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Region 7B ChampsNewspaper Hall of Fame tohonor four South DakotansFour South Dakotans with distinguished newspaper careers will be

inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in April.They are: Jim Moritz of the Faulk County Record, Kathy Nelson of

the Timber Lake Topic, Timothy Waltner of the Freeman Courier, andthe late Kenneth B. Way of the Watertown Public Opinion.

The four newspaper people will be honored during the South DakotaNewspaper Association annual convention April 29 in Mitchell.

Plaques honoring members of the Newspaper Hall of Fame are dis-played at the Anson & Ada May Yeager Hall at South Dakota State Uni-versity. The SDSU Department of Journalism and Mass Communica-tions has been home to the Newspaper Hall of Fame ever since the Hallof Fame was established in 1934.

"We are humbled to honor those who have made significant contribu-tions to the newspaper industry in our state," said SDNA President BillKrikac, publisher of the Clark County Courier, Clark. "These four indi-viduals have made a positive difference not only in newspapers, but alsoin their communities and in our state."

Way was publisher of the family-owned Watertown Public Opinionfrom 1942 until 1985. He was instrumental in the development andgrowth of Watertown. He was a key supporter of the Watertown Com-munity Foundation. Way was inducted into the South Dakota Hall ofFame in 1999. He died in 2006 at the age of 99.

Tim Waltner began working at the Freeman Courier in 1973. He waspublisher and editor from 1984 until Jan. 1 when he and his wife Marysold the newspaper to their son and daughter-in-law. Waltner, recog-nized nationwide for his editorial writing and First Amendment work,was president of SDNA in 1991-92 and again in 1993-94. He also servedas president of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editorsin 2000.

Kathy Nelson has been publisher of the Timber Lake Topic since 1980when she and her late husband Jim purchased the newspaper. Sheserved as president of SDNA in 1995-96. Nelson has been a longtimeadvocate for her community and western South Dakota history and cul-ture. She is president of the Timber Lake & Area Historical Society &Museum.

Jim Moritz published and edited the Faulk Co. Record at Faulktonfrom 1977 until late last year when he and his wife Jody sold the news-paper to a longtime employee. Moritz has been an avid promoter of theFaulkton community and Faulk County area for many years. He waspresident of SDNA in 1994-95.

South Dakota Newspaper Association, based in Brookings, representsthe state's 128 weekly and daily newspapers.

The Lady Eagles defeated Jones County Lady Coyotes in the Region 7B game held Tuesday, March 1, in Philip, with a final score of 38-30. State BGirls’ Basketball tournament will be held in Huron on March 10 through March 12. Back Row: Assistant Coach Mike Schroeder, Mercede Hess, JaiceeWilliams, Savana Johnston, Katy Bielmaier, Cooper Jo McLaughlin, Kyla Sawvell, Kassidy Sawvell, Head Coach John Hess. Middle Roll: SamanthaDeutscher, Korra Westby, Emilee Pauley, Elyssa Westby, Jessica Casjens, Jayton McKay, Meghan Patterson, Dawson Hess. Front Row: Josie Blasius,Monica Bielmaier.

Fish populations and dam improvements discussed

by Chastity Julson Philip, Wall and New Underwood residents gath-ered in Wall at the United States Forest Service Vis-itor’s Center Thursday, March 3, for an open househosted by the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks(GFP) Wildlife Division to discuss the current stateof area fisheries. Haakon/North Jackson Counties Conservation Of-ficer Zach Thomsen organized the open house inorder to build a stronger relationship with the area’ssportsmen and the GFP personnel who steward thefisheries. Jake Davis, GFP Wildlife Division AreaFisheries Supervisor, discussed recent findings aboutthe kind, size, and number of fish found in Curlewand New Underwood Lakes around New Underwood,Old Town Dam, New Town Dam and Big Foot Lakenear Wall and Lake Waggoner north of Philip. Davisalso discussed tentative long-term plans for improve-ments at some of these sites. According to Davis, GFP personnel monitor the fishpopulations in order to determine the kinds of fishpresent, the growth, recruitment and mortality ofthose fish, and which factors, particularly how differ-ent kinds of fish interact with each other, affect theoverall population of the fish. A good sample distribution of the fish should showfish in several different classes, thereby denotingthat the fish populations are reproducing and matur-ing. If there is a gap in the generations of fish thatare found during sampling, the fishery is further

evaluated for stocking. During a question and answer session that fol-lowed the main presentation, Davis and other USFSand GFP personnel talked with sportsmen andlandowners about access to the fisheries and im-provements that could take place. The need for improvements is determined by theuse of a particular fishery, including how much a fish-ery is used, who is using it, and how it is being used.According to Davis, the New Underwood Lake isheavily fished, and improvements have recently beenapproved for that site including an outhouse, boatramp, and two fishing piers. Sportsmen attending the meeting mentioned thepossibility of area organizations providing a costshare for a handicapped access to the Wall Dam. In-terest in stocking the newly repaired County LineDam near Wall was also expressed. Davis and others also discussed concerns sports-men have including yellow grubs in perch and howinvasive species prevention is affecting GFP protocol. The problem of cattails affecting access to shorefishing was mentioned, and Davis said that the GFPis working with the state wildland firefighters to for-mulate a burn plan to address the cattail problem. More information about the area fisheries andgrasslands can be obtained by contacting homsen at(605) 391-6042, or the Rapid City GFP office at (605)394-2391.

BBR Economic Developmentreadies for job fair, future area draws

by Del BartelsDuring its March 3 meeting, the Badlands Bad

River Economic Development Partnership (BBR) fi-nalized details for the upcoming job fair, March 11,in Philip.

