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Congratulations Class of 2015

Back row: Layton Hendrickson, Joshua Beckman, Tyler Kari, Wrangler Weishaar. Middle row: Kimberly Peck, Dillon Collins, Tucker Watson-Veal, John Hatle, DrewReder. Front row: Maggie Archibald, Madison Hulm, Tessa Kopren, Kiana Brockel.

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Maggie Archibald sings “ Never Alone”

Mrs. Azevedo having a little fun with Layton and Josh before commencement ceremonies

Keynote Speech by Shawnda Carmichael


Welcome by Tessa and Kimberly

Valedictorian address by Tyler Kari

Farewell by Tucker Veal

Meadow News ... by Tiss JohnsonCarolyn Petik visited with Ernestine Miller on Tuesday afternoon. On Thursday, Jerry and Carolyn Petik attended the funeral service for Arnold Zielke in Lemmon. After-

ward they visited with Irene Young and then attended the Adams County 4-H Communication Arts eventthat Mirandi Bakken participated in.

Saturday, Carolyn Petik and Irene Young attended a baby shower for Lisa Donohue in Lemmon. Carolynwas also a brief caller at Thelma Lemke's in the evening.


Bison High SchoolAcademic AwardsAmerican Legion AuxiliaryScholarship - Kimberly PeckC. Oscar Smith MemorialScholarship - Kiana Brockel,Tessa Kopren, Layton Hendrick-son, Kim PeckDakota Bank-Bison Scholar-ship - Tessa KoprenPerkins County Community& Extension Leaders Scholar-ship - Layton HendricksonGrand Electric/West RiverTelephone Scholarship - KianaBrockelEastern Star/Pasque LodgeScholarship - John HatleSouthwest Grain Scholarship- Layton HendricksonFreshman Impact Scholar-ship - Tessa KoprenAwards and Scholarships -BHSU-Tyler Kari, University ofSioux Falls-Kim Peck, MitchellTech-Dillon Collins, Universityof Jamestown-Tyler Kari, BHStock Show Foundation-TessaKopren, Dacotah WesternBank-Madison Hulm, SheridanCollege-Layton Hendrickson,Colorado State University-Kiana Brockel, Faucett Family-Layton Hendrickson, NationalSociety of Daughters of theAmerican Revolution-KimPeck,

Outstanding English Student-Reed ArnesonOutstanding Math Student-Collin PalmerOutstanding Science Student-Madison HulmNational Honor Society-40Hour Service Award-Reed Ar-neson, Tori Voller, Tessa Kopren,Marranda Hulm, Kiana Brockel.Senior Award-Layton Hendrick-sonAcademic Olympics-TylerKari, Layton Henrickson, KianaBrockel, Tessa Kopren, CollinPalmer, Reed Arneson, PadenSexton, Sara Hatle, JuliannaKari, Jenna Kari, Ross Collins,Jim Brockel, Matthew Johnson,Tuff Seim, Gracee Veal, HopeCrabtreeQuiz Bowl-Tyler Kari, WranglerWeishaar, Reed Arneson, Ju-lianna Kari, Sara Hatle

Music Awards - MVP-JessicaStockert, John Philip Sousa-Ross CollinsFCCLA-Kiana BrockelFFA-Layton HendricksonStudent Council-Pres. TessaKopren, Maggie Archibald, JohnHatle, Treas. Reed Arneson, Mar-randa Hulm, Sec. Julianna Kari,Jenna Kari, Matthew Johnson,

Jim Brockel, Jaren Beckman,Jace Prelle, Kiley Schuchard, VPCarter JohnsonYearbook-Madison Hulm, Mag-gie Archibald, Kimberly Peck,Tori Voller, Maudie Lee, MadelynSeidel, Sara Hatle, Nicole HafnerOral Interp-Reader’s TheaterSuperior-Kiana Brockel, TessaKopren, Victoria Voller, SaraHatle, Kim Kvale, Gracee Veal.Duet Superior-Tessa Kopren,Jim Brockel. Poetry - KianaBrockel

School Play-John Hatle, KianaBrockel, Maggie Archibald, Madi-son Hulm, Layton Hendrickson, ,Tessa Kopren, Victoria Voller,Sara Hatle, Kimberly Kvale,Nicole Hafner, Gracee Veal,Matthew Johnson, Joey Auck-land, Taylor Fisher, MarleighHulm, Hannah McKinstry, JimBrockel, Ross CollinsStudent Librarians-LaytonHendrickson, Tyler Kari, DrewReder, Wrangler Weishaar,Tucker vealCross Age-Maggie Archibald,John Hatle, Kimberly Peck,Kiana Brockel, Tessa Kopren,Madison Hulm, Dillon Collins

Brady James Hooker, 22, Lem-mon was bound over on one countat the conclusion of the prelimi-nary hearing, which was heldtoday in Perkins County beforeCircuit Court Judge RandallMacy. The complaint containedone count for an incident in the

Hooker residence, which resultedin Hooker shooting and killingLeon Paulson, 32, Lemmon onApril 18, 2015. The count of 1stdegree manslaughter is a class Cfelony and punishable by up tolife imprisonment in the statepenitentiary and/or $50,000 fine.

Hooker is presumed innocentuntil such time as proven guilty.

This case is being investigatedby the Perkins County Sheriff ’sOffice and the Division of Crimi-nal Investigation.

Preliminary hearing held in Deadwood for Lemmon man


Julianna Kari shot 106 placing5th in the region and 3rd in theconference. Ethan Anderson qual-ified for state with an 105 andplaced 3rd in the conference.Collin Palmer shot 110 making itto state and placed 5th in confer-ence. Wrangler Weishaar shot113 and Dylan Beckman 114.

State Golf is May 18 & 19 atYankton.

