Plan to attend the seminars dur-ing the KBJM Farm and HomeShow on March 8 at the PalaceTheater.

1:00 PM – Dr. Ken Olson willfocus on “Supplementing Mineralfor Success”. A solid mineral pro-gram is key to maintaining animalproduction and animal health.Olson is the SDSU Extension BeefSpecialist at the West River AgCenter in Rapid City where he fo-cuses on range livestock nutrition.

2:00 PM we welcome Dr. John

Ball back to Lemmon during theKBJM Farm and Home Show. Dr.Ball will be available to answer allyour tree questions from which va-rieties are the best for the westernDakotas to why is my tree dying?Ball is the SDSU ExtensionForester for SDSU Extension andForest Health Specialist for theSD Department of Agriculture.

Please contact the SDSU Exten-sion Lemmon Regional Centerwith questions, 374-4177. Every-one is welcome to attend.

Seminars for everyone during the KBJM Farm and Home Show

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HHiigghhlliigghhttss && HHaappppeenniinnggssSenator Ryan Maher and Rep-resentative Betty Olson will bepresent at a legislative cracker-bar-rel at the Palace Theater in Lem-mon on March 1st at 5:30 p.m. Theforum is sponsored by the Govern-mental Affairs Committee of theLemmon Area Chamber of Com-merce. Everyone is welcome andencouraged to attend.Vrooman Township AnnualMeeting will be at Lynn Millerhome at 7 p.m. on March 5, 2013.Scotch Cap Township AnnualMeeting will be at Scotch CapSchool at 7 p.m. on March 5, 2013.Wilson Township Annual Meet-ing will be at Don & LeiLaniMelling’s home at 2 p.m. on March5, 2013.

Marshfield Township AnnualMeeting will be at Justin Seidel’shome at 7 p.m. on March 5, 2013.Lodgepole Township AnnualMeeting will be at the lodgeploeStore at 7 a.m. on march 5, 2013.Rainbow Township AnnualMeeting will be at Hibner Insur-ance at 7 p.m. on March 5, 2013.Hall Township Annual Meeting atthe Brad Besler Ranch, 2:00 p.m.,March 5, 2013.Clark Township Annual meetingwill be at 8 a.m. on March 5, 2013,at Summerville Store. Equalizationmeeting immediately after annualmeeting.Fredlund Township AnnualMeeting at 2 p.m. March 5, 2013,at the Fredlund School.

Beck/Highland Township An-nual Meeting will be at 2 p.m.March 5, 2013 at Dick & EleanorJohnson’s.Lone Tree Township AnnualMeeting will be at 7 p.m. on March21, 2013 at Dale Kopren’s. Discus-sion on opting out of tax freeze.Equalization meeting immediatelyfollowing annual meeting.Cash Township Annual Meetingwill be March 5, 2013 7 p.m. at thehome of Edna Klein.Barrett Township Annual Meet-ing will be at 2 p.m. March 6, 2013at the Albert and Bridget KellerResidenceBison Township Annual Meetingwill be held March 5, 2013 at 7”30p.m. at the Buzz Stop.

Wells Township Annual Meetingwill be at 7 p.m. , March 5, 2013 at Strool Township Annual Meetingwill be March 5, 2013 at 7 p.m. atthe Prairie City Fire Hall.Sidney Township Annual Meet-ing will be at 7 p.m. on March 5,2013 at the Charlie Harpster home.Plateau Township Annual Meet-ing will be at 7:30 p.m. March 5,2013 at the Keith Hanson home.Moreau Township Annual Meet-ing will be at 7:30 p.m. on March 5,2013 at the home of Patty Kelly.Rockford Township AnnualMeeting will be at 7 p.m. March 5,2013 at the Rosebud Church.Meadow Township Annual Meet-ing will at 7 p.m. on March 18 atRose Plumbing in Meadow, imme-

diately followed by the Equaliza-tion Meeting.Arrow Transit provides trans-portation for appointments, shop-ping and more. Rapid city trips are1st Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday for$30.00. Lemmon to Bismarck tripsare 2nd Wednesday and 4th thurs-day for $25.00. lemmon to Dickin-son 1st Wednesday for $20.00. Callfor information 374-3189.

Townships get your equalizationmeeting information emailed tocourier@sdplains.com or leave amessage at 244-7199.

Charlie and Lisa Harpster of Prairie City, Representative Betty Olson, Senator Ryan Maher andMax Matthews at the Stateline Right to Life Cracker Barrel.

Crunch-time for Legislators in PierreAs the legislative session winds

down, the states lawmakers havea lot to do. Crossover day wasWednesday, February 20. This wasthe last day for a bill or joint reso-lution to pass the house of originand crossover to the other body forconsideration. With the obser-vance of Presidents Day on Mon-day, legislators have a couple ofvery busy days ahead of them. Thelast day of session was scheduledfor Friday, March 25 reserved forconsideration of gubernatorial ve-toes.

Stateline Right to Life andDakota Rural Action sponsoredcrackerbarrel events last week inBison and at the Indian CreekLutheran Church with SenatorRyan Maher of Isabel and Repre-

sentative Betty Olson of PrairieCity. Maher serves on the Educa-tion and Commerce committeesand is chair of the Senate TaxationCommittee. Olson serves on the Agand Natural Resources and LocalGovernment Committees.

Topics of local interest were var-ied as constituents and concernsabout oil and gas issues, predatorcontrol, education funding, town-ship right-of-way and liability is-sues, meandering and nonmean-dering water and property rights,the Affordable Healthcare Act, andgun control.

Both legislators Maher andOlson served on the summer In-terim Oil and Gas Study Commit-tee. Part of this committees dutiesincluded a field trip to the oil and

gas drilling fields of North Dakotain the summer of 2012. They vis-ited with business people directlyand indirectly involved in the gasand oil industry. They also inter-viewed local and state governingauthorities to get first-handknowledge of the diverse issues as-sociated with this burgeoningbusiness. Legislators gained in-sight into the benefits and theproblems the citizens of NorthDakota are dealing with. Theirgoal is to have legislation alreadyin place that addresses some ofthese concerns as we look ahead tocontinued development of oil andgas in our own state.

HB 1001 requires mineral devel-opers to give surface owners writ

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The Arbor Day Foundation ismaking it easy for everyone to cel-ebrate the arrival of spring byplanting trees.

Join the Arbor Day Foundationin March 2013 and receive 10 freewhite pine trees.

“White pines are a versatile treethat will break heavy winds andadd beauty to your home,” saidJohn Rosenow, founder and chiefexecutive of the Arbor Day Foun-dation. “These fast-growing grow-ing landscape trees are known fortheir soft needles and gracefulbranching, making them an idealfit for any yard.”

The free trees are part of thenonprofit Foundation’s Trees forAmerica campaign.

The trees will be shipped post-

paid at the right time for plantingbetween March 1 and May 31,with enclosed planting instruc-tions. The 6- to 12-inch trees areguaranteed to grow or they will bereplaced free of charge.

Arbor Day Foundation membersalso receive a subscription to ArborDay, the Foundation’s bimonthlypublication, and The Tree Book,which contains information abouttree planting and care.

To become a member of theFoundation and receive the freetrees, send a $10 contribution toTEN FREE WHITE PINETREES, Arbor Day Foundation,100 Arbor Avenue, Nebraska City,Nebraska 68410, by March 30,2013. Or join online atarborday.org/march.

Spring is in the Air - join the Arbor Day Foundation in March and receive 10 free trees

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A proposed recalculation of Costof Living Adjustments (COLA) forSocial Security benefits would costSouth Dakota’s seniors more than$300 million in lost income overthe next 10 years, and $112 billionfor beneficiaries nationwide. Thisis includes a loss of more than $51million in benefits over 10 yearsfor more than 75,000 veterans inSouth Dakota alone.

“Social Security is a benefitSouth Dakotans – including veter-ans - have earned over a lifetimeof hard work,” said Sarah Jen-nings, state director for AARPSouth Dakota. “Changing the waycost of living adjustments are cal-culated and moving to a chainedconsumer price index, or chainedCPI would take millions out of thepockets of older South Dakotans,

many of whom rely on every pennyof their benefits just to survive.”

Jennings met with staff of Sena-tors Tim Johnson and John Thuneto stress the harm it would causeSouth Dakota seniors to move to achained consumer price index.

“The current Social SecurityCOLA already understates whatthe average older South Dakotansspends and purchases each month.The chained CPI fails to take intoaccount that seniors spend more oftheir income on basics, like pre-scriptions, utilities and health

South Dakota seniors and veterans stand to lose millions in Social Security Benefits in COLA Recalculationwould shrink by larger amountsevery year, hurting those whoserved our nation more and moreas they age and their retirementsavings start to run out.

And our nation’s youngest veter-ans – especially those who werewounded in Iraq and Afghanistan-- would face harmful cuts accord-ing to the Congressional BudgetOffice. Replacing the currentCOLA formula with the chainedCPI would cause a 30-year-old vet-eran with severe disabilities to seehis or her veterans’ benefits re-duced annually by $1,425 at age45, $2,341 at 55 and $3,231 at 65.“Social Security didn’t cause thebudget deficit, and it shouldn’t beused to solve it,” Jennings con-cluded. “South Dakota seniorsaren’t a line item in a budget. Anyreduction in Social Security bene-fits would be felt dramaticallywhen it comes time to pay utilitybills and paying for prescriptions.We’re asking Senators Johnsonand Thune to protect the benefitsSouth Dakotans have earned, notgamble them away as part of abudget deal.”

care,” said Jennings. “When pricesgo up, seniors simply can’t plug ina less expensive substitute.”

“South Dakotans overwhelm-ingly rely on Social Security as aprincipal source of income in re-tirement. The average monthlybenefit in South Dakota is just$1,100. That check makes upmore than half the monthly in-come for more than 40% of recipi-ents in South Dakota. For 1 out ofevery 5 South Dakotans who re-ceive Social Security, it is theironly income in retirement,” saidJennings.

According to the Department ofVeterans Affairs, South Dakotawas home to 76,000 veterans in2011. Using data from the Depart-ments of Veterans Affairs and De-fense, AARP calculates that adop-tion of the chained CPI would re-sult in South Dakota’s veteranslosing $51.3 million over a 10-yearperiod. Nationally, 23 million dis-abled veterans and military re-tirees would see their compensa-tion and benefits cut by $17 billionover that 10-year period.

Under this proposal, benefits forretired and disabled veterans

The Central States Fair ispleased to announce Justin Moorewill perform Sunday, August 18,as part of the 2013 Central StatesFair Black Hills Power ConcertSeries.

Moore has been steadily climb-ing the country charts with suchhits as "Til My Last Day," "IfHeaven Wasn't So Far Away" and"Backwoods."

“We plan on offering a combina-tion of country and rock and roll tothis years' Central States Fair,"said Ron Jeffries, CSF generalmanager. "More announcements

Central States Fair announces first actwill be coming and we're confidentthis year will again provide greataffordable entertainment for theentire family."