The job fair has already booked over 17 employers,and nine sponsors. There will be drawings for em-ployers at the end of the day. Participants will eval-uate the event for improvement purposes. Job seekertips are available through regular sources as well associal media.

Future BBR meetings will be hosted by local busi-nesses as a way to advertise the businesses in the re-gion and share information about those businesses.Information about those businesses will be on theBBR Facebook page. To be a possible host business,contact a BBR participant. The BBR welcomes inter-ested individuals to attend, and encourages them tojoin committees. The next Badlands Bad River Eco-nomic Development Partnership meeting is Tuesday,April 5, at the Badlands Distillery in Kadoka, start-ing at 5:30 p.m.

Joseph Leach hosted the March meeting. “I believein a future for Wall. Since my first day in Wall in2010, I fell in love with the community. I was theproud owner of the America’s Best Value Inn. Fromthere I have branched out to the Badlands Saloonand Grille and I have also bought the Wall Mall at600 Main Street. I have been very fortunate to be suc-cessful, but I know that I wouldn’t have been able todo this on my own. I have all my employees andfriends to thank for my success.

“We now want to offer more to our community andour valued tourist patrons. We have committed to anew event center for our community, a fast foodeatery, coffee and ice cream shop, and hopefully muchmore. We have many more ideas and plans in theworks. We are definitely still going to press forwardto help keep Wall on the map. I am also proud to say

we try to give back to our community as often as wecan. We have been successful in giving scholarshipsout the last two years to two successful seniors, avidsupporter of the Badlands youth football, football andbasketball, gymnastics, and our local food pantry toname a few. I feel that our youth are our future andwe all need to support their younger days as theymold into successful youth adults. We love our com-munity and we are here to help make it better andmore prosperous for everyone.”

Mary Burnett, Philip, presented a marketing up-date. The promotional video is being fine-tuned, as isthe BBR website/Facebook page. Hundreds of cellphone wallets to be given out will include two-sidedBBR business cards. Four-color vinyl banners shouldbe available for display at the job fair. Advertise-ments will soon be presented at the Gem Theatre.Brochures are being printed for distribution duringthe job fair.

Lieutenant Governor Matt Michels is tentativelyscheduled as a guest speaker for the communityleader dinner, Sept. 22. Save the date notes will besent out in early June, with official invitations andRSVP requests going out in late August. An event lo-cation is still being determined.

An entrepreneurship training update was given.Discussion was held on business plans and a poten-tial business plan contest.

The BBR is investigating into getting a businessincubator started. Possible United States Depart-ment of Agriculture grants could include a RuralBusiness Development Grant of $135,000 to $170,000available in South Dakota. Applications for these 12-month grants are due May 2. A community facilitiesgrant is also being looked into. Regular loans couldinclude school/community partnerships.

The BBR is working on its 501(c)3 nonprofit statusand its articles of corporation. A ongoing historicalarchive of the BBR is also being kept.

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The Senate took its turn in thetub and heard HB 1182 on thefloor. The bill would increase salestax by ½ percent and came fromthe House with two amendments.One set aside 85 percent of thenew revenue for teacher compen-sation and 15 percent for other ex-penses like custodians, office staffand increases in heating and elec-trical. The second established amethod to decrease the ½ percentas receipts from sales tax on inter-net sales materialize.

An amendment that would havesaved the taxpayers around $50million was motioned and re-sulted in lengthy debate but waseventually defeated. I voted forthe amendment because I believeSouth Dakota needs to at leastmatch the average teacher com-pensation that surrounding states

pay and it would have limited thefinancial impact upon lower in-come people.

My top priorities have alwaysbeen funding for education and ac-cess to affordable health care.During the past four sessions, Ihave championed allocating $4 or$5 million in one-time money forteachers and the same amount forhealth providers from funds re-maining after the budget was set.And those continue to be my pri-orities.

Typically, I receive 50 to 100emails each day and do my best torespond. Lately the subjects haveincluded goose hunting, abortion,dyslexia and meningitis with edu-cation funding leading the pack.In my responses to email mes-sages and phone calls relating toteacher compensation, I have

Bruce RampelbergSenator for District 30

The Legislative debate that has attracted the mostmedia attention up to this point is the Governor’snewly passed sales tax increase outlined in HB 1182.Rural schools should have been interested in SB 132,which it appears will greatly benefit Rapid City,Sioux Falls, Watertown and other large school dis-tricts.

The provisions outlined in SB 132 changes the cur-rent state aid to school formula of $4800 per studentto a student to teacher ratio of $48,500 per teacher.That student/teacher ratio for large schools is 16:1while the small school ratio is 12:1. School districtswill receive $48,500 for only enough teachers thatmeet that ratio.

This new funding formula will be very hard onsmall, rural schools. In District 30 alone, the follow-ing schools do not meet this new student/teacherratio, and therefore, will not receive enough fundingunder this formula to fund all of their teachers to the$48,500 new teacher salary state average.School Districts in Teachers needed to beLegislative District 30: cut to be in ratio:

Custer ......................................................6 teachersEdgemont ................................................5 teachersElk Mountain............................................1 teacherHill City...................................................2 teachersHot Springs .............................................5 teachersNew Underwood ...............................½ of a teacherOelrichs ...................................................7 teachersWall..........................................................3 teachers

TOTAL ................................................29.5 teachersThat is where the term “cuts” to teachers comes

into play. If a school district does not receive $48,500for each current teacher in the district, the districtwill have a difficult time paying all teachers the newteacher salary state average of $48,500, which wassupposed to be the magic of HB 1182. Districts thenhave a choice to make. They can cut teachers to meetthe new student/teacher ratio so that all remainingteachers can receive the new teacher salary state av-erage of $48,500. Or, they can keep all current teach-ers in place, and teachers in that district will not re-ceive the new teacher salary state average of $48,500,unless the district finds more money somewhere.