Golfersplace at Regionals

BHS Golfers that attended the Marjean Huber Invitational; Ethan Anderson, Chris Fisher, Jaren Beckman, Wrangler Weishaar, Collin Palmer, Dylan Beckman, Julianna Kari.

Bison boys team brought home first place winning thier tournament with a team score of 279.Collin Palmer lead the way with an 84 placing first. Collin wins his first tournament! Way to goCollin! Dylan Beckman placed third with an 89. Wrangler shot 106. Isaac Anderson 112, JarenBeckman 114, and Chris Fisher 123.

Julianna Kari placed third in the girls varsity division withan 103.

Marjean Huber Invitational


FOOTBALL: Layton Hendrick-son-Bar, MVP Offense medal,LMC All-Conference trophy, Sr. 4year plaque; Tucker Veal-Bar,MVP Offense Line Medal, LMCAll-conference trophy, Sr. 6 yearplaque; Joshua Beckman-Bar,MVP Offense Line medal, Sr. 5year plaque; Dillon Collins-SR 2year plaque, Pin, Bar; Reed Arne-son-LMC All-Conference trophy,Bar; Jacob Schalesky-Most Im-proved player medal, Bar; DylanBeckman-MVP Defense metal,LMC All-Conference trophy, BarEthan Anderson-MVP OffensiveBack medal, Bar; Greg Voller-Most Improved medal, Bar; RossCollins-MVP Defensive Backmedal, Bar; Jim Brockel-Rookieof the Year medal, Pin, Bar; Chris

Fisher-Letter, Pin, Bar; Isaac An-derson-Pin, Bar; Tuff Seim-Pin,Bar; Shane Collins-Pin, Bar; JacePrelle-Pin, Bar; Jaren Beckman-Pin, Bar; Manager-MatthewJohnson-Pin; Stats-MarrandaHulm-Pin; Stats-Sydney Senn-Pin; Stats-Maudie Lee-Pin; Stats-Tessa Kopren-PinVOLLEYBALL: Julianna Kari-Bar; Marranda Hulm-Bar;Gracee Veal-Pin, Bar; SydneySenn-Bar, Pin; Kimberly Peck-Bar; Madison Hulm-Bar; JeannaKari-Bar; Maudie Lee-Bar; KianaBrockel-Bar; Nicole Hafner-Pin,Bar; Kimberly Kvale-Pin, Bar;Sara Hatle-Bar; Tylee Lundberg-certificate; Hope Crabtree-certifi-cate; Tallie Lundberg-certificate;Hanna McKinstry -certificate;Taylor Fisher-certificate; KileySchuchard-certificate; BaileeStorm-certificate; Managers:Josh McKinstry-Pin; MaggieArchibald-Pin; Tori Voller-Pin;Madelyn Seidel-PinBOYS BASKETBALL: TylerKari-Bar, Offensive Player of theYear Medal, 5 year Sr. plaque;Layton Hendrickson-Bar, Defen-sive Player of the Year Medal, 5year Sr. plaque; Collins Palmer-Bar, Most Valuable Medal; ReedArneson-Bar; Paden Sexton-Cer-tificate; Josh McKinstry-Bar,Most Improved Medal; RossCollins, Bar, Mr. Hustle Award;Dylan Beckman-Bar; JimBrockel-Pin, Bar; Matthew John-son-Pin, Bar; Jake Kahler-Cer-tificate; Daniel Burkhalter-Pin,Bar; Jace Prelle-Certificate;Jaren Beckman-CertificateStats: Maggie Archibald-Pin; ToriVoller-Pin; Kiana Brockel-PinCROSS COUNTRY: RuthBurkhalter-Bar; Josh McKinstry-Bar; Sydney Senn-Bar; DanielBurkhalter-Bar; Jake Kahler-Certificate; Joey Aukland-Bar;Rebekah Burkhalter-Bar; KileySchuchard-Letter, Bar, Pin; JonBurkhalter-Certificate; SabeYalowizer-CertificateGIRLS BASKETBALL: Kim-berly Peck-Bar, Sr. Plaque 6years; Madison Hulm-Bar, Sr.Plaque 6 years; Tessa Kopren-Bar, Sr. Plaque 6 years, 100%Cardinal medal; MarrandaHulm-Bar; Jenna Kari-Bar, BestDefensive Medal; Julianna Kari-Bar, MVP Varsity medal, Best Of-fensive medal; Maudie Lee-Bar,Most Improved medal, MVP Bsquad medal, Best Defensive Bsquad medal; Sydney Senn-Bar,Best Offensive B squad medal;Gracee Veal-Pin, Bar; Hope Crab-tree-Pin, Bar; Rebecca Burkhal-ter-Pin, Bar; TaylorFisher-Letter, Pin, Bar, 100%Cardinal B squad medal; KileySchuchard-Letter, Pin, Bar, MostImproved B squad medal; Made-lyn Seidel-Stat pin; MaggieArchibald-Stat pin

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Bison High School Athletic Awards

Basketball awards: Josh McKinstry, Layton Hendrickson, Tyler Kari, Ross Collins

Football awards back row: Greg Voller, Ross Collins. Front row: Tucker Watson-Veal, Joshua Beckman, Layton Hendrickson,Reed Arneson, Jacob Schalesky.