Tickets are scheduled to go onsale in early July. The CentralStates Fair will take place August16-23, 2013 and will again featurefour nights of concerts, threenights of PRCA Range Days Rodeoand motor events.

For more information contactthe Central States Fair office at605-355-3861 or LIKE us on Face-book for more updates.

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The Community Garden was thetopic of a meeting of the Master Gar-deners and the folks that rent a plotin the community garden located onPerkins County Fairgrounds prop-erty. In the 2012 growing season,due to the dry conditions, cost of thewater for the garden exceeded theamount of rent generated. Ratherthan raise the rent on the plots theMG’s asked if gardeners would bewilling to assist in some fundraisingactivities to help pay for the water.That suggestion was endorsed by allthe gardeners; they just asked to becalled when help was needed.In addition to the water issue, theywill volunteer to help get fertilizer(sheep manure) hauled onto the gar-den prior to the spring tilling of theentire garden. The invasion ofCanada thistle on the north end inthe trees was considered, plus tryingto keep the trees weeded to avoidweed infestation of the garden. TheMG’s have aggressively attacked thebind weed (Creeping Jenny) in thegarden over the past years and thatpesky weed is now under control.

Plot gardeners were informed ofthe many community services inwhich the Master Gardeners helppromote or actively participate. In2012 the MG’s raised a total of $7,114.67 and expended $ 6,608.33 onvarious community events includingthe water for the garden. Some ofthe events include the annualSpring Plant Sale, the CommunityGarden, the annual Pumpkin Fest,all the horticulture prizes at thePerkins County Fair, continuing ed-

ucation for annual recertification asMaster Gardeners and the electronicsign on Main Street. In additionMG’s are available to help withquestions and speak or give presen-tations on gardening topics.

Anyone interested in renting aplot in the community garden is en-couraged to contact Geraldine Peckat 244-5942 as there are plots avail-able for 2013. Each plot is 30 ft. by60 ft. (1800 sq. ft.) and rents for$60.00 which includes the water.That is only three and one thirdcents ($ .033) per square foot, a realbargain! The average monetary re-turn per square foot, according toseven studies across the US, was $.74, which took into account the costfor establishing the garden. Thiswould suggest that on this size plotyou could realize about a $1332.00value!

You may not want a plot that is 30x 60, if so; you can request a smallerplot and the cost will pro-rated ac-cordingly. Visit with Geraldine Peckabout arrangements to accommo-date your needs, however, nothingsmaller than 30 x 10 would be veryworkable on the garden grid.

If you want to provide yourselfand your family with fresh, healthyproduce this season, with the benefitof having some to preserve for therest of the year, get involved in gar-dening! It is a great place to distressyour mind, get good exercise, feedyour family and get closer to nature!Sign up! Give Geraldine a call –244-5942!

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their culinary skills, heir-raisingadeptness, and washboard scrub-bing techniques to get dirtytrousers clean. I have seen oldphotographs of pioneering ranchwomen riding horses and brandingcattle in long black dresses.

Ranches have stood the test ofhardships and have had to gothrough changes over the decadesin order to keep thriving. Ranchwomen have had to do the same.The dresses just weren’t cutting itto get the job done when the hemsof their dresses became more of ajob hazard than the feisty rangecattle they had to deal with suchas when they branded calves.

Thankfully, some things fromthe old west didn’t survive andwomen ranching in long dresseswas one of the things that didn’tmake it to the 21st century. Ladiesmade room for improvements inthe way they did ranch work by

modifying their work attire. Eventhough American ranches and thewomen that lived on them havegone through some transforma-tions over the last 150 years, bothcontinue to be a great part of west-ern Americana.

Now, back to talking about themodern day ranch wife. I think it’ssafe to say that country womenwrestling a tight gate should bethe first image that comes to mindwhen talking about a scenic pic-ture of today’s American ranches.Some gates are easy openers andsome are real doozies but regard-less, 99.6% of the time that aranch couple pulls up to a gate in apickup or on a four-wheeler, thewife gets the gate. There are ex-ceptions to this scenario of course,and that’s when a rancher forgetsto ask his wife if she wants to gofor a drive. Coming to a gate onhorseback changes the percentagealso; depending on the couple andthe ranch...and maybe the numberof gates. If kids are involved thathas the potential to decrease thepercentage of time the wife has toget the gate too.

A standard joke in the cattleranching world is the ranch wife“getting the gate.” Stories havebeen told and written about it andcartoons have been sketched illus-trating it. If you’ve ever followedthe Stampede cartoons byWyoming cartoonist Jerry Palen,you know what I’m talking about.A common theme with every ranchwife can relate to is the ranch wifecharacter Flo and her perpetualgate-getting battles.

Whether in a long dress fromthe mid 1800’s or the blue jeans oftoday, ranch women have wran-gled gates with the same tenacitythat has been necessary to ensurethe continuation of ranching. Aranch wife’s grit and fortitude ingetting gates is symbolic of what ittakes for ranching to continue aswell as the ability to end the ab-surdity of ranching in a dress.

Guest ColumnistAmy Kirk is a ranch wife from Custer, South Dakota.

The Modern Ranch A depiction of a modern day

ranch just wouldn’t be complete oraccurate without a determinedwoman in it. You know the kind ofwoman I’m talking about; a toughranch wife struggling with a gateto open or close it shut; maybeeven hurling a few expletives inthe process.

Hardy gals have been a crucialpart of many-a-ranch and back inthe old days, women had it eventougher, handling the work of menwhile wearing long dresses. Theseresilient women have contributedin numerous ways, not just for

Grace Baptist Church • Pastor Phil HahnSunday School 9:30 a.m. • Worship Service - 10:30a.m.

Wednesday Prayer Mtg. - 6:30 p.m.Church of Christ

18 mi. south of Prairie City - Worship Service - 10:00 a.m.Prairie Fellowship Parish ELCA • Pastor Margie Hershey

Indian Creek - 8:00 a.m. • American - 9:30 a.m. • Rosebud - 11:00 a.m.Christ Lutheran Church WELS •

Pastor Gerhardt JuergensSunday Bible Class - 8:00 a.m., Worship Service - 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday Bible Class - 7:00 p.m.Coal Springs Community Church

Pastors Nels & Angie EasterbySouth Jct. of Highways 73 & 20

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m., Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.Seventh Day Adventist Church • Pastor Donavon Kack

Sabbath School - 2:00 p.m., Worship Service - 3:00 p.m.Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church • Fr. Tony Grossenburg

Saturday Mass: Morristown - 4:45 p.m. Lemmon - 7:15 p.m., Sunday Mass: Lemmon - 8:15 a.m., Bison - 11:00 a.m.

Holland Center Christian Reformed ChurchPastor Brad Burkhalter • Lodgepole

Worship Service - 8:00 a.m.First Presbyterian Church • Pastor Florence Hoff, CRE

Sunday School 9:30 a.m. • Worship Service -10:30 a.m. Slim Buttes Lutheran • Pastor Henry Mohagen

Reva • Sunday School 9:45, Worship Service - 11:00 a.m., WMF 2ndWednesday at 1:00 p.m.

Beckman Wesleyan Church • Pastor Brad BurkhalterPrairie City

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m., Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Vesper Service - 6:00 p.m., Wed. Evenings - 7:30 p.m.

Pastor Brad Burkhalter

Romans 5:1 "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace withGod through our Lord Jesus Christ:"

The apostle Paul (writing under inspiration) begins with the word,"Therefore." That's a transition word that basically means, in lightof what he has been saying, there are conclusions that he can draw.So, what has he been saying? The main message of chapter four is

that we are justified (saved, made righteous in God's sight) byfaith, just like Abraham was. That means that man is not saved

because of anything that he does or has done. Man is not saved bykeeping the law. Man is saved by faith in Jesus Christ who kept the

law for him. Man is guilty, he has broken God's law, the Ten Commandments. For example: Have you ever stolen anything?

Taken anything that does not belong to you? Have you ever lied? Icould go on, but I don't think I need to. We all stand guilty beforeGod. There is no way for us to pay the fine that we owe and if Godjudges us with justice, according to His law, we will all be guilty

and headed for hell. The way we avoid judgement, and the justiceand punishment we deserve, is to put our faith (trust) in Jesus

Christ who willingly stepped in to pay our fine for us. Without faithin Christ we receive justice. With faith we receive salvation and

peace with God. So we are justified (saved) by faith. That means wetrust Jesus' payment of our fine rather than trusting in somethingthat we have done. When we believe that Jesus was "delivered up

for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification" (Romans 4:25), we are saved by faith. When we are saved by faith

we have peace with God. There is no greater or more importantthing than to have peace with God. No enmity, no friction, no

barriers between you and God. May God bless you as you considerthese great truths.

PPaassttoorrss PPeerrssppeeccttiivvee

Funeral services for Vivan Lyon,age 69, of Meadow, South Dakotawere held at 2:00 p.m. on Satur-day, February 23, 2013 at the Cal-vary Lutheran Church in Lem-mon, SD. Chaplain David Peter-son officiated. Following a time offellowship, burial was in the Gall-away Cemetery at Meadow, SD.Military Honors will be providedby the Brattvet-Green AmericanLegion Post #66.

Serving as casketbearers arePaul Huffman, Paul Skjoldal,Gary Wilken, Jade Lyon, BernieDonner and Chuck Anderson. Allfamily and friends are consideredhonorary casketbearers.

Special music was provided byMarilyn Willey, pianist.

Vivan Watt Lyon was born toN.F. (Red) and Margaret (Tidball)Lyon on April 11, 1943 at Dupree,South Dakota. He was raised onthe family ranch in the CoalSprings Community. He attended

all 8 grades in a nearby countryschool. Vivan graduated fromLemmon High School with theclass of 1961.

On Jan 16, 1961 he joined the211th Engineering Co of LemmonSD and was honorably dischargedJan 15, 1965. He was called to ac-tive duty on Nov 15, 1961 to Aug7, 1962 during the Berlin Crisis.

On June 20, 1964 Vivan andBarbara Welter were married atFaith, South Dakota and startedtheir married life on a ranch NWof Thunder Butte working for hisfather. Three children were bornto this union: Cary in 1965, Twylain 1967 and Tracy in 1968.

On June 1, 1969 the familyleased and moved to the formerL.J. Seim ranch on the SouthGrand River, south of Lemmon.They later purchased the ranchwhere Vivan raised Hereford cat-tle and enjoyed many years ofranching.

Health reasons forced the saleof the cows in March of 2012. OnMarch 23, 2012 he was diagnosedwith ALS at Mayo Clinic inRochester, MN. On July 30, 2012he entered Five Counties NursingHome where he fought a coura-geous battle with ALS and passedaway Feb 19, 2013.