The irony of this legislation is that the Blue RibbonTask force was to address the teacher shortage inSouth Dakota. But the legislation falls short of the$48,500 funding target for 400 teachers that we cur-rently have. The Blue Ribbon Task force was chairedby both Rapid City and Sioux Falls legislators. TheRapid City school district will receive funding forseven additional teachers under SB 132. The loss ofteachers falls almost exclusively on small, ruralschool districts.

As always, I welcome your ideas and comments, onthis and other legislation. I thank you for allowingme to serve you in the House of Representatives.Please feel free to contact me at 745-3228 or by e-mailing me at [email protected].

Lance RussellDistrict 30 Representative

Greetings from the 91st Sessionof the SD Legislature from yourDistrict 27 Senator Jim Bradford.

A half a penny for our kids andtheir teachers has cleared theSenate with a 25-10 margin. Itwas a historic day for a statewhich has been dead last inteacher salaries for decades. Withthe gallery packed with teachersfrom throughout the state, thevote was taken and received therequired two-thirds majority topass. That’s great news for ourkids, our teachers, and our SchoolBoards who have struggled tofind teachers to hire in SouthDakota.

It has been a long time coming.South Dakota legislators have notraised the sales tax since 1969from its current state rate of fourpercent. (The municipal sales taxrate is an additional one percentor two percent depending onwhere you live).

The legislature’s attention tothe K-12 teacher crisis is a land-mark moment for South Dakota.We’ve shown that very goodthings can happen when Democ-rats and Republicans work to-gether to solve a problem. MovingSouth Dakota from “dead last” inthe nation’s ranking of teachersalaries is an important policy

step. Teachers and college stu-dents were watching us to see ifwe were really serious about sup-porting teachers. Now they knowthat we do appreciate and admirethe profession. As a formerteacher myself, I hope and believethis will be a turning point inSouth Dakota. Even the oppo-nents of the bill that passedagreed that we have a crisis andneed to act.

Passage of the Blue RibbonTask Force package of bills wasmore than just money and policy.This was a moral victory foreveryone in South Dakota. Payingour teachers the lowest wages inthe United States was not onlybad for education but it sent thewrong message about how wevalue our schools and our youth.Now we should be more competi-tive in the near future and thatshould signal to young families, tobusinesses looking for a place tocall home and to everyone whowe’re not satisfied with the statusquo.

There are two more bills whichmust complete the package asHB1182 was just the funding, theother two bills set up the new for-mula. The companion bills areslated for House debate duringthe last week of the Session. SB

131 addresses the student toteacher ratio, which now has beenamended down to 12 to one for thesmall schools, definitely a bettertarget for the schools in our dis-trict. Along with the other Democ-rats, we worked hard on gettingthis amendment which broughtdown the student to teacher ratiofor schools under 200. This wasan important victory and didn’tcome easy, especially with somany House Republicans oppos-ing any kind of new funding forour schools.

The Capital Outlay Fund flexi-bility is currently in the bill at 45percent, but there is talk ofamending that downward some-what. This will be an area towatch closely. SB 133 is the meas-ure that provides $5 million forthe shared services, E-Learningand teacher mentoring, anothergood piece for helping schools re-tain teachers in their districts.

One week of the Session left,but through my many years ofservice I can tell you: a lot canhappen in a week!

I invite you to contact me withyour questions and concerns. Imay be reached at 605-685-4241or [email protected]

Jim BradfordDistrict 27 Senator

There is only one week left ofthe 2016 legislative session andweather isn’t the only thing heat-ing up. During week eight therewas only one bill defeated on theHouse floor; unless you count thefailure to override the veto.

SB 63 Require the developmentof school safety plans and to re-quire the conduct of school safetydrills in accredited schools. Thebill was amended by Senate Edu-cation to remove specific require-ments in the plan. This bill wasfurther amended on the Senatefloor to remove references to “lock-down” and insert “school safety”.SB 63 had on No vote in the Sen-ate. On the House side it wentthrough House Education 10-3.The House floor amended this billsubstantially. The specific require-ments for the lock-down drill wereremoved. It also removed theoddly specific requirement to keepmeeting minutes. A secondamendment changed it from beingimplemented in 2016 to 2018.

I couldn't support this bill be-cause it is a mandate on schoolswith no funds made available andwould take time from staff to planand implement. This may be agood idea for schools, but if so thatcan be decided at the school boardlevel. There is no reason to man-date this at the state level. I thinkmost schools have safety plans inplace.

Legislators were very disap-pointed with Gov. Daugaard whenhe vetoed HB 1008 on Tuesday.This was crafted to protect every

child, transgender or not, and ithandily passed through both theSenate and the House. HB 1008would have required that everyrestroom, locker room, and showerroom located in a public elemen-tary or secondary school that isdesignated for student use and isaccessible by multiple students atthe same time would be desig-nated for and used ONLY by stu-dents of the same biological sex.HB 1008 was a House bill, theHouse was first to vote on theveto. It originally passed theHouse 58 to 10, but after the gov-ernor put pressure on legislatorsenough switched their votes so hisveto was sustained.

These are some of the bills thepassed this week:

*HB 1080 makes an appropria-tion and transfers money to theBureau of Administration to funda design study for a potential ex-pansion and upgrade to the StateAnimal Disease Research and Di-agnostic Laboratory.

*HB 1120 revises the definitionof agricultural purposes used forthe administration of the salestax. This allows timber harvestingto be treated the same as the restof agriculture.

*HB 1140 revises provisions re-garding county zoning.