GOLF: Wrangler Weishaar-Bar,SR. plaque; Collin Palmer-Bar;Greg Voller; Dylan Beckman-Bar;Jaren Beckman-Bar; ChrisFisher; Julianna Kari-Bar; IsaacAnderson-Bar; Ethan Anderson-BarTRACK & FIELD: Cole Buer-Bar; Cody Buer-Bar; RuthBurkhalter-Bar; Ross Collins-BarJenna Kari-Bar/Pin; JuliannaKari-Bar/Pin; Kim Kvale-Bar/PinJosh McKinstry-Bar; MadelynSeidel-Bar; Sydney Senn-Bar;Joey Auckland-Bar; Jim Brockel-Bar; Daniel Burckhalter-Bar;Shane Collins-Bar/Pin; JacePrelle-Bar; Rebekah Burkhalter-Bar; Kiley Schuchard-Bar/Pin;Sabe Yalowizer-Certificate; KatieKvale-Certificate; JonathanBurkhalter-Certificate

Top Volleyball awards backrow: Sydney Arneson, NicoleHafner, Madison Hulm, KianaBrockel. Front row: MaudieLee, Jenna Kari, Gracee Veal,Kim Peck.Bottom Girls Basketballawards back row: SydneySenn, Madison Hulm, TaylorFisher. Front row: KileySchuchard, Jenna Kari,Maudie Lee, Tessa Kopren,Kim Peck.


Wow! That's the best word Ican use to describe the boys trackteam effort last Friday in Lem-mon. The team really came to-gether when they needed to andlooked fantastic. With the loss ofRoss Collins to a freak accidentthe day before, we came into themeet seriously out-numbered byboth Lemmon and Faith, but theboys performed at a level that Ihave not seen yet this year.

Cole Buer, Josh McKinstry andDaniel Burkhalter led the teamand each were nominated for theMVP award. Josh won the 110and 300 hurdles and the triplejump. Josh also placed 3rd in thelong jump. Cole Buer won the 100and 200 meter dashes and thelong jump. Cole also tied for 2ndin the High Jump. DanielBurkhalter won the 800, 1600 &3200 meter runs and finished 2nd

in the 400 meter dash. That is111 points scored with just 3 ath-letes.

Cody Buer turned in a good dayas well, placing 2nd in the 100,200 & triple jump and placingseventh in the high jump.

The shock of the day came from8th grader Shane Collin,s whoscored more points than Ithought were possible for him.Shane scored 23 points placing4th in the shot and 5th in the dis-cus. Shane also made a signifi-cant contribution by taking 3rd inthe 110 hurdles and 2nd in the300 hurdles. It was a great teameffort that I will not soon forgetwith each athlete performing athigh level, all on the same day.It's what coaches dream about.Aside from Joey Aukland mis-placing his track shorts, it was anear perfect day.

Cardinal boys win conference track title

On the girls side we ran well,but lacked the numbers to makea significant impact in the teamscoring. Sydney Senn continuesto lead the pace for the girls, fin-ishing 2nd in the mile and 5th inthe 400. Kiley Schuchard placed3rd in the mile and 5th in the 100meter hurdles. Now the teamturns its attention to the RegionMeet this Thursday.Daniel Burkhalter was namedMVP.Boys Team PointsBison 181Lemmon 102Faith 95Harding Co. 68McIntosh 59Timber Lake 56Newell 51Dupree 1

Coach Brad Burkhalter, Joey Aukland, Daniel Burkhalter, Ross Collins, Josh McKinstry, Shane Collins, Cole Buer, Jim Brockel, Cody Buer, Jace Prelle, Asst CoachLauren Holder.

Rebekah Burkhalter and Kiley Schuchard


Jace Prelle

Brothers Cody and Cole Buer competing in the 100 meter race.

Sydney Senn

Josh McKinstry and Shane Collins

Highlights & HappeningsBaby Shower for Eliza Loughlinand Baby Boy (Arriving in June).Sunday, May 31st, 2 p.m. at theAmerican Legion.

Bridal Shower for RebeccaBingaman. Sunday, May 31st, 2p.m. at the Wesleyan Church inPrairie City. Rebecca is registeredat Target.

Cards and well wishes can besent to Edith Meland at GoldenLiving Center, Room 30; 1100 4th

Ave E; Mobridge, SD 57601

Homestead Heights is plantinga perennial garden. If anybody iscleaning out their flower bedsand would like to donate cuttingsto the project, it would be appre-ciated. Call Dawn at 244-5473.

Hutterite smoked and regularchickens, will be delivered the sec-ond week of June, call Connie 244-5518.


By Beth HulmAll five Perkins County com-

missioners and their legal coun-sel, Shane Penfield, were inattendance for regular monthlybusiness at Dakota Lodge inLemmon last week. It’s some-thing that the commission tries todo once a year – moving theirmeeting from their regular boardroom in the court house in Bisonto Lemmon to make it easier forLemmon-area entities to visitthem about their funding needsfor the upcoming year.

It’s a practice that mightchange. Commission Rusty Fos-ter questioned if it’s necessary tohave all of the groups who get an-nual subsidies from the countymake a physical presence beforethem each year. Maybe next yearthey’ll only have to send their re-quests in, along with the requiredfinancial statement, and appearonly if they want to or if thecounty board has questions forthem.

A total of 14 individuals, repre-senting 11 entities, took turns onTuesday afternoon to requestfunding in 2016, beginning withDavid Peterson from Arrow Pub-lic Transit. “We’re asking for thesame amount of money,” he said,even though the organization isin need of another bus because,“It’s just seems like it’s one prob-lem after another.”. The request

in 2015 was $8,000. Arrow alsogets funds from the state, riderfares and radio-thon donations.

Dave Johnson, Lemmon AreaCharitable and Economic Devel-opment, said they’ve had nomajor increases in overhead. Hereported the opening of FamilyDollar in Lemmon last week andthe sale of LACED’s spec house.“We have some pretty good ambi-tion for next year,” he said, whichhe hopes will include a secondspec house.

Likewise, George Larson,Rapid City, didn’t ask for an in-crease for Western SD Senior Cit-izens. He reported an average 21daily attendance for meals inLemmon and 14 in Bison.

New fire chief, Ryan Kohn, ac-companied by Chad Baumgartenand Harlen Hess – both formerfire chiefs – do need more money.“We’ve been denied an increasethe last few years,” Kohn said.The Lemmon Fire Department isstruggling to keep up with servicetrainings and maintenance. Hesaid that his crew of volunteers is“very progressive” and “go any-where in the county” and theirequipment is “second to none,”adding, “It takes a lot of money.”They are currently enlargingtheir building.

