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Match of Champions has big plans for 20-year celebrationBY MARCUS [email protected]
The Casey Tibbs Match of Champions is slated to feature great saddle bronc riding once again on June 1, with some spe-cial presentations to make this 20th year the biggest the event has ever been.
The festivities start Saturday at 1:30 p.m., when the staff at the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center will dedicate the Johnny Smith Memorial Sculpture Garden. The center will unveil its statue of Ree Heights native Billy Etbauer.
Known for a “go-for-broke” style of riding, Etbauer, 50, is a five-time World Champion in
saddle bronc riding and has won more than $3 million from his time on the PRCA tour. His statue will be the third life-size statue on site, joining Tibbs and Mattie Goff Newcombe, both of which are located inside the center. Etbauer, who now lives in Oklahoma, plans to attend with his family.
The garden concept originated with found-ing board member Johnny Smith, who wished to see a garden of bronze statues to honor South Dakota saddle bronc champions. The Casey Tibbs Center Foundation has been selling brick pavers for
the garden to help fund the proj-ect, along with smaller replica bronze statues of Etbauer. One
hundred of those were created and sold for $2,500; only about 10 remain.
“It’s been very suc-cessful,” said Casey Tibbs Rodeo Center director Cindy Bahe. “People have been supportive of the whole project.”
The construction of the garden area
outside the center began about a month ago. Bahe said the work was delayed in large part because
JJ Elshere, from Hereford, S.D., competes in the Casey Tibbs Match of Champi-ons last year. (Capital Journal � le photo)See MATCH, A8
Local woman says Relay for Life is ‘part of the healing process’BY ALLISON [email protected]
Sharon Hoelscher was being proactive when she had a mam-mogram last May. As a survivor of thyroid cancer, she knows the importance of regular exams.
Hoelscher’s mammogram results came back clear, but in August – just three months later – she discovered a lump during a self exam.
By Sept. 17, Hoelscher was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. She began che-motherapy in October.
“I lost my hair exactly 14 days after my first chemo
BY CAPITAL JOURNAL [email protected]
Twila Hight, Pierre’s financial officer and business manager, will be leaving her position in early July to take an audit manager position at Stulken, Peterson, Lingle, Walti & Jones LLP, a Pierre-based public accounting firm.
Hight, who will have been with the city four years this summer, said she is leaving because the job at the accounting firm is good opportunity.
The main thing Hight will take away from her time with the city of Pierre is an overall knowledge of the working of municipal government, she said.
Leon Schochenmaier, the city administrator,
said Hight has done an excellent job and every-one has been happy with her work. She was espe-cially helpful because Hight is a certified public accountant and helped guide the city through the financial aspects of recov-ering from the 2011 flood.
The city is currently advertising for her replace-ment, but it’s unclear if they will find a new business man-ager before she leaves. Schochenmaier said how soon a new manager is hired depends on the applica-
tions that come in.However, he’s confi-
dent there are a number of qualified candidates in the area, Schochenmaier said.
Hight to leave post as city � nancial o� cer
See RELAY, A8
Spurned courthouse cat has switched counties
Stanley moves over to HughesBY LANCE NIXON | [email protected]
HE’S NOT THE FIRST PUBLIC figure ever to be batted around by fickle constituents like a ball of yarn.
But the courthouse cat from Stanley County, who walked by himself and did as he pleased,
holding office wherever the sunlight was best, might have expected better things from his public. That crew at the courthouse had named him Stanley, after all.
Yet somehow the stray black cat that had adopted the courthouse in Fort Pierre as home when he was just a kitten had crossed the wrong person’s path. He provoked aller-gic reactions – somewhat severe reactions, it turned out – among some county employees and the public.
The Stanley County Commission passed
Stanley, the former Stanley County Courthouse cat, has switched counties and now lives with the Daniel and Robin Roggenbuck family in Pierre. His new constituents include, from left to right, Zachery, Daniel, Nicholas, Kyra, and Robin Roggenbuck. (Lance Nixon/Capital Journal)See STANLEY, A8
Pierre city � nancial o� cer Twila Hight will leave her positon in early July. The city is currently advertising for her replacement.
If you goWHAT: Casey Tibbs Match of ChampionsWHEN: 1:30 p.m. SaturdayWHERE: Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center
“When you’re not a� ected by it as a family, you just go on about your daily activities. Once you’ve experienced it as a family, you notice it more,”
Marc Hoelscher, Pierre
MEMORIAL DAYDisabled American
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Stanley the cat, named for Stanley County, is held by his new owner Robin Roggenbuck. Stanley had to leave his home in the Stanley County Courthouse because some courthouse employees and some mem-bers of the public are allergic to cats. (Lance Nixon/Capital Journal)
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