He served on the AndersonTownship board for many years,the Grand River Grazing board for12 years; a number of those yearsas President and severed on vari-ous other boards in the commu-nity. Vivan thoroughly enjoyedrecording and reporting theweather for the National Weather

Service.Vivan is survived by his wife

Barbara of Meadow, SD; son, Cary(Caren) Lyon of Dickinson, NDand grandchildren Mike, Katie,Emily and Zachary Lyon; daugh-ter, Twyla (Wayne) Chapman,Billings, MT and grandchildrenAmanda (Martin) Villafranco,Frank Chapman and Amber Chap-man; daughter, Tracy Landsem,Sioux Falls, SD and grandchildrenLogan and Dylan Landsem; greatgranddaughter, Elizabeth Vil-lafranco and one great grand-daughter due March 2013; hismother, Margaret Lyon Reno;three brothers, Jim (Joan) Lyon,Norman (Sue) Lyon, Ralph (Shari)Lyon; two sisters, Lu Anne (Irving)Jordan and Barbara (Tony)Lorenz; two brothers-in-law, MikeSchoenfelder and Dennis (Noma)Welter; and numerous nieces,nephews, cousins, aunts and un-cles.

He was preceded in death by hisfather N.F. (Red) Lyon; sister,Laska Schoenfelder; father andmother-in-law, Gene and Lila Wel-ter; maternal and paternal grand-parents; one nephew, Cody Lyon;step-father, Russell Reno; and sev-eral aunts and uncles.

Visitation was from 1:00 p.m. to9:00 p.m. with the family presentfrom 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Fri-day, February 22, 2013 at theEvanson-Jensen Funeral Home inLemmon.

Condolences may be sentthrough our website at www.evan-sonjensenfuneralhome.com.

Obituary

Vivan Lyon

Funeral services for Vivian"Mrs. Joe A" Hulm, age 95, of Lem-mon, South Dakota, formerly ofGlad Valley, South Dakota, wereheld at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb-ruary 25, 2013 at the Indian CreekLutheran Church south ofMeadow, South Dakota. PastorHarold Delbridge will officiatewith burial in the Gallaway Ceme-tery at Meadow, SD.

Special music was provided byCarol Nelson and Arlie Hulm.

Serving as casketbearers wereall of Vivian's grandchildren. The

staff of Five Counties NursingHome are considered honorarycasketbearers.

Vivian Beulah Martin was bornon July 7, 1917 at Lane, SouthDakota to John and Olga Martin.She attended Coal Springs School.Following her schooling she mar-ried Joe A. Hulm on March 16,1940 in Bison, South Dakota. Theylived in various places in theMeadow area and in 1950 theymoved to Glad Valley, SD. To thisunion, seven children were born,Maynard, Arlen, Monte, Merle,Larry, Nadine and Marty.

Vivian enjoyed sewing, needle-work and gardening. She was fa-mous for her homemade bread andoatmeal cookies. She wasn't a fanof sardine sandwiches becausethat's what Joe would make herfor lunch when she was out in thefield running the tractor. Picturethe following; Vivian used to helpJoe put in fence posts and when itwas too tough to dig, she hoppedon his back to help break throughthe hard dry dirt.

She will be missed by family andfriends alike. Vivian passed awayon Tuesday, February 19, 2013 atthe Five Counties Nursing Home

in Lemmon.Grateful for having shared her

life are her children, MaynardHulm, Elizabeth, CO, Arlen(Betty) Hulm, Faith, SD, Merle(Cheryl) Hulm, Bison, SD, Larry(Ella) Hulm, Glad Valley, SD, Na-dine (Hulm) Bellington, Brighton,CO and Marty Hulm, Bremerton,WA; numerous grandchildren,great-grandchildren and greatgreat-grandchildren; brothers,Floyd (Rose) Martin, Meadow, SD,Dean Martin, Rapid City, SD,Alvin Martin, Rapid City, SD; twosisters, Eulala Lensegrav, RapidCity, SD and Marcella Norman,San Antonio, TX; sister-in-law,Edna Martin, Spearfish, SD; andmany nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death byher husband, Joe; one son, MonteHulm; her parents, John and OlgaMartin; four brothers, Maynard,Lowell, Bud and John Martin; andone sister, Verna Christman.

Visitation will be from 1:00 p.m.to 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, February24, 2013 followed by a family serv-ice at 7:00 p.m. all at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon.

Vivian "Mrs. Joe A" Hulm

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Farm Ground ~~ Ranch Land Micky Barnica Estate & Larry BarnicaABSOLUTE~AUCTION

Mon. Mar. 25, 2013 * 1:00 pm MT4094+ Deeded Acres -- Plus 723 acre Tribal Lease & 1857 acre Private

Lease -- Ziebach County – north of Faith, SDAuction held at old Community Center on Main St. in Isabel, SD (Hwy 20 & Hwy 65)

Directions to Glad Valley: From Faith, SD, go 3 W on Hwy 212, then 30 N on Hwy 73, then 20 E on Hwy20 ~~~ From Lemmon, SD, go 35 S on Hwy 73, then 20 E on Hwy 20 ~~~ From Isabel, SD, go 17 W onHwy 20 ~~ At Glad Valley, SD, go 3 N & 1 W to reach property

• 4094.2 Deeded plus 723.61 Tribal (all pasture) & 1857.09 Linch Family Trust Lease (mostly pasturew/172.47 A. crop land)

•1833.38 Deeded Farmland w/more land that could be farmed�320.24 Deeded Winter Wheat planted�528.55 Deeded in Hay (alfalfa & grass)�984.59 Deeded in Stubble & Summer Fallow•2260.82 Deeded Presently in Pasture & Trees

Farmland acres fenced & laid out in strips ~ Hunting ~ Shelterbelts ~ Barns, Corrals & Windbreak ~ StockDams, Spring Fed Dugouts, Wells, some pipelines ~ Good access ~ Only 3 - 4 miles from Hwy 20 ~ FSApayments & Crop Bases ~~~ OFFERED IN 7 TRACTS AND AS 1 UNITTract 1: 160 acres ~ NE¼ Sec. 18 ~ 153+ tillable acres w/ 40+ acres planted to W Wheat and 35+ acres Alfalfa

~Taxes: $336.94 or $2.11/acreTract 2: 320 acres ~ N½ of Sec. 17 ~ 311+ tillable acres w/77+ acres planted to W Wheat and 88+ acres

Alfalfa/Grass ~Taxes: $739.54 or $2.31/acreTract 3: 289.48 acres ~ Most of west half of Sec. 7 ~ 269+ tillable acres w/ 34+ acres Alfalfa ~Taxes: $ 642.65 or $

2.22/acreTract 4: 577.18 acres ~ Most of Sec. 6 424.5+ tillable acres w/80 acres planted to W Wheat, 226+ acres Alfalfa, &

164 acres pasture ~ Some pasture areas would be tillable ~ Elec, & good well w/tire tank in NW ¼ ~Taxes: $1164.04 or$2.02/acreTract 5: 863.01 acres ~ All of Sec. 24 and most of the west side of Sec. 19 ~ Great site for headquarters w/good,

mature shelterbelt w/majestic pines, spruce, good well & elec, all in center of Sec. 24 ~ Dams & spring-fed dug-outsthroughout Tract ~ 221+ tillable acres w/ 66+ acres planted to W Wheat, & 79+ acres Grass/Alfalfa ~ 640 acres pasture~Taxes: $1699.84 or $1.97 /acreTract 6: approx. 775 acres ~ All of Sec.13 and most of NW¼ of Sec. 18 ~ Mostly Pasture ~ Spring fed dug-outs &

Dams ~ Borders county road ~ 35+ tillable acres, presently in grass, & 734 acres pasture ~Taxes: $1,076.86 or $1.39/acreTract 7: 1109.14 acres ~ “Fort Barnica” ~ all of Sec. 5, except for Mrs. Micky Barnicaʼs home) and E½ of Sec. 7,

and NW¼ of Sec. 8 ~ Barn, Corrals, & Windbreak, w/elec & especially good well w/automatic waterer in Sec. 7. (This iswhere Larry & Micky did their calving.) ~ See well log & you can see this could be used to pipe water throughout tract ~Dams & Spring-fed Dug-outs ~ A lot of Sec. 7 used to be hayed ~ Sec. 5 also has springy draw to provide water allalong it in wet years ~ Water Pipeline w/tank, & small dug-out in Sec. 5 ~ 417+ tillable acres w/55+ acres planted to WWheat, 28+ acres Alfalfa/Grass & 684 acres pasture ~ Taxes: $1699.84 or $2.05/acre Successful bidder on this tractalso gets option for Tribal Lease & Linch Family Trust Lease

Property Showings: Sundays Mar. 3 and Mar. 10 from 1-3 pmTerms: 15 % down Auction Day w/balance due on or before April 25, 2013. Auctioneers represent Sellers

Property absolutely sells to highest bidder on auction day without minimum or reserve bid!Broker Participation Invited ~ More Info at WebsitesPiroutek Auction ServiceDan Piroutek • 605-544-3316R.E. Auctioneer, Lic. #282www.PiroutekAuction.com

Arneson Auction ServiceLonnie Arneson • 605-798-2525R.E. Auctioneer, Lic. #11296www.ArnesonAuction.com

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ten notice of proposed develop-ment activities at least 30 days be-fore operations commence. Suchoperations include well site con-struction, road building, grading,excavation, demolition and relatedactivities. The notice shall disclosethe plan of work and enable thesurface owner opportunity to eval-uate any proposed development onhis property. HB 1004 addressesthe issue of mineral developerswho fail or refuse to negotiate ingood faith and surface owners todetermine damages to property. Iflitigation over such disagreementsensues, a court may award trebledamages to the surface owner. SB2 addresses the issues of propertyowners dealing with unresolvedsurface depredation from compa-nies that are bankrupt or insol-vent. This bill appropriates$300,000 from the petroleum re-lease compensation fund to theDepartment of Energy and Nat-

ural Resources to establish a pro-gram to assist landowners in-volved in such predicaments.These 3 bills have been sponsoredby both Maher and Olson and areamong others scheduled for reviewon February 19.

SB1, also sponsored by our legis-lators, requires drilling companiesto furnish plugging and perform-ance bonds in the amount of$50,000 per well drilled or a$100,000 blanket bond. Drillingcompanies are required to plugeach dry or abandoned well, and torestore premises to the conditionthat existed before the drillingbegan. This bill has been referredto the Senate Agriculture and Nat-ural Resources Committee.

Another bill sponsored byMaher and Olson is HB 1005. Itrequires companies involved in theuse of hydraulic fracturing to postdetailed information on the Frac-Focus Chemical Disclosure Reg-istry. This information includesfracture data, operator name,county and state, the well name

and number, longitude, latitude,longitude/latitude projection, prod-uct type, true vertical depth, totalwater volume and hydraulic frac-turing fluid composition. The sta-tus of this bill is unknown at thistime.

A couple of issues that never failto receive a great deal of publiccomment are hunting/fishing priv-ileges and landowner rights. Rep-resentative Olson and SenatorMaher both said they have re-ceived some really nasty e-mailsfrom hunting enthusiasts acrossthe state in response to legislationthey proposed. One of these bills isHB 1123. It would add a surchargeof $6 to certain hunting licenses ofwhich $1 would go to the animaldamage control fund. It is esti-mated that this would generateabout $300,000 for predator con-trol. The other $5 surcharge,would go to the South Dakotasportsmans access and landownerdepredation fund for wildlifedepredation and damage manage-

ment and for the walk-in program.Predator control is an issue of

concern for the area cattle andsheep producers. Max Matthews,President of the South DakotaSheep Growers, traveled to Pierrefour times this session to testify inbehalf of four bills relating to pred-ator control. HB 1168 would bene-fit local predator control districtsas it would authorize county com-missioners to increase the levy forsheep and cattle to not more than75 cents per head. currently thereis a levy of 25 cents per head forsheep kept for breeding and 6cents per head for cattle one yearold and older not in feedlots.

