tourism Jim Hagen to con-

template why and how tourism is done in the

state and the possibilities for the future. Tourism is a $2 billion a year industry

for South Dakota. Tourism also represents 20 percent of local and state tax revenue. Without the industry and the state, every household would pay about $900 more in taxes to make up for the difference in rev-enue.

Being such a big economic importance, of-

ficials want to boost tourism on a local level.

This involves representatives from cities and

towns coordinating marketing strategies. “It is so important to be able to create lo-

cal events and to find the resources to allow

the chamber to do that,” Hagen said during a

stop Thursday at the Press & Dakotan. Thursday’s meeting emphasizes how

Yankton can participate cooperative market-

ing and what other locations are doing to promote their tourism. The Department of Tourism wants each location to have the

SD Tourism Official Sees Big Opportunities Ahead

Smoke Shows No Effect On Weather Delmont

Relief Fund Reaches

Milestone

ABS Receives Grant For Technology Upgrades

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ABS | PAGE 10A

WEATHER | PAGE 10A

TOURISM | PAGE 10A

KELLY HERTZ/P&D

South Dakota Tourism Secretary Jim Hagen was in

Yankton Thursday to discuss future opportunities

in the industry. One focus of the department is to

reach out to communities to better promote their

attractions, he said.

DELMONT | PAGE 10A

KELLY HERTZ/P&D

Ability Building Services of Yankton recently received a $5,000 grant from the South Dakota Community

Foundation to assist it with technological upgrades among the ABS clients looking forward to the up-

grades are, from left: Drew Baily, Kaleigh Janssen and Bob Koester,

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Lincoln County property owners, get ready

to let the taxman take a look around.

Lincoln County inspectors began a

five-year effort Monday to reassess prop-

erty values for every building, plot and parcel in

the county.

And when they’re done, they’ll do it all again.

The goal is to get a more accurate reading of

property tax values in the county, which exceeded

$4.8 billion in 2014.

Until now, county tax assessors had prioritized

new building appraisals and only reassessed

TAX MONEY

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Lincoln County appraisers, Tracy Oswald and Darin Gonsor assess a piece of property on Monday in Northwest Lincoln

County. Lincoln County inspectors began a five-year effort Monday to reassess property values for every building, plot and

parcel in the county.

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Today’s Sioux Falls Business

Journal announces a new own-

er for an iconic downtown

building and includes a special

report on commercial real

estate.Cherapa Place developer

Jeff Scherschligt and his family

plan to purchase the historic

Carpenter Building at the end

of the month and make im-

provements including poten-

tially a new bar and restaurant.

They share their plans and

what’s behind their decision to

buy the building in this week’s

cover story.

Also in today’s Business

Journal :

» A new entity created by

the Sioux Falls Area Communi-

ty Foundation will help accept

real estate donations.

» A special report details

activity in a range of sectors,

from retail to office, apart-

ments and investment proper-

ty.» An Augustana student has

a growing handmade business

while still in college.

A proposal to establish an enormous

bomber training area over the north-

ern Plains that advocates say will im-

prove military training and save mon-

ey got final approval Tuesday despite

concerns about loud, low-flying air-

craft disrupting civilian flights and

damaging rural economies.

The Federal Aviation Administra-

tion approved a plan to expand the Pow-

der River Training Complex over the

Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming. The

move roughly quadruples the training

airspace to span across nearly 35,000

square miles, making it the largest

Airspace expansion over

Northern Plains gets final OK

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JAMES NORD

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This July 2012 photo shows a B-1 bomber

rumbling down the flightline at Ellsworth

Air Force Base, S.D. On Tuesday, the Federal

Aviation Administration gave final approval

for a plan to establish an enormous bomber

training area over the northern Plains.

New owner

for iconic

downtown

building

No new billboards will go up in

Sioux Falls for at least six months if a

moratorium introduced by the City

Council Tuesday night becomes reali-

ty.Since the new Shape Places zoning

ordinance was adopted in Sioux Falls in

2014, businesses have been popping up

in areas previously considered to be

predominantly residential. The idea

was to streamline the zoning process,

and it did. But it also opened the door

for billboards to go up in places where

"we never thought there would be bill-

boards," Councilor Greg Jamison said

Tuesday during a special meeting at

Carnegie Townhall.

Before the voter-approved Shape

Places went into effect, billboards

were limited to commercial and indus-

trial zones only. But now the city’s zon-

ing ordinance allows them to go up on

practically any property slated for

business. And they have.

“41st and Sycamore is a perfect ex-

ample of a billboard that was put up in

an area where I don’t think residents

ever thought there would be a bill-

board,” Jamison said. “So the effort

here is to come up with a new standard

… of where these signs should be, how

many there should be, how high they

should be and all the areas they’re

allowed.”

In all, 21 new billboards have been

Council looks to reshape rules

JOE SNEVE

[email protected]

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