Brad Besler, chairman of thecounty commission, said, “My hatgoes off to you guys.”

Perkins County Commission convenes in LemmonNo promises for more money

have been made and won’t beuntil further along in the budgetprocess, which will wrap up inSeptember/October.

At the end of the meeting onTuesday, commissioners had atour of the Lemmon Fire Depart-ment.

Dakota Prairie Helping Handswas new to the subsidy list in2015. Nora Anderson and LaurieWickstrom were back to ask forthe same $1,000 consideration in2016. The entity covers Perkins,Adams and Bowman counties toprovide equipment, in-home serv-ices and grief support. Besler toldthem, “It’s a nice service.”

Next up was Jack Andersonand his mother Koreen Anderson,who talked about Lemmon’srodeo arena grandstands. “Wehad a very successful rodeo cele-bration last year,” she said. Sheexpects it to be even bigger andbetter this coming July becauseThe Bellamy Brothers will be per-forming.

The rodeo committee has tradi-tionally received $2,500 per yearfor their grandstand project butwould really like to double thatamount for next year. “If you canfind a few more bucks in there tohelp us out,” she said,. “we’d sureappreciate it.”

K. Anderson stayed to speak forthe 74th Annual Lemmon Jr.

Livestock Show. The financial re-port “probably looks better thanother years,” she said with the in-come up and expenses down. Thesame $3,500 that the county hascontributed each year is “totallyadequate” for another year. Par-ticipation is “staying pretty con-sistent” and sales “really strong,”Anderson said. The committeewill be adding dairy/breedinggoats this year.

LaQuita Shockley arrived nextto speak for the Lemmon SeniorCitizens. She asked for the same$1,500 for them as previously andsaid that the biggest expense thatthe seniors have right now is toreplace concrete in their building.She is writing (and receiving)grants to help with that cost.Weekly Bingo games have provedto be a good source of income forthe seniors.

While she had the floor, Shock-ley put in a plug for this sum-mer’s Hugh Glass Rendezvous atthe Shadehill park. In its firstyear, Shockley expects a smallscale event but hopes that bysummer 2016, it will “blow up.” Ablockbuster movie about HughGlass will be coming out nextyear and she expects it will bringmore visitors to the historic park.She said that Perkins County hasbeen sitting on a gold mine in itsown backyard that hasn’t beenpromoted. She hopes that countycommissioners will get on boardto help with the event.

Lori Drayton spoke for LIVECenter. She’d be happy with thesame $1,500 donation, too. “We’renot going to do anything differ-ent,” she said. Two less residentsand budget cuts have contributedto an improving economy for herentity.

Susan Sandgren representedThree Rivers Mental Health andChemical Dependency. Her re-quest is for $7,400. Three Riversis a 24/7 on-call service organiza-tion that also gets funding fromMedicaid and the State of SouthDakota. Because services are ona sliding scale for clients, themoney that the county con-tributes helps pick up the slackbetween what Medicaid and thestate provide and what the cus-tomer pays.

Lemmon Ambulance’sspokesman was Robert Block.Currently – and for many years –the county has set aside $6,000per year for five years for Lem-mon’s purchase of a new ambu-lance and then $6,000 per yearfor five more years for Bison topurchase a new rig. Block wouldlike $75,000 over a 3 or 5 year pe-riod, which he sees as more real-istic for buying new ambulances.A new one costs approximately$200,000. Lemmon-area commis-sion Mike Schweitzer was being“brutally honest” when he told

Block that there isn’t $75,000available for an ambulance butpromised, “It will be a priority tosee if we can’t come up withsomething.”

Like many other ambulanceservices across the state, Lem-mon’s is struggling to meet staterequirements, which requires 2EMTs on every run. “We needpeople worse than we needmoney right now,” Block said.

Budget requests from the restof the county will continue duringthe June 9 meeting of the countycommission in Bison.

Last Tuesday’s meeting kickedoff at 10:00 a.m. with HighwaySuperintendent Duane Holtgardbeing first on the agenda. He saidthat graveling and chip sealingon the Bixby Road, west of Bison,is nearing completion and thatother county roads would be get-ting new gravel, too. He’ll be pig-gybacking off a Harding Countybid for gravel crushing.

An appraisal committee, con-sisting of Holtgard, Besler andJohn Peck, was appointed to ap-praise an old steel bridge for sur-plus and sale. He’ll be startingthe process to deed Coleman Av-enue to the Town of Bison andRailway St. to the City of Lem-mon, after the county helps topay for improvements on both.Holtgard has signed 17 right ofway easements along countyroadways for Grand Electric toinstall underground lines.

Michael Hubbard, JohnsonControls, Sioux Falls, was back totalk about prioritizing repairs inthe county court house and to geta project development agreementsigned. Johnson Controls will uselocal contractors as much as pos-sible to do the work. “We’re al-most looking for every trade,” hesaid.

“It’s refreshing to finally havesomebody to help us get a plan to-gether,” Schweitzer said. “I havea good feeling about this.”

Bob Weyrich, an ag specialistwith SD Department of Ag, RapidCity, introduced himself andtalked about the services that hecan provide for Perkins County.They will use “layers of informa-tion” to do a feasibility study, hesaid, but it probably won’t hap-pen in this county until 2017.

In other business, Finance Offi-cer Sylvia Chapman was in-structed to prepare a letter ofsupport for the Trans CanadaPipeline project; and commission-ers agreed to study a Memoran-dum of Understanding fromSDSU about the 4H advisor/coor-dinator position before signing itnext month. Chapman an-nounced that the county has amosquito fogger/sprayer that isavailable for certified users.