For years the federal govern-ment has kept the wolf on the en-dangered species list thus prevent-ing the hunting of these animals.Over the past several months,there has been some indicationthat they will be removed fromsuch protection. If this occurs, SB205 would classify the wolf as apredator in South Dakota andallow them to be hunted in certaincircumstances.

Olson indicated that even repre-sentatives from the eastern part ofour state are beginning to realizethe need for control of coyotes see-ing that they kill and consumewildlife as well as sheep andcalves. State trappers are em-ployed to help manage these pred-ators and often hunt coyotes usingairplanes and pilots contracted forthis purpose. Olson said that itcosts about $80,000 a year to em-ploy each state trapper. At thistime Perkins County has only one

licensed pilot contracted for aerialhunting, Terry Haggart.

One of the issues of concern topeople at both crackerbarrel ses-sions is The Affordable HealthcareAct, better known as Obamacare.Maher and Olson both said thatunder Obamacare the rules forMedicaid qualifications are beingexpanded and this could increasethe number of people on SouthDakota’s medicaid eligibility listby 48,000. At this time, there areabout 144,000 people in our statethat use the Medicaid system.South Dakota pays for about 45%of these health care costs. The fed-eral government pays the balance.Under the current law, the mostany state will have to pay to fundMedicaid is 50%. Albeit, SouthDakota is looking at a substantialincrease in our Medicaid budget.Where will the money come fromto pay for these increases? Maherindicated that it is likely that edu-cation funding will have to be cut.

Because of term limitations,both Senator Maher and Repre-sentative Olson will not be able torun for their posts in 2014. Olsoncould seek the districts senate seatif she wished. Olson indicated sheis trying to “twist Maher’s arm”about running for the SD Schooland Public Lands Commissioner’sjob. About serving as our represen-tative then as our senator, Mahersaid, “It’s the most expensivehobby I’ve ever had.”

Thanks to both of them for theirservice to all of us and for beingwilling to take time to share withus what’s going on in Pierre.

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Cards end regular

Kirby, Daniel and Sylvia Chapman.

John, Yancy and Dixie Buer.

Angie, Wil and Shane Kolb.

Beverly, Lane and Ross Kopren. Photos by Trish Peck.

The Cardinals played threegames of Boys Basketball on Sat-urday afternoon when they hostedthe Wall Eagles. It was the finalregular-season game for the Cardsand was also Parents Day. Beforethe varsity warm-up began, all ofthe players were introduced witheither their parents or grandpar-ents. As a group, the families werethanked for their support of Car-dinal athletics throughout the sea-son.

The past few games the count-down had been on to see if Senior

Wil Kolb would reach 1,000 pointsscored during the regular season.Following a second check of thescorebooks, it was discovered thatKolb had attained that milestoneduring the Rapid City Christiangame on February 7. On Satur-day, after the parents were recog-nized, Coach Corben Alley pre-sented Kolb with a basketballsigned by the team to honor his ac-complishment. Kolb’s teammate,Daniel Chapman, made his1,000th point as a junior last yearand two years before that, Kolb’s

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older brother, Justin, had alsoreached that goal.Bison - 53; Wall – 75

Two fairly evenly-matchedteams took the court for the open-ing tip of the varsity game. TheEagles got the ball and capitalizedon it with a quick basket byTucker O’Rourke. A Cardinals’turnover led to a second basket inthe first 30 seconds by Wall asLane Hustead dropped one in.Daniel Chapman got the Bisonboys on the board with two freethrows at the 7:14 mark of thequarter. The Eagles dominated thenext few minutes scoring twothree-pointers and a two-pointer giving them a 10-point lead. Kolbfinally broke the Cards’ scoringdrought with a nothing but netthree-pointer. Ty Plaggemeyer fol-lowed that with a deuce and theWall lead was cut in half. Kolbstood in there and drew a chargeon the Eagle’s Laketon McLaugh-lin but a turnover by the Cardsgave the ball back to Wall. YancyBuer’s quick move got the ballaway from Wall and after a perfectassist from Buer; Chapman scoreda two-pointer. Wall scored the lastfive points of the game on a treyfrom Tyler Trask and a two fromTucker O’Rourke. At the firstbreak the score was 9-17 in favorof Wall.

Chapman was the first to scorein the second quarter with a two-pointer ten seconds into the pe-riod. Wall matched that and then

found another three-point shooterin reserve Carson Johnston.Plaggemeyer made a basket forBison before Anderson scored fivefor the Eagles. Chapman made anold-fashioned three-pointer afterbeing fouled by Clancy Lytle onthe shot. His basket was good andthe free throw dropped throughthe net. Chapman put up anotherdeuce but it was bookended bythree-pointers from Anderson andJohnston. The next five pointswere the Cards as Buer put up agood three-pointer and Kolb addedtwo. McLaughlin scored Wall’sfinal points of the quarter and thelast three points were earned atthe charity stripe by Chapman,two for two and Buer, one for two.At the break the Cards were downby nine, 26-35.

The third quarter started with abasket by Kolb for the Cardinals.The Eagles posted the next eightpoints as their three-point shoot-ers couldn’t seem to miss from be-yond the arc. Chapman added twomore for the Cards at 5:21 remain-ing and again at 3:00 left in thequarter. Wall slowed down duringthe middle of the quarter, also, butthen picked it up with two deucesby McLaughlin and another threefrom Trask. In the last two min-utes of the quarter the Cards werepicking up some fouls but the Ea-gles were struggling from the lineand only made one free shot.Plaggemeyer shot another goodthree and Lane Kopren got in the

book before the end of the period.Bison’s final score of the quarterwas a deuce from Buer at thebuzzer,

Plaggemeyer started the finalperiod off with a three getting theCards within 11 of their opponent.Hustead answered with a long ballof his own and then Andersonscored on two free throws and abasket. Chapman scored a tworight before the Eagles had threegood from beyond the arc in a row.Anderson finished off that scoringrun with two free throws afterbeing fouled by Kolb. Chapmanscored six of the nine final Cardi-nal points going four for four fromthe line and adding a two-pointerin-between trips to the FT line.Michael Kopren scored the lastbasket for Bison from three-pointland. At the final buzzer the Cardswere down by 22 points, 53-75.

On Monday, February 25, theCards travel to Buffalo for theopening round of the District 16 BTournament. They will play Lem-mon at 6:00 p.m.

season at home ---------

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Greetings from Pierre, As Iwrite this we are entering oureighth week of a nine week sessionso things are starting to all cometogether and the committees willfinish up there work this week andthen the discussion will be on thebudget and how the excess rev-enues will be spent.

Wednesday of this past weekwas crossover day – the day bywhich all bills had to be passed bytheir house of origin. Bills now

have until March 5th to pass the2nd body. There are 96 bills thatare still active in the House out ofthe 242 that were originally filedin the Senate. There are 80 activebills in the Senate out of 250 thatwere originally filed in the House.

In the final two weeks of ses-sion, we will be focused on imple-menting fiscal responsibility tobalance our state budget withoutraising your taxes. We will also befocused on funding for educationestablishing a new economic devel-opment bill to create incentives forjob creation.

As we review the revenue pro-jections that will impact our statebudget we must consider the im-pacts of the looming sequestrationdeadline for the federal govern-ment of March 1. The federal gov-ernment’s irresponsible spendinghas created a crisis for our nationand there will likely be a signifi-cant impact on our state budgetresulting from loss of federal fund-ing.

“Sequestration” is the term thatrefers to automatic reduction tofederal government spending for agiven fiscal year. Unless Congressand the President agree on a

deficit-reduction package byMarch 1, many federal programswill see across the board spendingreductions. Social Security, Medic-aid and Medicare will be mostlyexempt. The cuts will take effectover the next 10 years and totalabout $1.2 trillion. Currently, theywill apply equally to defense andnon-defense spending.

Senator Thune met with Repub-lican legislators this week and ex-pressed serious doubt that Con-gress will act to avoid the seques-tration deadline of March 1st.Thune expressed caution and fis-cal responsibility as we preparethe state budget, realizing thatsignificant federal cuts as a resultof sequestration are very realistic.

HB 1161 is an Act to establishand provide certain incentives forprojects that create new jobs, pro-mote economic activity, and to es-tablish the rural economic devel-opment partnership program. Thebill will help promote expansion ofexisting SD businesses and pro-vide incentives for new businessesthat will create jobs. The billwould require local control and ap-proval by municipalities- decisionswhich are referable by a vote of the

people. If municipalities are will-ing to dedicate a portion of their2% sales tax for economic develop-ment incentives, it would allow thestate to match the funding for ap-proved projects. Rural projectswould also qualify and applica-tions would go directly to the StateBoard of Economic Developmentfor approval.

The Senate and House Health &Human Services Committees helda joint meeting on February 20thto listen to public input in regardto Medicaid reform. The jointcommittee listened to public testi-mony for over 2 hours and effortsto facilitate more public discussionwill be ongoing. Current spendinglevels are not sustainable and re-forms are necessary to keep theprogram viable for future genera-tions.

SB 45 passed the House on Feb-ruary 21 and will now go to theGovernor for final approval. Thebill will allow citizens to apply forrenewal of their driver’s license bymail or internet once in any tenyear period. This bill will makegovernment more efficient and re-duce waiting periods for license re-newal. It is a great example of

how we are working to make gov-ernment work better for the peo-ple.

On Thursday this past week allof the oil and gas bills made thefinal hurdle and are now sitting onthe Governor’s Desk. These billsinclude House Bill 1001, 1002,1003, 1004 and 1006HB 1001 - will require mineral de-velopers to give notice to surfaceowners before entering the land.HB 1002 - will provide for the cre-ation of a trust account for un-lo-catable mineral interest owners.HB 1003 - will revise the purposeof the agriculture mediation pro-gram, to include oil and gas medi-ation.HB 1004 – will award triple dam-ages in certain surface depreda-tion cases.HB 1006 – will revise the laws re-lating to the termination of certainmineral interests.

The final two weeks of Sessionwill be the busiest yet and we willcontinue working hard to makeour state an even better place tolive, work and raise a family.

Senator Ryan Maher’s views of week 7 of the 2013 Legislative session

Rep. Betty Olson

The 2013 legislative session iswinding down with two weeks re-maining to finish the peoples’ busi-ness. Wednesday was Cross Overday where all bills had to be dealtwith in the house of origin. TheSenate got through the last oftheir bills earlier than the House,but we finished before 11:00 thatnight and didn’t have to “cover the

clock” like earlier legislatures hadto in order to finish their work.