*HB 1163 revises the time dur-ing which veterans may use tu-ition benefits at institutions underthe control of the Board of Re-gents.

*HB 1188 exempts school busesfrom commercial motor vehicle

fees.*HB 1189 It provides for the in-

spection and review of a state-mandated academic achievementtest taken by a student. The par-ent of a student or the eligible stu-dent may request to inspect andreview the assessment of the stu-dent after it is scored and the re-sults are provided to the parent oreligible student.

*HCR 1007 requires the use ofsound science in evaluating cropprotection chemistries and nutri-ents.

*HCR 1016 expressing and en-couraging support for the contin-ued use of country-of-origin labelson meat products sold to con-sumers.

The Senate also passed the halfcent sales tax that will tax every-one to increase teacher pay. HB1182 increases the state sales tax,the state use tax, the excise tax onfarm machinery, and the amuse-ment device tax for the purpose ofincreasing education funding andreducing property taxes, providesfor school district reporting andpenalties, and declares an emer-gency. With the emergency clause,HB 1182 cannot be put on the bal-lot for the people to decide.

As always, you can contact meat the House Chamber number773-3851. Leave a phone numberand I’ll call you back. The faxnumber is 773-6806. If you send afax, address it to Rep. ElizabethMay. You can also email me [email protected] during ses-sion. You can keep track of billsand committee meetings at thislink: http://legis.state.sd.us/ Youcan also use this link to find thelegislators, see what committeesthey are on, read all the bills andtrack the status of each bill, listento committee hearings and contactthe legislators.

Elizabeth MayDistrict 27 Representative

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stated my intent to vote for in-creasing teacher compensationand that I was working with sev-eral other Senators to do so with-out raising taxes. Unfortunately,we were unable to obtain the votesneeded to approve our plan.

Because I believed it was theright thing to do and in order tofulfill my pledge to my con-stituents, I voted for HB 1182 asamended. There are many peopleon both sides of the issue and I as-sure you that I have listened. Butour state needs good teachers andwe need to rally around them andexpress our appreciation for theirhard work. And helping them fi-nancially is a good way to do that.

Please call or email for com-ments or questions. [email protected] - 605-390-2165.

Federal standardearns legislative ire

By Dana HessCommunity News Service

Lawmakers in the SouthDakota House of Representativesvoiced their displeasure with thefederal government during discus-sion of SB34, a bill that would re-vise provisions in state law re-garding the chemical testing ofcommercial drivers.

Rep. Dick Werner, R-Huron, ex-plained that if South Dakotadidn’t come into compliance, thestate stood to lose $9.6 million infederal highway funding the firstyear and $19.2 million each subse-quent year.

Rep. Thomas Brunner, R-Nis-land, asked the House to voteagainst the bill, saying that thestate could fight for its funding incourt.

“I’m tired of having the federalgovernment hold us hostage,”Brunner said.

Eighteen of Brunner’s col-leagues agreed with him as thebill passed on a 47-19 vote

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Class of 2016 Senior projects

David Sykora built his own desktop computer. After considerable research, he ordered all the parts, notingthe return policies of each company. He said he got lucky with parts coming intact, but that breakage is notunusual during shipping. David detailed the importance of knowing exactly what the builder needs the com-puter to do before ordering anything. Someone who just wants to surf the net or do basic office work wouldwant a different set up than someone who plays games or does a lot of video production. It’s easy to be disap-pointed if you buy before planning. David mentioned having a few minor glitches along the way, but said hefigured things out and is pleased with the final product. His research paper dealt with cybercrime, and he wasable to give a bit of advice about avoiding becoming a victim. For instance, answer the security questions withanswers that don’t actually answer the questions, and use passwords that do not reflect anything about yourlife. David has applied to the Coast Guard Academy and is awaiting acceptance. He has also been accepted atSDSU. His plans include an electrical engineering major and a computer science minor.

Cailtin Ausmann’s Senior Project was titled “Friends for Freshman.” Ausmann thought of a program elimi-nating bullying in high school and forming healthy relationships. The Friends for Freshman program is de-signed as a mentoring program. Three to five freshman would be assigned an upperclassman mentor and attendmentoring meetings with their assigned upperclassman. There would be entry and exit surveys to test the ef-fectiveness of the program. Ausmann’s idea is actually going to be utilized by the Wall School. Ausmann planson attending USD for occupational therapy.

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Contreras honored as ScottsdaleWoman of the Year

The Women of Scottsdale re-cently announced Mary Contrerasas the 2015 Scottsdale Woman ofthe Year. She was honored as a re-sult of her many years of philan-thropic endeavors and support tothe Scottsdale Community. Maryis a member of the Charter 100group, Circle of Red for the Amer-ican Heart Association has sup-ported the Arts and the SmallBusiness Community for years.The award was announced on Fri-day, Feb. 19th at the ScottsdaleMarriott McDowell Mountain.

Mary Beth Contreras (Biel-maier) is the Agent owner of theThe Contreras State Farm Agency,Inc. Mary was joined by her fatherWilliam J. Bielmaier of Wall, S.D.;sisters, Cathy Thompson, of Ed-wards, Colo., and Cheryl Stewart,of Haslet, Texas; and local friendsKaren Poppe and Kate Miraglia ofWall. A special video presentationwas made to honor Mary on behalfof her many friends and commu-nity partners.

Women of Scottsdale wasfounded in 1998 and the group se-

ross (Former Mayor), Pam Gaberof Gabriel’s Angels and DebbieGaby (former President of SleepAmerica), Vicki Collins Edwards,Ellen Andres-Schneider, WinkBlair, Senator Carolyn Allen, JoanFudala, (Honorable Judge) LindaMilhaven, Lois McFarland, CieScott and (Former Mayor) SamCampana.