To Cancel or Not CancelBranding, That is theTorturing Question

A rancher who has to decidewhether or not to cancel his brand-ing is a perfect illustration of what atortured man looks like. Such a difficult decision is based ona variety of variables. It could be dueto rain or snowfall the morning ofbranding day or heavy rain the nightbefore making the roads and brand-ing corrals too soupy and muddy tobrand or even get to the brandingcorrals. Furthermore, more than a50 percent chance for more rain orsnow predicted compounds indeci-siveness.

The decision to cancel a brandingcan be troublesome for the commanddecision maker. What looks likesomeone agonizing over decidingwhether to unleash a nuclear warhead is actually the body language

of a ranch decision maker stewingover whether to go to through withhis branding or cancel it. Sometimesit’s a hard call to make because thereare many things at stake in makingsuch a decision.

Canceling has a domino effect ondecisions and considerations to bemade and the conflicts with resched-uling around the other brandings al-ready set. The month of Mayespecially, is usually booked solidwith brandings every weekend andsome on weekdays.

The first factor to consider can-celling is that wet hides on calvesdon’t brand up well. The biggest con-cern is taking into account how thecalves will recover after gettingbranded, vaccinated, and castratedonce they’re turned out if it’s overlyrainy and muddy. The brandingcrew that shows up to help is alsotaken into account. Having enoughpeople show up is highly dependedon regardless when the brandingtakes place. Brandings need fly-tag-gers, vaccine gun runners, branders,cutters, and a lot of capable, able-bodied calf wrestlers. If a brandingis canceled there’s always concernover whether enough people willmake it to the rescheduled brandingdate.

Rescheduling isn’t easy sinceevery ranch picks a weekend tobrand and usually keeps the sameweekend every year. If one gets can-celled, branding back-to-back aftersomeone else’s branding is doable,but makes for a longer day and

Amy Kirk is a ranch wife from Custer, SD

BRIDGE FOR SALE BY SEALED BIDSPerkins County is accepting sealed bids on an old

bridge. Bids will be opened by the County Board ofCommissioners on June 9, 2015 @ 10:30 A.M.Each Bid must contain a check made payable to

Perkins County Treasurer for the total amount bid. Bids can be mailed to Perkins County Finance Office,

Box 126, Bison, SD. Mark it “Bridge Bid”.Buyer is responsible for moving the bridge by

July 30, 2015.The bridge can be seen at the north yard of Perkins County Highway Dept.

or call 605-244-5629 for more information. Perkins County reserves the right to accept or reject

any or all bids.Duane Holtgard, SuperintendentPerkins County Highway Dept.

sometimes not as many people showup. Brandings require a lot of peoplehelping and usually the same crewof people show up to help every year.Brandings are dependent on the peo-ple who traditionally do a specific jobevery year and these people becomehighly valued and counted on.

There’s a lot of planning involvedin order for neighbors to accommo-date each other’s brandings so ifsomeone has to cancel it can makerescheduling around the others achallenge since these springtimeevents usually take place on week-ends. Delaying one’s brandingwhether for the next day or nextweek means extending the agony,stress, worry, and anxiety thatbuilds prior to the big day. Knowingwhose branding will get rained outis a crapshoot every year.

One concern that can have a dam-aging effect is muddy roads gettingtore up from pickups and trailersdriving on them to get to the brand-ing corrals. Then there’s the minordetail of the food made up ahead inorder to feed everybody who helped.Any food that can’t be frozen likelywon’t keep, depending on when thebranding gets rescheduled for. Thecost and work involved to cookenough food to feed everyone is alsofigured into the equation; at least forthe cook.

Branding time is proof that it’s notjust women who can’t make up theirminds.

By Richard P. Holm, MDMore than 50 percent of adult

Americans take a dietary supple-ment or vitamin. We spend some-thing like $35 billion dollars a yearon non-regulated pills, powders, orpatches hoping to lose weight, toimprove function in sports or thebedroom, or just to prevent illness.

But what are we getting for ourmoney? Stephen Barrett, MD,head of a non-profit organizationto prevent health fraud, statesthat, "Consumers often fall victimto products and devices that donothing more than cheat them outof money, steer them away fromuseful proven treatment, andsometimes do more bodily harmthan good."

This important warning shouldnot subtract from the fact thatthere are important benefits fromvitamins and minerals, and thereis a rich history how scientistsstudying malnutrition brought usto understand the value of vita-mins and minerals.

Vitamin C deficiency was dis-

covered while analyzing a deathlydiarrhea illness called scurvy,which effected British sailors. Itwas the limes and lemons contain-ing vitamin C that helped theBritish "Limeys" avoid scurvy andwin battles on the sea.

Vitamin B1 or thiamine defi-ciency was discovered while ana-lyzing a neurodegenerative illnesscalled beriberi, which affectedJapanese sailors after theyswitched from brown rice to white.By removing the brown coating,they unknowingly had removedthe vitamin laden protein coat. Inthe early 1900s, scientists discov-ered the vital-amine on the ricecoating that would prevent theneurologic illness beriberi. Now allwhite rice is fortified with thi-amine, the vital-amine, which isalso the source for the word vita-min.

Micro-mineral iodine deficiencywas discovered while analyzingboth goiter, a thyroid enlargementcondition, and cretinism, a child-hood condition of mental defi-

Why vitamins?ciency, each occurring in land-locked areas without exposure toiodine-laden sea-weed and deep-sea fish. By iodizing salt we pre-vent goiter and demented childrenin millions throughout the world.

But too much can be as bad astoo little. Later scientists also dis-covered too high of a dose of io-dine, and other minerals, as wellas fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E,and other supplements can bedangerous. For example certainsupplements like chaparral, colts-foot, comfrey, yohimbine and oth-ers can cause liver damage, hearttrouble, and increased risk of can-cer. Obviously the whole nutri-tional supplement story is verycomplicated, and we should becareful not to swallow everythingadvertisers promote.