On Thursday our committeesworked on Senate bills. These arethe bills we passed out of HouseAg:

•SB 1 to revise the provisionsregarding plugging and perform-ance bonds for oil and gas wellsand to repeal the supplementalrestoration bond requirement wasamended in committee to reducethe bond for wells at or less thanfifty-five hundred feet in depth toten thousand dollars per welldrilled or a thirty thousand dollarblanket and to reduce the bond forwells more than fifty-five hundredfeet in depth to fifty thousand dol-lars per well drilled, or one hun-dred thousand dollars blanket.After testimony from some of thesmall gas exploration folks, SB 1passed out of committee 13 to 0.

•SB 17 to make an appropria-tion from the coordinated naturalresources conservation fund to theState Conservation Commissionalso passed with no opposition.

•Sen. Vehle and I brought SB205 to put wolves on the predator

list in South Dakota. Right nowwolves are on the endangeredspecies list in western SouthDakota. The western Dakotas arepart of the Rocky Mountain regionand wolves have been taken off theendangered species list in all theother states in the region, leavingthe western North and SouthDakota as isolated territory wherewolves are protected by federallaw. The eastern Dakotas are partof the Great Lakes region wherewolves are not considered endan-gered.

GF&P Sec. Vonk suggested thislegislation to me last year afterUSFW told him that wolves weregoing to be removed from the en-dangered species list in 2012 andGame Fish and Parks testified infavor of SB 205. Making mountainlions game animals didn't workout so well. These large predatorshave drastically decreased thenumber of elk and deer availablefor hunters. I don't think GF&Pwanted to make the same mistakewith wolves and so far all the leg-islators have agreed.

House Local Governmentcommittee passed two bills:

•SB 121 repealed the Commis-sion on Intergovernmental Coop-eration which hasn't acted forthirty years.

•SB 166 increases the numberof years for a concealed weaponpermit from four years to fiveyears to make it consistent withthe background checks when youbuy a firearm.

HB 1087, The School Sentinelbill, narrowly passed out of SenateState Affairs with a 5 to 4 vote. HB1087 would allow local schoolboards to decide if they wanted toallow school employees to carry

Representative Betty Olson’s views of week 7 of the 2013 Legislative sessionconcealed weapons on schoolpremises to protect the studentsand themselves. These volunteerswould receive the same firearmstraining as law enforcement offi-cers and would certainly make ourisolated school districts in the areasafer.

These are some of the bills thatwent through the House thisweek:

•HB 1089 requiring statewidelivestock ownership inspectionwas killed.

•SB 13 to revise provisions re-lating to the administration ofmineral rights on and under re-search parks.

•SB 41 revising provisions re-garding the requirements forschool bus inspection and to au-thorize the Highway Patrol to ap-prove school bus inspectors.

•SB 45 will permit people torenew an operator's license, a mo-torcycle operator's license, or non-driver identification card withoutappearing in person at a driver li-cense exam site.

These five bills that came out ofour Oil and Gas Developmentsummer study committee passedthe Senate this week:

•HB 1001 requiring mineral de-velopers to give notice to surfaceowners before entering the landwas my bill and it passed withonly two no votes.

•HB 1002 to provide for the cre-ation of a trust account for un-lo-catable mineral interest owners.

•HB 1003 to revise the purposeof the agriculture mediation pro-gram.

•HB 1004 to provide for theaward of treble damages in sur-face depredation cases.

•HB 1006 revising provisions

relating to the termination of min-eral interests.

The Senate also passed thesebills important to our district:

•SB 238 to appropriate moneyto the animal damage control fundfor predator control services and todeclare an emergency.

•SB 183 revises provisions re-lating to hunting trespass and in-creases penalties for trespassing.

•SB 207 to make certain legisla-tive findings concerning federal in-fringement on Second Amendmentrights.

•SB 76 appropriates money tofund the education service agen-cies.

The biggest issue facing ourstate and nation is sequestrationstarting on March 1. PresidentObama brought sequester in 2011as a threat to Congress to get themto raise taxes. Congress will onlyagree to cut spending instead ofraising taxes and Obama is blam-ing everyone else for the problemshe created. We don't have any ideahow sequestration will affect ourstate budget, but you better buckleyour seat belts folks, it could be arough ride!

To get in touch with me, call theHouse Chamber number 773-3851. Leave a phone number andI'll call you back. The fax numberis 773-6806. If you send a fax, ad-dress it to Rep. Betty Olson. Youcan also email me at rep.bettyol-son@state.sd.us during session.You can keep track of bills andcommittee meetings at this link:http://legis.state.sd.us/ Use thislink to find the legislators, seewhat committees they are on, readall the bills and track the status ofeach bill, listen to committee hear-ings, and contact the legislators.

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Bison Town BoardTuesday, February 12, 20136:00 p.m. City Hall

CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL:Chairman Juell Chapman called theregular monthly meeting of the BisonTown Board to order on Tuesday, Feb-ruary 12 at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall. Alltrustees - Luke Clements, Matt But-savage, Mike Lockert, David Kopren -were present. Others present: employ-ees Heath McKinstry and Beth Hulm.

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCEWAS RECITED BY ALL.

ALL ACTION IN THE FOLLOWINGMINUTES CARRIED BY UNANI-MOUS VOTE UNLESS OTHERWISESTATED.

MINUTES: 008-2013 – Clementsmoved, seconded by Butsavage toamend the minutes of the regular Jan. 8 meeting to include the followingsalaries for 2013: $8.50 as a startingwage for all new bartenders; boardchairman, unchanged at $100/meetingand trustees at $50/ meeting; and thefinance officer for the liquor audit, un-changed at $487.59/twice annually.Carried. 009-2013 – Clements moved,seconded by Chapman to approve theJan. 8 minutes as amended. Carried.010-2013 – Chapman moved, secondedby Kopren to approve the minutes ofthe special Jan. 24 meeting. Carried.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT: 010-2013 – Lockert moved, seconded by Ko-pren to approve the Financial Report.Carried. The complete report is on fileat City Hall.

STATUS REPORT: Trustees re-viewed McKinstry’s written status re-port with him. That report is on file atCity Hall. McKinstry asked permissionto attend a tree seminar in Rapid Cityon Friday, March 1 and to attend awaste water/water treatment seminarat the offices of PCRWS in Bison onMarch 13. He was instructed to re-

search pricing for a metal detector.

DELEGATION: None

UNFINISHED BUSINESS Storm Sewer project: Trustees re-viewed a down-sized engineering planfrom Allan Page which would includea storm sewer for Main Street and thealley behind Main Street businesses(north side) only and the detentionpond. Page had increased the pipe sizeon Main St. to accommodate futureflow rates from Lions Park and CityPark. Trustees held a speakerphoneconversation with Page regarding adiscrepancy in his figures. Action waspostponed until those are addressed.Employee job descriptions: 014-2013 - Chapman moved, seconded byClements to approve updated em-ployee job descriptions and to have allemployees sign one for their employeefile. Carried.Utility Resolution: 015-2014 – But-savage moved, seconded by Chapmanto increase consumer water usagerates by 80 cents/1,000 gallons tomatch the increase that the Town ofBison received from Perkins WaterRural Water and to increase themonthly sewer depreciation charge perconsumer by $5.00 to meet the state’sminimum of $22/month and to approvethe following resolution. Roll call vote:Kopren, yes; Lockert, yes; Butsavage,yes; Clements, yes; Chapman, yes. Mo-tion carried 5 – 0.

TOWN OF BISONResolution No. 2012-1

RESOLUTION TO SETUTILITY RATES

Whereas pursuant to Ordi-nance 85-1, as revised, theTown Board of the Town ofBison is authorized to estab-lish utility rates (water,sewer, garbage) and all asso-ciated charges and penaltiesby Resolution; and Whereas the Town of Bisonsets rates for new customer

hook-ups;THEREFORE, BE IT RE-SOLVED by the Town Boardof Bison in Bison, SouthDakota that the followingrates become effective onJanuary 1, 2013:

WATERAvailability charge $10.00Usage rate $5.80/1,000 gal-lonsDepreciation Reserve Fund

$4.00/mo.

SEWER $12.00/mo.

Depreciation Reserve Fund$10.00/mo.

GARBAGE(plus sales tax)Residential user

$20.00/ mo.Sr. Citizens (over 65)

$17.00/.mo. Light Commercial

$35.00/mo.Heavy Commercial

$45.00/mo.

PENALTY for payments re-ceived after 15th of month

$5.00

ESTIMATION CHARGEwhen consumer fails to readmeter $2.00

ALL RECONNECT FEES(when town has shut waterfor lack of pymt. $20.00

SEASONAL DISCON-NECT/RECONNECT $75.00LANDFILL PERMITS (plussales tax) $350.00TEMPORARY MOBILEHOMES IN TRAILERCOURTS (plus sales tax)

$11.00 ea.trailer/mo.

NEW UTILITY CUS-TOMERSWater / Sewer Tap

At board discretionConnection Fee $ 75.00Meter Deposit $ 135.00Meter (to be purchased fromCity by mobile home ownersonly) actual cost

The Town of Bison owns allmeters installed in homesand businesses, except thosein mobile homes.

Dated this 12th Day of Feb-ruary, 2013

TOWN OF BISONATTEST:By: Juell Chapman, BoardChairman By: ElizabethHulm, Finance Officer

Equipment Rental Rates: Rates setin 2012 as Resolution 2012 – 2 remainunchanged.Interstate Engineering Agree-ment: 016-2013 - Clements moved,seconded by Kopren to authorizeChairman Chapman to sign an appli-cation to re-apply for grant moneythrough a small community grant tofund the engineering study of thesewer/lagoon system, currently beingprepared by Nick Hoffman, InterstateEngineering, Spearfish. Carried.Airport Project 3-46-0003-008-2013:017-2013 - Lockert moved, seconded byKopren to authorize Chairman Chap-man and Hulm, Finance Officer, tosign an agreement for professionalservices with KLJ, Inc., Bismarck, forthe engineering of a new fuel system atBison Municipal Airport. Carried.Storm Sewer Grant: 018-2013 – Ko-pren moved, seconded by Clements toauthorize Chairman Chapman to signa funding amendment to Grant20221G – 202 for an additional $19,350as approved by the South DakotaBoard of Water and Natural Resourcesfor Bison’s Storm Water ManagementImprovement project. Carried.

NEW BUSINESSWest River Cable TV agreement:Trustees were in receipt of a new fran-chise agreement between the Town ofBison and West River Cable TV. Theywill review and compare it to the pre-vious agreement before taking actionat their March 11 meeting.KBA Annual Report: 019-2013 -Clements moved, seconded by Butsav-age to accept a proposal fromKohlman, Bierschbach and Anderson,LLP to prepare the Town of Bison’s an-nual report for 2012, not to exceed$1,175. Carried.Liquor Store Audit: 020-2013 – Ko-pren moved, seconded by Lockert toapprove and publish the Jan – Dec.,2012 liquor store audit. Carried.

CORRESPONDENCE: None.