Mary Contreras has been serv-ing her clients and local businessowners for many years throughher State Farm Agency. Her firmoffers a wide variety of insuranceservices and specialties. Her com-mitment to the community was re-flected in the record number of at-tendees who came to see herawarded. Several top executivesfrom State Farm also flew in tosee her become the 2015 Scotts-dale Woman of the Year.

lects it’s “Woman of the Year”award based on years of service tothe local Scottsdale Community.Former recipients of this awardare Billie Jo Herberger, JanieEllis, Paula Cullison, Mary Man-

Last Friday, the Cat in the Hat,also known as Sandy Feller, readsuper Seuss stories for the Seuss-apalooza celebration, and the kidsmade duck feet. Next Friday’sstory time, at 9:00 a.m., will fea-ture Colorful Colors. After the sto-ries, the children will explore col-ors by painting colorful pictures.

The Peanuts Movie will be com-ing to a library near you for theAfter-Hours Movie Night onThursday, March 24, starting at5:00 p.m. Snacks and lemonadewill be served, or you may bringyour favorites.

Book Group will meet nextweek, Wednesday, March 16, todiscuss Snow Falling on Cedarsby David Guterson. In April, au-thor Sue Hillard plans to visit totalk about her new book, RedWhite or Blue: The 1875-1876Journey of a Lakota Chief's Sonand an Army Major's Daughter.At this writing, a copy of eachbook was available for check out.All adults are welcome to attendBook Group meetings.

Also available for check out arelarge print books, ideal for thosewho have trouble reading regularprint, or just for tired eyes at theend of the day. The library hasn’tseen much use of the large print

in the last year, so please helpspread the word. If new readersstart borrowing, new titles bytheir favorite authors will beadded as often as possible.

The library has nearly one hun-dred and fifty large print titles tochoose from, with authors such asNicholas Sparks, Lori Wick,James Patterson, Max Brand,Sue Grafton, James Grisham,and Jan Karon. Part of the collec-tion changes every few months, aswe share with other South

Dakota libraries through theLarge Print Book Circuit to makemore variety available.

For those who can only readlarge print, who can no longer seeto read at all, or who can’t hold abook, don’t forget that there arefree library services. The TalkingBook program, conducted by theSouth Dakota State Library, pro-vides use of audio books and play-back devices, with free deliverydirect to the home. For more in-formation, call 1-800-423-6665.

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Time for the news again! Thewarm weather and the start ofcalving season is keeping every-one happy and outside working! I,for one, am extremely grateful forthe beautiful weather we havebeen blessed with for a while. The Pat Trask family enjoyedhaving Joe home from Vermillionfor the weekend. He brought withDave Tutland, a family friend,who helped Pat celebrate hisbirthday. He turns “2 x 32” onMonday, March 7. The Trasksalso hosted Fr. Hoag for lunchafter mass on Sunday. Kenneth and Janet Wilson,along with Philip and MaryKay,met Patrick and Lane in RapidCity on Sunday. They had dinnertogether and then went for thefirst motorcycle ride of the year.They then ran errands on theirway home. Celine Trask was alsoa dinner guest Thursday night atKenneth and Janet’s. Ben and Emily Linn are homefrom college! Emily is home forspring break, Ben is home to dohis internship at the Linn Ranch.The Linn’s thought it would be re-ally fun to have Ben home again,but that quickly wore off and theywere over it within a few hours! On Sunday, Shirrise Linn setout for Rochester with MistyWalker and Ann Simons. Theystopped in Sioux Falls to visitDarrell Wilcox and have lunchwith Monica. They returned homefrom Rochester, Tuesday evening.Morris Linn attended the town-ship meeting Wednesday before

errands in Rapid City, then hewent to Wall. Laken and Shirrise,enjoying the nice weather onThursday, walked to Clyde’s witha few goodies. Shirrise drove mailfor Freddie on Friday. Kassan-dra’s spring play practice startedFriday morning. She worked atJulie’s, Saturday, before enjoyinga few games with Celine andNick. Clyde Arneson was a Satur-day evening visitor at the Linn’s.Kassandra and Laken visited thePXT’s Sunday after attendingchurch with Grandma andGrandpa Linn. Jean Linn has kept busy haul-ing mail for Freddie until he getsback on his feet. Rod and Kelly Anders hostedKelly’s sisters, Katie and Tara,and their families for the week-end. Savana Johnston and the WallGirls Basketball Team beat JonesCounty on Tuesday in Philip andare headed to the State Tourna-ment in Huron this Thursday.Good Luck Lady Eagles! Carsonand Carlee are home for springbreak and Calder will also behome, so the Johnston’s are show-ing up in full force to cheer Sa-vana on at State! Skyler Burke,and niece Remington, were alsoSunday visitors at the Johnstonresidence. Teri Arneson and Shelia Traskreturned from Italy on Saturday.I hear they had a wonderful trip,but they didn’t get to drink anywine, eat good food or take anypictures – not! I don’t know aboutTeri, but I think my mother needsto go to an AA meeting after thistrip! I’m sure they would love toshare their adventures with you! Clyde Arneson and EdgarSimon were coffee guests at