When it comes down to it, thebest plan should be to eat a bal-anced diet with enough fish, nuts,fruits and vegetables, and maybeto avoid joining the British orJapanese Navy.

In honor of foster parentsacross the state of South Dakota,Gov. Dennis Daugaard has de-clared May as Foster Parent Ap-preciation and Awareness Month.

Each month, there are approx-imately 1,000 children and youthin foster care from public, privateand tribal agencies in SouthDakota. The South Dakota De-partment of Social Services en-courages families to open theirhomes and hearts, and commit toknow more about becoming fosterparents.

“Foster parents provide thecare and support children need tofeel safe and secure while theirfamilies work through difficultsituations,” said State Depart-ment of Social Services SecretaryLynne Valenti.

Communities across the stateare seeking more foster familiesto meet the needs of children andyouth of all ages, with a greaterneed for families who will supportand care for teenagers, siblinggroups and medically fragile chil-dren. There is also a need for Na-tive American families who cancare for children who are NativeAmerican.

“It’s important that children

have the opportunity to stay con-nected with their family, friends,culture, tribe, school and commu-nity,” said Secretary Valenti.“Foster families play an impor-tant role in making that happen.”

Foster homes allow youth tolive together with brothers andsisters, remain in their ownneighborhoods and stay in theirschools. Children and youth infoster care need licensed fosterfamilies to provide them with thestrength and stability it takes tobe successful adults.

“Foster Parent Appreciationand Awareness Month allows usto recognize the incredible fosterfamilies who make a difference inthe lives of children in SouthDakota,” said Virgena Wieseler,director of the Division of ChildProtection Services. “Foster par-enting is a significant and re-warding opportunity, and theDepartment of Social Services en-courages families to consider be-coming a foster family.”

To learn more about becominga foster parent, visit www.Fos-terOneSD.org or call the Depart-ment of Social Services at605-773-3227.

May is Foster Parent Appreciation& Awareness Month

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Little Pasture on the Prairie Little Pasture on the Prairie by Eliza Blueby Eliza Blue

ful what you wish, they alwayssay. In the week that followed theblizzard there was a rain showeralmost every day, culminating in anight of rain so mighty we foundtwo frogs swimming in the outdoordog dish, the deep bowl full to thebrim with water. The frogs seemeda little surprised to have arrivedin the desert by deluge, their yel-low-rimmed eyes, wide and un-blinking, their long-fingered feetpaddling against the sides of thebowl. Meanwhile, the pasture nowfeatured a pond, and that pondwas filled with a thousand morefrogs, all singing together, deepand loud. After a few morningclouds, the day bloomed warm andpostcard perfect, so I took the dogsout for a long walk, and when theyplunged joyfully into the pond, thefrogs stopped for a moment, onlyto resume as the dogs swept on-ward, shaking the droplets out oftheir fur coats in a second storm.They were still singing as eveningfell into night. We went to bedwith the windows open, thethroaty frogs' songs caught andcarried by the wind, along withthe night birds' songs from high inthe leafed out trees. Of course the calendar's a mess.Brandings scheduled months agohave been moved, then movedagain, and the trucks that weresupposed to come pick up cattlehave been cancelled twice on ac-count of mud. The driveway isn'tdry anymore. Most of our outdoorshoes are caked to the ankles withthe winter's manure and dirt, andtrails of it trickle through thehouse carried on pant legs andpaws. But we aren't complaining.Not too much anyway. What can we do? If it's not onething, it's another -- or so it alwaysseems. We must take pleasure inthe grass that is sprouting solushly on our side of the fence.Glory be to the waters that are ris-ing. Glory be to the mud tracked inafter the day's work is done. In thedistance there may be a darkcloud, but overhead the sky is aclear, crystalline blue, and out inthe pasture the cattle graze,hooves in the mud, noses buried inthe green, green grass.

Winter was mild. Just a few lit-tle snow squalls and then an eerilyearly spring. What's not to likeabout that? Well, lack of moisture,mostly. Through January, Febru-ary, and March you heard peoplemention it over coffee and pie atthe a church luncheon, or waitingin line at the food store and thepost office. Drought was never farfrom our minds. The beautiful,golden afternoons of warm sun,the dry, brown dust. No onewanted to complain, but by May, itwas more than a small worry.There was heat, there were brightdays, but without rain, the grassstood gray and dead, and could notgrow. If you added it all together, I amguessing the man of the ranch hasspent a year's worth of hours star-ing at the sky, watching for clouds.And now, with the advent of theinternet, he spends many morewatching the colorful patches ofclouds on the weather radar. Hescrolls through the time lapsedmaps looking for tell-tale splotchesof green and yellow, hoping to seea few swathes pass over the icon ofa red flag, the spot that marks ourplace. Early in May there were severaldays when rain was predicted, andhe'd come in to check the radar,cheering at the sight of green. He'd

read me the forecasts by the hour:90% chance by noon, 100% by1pm, only to watch the greenclouds spin and scatter at 11:45,parting like the Nile at our prop-erty line. One day he was in town when asteady rain began, drumming updust on the edges of the feed storeparking lot. Steering the pickupwest, he watched the drops on thewindshield cease their cheerfulpatter as he reached the turn off tothe house, just a mile up the high-way. The gravel of our drivewaywas still as dry as when he'd left.The rain had missed us again. Then, two weeks ago, it finallyhappened. Rain. A soft rain thatgot harder and kept up all night,so we woke to glistening puddlesand a sheepdog covered head topaws in mud. We could stop whis-pering the word drought, at leastfor a little while. Then there was the Mother'sDay Blizzard. A mix of rain thatturned to snow that turned back torain. It was enough moisture tocarry us to summer. The man ofthe ranch teased friends on thephone, "Well, I guess you'll have tohay this year after all." The damswere full, the creeks overflowing.One less worry to carry to break-fast after a sleepless night. But it didn't end there. Be care-

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

Wednesday Prayer Mtg. - 7:30 p.m.Church of Christ

18 mi. south of Prairie City - Worship Service - 10:00 a.m.Prairie Fellowship Parish ELCA • Chuck Edwards

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

Sunday Bible Class - 8:00 a.m., Worship Service - 8:30 a.m.Coal Springs Community Church

South Jct. of Highways 73 & 20Sunday School - 10:00 a.m., Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.