OPEN FORUM: There will be no trac-tor lease with Lindskov Motors, Isabel,for summer 2013. Nominating peti-tions for two board vacancies must befiled in the business office no laterthan 5:00 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22. In-surance Agent Jim Hodgson will visitthe office on Feb. 14 to gather informa-tion for quoting the next property, autoand liability policy. Hulm recently vis-ited with school board members re-garding the use of a school bus/driverfor taking area youth to open swim-ming in Hettinger after lessons end inJuly. A contract will be drawn up.Hulm was instructed to order a timecard machine for Bison Bar. Chapmandiscussed an out-dated truck parkingordinance and also asked trustees todrive around town and to make notesof any areas of concern. Clements, rep-resenting the library board, asked whois responsible for repairs at the library.

CLAIMS: The following claims werepresented and approved for payment.January payroll by dept –Fin. Admin.,$684.56; Streets, $2,431; Parks & Rec.,$84; Library, $685.08; Liquor,$5,314.10; Water, $752.09; Sewer,$228.58; Solid Waste, $1,701.13. TotalFICA, $2,440.4; Health Ins, $500;SDRS, $624.22; Supp. Retirement,$35; 701 Foods, supp., $145.20; A&BBusiness, supplies/equip, $375.49; Air-port Ass’n. of ND, fees, $60; BisonCourier, publishing, $172.01; BisonFire Dept., subsidy, $10,000; BisonGrain Co., supp, $1,880.45; Bison Imp,repairs/supp, $1,873.73; Bill’s HomeRepair, repairs, $30; Bison School, sub-sidy, $50; Butler Machinery, repairs,$55.15; Coca Cola, supp., $147.50; Da-cotah Ins., bonding, $651.50; DakotaFarm Equip., mower, $3,367; DakotaFeed, supp., $234.01; Dakota Pump,repairs/maint, $5,561.03; DPFCU,util/supp/maint/postage/fees, $679.58;Dept. of Rev., sales tax, $1,593.25;Frito, supp., $35.; G&O, maint. supp.,$117.05; Grand Electric, util/repair/maint, $3,725.42; Hettinger Candy,supp., $1,009.05; Jerome Bev., beer,$4,671.95;John Deer Credit, repairs,$922.90; Johnson Bros., on/off /beer,$1,944.09; KBM Eng., prof fees,$2,499; Larry Hendricks, trav/conf,$119; MTVL Lab, supp, $223; NW Bev.,beer, $5,678.30; NWSDRLA, prof. fees,$2,764.50; One Call, prof fee, $9.45;Pepsi, supp., $537.05; PCRWS,water/prof fees, $5,507.30; PerkinsCounty Sheriff, prof. fees, $3,000; Re-public, on/off sale, $682.60; SD Ar-borist Assn, fees, $35; SD Assn of RuralWater, fees, $345; S&S, supp.,$1,484.88; Servall, prof. fees, $274.69;Three Rivers, subsidy, $500; WRCTC,util., $269.37.

ADJOURNMENT: Chairman Chap-man adjourned the meeting at 9.00p.m.

NEXT MEETINGS: The next regular meeting is Monday,March 11, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.

ATTEST:APPROVED:

Elizabeth Hulm, Finance OfficerJuell Chapman, ChairmanTown of Bison

[Published February 28, 2013 at atotal approximate cost of $135.49.]

Town of Bison Municipal Liquor StoreP&L: 2012 Jan. to Dec. On-Sale Liquor Beer Sales Miscellaneous Off Sale Liquor TOTALSOperating RevenueResale - Op Agreements $502.73 $502.73Recovery of Expenditures $2,658.79 $2,658.79Lottery Sales $44,040.57 $44,040.57Gross Sales $55,840.02 $155,301.82 $49,531.86 $27,915.65 $288,589.35Total Sales $55,840.02 $155,301.82 $96,733.95 $27,915.65 $335,791.44Cost of SalesInventory Dec. 31, 2011 $4,534.58 $4,417.75 $4,665.85 $9,884.99 $23,503.17Purchases (net) $9,746.35 $72,319.95 $36,090.48 $21,741.02 $139,897.80Goods Available $14,280.93 $76,737.70 $40,756.33 $31,626.01 $163,400.97Less Inventory 12-31-12 $5,089.29 $5,403.04 $6,410.70 $10,702.17 $27,605.20Total Cost of Sales $9,191.64 $71,334.66 $34,345.63 $20,923.84 $135,795.77Gross Profit $46,648.38 $83,967.16 $62,388.32 $6,991.81 $199,995.67Operating ExpenseSalaries $80,980.74FICA $6,164.17Retirement $2,595.06Heath Insurance $2,701.85Sales Tax $16,335.91Insurance $4,106.75Workman's Compensation $1,953.12Fees $150.00Professional Fees $6,951.52Publishing $1,009.67Repairs & Maintenance $1,188.16Supplies $2,635.51Postage $2.64Utilities $7,974.64Subsidies $400.00Equipment $268.27Building $5,798.90Powerball Scratch Tickets $21,800.98Depreciation $5,301.00Other - day help $60.00Total Operating Expense $168,378.89 $168,378.89NET INCOME $0.00 $31,616.78[Published February 28, 2013 at a total approximate cost off $74.11.]

NOTICE OF MEETING OF

LOCAL REVIEWBOARD

SDCL 10-11-13NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Thatthe governing body, sitting as a ReviewBoard of the Town of Bison, PerkinsCounty, South Dakota, will meet atCity Hall in said taxing jurisdiction onMONDAY, the 18th day of March, 2012for the purpose of reviewing and cor-recting the assessment of said taxingdistrict for the year 2012.

All persons considering themselves ag-grieved by said assessment are re-quired to notify the city finance officerno later than March 14, 2013.

Elizabeth Hulm, Finance OfficerTown of BisonDated February 21, 2013

[Published February 28 and March 7,2013 at a total approximate cost of$18.20.]

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Perkins CountyCommission

Regular Meeting

Date: February 12, 2013Present: Commissioners Schweitzer,Henderson, Foster, Ottman, Besler, Fi-nance Officer ChapmanOthers present: Shane Penfield, KellySerr, Rownea Gerbracht, Janelle God-dard, Todd Fink, Bob Jackson, JackieVanVactor, Tracy Buer, Beth Hulm,pressCall to OrderThe regular meeting of the PerkinsCounty Commission was called toorder at 10:02 a.m. on Tuesday, Febru-ary 12, 2013 at the Perkins CountyCourthouse. The Pledge of Allegiancewas recited.MinutesHenderson moved, Ottman seconded toapprove the minutes of the January8th meeting following correction,Daroll Aukland wage is 15.35 per hourand Ida Schmidt is appointed to theFair Board, motion carried.CorrespondenceBison Commercial Club will be having“Gala Day Bingo” during the LegionDart Tournament with all proceedsgoing to the Bison Gala Days ActivityFund.Monthly Reports•Finance Officers Account with theDeputy Finance Officer - To the Hon-orable Board of County CommissionersPerkins County: I hereby submit thefollowing report of my examination ofthe cash and cash items in the handsof the Deputy Finance Officer of thisCounty as of January 31, 2013, SylviaChapman, Finance Officer, PerkinsCounty. Total amount of deposits inbanks $38,550.72, total amount of ac-

tual cash $150.69; Insured MoneyMarket $2,295,700.52; Dakota PlainsFederal Credit Union membership fee$10.04; Certificates of Deposit$495,531.04; South Dakota FIT$101,495.23; Total $2,931,438.24. Thetotal represents state, county, schools,cities and township funds, which willbe transferred to each entity of govern-ment after being apportioned.•Sheriff ’s Fees in the amount of$731.56 were reviewed.•Sheriff car logs were reviewed.•Motor Vehicle fees for the month ofJanuary were reviewed.•Register of Deed’s fees in the amountof $8,631.36 were reviewed.•Longevity increase of .10/hour will berealized for the following: HeidiStevens – February 6, 2013; Paula Ko-pren – February 16, 2013.•State’s Attorney has hired Arlis Seimas the new Secretary for his office andthe 4-H office. Her pay rate is $11.72per hour.Rownea Gerbracht Property ValueUpdatesDirector of Equalization Rownea Ger-bracht and her Deputy Janelle God-dard presented the Commissionerswith information on Property ValueUpdates and legislation.Bob Jackson – Sewer GasBob Jackson reported on the sewer gasproblem in the courthouse. Fostermoved, Ottman seconded to call forquotes on an inspection and recom-mendation for the repair of the sewersystem, motion carried.Black Hills Council of Local Gov-ernmentsSchweitzer appointed Wayne Hender-son to serve as the Representative tothe Black Hills Council of Local Gov-ernments with Mike Schweitzer serv-ing as proxy.West River Telephone Key SystemFoster moved, Henderson seconded to

remain with the current key telephonesystem, motion carried.Highway DepartmentOttman moved, Besler seconded to pig-gyback off of Beadle County’s culvertbid, motion carried.Foster moved, Besler seconded to setthe following machine rates, motioncarried.2013 HOURLY EQUIPMENTRENTAL RATESMACHINES PRICE PER HOURPATROL $90.00PATROL- WITH SNOWPLOW

$105.00LOADERS- RTL06 $90.00RTL95 $105.00TL07 $80.00RIDGE MULCHERS $75.00TRUCKS-T95,T96,T97 MACK TRUCK $75.00WITH SNOWPLOW $85.00T90P,99,98,02 $65.00WITH TRAILER $90.00ALL OTHER TRUCKS $40.00GRAVEL TRAILER $25.00MOWING TRACTOR $75.00PICKUPS $40.00FB07- FLATBED TRAILER $40.00LB95 - LOWBOY $50.00CPS61 - CHIP SPREADER $90.00SPR48 - HYSTER ROLLER $60.00DT45 - DISTRIBUTOR $65.00DT68 - DISTRIBUTOR $50.00AC86 - AIR COMPRESSOR $30.00W2000 - MILLER WELDER $25.00WP2000 - HONDA WATER PUMP