Lawrence Burke’s on Tuesdaymorning. Jeff Moore was also avisitor one day. Skyler Burke andLawrence’s great-granddaughterRemington (Skyler’s niece) werebreakfast guests at Lawrence’s onSunday. They then all went tochurch together! On Tuesday, Lynn Fields wentto Philip for the Cheyenne Charo-lais Bull Sale and to sell somebred cows. On Friday, the Fieldswent to the Young Center inSpearfish, with Ronnie and PeggyWetz for the Faith/HardingCounty basketball game. TyGrubl, the Wetz’ grandson, playsfor Faith. It was a good game, butsadly Faith lost which ended theirseason. Tanse Hermann from theNRCS was out to the WilseyRanch on Thursday to surveyland. Kent learned a lot from hisvisit. The Wilsey’s niece Janetteand husband Jaeyoung came tovisit late Thursday. They enjoyedgreat food and target practice onFriday. The School of Mines is onSpring Break so Zack, Zarah, andJo went to Montrose to spend theweekend at Jo’s Grandma Myrtleand Uncle Don’s house. Whilethere, more family came to visitincluding Jo’s mom, Aunt Diane,Uncle Ray and wife Nancy, andUncle Bob. They made friedchicken and potato salad,Grandma’s favorite, and wouldn’tlet her do a thing – it was quite atreat to her! They played manygames of cards, Skipbo, Uno, andGolf. On Sunday, the Wilsey’swent to Tom and Kelly’s for a tra-ditional Korean meal prepared byJaeyoung! And, that’s all I have for thisweek! God Bless!

Elm SpringsTomilyn Trask | [email protected]

Good news! The Wall Girls’ Bas-ketball team won the District andRegional Tournaments and willbe on their way to State! Congrat-ulations! Donald and Harriet Huether ofVolin, S.D., visited cousins in Walllast week — Delja Hoffman andViolet Smoot. They all went toRapid City and visited their auntLucille Huether, who resides at“The Victorian” on ColumbusStreet. Sisters Delja and Violetwould like to send early birthdaygreetings to their brother, LeroyHuether! Bill and Kay Leonard’s grand-daughter (also Neal and PeggyLurz’s granddaughter) JessicaKroells and her three childrenwere here from Colorado visitingfamily over the weekend. Kay wasamazed at how much the kids hadgrown!

We send our congratulations toShirley Tennyson, as she reaches90 years of age on March 12,2016. There will be an open housefor her in Rapid City at theChurch of St. Therese. Happybirthday, Shirley! Charlene Kjerstad went toSpearfish last Thursday to visither mom, Bea Ramsey, and heraunt, Hazel Thompson. She camehome, Saturday morning, andwent to Philip to watch hergrandsons wrestle at the AAUDistrict Tourney. Austan placedfirst, Breckin placed second andKyler placed eighth. The top eightadvance to Regionals at RapidCity this coming Saturday, the12th, at Rapid City Central gym. Congratulations go out to JimJoyce, Custer, as he celebrated his80th birthday on February 21st.Would have put it in the paper

sooner but his family wanted tosurprise him with a card shower.(they take the Courant). Hear hereceived over 80 cards, so they dida good job getting the word out! Jim Doyle, Eva and Seth Mon-son and Eva’s granddaughter,Trinity, had breakfast Saturdaymorning with Merlin and MaryJane Doyle. They were on theirway to the Wrestling Tourna-ment. Daylight Saving Time startsagain this coming Sunday, March13th. So, turn your clocks aheadone hour on Saturday night be-fore going to bed. You may be latefor church if you don’t! The United Methodist Womenare preparing a dinner on PalmSunday, March 20th. Menu willbe roast beef, mashed potatoes,gravy, corn, homemade rolls,salad bar and dessert. The Senior Citizens of Wall(YAH) met on Monday, March7th, for their regular monthlymeeting. There were eleven in at-tendance, including Delja Hoff-man, who just joined our group.The potluck supper falls on St.Patrick’s this month. Theme mealwill be on the last day of themonth. Seems we are now awoman’s group — years ago therewere a few men, but only one ortwo of them are left (can’t blamethem for not wanting to be in theminority). Once again the flag of theUnited States is flying at halfstaff. This time it is showing re-spect for Nancy Reagan, formerfirst lady of the country for years

1981-1989. Mrs. Reagan passedaway Sunday. Anita Peterson, Philip, came toWall on Sunday and took hermother Edith Paulsen to lunch.Frances Poste joined them. Feels like Spring, but is it re-ally here? Pairs of robins arearound, have heard geese headednorth, tulips are up, lilies are

budding — all good signs, butseems too early to think we willnot have snow again beforeMarch, or even April, is over. Thewarm temperatures are wonder-ful but they fool “Mother Nature”! Faye Bryan of Wasta, is in thePhilip Hospital. Last week, aniece of hers and Sheila Dreeswere in the Drug Store en route to

Philip to visit her. She may gointo the Nursing Home if there isa vacancy. Get well messages aresent your way, Faye! Courage is grace under pres-sure.

~Ernest Hemingway Don’t let yesterday use up toomuch of today. ~WillRogers

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Wall Art Guild Art Show will beheld March 19th and 20th at WallDrug Store. The special guestartist this year will be DavidDorsey, Valentine, Neb. David graduated from the Uni-versity of Nebraska at Kearney,with a BA in art education. Davidis a lifelong Nebraskan from a

ranching family. He was a fulltime rancher up until 2012, whenhe began pursuing art profession-ally. His main medium is acrylicand also pen and ink. Inspirationfor his paintings are the life stylesof the west and old west, as wellas still life, landscape, people andwildlife.

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Senior Citizens met March 7 at1:00 p.m., at Prairie Village.Eleven members were present.There was one new member. Meeting was called to order byCarol Hahn. Pledge of Allegianceto the Flag. Carol read an articleon how hard it is to get our chil-dren to speed up. Maybe weshould slow down and take time

to enjoy things more. Moment of Reflection wastaken for the shut-ins and thosewith other needs. Treasurer’s report was given byDorothy. The report was approvedand ready for audit. Minutes ofthe last meeting was read and ap-proved. Carol read thank yous for cards

we sent. It was decided that ourmain project is our card program. Next month we will be planningfor our early trip to Cedar Passfor lunch. Upcoming events: Mar. 17: Potluck Supper. Mar. 31: Theme Meal. Next meeting is April 4 withDelja and Arla hosting.