Seventh Day Adventist Church • Pastor David MoenchSabbath School - 2:00 p.m., Worship Service - 3:00 p.m.

Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church • Fr. Tony GrossenburgMorristown-Saturday 4:45 p.m., Saturday Mass Lemmon 7:15 p.m.

Sunday Mass: Lemmon - 8:15 a.m., Bison - 11:00 a.m.Holland Center Christian Reformed Church

Pastor Brad Burkhalter • LodgepoleWorship Service - 8:00 a.m.

First Presbyterian Church • Pastor Florence Hoff, CRESunday School 9:30 a.m. • Worship Service - 10:30 a.m.

Slim Buttes Lutheran • Pastor Henry MohagenReva • Worship Service - 9:00 a.m.,WMF 2nd Monday at 1:00 p.m.

Beckman Wesleyan Church • Pastor Brad BurkhalterSunday School - 10:00 a.m., Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Vesper Service - 6:00 p.m., Wed. Evenings - 7:30 p.m.

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Chuck Edwards

Pastor’s Perspective

With the coming of the new pastor for the Prairie Fellowship Parrish on June 14th, I regret with warm heart felt feelings this

is my last message to the Pastor Perspective. I truly am humbled to haveable to be a part of this wonderful group of people in all three churches. Youhave made my time serving you these past roughly nine months. It has been

a joy that has filled my heart with great happiness.I am not good at saying goodbyes, and so I would like to leave you with this

Warm Irish Blessing:May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind be ever at your back, Maythe sunshine warm upon your face. And the rain fall softly on your fields.

And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.I would like to add this:

Whether I be far or near, may I hear only good news of you all. May youhave warm words on a cool evening. A full moon on a dark night, and theroad downhill all the way to your door. May you have a sunbeam to warm

you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel so nothing can harm you.My last Sunday will be June 7th. I will be gone on May 31st and Bob Drown

is looking for somebody to do the church services.So once again, god luck to all and may the love of the God be with you all al-

ways.

Private family graveside serv-ices were held at the ChanceCemetery south of Meadow,South Dakota.

Elaine June Buchanan, age 91,passed away from natural causes,peacefully in her Rio Rancho,New Mexico home on May 11,2015, where she lived with hersister Evelynn.

Elaine was born in Hettinger,North Dakota on June 7, 1923 toJohn Buchanan and Gladys

Sophia Ingrid Sandgren. Likemany of her generation, Elainehad a difficult childhood livingthrough the Great Depressionand World War II.

Elaine had found her careerniche as a court reporter in NewMexico’s Fourth Judicial DistrictCourt, where she had a distin-guished 30 year career underJudges Armijo, Zamora, Angel,and Flores. Elaine is fondly re-membered for her competency,diligence, and determination toaccurately record legal proceed-ings.

Elaine was defined by herwarm personality, her excep-tional strength, and wry sense ofhumor. May her joyous spirit liveon in the hearts of those wholoved her. Elaine is survived byher sister, Evelynn, who cared forher in last years of her life; sonGreg, daughter-in-law Bari,grandchildren Max and Sonyaand nephews Steve and Mark.

Condolences may be sentthrough our website atwww.evansonjensenfuneral-home.com.

Elaine Buchanan

Obituary Committee forming to research options for school solutioncontinued from page 1

of five children. Verhulst saidthat they don’t take this decision“lightly.” They would hope thatthe children would be acceptedand welcomed. “If you want tocome we’ll make room for you,”answered Kvale. In a few weeksa decision will be made on thisissue.

Is a bus route needed on theBixby Road? There are eight stu-dents on that route that couldride that bus. With that in mindthe Board agreed to place a buson that road once again for thecoming school term. The bus con-tract with Gene Smith was dis-cussed but not finalized.

Stacy Kvale was hired to be theFourth Grade teacher for thecoming school term. BradBurkhalter was approved as thehead track coach for this spring.The contract of Joyce Waddell tobe the school librarian was ap-proved for the coming school term. It was reissued due to a typingerror. All returning teachers havealready received their contracts.

Non-certified staff contractswere discussed at great length inexecutive session. Non-certifiedstaff includes cooks, janitors, sec-retaries and teacher aides. Afterexecutive session nothing was de-cided on their contracts.

Kvale distributed information

about training for school boardmembers. It can be done on lineor by going to Aberdeen or RapidCity to attend a day of training.Eric Schuchard, a new schoolboard member who was in atten-dance, remarked that he wouldfavor doing the training on line.

Surplus property of land wasdiscussed. After research it wasdiscovered that only fouracreages in the county belong tothe school. The acreage in Rock-ford Township belongs to Rock-ford Township so the schoolcannot sell it. No action wastaken to sell any of it since theyare so small, maybe an acre ortwo.

Brent Roth, Junior High Bas-ketball coach, was present to dis-cuss the second reading of theJunior High Athletic Policy. Aftera time of deliberation the Boardacted to add this item to thehandbook.

Superintendent Azevedo read apolicy concerning head lice shereceived front the MobridgeSchool District. At this time thereis not a head lice problem at theBison School but there has beenin the past. “Kids shouldn’t misstoo much school,” replied boardmember Dan Beckman. The pol-icy states that a child may be senthome if the child has head lice

and can return to school afterthey have been treated. Kvalesaid that a child can be treated atthe Bison Clinic to solve the prob-lem. As a result the boardadopted the policy with a firstreading of it.