$15.00SAND SPREADERS-SS04 (T97) $40.00SS06A (T95) $40.00SS06B (T96) $40.00•Buer announced that he has threenew hires at the following rates: JoeGreen at a rate of $16.90; Otto Stapels- $15.35; Khayen Vanderpool - $15.35.•Buer presented the South DakotaStriping Agreement for marking thecounty highways. The County’s sharewill be $19,840.12. Ottman moved,Henderson seconded to authorizeChairman Schweitzer to sign “AnAgreement to Provide for the Stripingand Continuing Maintenance ofCounty Roads” within Perkins County,motion carried.•Ottman moved, Foster seconded toproceed with the Public Hearing on thesale of gravel to the public, motion car-ried. There being no objection, Fostermoved, Besler seconded to allow thesale of gravel to individuals from thepits authorized by the Highway Super-intendent at a rate of $3.25 per ton,motion carried.•Concrete Products – Ottman moved,Henderson seconded to open bids onconcrete products, motion carried. Onebid was received from Cretex ConcreteProducts of Rapid City. Besler moved,Henderson seconded to accept the bidfrom Cretex Concrete Products ofRapid City, motion carried.•Foster moved, Ottman seconded toopen bids on road oil, motion carried.One bid was received from Flint HillsResources of Marshall, MN.MC 70 - $807.52/tonMC800 - $757.52/tonAE 150S - $547.53/tonMC3000 - $707.52/tonFoster moved, Henderson seconded toaccept the lone bid from Flint Hills Re-sources, motion carried.•Henderson moved, Ottman secondedto authorize Chairman Schweitzer assignatory on “Agreement for VoluntaryRight-of-Way Donation” with DonMcKinstry Jr, motion carried.•Discussion was held on cost sharinga lighting agreement at the Junction ofUS Hwy 12 and SD Hwy 73. The proj-ect is scheduled for 2015. This wouldcost the County approximately $5,500.Ottman moved, Henderson seconded todraft a letter to SD Department ofTransportation agreeing to cost share

the lighting at the Junction of US Hwy12 and SD Hwy 73, motion carried.•Perkins County will be receiving abill from the State of South Dakota for$759,234.82 for our share of the WhiteButte Road Project. The total projectcost was $3,278,487.70 with$2,519,252.88 being paid by STPfunds.•Monthly Maintenance and ProjectReport was reviewed. The load limitsare now in force.•Ottman moved, Besler seconded toallow Buer to attend the Altap & DOTTraining in Rapid City, SD, motion car-ried.Tax Deed Property•Henderson moved, Foster seconded toabate the taxes in the amount of$7,471.28 on Lemmon Original Blk 13Lots 14 & 15 City of Lemmon, whichthe County received by Tax Deed, mo-tion carried.•Ottman moved, Besler seconded toset March 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at thePerkins County Courthouse for thesale of surplus property Lemmon Orig-inal Blk 13 Lots 14 & 15, motion car-ried.HLS GrantFoster moved, Ottman seconded to ap-prove grant dollars in the amount of$120,279.68 and to auto-supplement226-211-426.29 - $17,918.55; 226-211-454 - $36,665.96; 226-222-454 -$61,314.99; 226-221-454 - $4,380.18;and to transfer the following equip-ment: Meade County - $26,830.90; Cor-son County - $3,052.80; Lemmon Po-lice Department - $16,799.91; ButteCounty - $33,53.60; Harding CountySchool - $14,25.24; Lemmon Fire De-partment - $840.00; Bison Fire Depart-ment - $3,540.18; Ziebach County -$4,380.18, motion carried.•Sheriff Kelly SerrSheriff Serr presented the WalworthCounty Jail Contract. Hendersonmoved, Foster seconded to authorizeChairman Schweitzer as signatory onthe Walworth County Jail’s YearlyRental Agreement, motion carried. •Discussion was held on the researchon County-wide law enforcement. Serrwould like to sit down with the City ofLemmon Police Committee and twocommissioners to discuss possibilities.Schweitzer and Henderson will plan onattending a meeting with Sheriff Serrand the Lemmon Police Committee. •Sheriff Serr thanked the Commissionfor the recent wage adjustment. Sher-iff Serr addressed the fact that TamaraBuer is a Civil Administrative Deputyand would like to have her statuschanged. Foster moved, Ottman sec-onded to leave Tamara Buer’s em-ployee status the same; roll call vote:Henderson nay, Ottman aye, Beslernay, Foster aye, Schweitzer nay, mo-tion carried. Besler moved, Hendersonseconded to change Tamara Buer sta-tus to Deputy and increase her wage to$14.72/hour (which includes longevity)Ottman aye, Besler aye, Foster nay,Henderson aye, Schweitzer aye, mo-tion carried.Executive SessionHenderson moved, Foster seconded toretire into Executive Session to discusspersonnel at 1:05 p.m., motion carried.The meeting was declared out of Exec-utive Session at 1:20 p.m.ClaimsThe following claims were presentedand approved for payment: Januarypayroll: 70,937.21; IRS, fica, 4,657.32;SD Retirement, retirement, 3,787.62;Delta Dental, insurance, 856.60; Lin-coln Mutual, insurance, 124.56; SDS-DBF, insurance, 16,822.35; LoysonCarda, travel, 166.50; A&B Business,supplies, 262.24; Active Data Systems,maintenance, 742.00; N Andersen, MIboard, 22.50;Arrow Public Transit,subsidy, 4,024.00; Avera Queen, profservices, 84.90; Bison Courier, publish-ing, 475.69; Bison Fire Department, “CROP INSURANCE SPECIALISTS SINCE 1984”

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Voter registration for the School Elec-tion to be held on April 9, 2013 willclose on March 25th, 2013. Failure toregister by this date will cause forfei-ture of voting rights for this election. Ifyou are in doubt about whether you areregistered, call the county auditor at605-244-5624. Registration may be completed duringregular business hours at the countyauditor’s office, municipal finance of-fice, and those locations which providedriver’s licenses, food stamps, TANF,WIC, military recruitment, and assis-tance to the disabled as provided bythe Department of Human Services.

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subsidy, 20,000.00; Bison Food, sup-plies, 41.41; Bison Grain,fuel14,076.00; Bison Implement, re-pairs/suppl, 2,008.88; Bison Senior Cit-izens, subsidy, 1,250.00; BH Coun cil,fees, 1,550.00; Butler Machinery, repairs, 98.13; Chapman’s Electronic,supplies, 59.95; Clinical Lab of BH,prof service, 1,957.00; Country Media,publishing, 286.65; Current Connec-tion, supplies/equipment, 2,784.18; Da-cotah Bank, box rent, 8.50; DakotaAuto Parts, repairs, 71.54; DakotaBusiness, supplies, 152.00; DakotaFarm Equipment, repairs, 385.06;Dakota Herald, publishing, 4,900.79;DF Lighting, supplies, 950.01; JEllingson, ct appt atty, 366.71; Ever-green Supply, supplies, 34.81; Execu-tive Mgmt, supplies, 9.35; Five Coun-ties, blood testing, 100.00; G&O Paper,supplies, 605.10; Grand Electric, utili-ties/repairs, 1,365.44; B Jackson, re-pairs, 200.00; Jim Grothe Electric, sup-plies, 64.83; John Deere, repairs,358.54; KBJM Radio, registration,145.00; Kimball Midwest, supplies,245.88; T Larson, supplies, 17.00; Lem-mon EMT, travel, 1,038.51; LemmonFire Dept, subsidy, 20,000.00; LucyLewno, MI board, 172.95; LodgepoleStore, utilities, 1,456.14; Meade Co Au-ditor, jail board, 1,210.00; Mom’s Place,supplies, 46.50; NAPA, repairs/sup-plies, 1,293.62; NW Farm & Home,supplies, 1,147.77; Penor Texaco, sup-plies, 138.52; Perkins Co Conservation,subsidy, 10,500.00; Perkins Co Ambu-lance, travel, 149.85; PharmChem Inc,testing, 42.00; Pitney Bowes, mainte-nance, 410.31; Regional Health, proffees, 394.00; C Rehfuss, MI board,22.50; Runnings, repairs, 46.68; SBM,maintenance, 64.13; SD Dept ofHealth, CHN qtrly, 1,545.00; SD DOT,contracts, 122,716.15; SD Human Ser-vice, patient care, 1,211.63; SDAAO,

registration, 300.00; SDACHS, regis-tration, 80.00; SD Assn Co Weed, mem-bership, 50.00; Sheehan Mack, repairs,12,984.36; Shepherd Reporter, MI re-porter, 41.25; State Radio Communica-tion, maintenance, 2,250.00; ThreeRivers MH, subsidy, 3,000.00; Town ofBison, utilities, 168.01; Verizon, utili-ties, 120.03; VISA, travel, 261.05;West-ern SD Juvenile Services, jail board,3,825.00; WR Telephone, utilities,899.78; Yankton Co Sheriff, sherifffees, 50.00.HLS Grant Claims: Bison Fire Depart-ment, EM subsidy, 3,540.18; ButteCounty EM, subsidy, 33,537.60; CorsonCounty Sheriff, EM subsidy, 3,052.80;Harding County School, EM subsidy,14,275.24; Lemmon Fire Dept, EMsubsidy, 840.00; Lemmon PD, EM sub-sidy, 16,799.91; Meade Co School, EMsubsidy, 10,017.65; Meade Co Sheriff,EM subsidy, 16,813.15; ZiebachCounty, EM subsidy, 3,484.50.

The meeting was recessed at 1:21 p.m.

Annual Township MeetingThe Commission reconvened the meet-ing at 2:00 p.m. at the Elbert BentleyFair Building to attend the AnnualTownship Meeting. The meeting con-cluded at 5:00 p.m.

March Commissioner MeetingThe next meeting of the PerkinsCounty Commission will be held onTuesday, March 12, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.at the Perkins County Courthouse.

ATTEST: APPROVED:Sylvia Chapman, Finance Officer Mike Schweitzer, Chairman

[Published February 28, 2013 at a totalapproximate cost of $127.70.]

CLIP ’N SAVE COMMUNITY CALENDARWednesday • March 13

Public Library 10 - 1 & 4 - 6Food Pantry 2:30 p.m.

Thursday • March 14Public Library 1 p.m.Sr Citizen pinochle 1 p.m.PCRWS mtg 6:45 p.m.State BBB Class B tourney

Friday • March 15Public Library 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.State BBB Class B tourney

Saturday • March 16State BBB Class B tourney

Sunday • March 17St. Patrick’s Day

Monday • March 18Public Library 2 - 6 p.m.Track & Golf practice beginsFiremen’s mtg 7 p.m.

Sr. Cit. Pinochle 1 p.m.State Class B GBB tourney

Friday • March 8Public Library 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.Teacher In-ServiceState Class B GBB tourney

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Sunday • March 10Daylight Savings time begins

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Monday • March 11Public Library 2 - 6 p.m.Town Board mtg 6 p.m.School Board mtg 7 p.m.Men’s Club mtg 7 p.m.

Tuesday • March 12Perkins Co. Comm. mtgPublic Library 2 - 6 p.m.

Friday • March 1Public Library 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Saturday • March 2District BBB final

Sunday • March 3

Monday • March 4Public Library 2 - 6 p.m.National honor Society Induc-tion at school 7 p.m.

Tuesday • March 5Public Library 1 p.m.Regional BBB at Mobridge

Wednesday • March 6WIC Day

Public Library 10 - 1 & 4 - 6Eastern Star 7 p.m.

Thursday • March 7Public Library 1 p.m.

Tuesday • March 26 Public Library 2 - 6 p.m.

Wednesday • March 27History Day at school

Public Library 10 - 1 & 4 - 6Thursday • March 28

Maundy ThursdayPublic Library 2 - 6 p.m. Sr. Cit. Pinochle 1 p.m. School Dismissed at 1:33 p.m.Town & country Club 7 p.m.

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Friday • March 22Public Library 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Saturday • March 23

Sunday • March 24Palm Sunday

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A school land lease auction will be heldin Perkins County Courthouse, inBison, SD on March 25, 2013 at 1:00PM (MT).