Young At Heart Senior Citizen GroupArla Olson | Secretary

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moving, or as quickly as possible, so as notto miss a single issue.

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Rush Funeral HomeChapels in Philip, Wall & Kadoka

Jack, Gayle & D.J. Rush

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First Evangelical Lutheran ChurchWall • Pastor Curtis Garland

Sunday Service, 9 a.m.

Emmanuel Lutheran Church • Creighton •Sunday Services 11:00 a.m.

Interior Community ChurchPastor Nathan Mudd • Highway 44 East

Sunday School 9:30 a.m.;Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Dowling Community ChurchMemorial Day through Labor Day; Service 10:00 a.m.

279-2175

Badlands Cowboy MinistryBible Study • Wednesdays

Wall Rodeo Grounds • 279-2681Winter 5:30 p.m. • Summer 7 p.m.

New Underwood Community Church Pastor Wes Wileman

Sunday School 9 a.m.; Adult & Children Service 10 a.m.;Youth Fellowship: Wed. 7 - 8:30 p.m.

Evangelical Free Bible ChurchWall • Pastor Ron Burtz

279-2867 • www.wallfreechurch.comSundays: Adult Bible Fellowship, 9 a.m.,

Sunday Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.;Mondays: Women’s Bible Study, 7 p.m.

Wall United Methodist ChurchPastor Russell Masartis • 279-2359

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

WastaServices Sundays at 8:30 a.m.

St. Patrick's Catholic ChurchWall • Father Timothy Hoag

Masses: Saturday 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m.Weekdays refer to Bulletin

St. Margaret Church • LakesideMass: Saturday 7 p.m. even number months

or Sunday 10 a.m. odd number months

Holy Rosary Church • InteriorMass: Saturday 7 p.m. odd number months

or Sunday 10 a.m. even number months

St. John's Catholic ChurchNew Underwood • Rev. William Zandri

Mass: Sundays at 11:00 a.m.;Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. at

Good Samaritan Nursing Home;Reconciliation before Sun. Mass

March 10, 2016 • Pennington County Courant

Governor Daugaard signs UUS South Dakota billGov. Dennis Daugaard has

signed Senate Bill 114, the USSSouth Dakota bill, into law.

The bill appropriates $100,000to the South Dakota Departmentof Military to support the USSSouth Dakota (SSN-790) Commis-sioning Committee’s activities.The Committee will be raising ad-ditional funds from the privatesector.

The Virginia-class submarine isunder construction and is ex-pected to be completed in Augustof 2018. It will be the first subma-rine to bear the name USS SouthDakota.

In the twentieth century, twonaval battleships were namedafter the state: the USS SouthDakota (ACR-9) commissioned in1908 and the USS South Dakota(BB-57) commissioned in 1942.

Go to SSN790.org to learn moreabout the USS South Dakota(SSN-790).

Other bills signed into law:SB 8 – An Act to revise certain

provisions regarding backgroundinvestigations for prospective em-ployees of the postsecondary tech-nical institutes and to transfercertain funds regarding postsec-ondary technical credentialing.

SB 33 – An Act to revise certainprovisions regarding chemicaltesting and revocations of driverlicenses for persons under the ageof twenty-one.

SB 38 – An Act to revise certainprovisions concerning bailbondspersons.

SB 39 – An Act to revise certainprovisions concerning fees forsponsored captive insurance com-panies.

SB 52 – An Act to establish pro-cedures for reporting federal taxchanges for purposes of the bankfranchise tax.

SB 57 – An Act to redefine theterm, written agreement, relatingto contracts between a debtor andcreditor.

SB 66 – An Act to permit the is-suance of special license plates to

parents of certain individuals.SB 120 – An Act to make an ap-

propriation to reimburse certainfamily physicians, dentists, physi-cian assistants, and nurse practi-tioners who have complied withthe requirements of the recruit-ment assistance program and todeclare an emergency.

SB 138 – An Act to authorize theconstruction of a nursing home fa-cility in Rosebud, S.D.

HB 1004 – An Act to make formand style revisions to certainstatutes regarding counties.

HB 1007 – An Act to make anappropriation to revise and up-date the data and methods used todetermine the agricultural landproduction capacity and to declarean emergency.

HB 1024 – An Act to make anappropriation for the maintenanceand repair of state owned damsand to declare an emergency.

HB 1047 – An Act to make anappropriation for the payment ofextraordinary litigation expensesand to declare an emergency.

HB 1065 – An Act to designatethe Civilian Conservation CorpsMuseum of South Dakota in HillCity as the official Civilian Con-servation Corps Museum of S.D.

HB 1069 – An Act to revise cer-tain provisions related to geneticcounselor licensure.

HB 1071 – An Act to revise cer-tain provisions regarding the an-nual conference between countycommissioners and the director of

equalization.HB 1083 – An Act to change the

taxation method used in the saleof certain off-road vehicles and re-quire that the sale of these vehi-cles be by licensed vehicle dealers.

HB 1092 – An Act to revise re-quirements for local permits forthe sale and consumption of alco-holic beverages on certain prop-erty abutting licensed establish-ments.

HB 1095 – An Act to revise cer-tain allowable time periods re-garding the transfer of vehicleownership.

HB 1104 – An Act to revise cer-tain provisions regarding thepractice of dental hygiene.

HB 1121 – An Act to revise cer-tain provisions concerning the reg-ulation of vehicle dealers.