Business Manager BonnieCrow distributed copies of a pre-liminary budget for the comingschool term for the board mem-bers to study. Some surplusmoney will be needed and moremoney may be needed for the spe-cial education. A new softwareprogram will be used in the li-brary.

A maintenance employee willbe needed in July due to the re-tirement of janitor Becky Peacockat the end of June. An ad includ-ing a job description will beplaced in the newspaper.

Senior Wrangler Weishaar, whodid a Capstone Project this year,gave a report of his work. Show-ing pictures on a screen he de-scribed what he did for Burdineand Son Inc. He made oil pipegate frames, a head board and acar trailer ramp. He said helearned a lot and enjoyed theproject.

In other business a contract forthe auditor was approved in theamount of $10,700.


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Grand River Round-up .............................. by Betty OlsonWhew. What a week! Taz and

Amanda got married on Friday,both Bison and Buffalo had highschool graduations this weekend,and our granddaughter Brinleygraduated from Sturgis BrownHigh School Sunday afternoon.

Bryce came home from collegefor the summer on Monday andshe and Missy went to Reva todecorate the Reva Hall for thegroom’s supper while the guyshooked up the new stove in thekitchen at the other house. Thegirls borrowed three big electricroasters to augment the three ofours that we needed to cook thepulled pork for the groom’s sup-per and all that roast beef for thewedding.

Reub was finally able to get inthe field on Tuesday to plant bar-ley at the Smith place. Caseyground feed while Taz, Jace Jen-son, and Ben Juelfs hauled chairsand tables from Ludlow to theREC center in Buffalo and thenhauled Amanda’s furniture outfrom town to put in the otherhouse. Missy and Starla Jensonspent the day decorating thechurch for the wedding. Brycewent down to help them decorateand Taz and Jace mowed aroundthe church to get it ready for the

wedding.We lost some heifers after they

got into the alfalfa and bloated, soCasey and Bryce moved the restof them into another pastureWednesday morning while Reubwent farming again. Missy, Taz,and Bryce went to Buffalo that af-ternoon to decorate the REC Cen-ter and mow the yard at thehouse in town.

Thursday I used one of the elec-tric ovens to cook the pork loinMissy got for the groom’s supperthat she turned into deliciouspulled pork. Reub and I seasonedthe beef for the wedding receptionto fill the other five electric roast-ers and a big crock pot andstarted them cooking. Guy, Cadeand Cass came from Wyomingthat afternoon and helped uswith the beef before we all loadedup and headed to the Reva Hallfor the groom’s supper. Reub’scousin Lance and Marilyn Olsondrove out from Great Falls, Mon-tana for the wedding and got tothe hall in time for supper and agood visit.

Teri and Mike and their boysgot here in time for lunch on Fri-day and Lance and Marilyn cameout to visit. We were just gettingready to eat when a nice guy with

a Pennington County licenseplate drove in the yard to let usknow we had a bull on the high-way, so Casey, Reub, Sandy Dan,and Lorri’s nephew Austin Mc-Clure had to go move the big, badboy back into the pasture. SandyDan brought me three more hensto replace some of my hens thefox killed. Trig shot two fox thisweek, so maybe these will have abetter chance at life, especially ifhe can kill the other three thathe’s seen.

Since we got almost three quar-ters of an inch of much-neededrain on Friday, Taz and Amandamoved their wedding inside thechurch. It didn’t take long for ourlittle church to fill to capacity, butthe ceremony went well. An enor-mous crowd packed the REC Cen-ter in Buffalo for the weddingreception that evening and a goodtime was had by all.

Taz and Casey entered the OKShootout steer wrestling inDupree Saturday, so Taz andAmanda spent their first day asnewlyweds at the bull dogging,watching cowboys splatterthrough the muddy arena. ColtFloyd won the big bucks, but Tazbrought a nice check home too, soit was worth the trip.

Teri and Mike left for Min-nesota on Saturday, Megan hadto go to the Hills to get stuff forthe apartments she manages forher folks in Gillette, Reub andGuy went fishing with Cade,Creed, and Cass before they leftfor home late that afternoon, andI attempted to restore a littleorder around here.

We drove to Sturgis right afterchurch on Sunday for Brinley’sgraduation. Lanie had gone backto Dickinson, and Trig stayedhome to do sheep chores andstudy for his finals, but Casey,Missy, Bryce, and the newlywedscame to watch Brin get herdiploma. Guy and Megan and theboys came out from Rozet to jointhe fun. Congratulations MissBrinley!

And congratulations to Taz andAmanda on beginning their livestogether here on the Olson ranch.We are so blessed! Free advice isusually worth just what you payfor it, but Grandma’s got somegood advice for these sweet new-lyweds!

•Whether a man winds up witha nest egg, or a goose egg, de-pends a lot on the kind of chick hemarries.

•Trouble in marriage often

starts when a man gets so busyearnin' his salt that he forgets hissugar.

•Too many couples marry forbetter, or for worse, but not forgood.

•When a man marries awoman, they become one; but thetrouble starts when they try todecide which one.

•If a man has enough horsesense to treat his wife like a thor-oughbred, she will never turninto an old nag.

•On anniversaries, the wisehusband always forgets the past- but never the present!

•A foolish husband says to hiswife, "Honey, you stick to thewashin', ironin', cookin' andscrubbin'. No wife of mine isgonna work."

•The bonds of matrimony are agood investment only when theinterest is kept up.

•Many girls like to marry amilitary man. He can cook, sew,make beds and is in good health...and he's already used to takingorders.

•If you don't learn to laugh attrouble, you won't have anythingto laugh at when you are old.

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