A list of tracts available for lease canbe obtained at the Perkins County Au-ditor’s Office, by visiting sdpubli-clands.com, or by contacting Mike Cor-nelison, Office of School & PublicLands, 500 E Capitol Avenue, Pierre,SD 57501-5070 or phone (605)773-4172. Disabled individuals needing as-sistance should contact the Office ofSchool and Public Lands at least 48hours in advance of the auction tomake any necessary arrangements.

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Notice is hereby given pursuant toSDCL 6-13-4, that the following prop-erties, acquired by Perkins Countythrough tax deed proceedings, havebeen declared surplus property byPerkins County and will be offered forsale to the highest bidder by sealed bidfor cash at 11:00 a.m. MDT on tuesday,March 12, 2013, at the Perkins CountyCourthouse in Bison, SD.Legal Description: Lemmon Origi-nal, Block 13 Lots 14 & 15, City ofLemmon.Appraised Value: $20,000Conditions: Roof repaired bring up tocity code within 90 days.Sealed bids should be mailed or deliv-ered to: Perkins County Finance Offi-cer, Sylvia Chapman, Finance Officer,PO Box 126, Bison, SD 57620Bids must be received prior to the bidopening at 11:00 a.m. MDT. Bidderswill be allowed to orally raise their bidsat the opening and the County Re-serves the right to reject any and allbids.Terms of Sale: Cash at the time of ac-ceptance of bid. Perkins County willtransfer all rights, title and intereststhat Perkins County has acquired viaQuit Claim Deed to successful bidder.Any announcements made at the bidopening will take precedence.Dated this 25th day of February, 2013

/s/ Sylvia ChapmanSYLVIA CHAPMANPerkins County Finance Officer

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Dorothy Carmichael visitedwith Bernie Rose Friday.

Vonnie Foster, Della Mae Hatle,Esther Carmichael, BonnieHaynes and Iris Day visited withBernie Rose Saturday afternoon,after attending the funeral ofVivan Lyon.

Fred and Bev Schopp attendedthe Girls Basketball Tournamentsin Faith Tuesday and Thursdayevenings.

Della Hatle was a Wednesdaymorning caller and coffee guest ofMary Ellen Fried.

Friday afternoon callers and cof-fee guests at the home of ArleenKari were Mary Ellen Fried, Ber-nice Kari and Violet Chapman.

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LPN and Licensed Medical Assistantpositions available. We offer competi-tive pay and excellent benefits. NewGraduates welcome! Please contactHuman Resources at (605) 673-2229ext. 110 for more information or logonto www.regionalhealth.com to apply.

OIL FIELD GENERAL LABORER$15-$22 hourly. Double your currentpaycheck! We will train you and placeyou. sd@armcorp.biz 605/906-0544.

SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST OPEN-ING for Northwest Area Schools Edu-cation Cooperative in NW SouthDakota. Competitive wage, excellentbenefits, vehicle provided. Contact CrisOwens at 605-466-2206 orChristine.Owens@k12.sd.us.

WANTED: FULL TIME WAITRESSfor busy little cafe in Faith, SD, Expe-rience preferred. Call Branding IronInn 605-967-2662, ask for Tim or Deb.

LOG HOMESDAKOTA LOG HOME Builders repre-senting Golden Eagle Log Homes,building in eastern, central, northwest-ern South & North Dakota. Scott Con-nell, 605-530-2672, Craig Connell, 605-264-5650, www.goldeneagleloghomes.com.

NOTICESADVERTISE IN NEWSPAPERSstatewide for only $150.00. Put theSouth Dakota Statewide ClassifiedsNetwork to work for you today! (25words for $150. Each additional word$5.) Call this newspaper or 800-658-3697 for details.

OTR & DRIVER OPPORTUNITYDRIVERS $1000 SIGN-ON BONUS.New Pay Program! *Earn up to 50CPM *Home Weekly *Excellent miles,$50 tarp pay. Must be Canadian eligi-ble (888) 691-5705.

STEEL BUILDINGSSTEEL BUILDINGS. Huge winterdiscounts for spring delivery. 50x80,62x100, 68x120, 68x200, 100x200.Take advantage of tax deductions.Limited Offer. Call Jim 1-888-782-7040.

WANTEDCustomer Service Rep WorkFrom Home, Starting $7.50 to$10.00/hour, Growth PotentialSouth Dakota Family Business,est. 2001. Must Have Good Com-puter Skills. Some Night andSome Weekends Required. High-Speed Internet Access. Email Re-sume: careers@smartsalesan-dlease.com

Wanted: Pasture to rent and hayland to rent or put up on shares.Custom haying: round, mediumsquare, small squares. Please callTom 605-866-4605; 605-949-1933.

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PASTURE WANTED: Need sum-mer grass for 200 pairs and/or 100yearling heifers for 2013 and be-yond. Kent and Janet LaDue- 605-788-2969.

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FOR RENTFor rent: Homestead Heights lo-cated in Bison, S.D., has a one andtwo bedroom apartment available.Homestead Heights is a low-in-come elderly and disabled Section8 HUD (Housing and Urban De-velopment) housing facility. Weare smoke free. Energy Assistanceis available for those who qualify.Utilities are included in the rent.

Homestead Heights is an equalhousing opportunity. For more in-formation, please call (605) 244-5473.

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HELP WANTED2 positions - Temporary/seasonalwork planting, cultivating, har-vesting and storing crops on awheat, bean, corn and oilseed cropfarm. from 3/24/2013 to 12/15/2013at Celley Farms , Regan, ND.Three months of previous experi-ence required in the job described.Saturday work required. Must beable to lift/carry 60 lbs. No mini-mum education or High Schooldiploma/equivalent is necessaryfor the position. No smoking oruse of tobacco products is allowedon company premises or in com-pany-provided housing at anytime. Insurable driver’s license re-quired within 30-90 days followinghire in order to drive company ve-hicles. Those who are qualifiedmay be required to drive pickuptrucks and small transportationvehicles. $12.33/hr or current ap-plicable AEWR. Workers areguaranteed 3/4 of work hours oftotal period. Work tools, supplies,equipment supplied by employerwithout charge to worker. Housingwith kitchen facilities provided atno cost to only those workers whoare not reasonably able to returnsame day to their place of resi-dence at time of recruitment.Transportation and subsistenceexpenses to work site will be paidto nonresident workers not laterthan upon completion of 50% ofthe job contract. Interviews re-quired. Apply for this job at near-est State Workforce Agency instate in which this ad appears, orSDWorks 415 14th Ave. East, Mo-bridge, SD 57601-1306. Providecopy of this ad. ND Job Order#306060.

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Grand Electric Cooperative,Inc. is accepting resumes for anApprentice/Journeyman Elec-trician /Serviceperson. Must be ahigh school graduate or equivalentand have one year of advancedelectrical training or electric vo-tech graduate or equivalent. Workincludes sales, installation and re-pair of appliances, heating/coolingand residential and farmsteadwiring. This is a full time positionlocated in Bison, SD, with goodpay and benefits: hospitalization,401K savings plan, retirement, life

and accident insurance, sick leaveand vacation. Working hours arefrom 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Mon-day through Friday. Applicantmust be able to work overtimehours when needed and be able todo some heavy lifting of up to 100pounds. Contact Steve Senn, Asst.Operations Manager or ColleNash, Director of Operations atGrand Electric Cooperative, Inc.,P. O. Box 39, Bison, SD. An EqualOpportunity Employer. Deadlinefor submitting resumes is March11, 2013.

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HELP WANTED: Grand ElectricCooperative, Inc. has an openingfor a part-time Accountant posi-tion at their headquarters office inBison, SD. This position has goodpotential to become full-time. Thesuccessful applicant must have ahigh school diploma or equivalent.It is preferable that the applicanthave a minimum of two years ofgeneral office experience, includ-ing but not limited to, payroll, ac-counts payable and general book-keeping. Job duties include post-ing journal entries, verifying andposting invoices, processingchecks, etc. Interested individualsplease send your resume to ColganHuber, Director of Finance, GrandElectric Cooperative, P.O. Box 39,Bison, SD 57620. Grand Electricis an equal opportunity employer.Deadline for submitting resumesis March 8, 2013.B36-3tc

Perkins County has job openingfor Mechanic/Operator. Must haveor obtain a valid South DakotaClass A Commercial Drivers Li-cense within 30 days of employ-ment. Benefits include: Health &Dental insurance, retirement, sickleave, vacation and paid holidays. For application and details, con-tact the Highway Office in Bison,SD or call 605-244-5629. Positionopen until filled.Perkins County Highway Dept.Box 158, Bison, SD 57620

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THANK YOUI want to thank all who attendedand donated to the benefit auctionfor me. I feel truly blessed by allthe generosity.It’s an honor to live in a commu-nity with so many people willing tohelp someone whose has a tragedyor misfortune in life.A special thanks to Lisa andSandy for putting it all together.

Thank you all, Dave & Meg Schell•Activities staff FT/PT

•Laundry FT/PT•Dietary Aide FT/PT

Must have good work ethic - will train.

Complete benefits package for FT. For more information call

Human Resources at 605-374-3871 or get application at

Five Counties, Box 479,

Lemmon, SD 57638.fch1@sdplain.com

EOE/M/FV/D Drug Free Workplace Employer

Five Counties Nursing Home......where lives are touched

Need extra cash ? Job security?

AUCTIONSESTATE ABSOLUTE REAL ESTATEAUCTION: 2005 tillable & 4669 pas-ture, contiguous, offered in tracts,north of Faith SD, Hunting, March 25,www.PiroutekAuction.com, 605-544-3316.

EMPLOYMENTMobridge Police Department has open-ing for a FT E1911. Application may berequested or picked up at Mobridge Po-lice Department or online at www.mo-bridgepolice.org. Application Deadlineis Friday March 8th, 2013.

COORDINATOR P/T: Locate andscreen host families, provide supportand activities for exchange students.Make friends worldwide! www.aspect-foundation.org.

JD PRORATE AND BOOKKEEPINGis looking for a CPA. We specialize intransportation and oil field relatedservices. Salary $65-4110k DOQ. 605-553-2080 applicant@jdfinancials.com.

CENEX OF ELLENDALE, ND is seek-ing a qualified CEO / General Man-ager. This is an agronomy, energy, andauto parts operation with sales of $20Million. A strong background in fi-nance, communication, and personnelmanagement is desired. Ag Businessdegree and or ag business manage-ment experience preferred Send,email, or fax (888-653-5527) resume to:Larry Fuller, 5213 Shoal Drive, Bis-marck ND 58503,larry.fuller@chsinc.com.

CUSTER REGIONAL HOSPITAL-Custer Clinic and Custer Regional Se-nior Care in beautiful Custer, SD, havefull time and PRN (as-needed) RN,

Jelly fish evaporate in

the sun. They're

98% water.

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Will the Earth ever run out of water? No, the Earth will not run out of water.

That's because the amount of water is always the same -- it justchanges in form. Water from oceans, lakes and rivers evaporates into the atmosphere. There it becomes clouds and returns to Earth as rain or snow. Plants and animals consume water, but they also

release water (when they sweat, or use the bathroom).