HB 1123 – An Act to require theDepartment of Health to includecertain information regarding theinspection of an abortion facilityon the department's website.

HB 1164 – An Act to provide fora special interest motor vehicle li-cense plate for certain vehiclesunder certain conditions.

HB 1179 – An Act to revise cer-tain provisions regarding the ex-emption of certain boats from theexcise tax on large boats.

Wall Art Guild art class

The Wall Art Guild sponsoredan art class at the Quinn Commu-nity Center, March 5th and 6th

with Ray Kelly, Tea, SD. Ray is aprofessional pencil sketch artist,musician and entertainer.

The class work taught in his artclass will be on display at the WallArt Show, March 19th and 20th.

Courtesy PhotoThose who participated in the art class were: Nola Price, Lorna Moore, Shelly O’Bryan, Kelsie Bean, LindaHiltner, Ray Kelly and Ralph Kroetch.

Out-of-season athletic rulestweaked, approved

By Dana HessFor South Dakota

Newspaper AssociationWith a couple of additions, the

South Dakota High School Activi-ties Association board of directorsWednesday approved the secondreading of more relaxed out-of-season training rules.

The new rules allow coaches towork with athletes on an unre-stricted basis during the sum-mer—defined as that period afterthe last state event through July31. This year the last state eventsare the state golf tournamentstaking place June 6 and 7. Therules also include a moratoriumon contact between athletes andcoaches from July 1 through July7.

Team contacts, whether or notthey take place on school grounds,would be limited to four. Thosecontacts include team camps,scrimmages, leagues or an eventthat includes multiple teams fromdifferent schools. The rules allowfor open gyms and private lessons.

daily mandatory practices.“That is exactly what can hap-

pen,” said board chairman JasonUttermark of Aberdeen.

Krogstrand said enforcement ofthe rules and reining in overzeal-ous coaches would have to be doneby local school districts.

Clay Anderson, activities direc-tor at Belle Fourche, said thethreat of a “rogue coach” has al-ways existed.

“If they can’t control them intheir community,” Anderson said,“they’re probably already doing it.I don’t believe it’s going to get outof control.”

Craig Nowotny, activities direc-tor at St. Thomas More, said therestriction on pads may make hisplayers more susceptible to injury.He said St. Thomas More playerswear shoulder pads during sum-mer passing drills as a precautionagainst injury but the 10-day limitwould mean some drills would behave to be held without pads.

Krogstrand said the rule wasproposed because “when you putshoulder pads on kids, you’reinviting contact.”

The out-of-season rules were ap-proved on an 8-1 vote with RogerBordeaux of the Tiospa ZinaTribal School dissenting.

The new rules were passed withtwo additions that were not pres-ent for the first reading. Assistantexecutive director JohnKrogstrand said some schoolswould like a one-year grandfatherclause that would allow contact in2016 following the state trackmeet. This year’s golf tourna-ments are later than previousyears and some schools had al-ready scheduled camps that willbe held prior to June 7.

“It didn’t quite sink in that golfis as late as it is,” said board mem-ber Sandy Klatt of Brandon Val-ley.

The second addition was a re-striction on contacts between foot-ball coaches and athletes that lim-its coaches to a maximum of 10days with athletes when they willbe allowed to wear pads. No morethan five of the 10 days can beconsecutive.

Board member Linda Whitneyof Sanborn Central said she hasheard concerns about the relaxedrules inspiring coaches to insist on

Thank youWasta Volunteer Fire Dept

would like to thank all of the individualswho contributed to making our annual steak

supper a huge success!Thanks again,

Wasta Volunteer Fire Department

Sports6 Pennington County Courant • March 10, 2016

VAR ReseRVe

6 sons sell

38th AnnualDartt Angus RanchProduction Sale – SaturdayMarch 19, 20161:00 PM at the Ranch

Wall, South DakotaSelling 50 Yearling Angus Bulls

& 12 2-year-old Angus Bulls

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Free delivery within 200 miles of ranch!

Will keep bulls until April 15, 2016.

Light Birth Weights, Growth Always Our Goal!

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Sires Include:

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Lady Eagles defeat Jones Co. Coyotes to advance to State

AttentIon:2016 SenIoRS

& PARentS

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graduation pagesthat will be published

in May. You maydrop them off at theoffice (212 4th Ave.),

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Wall, SD.

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Pictured clockwise from top left:Head coach John Hess discussingthe next game plan during Region7B against the Jones Co. Coyotes,Tuesday, March 1 in Philip; JosieBlasius passing the ball with 8.6seconds left of play; Kyla Sawvell(#33) shoots a free-throw whileKaty Bielmaier in the background;Savana Johnston (#11) stretches fortwo points; Katy Bielmaier (#25)shoots a free-throw while MonicaBielmaier (#10) and Emilee Pauleywatch; Monica Bielmaier (#10)goes up for two against Jones Co.;Emilee Pauley (#22) drives the ballaround the Jones Co. defense. Walldefeated the Jones Co. Coyotes 38-30 and advance to State. Their firstgame will be Thursday, March 10at 7:45 p.m. CT against SanbornCentral/ Woonsocket. Good luck,Lady Eagles! Stats were unavail-able at press time.

State B Girls’

Basketball TournamentThurs., March 10th, Fri., March 11th & Sat., March 12th

Huron Arena, Huron, SDFirst game Thursday, March 10th:

Wall vs. Sanborn Central/Woonsocket at 7:45 p.m. CT

These sponsors are proud to support the Wall Lady Eagles...

Back Row: Assistant Coach Mike Schroeder, Mercede Hess, Jaicee Williams, Savana Johnston,Katy Bielmaier, Cooper Jo McLaughlin, Kyla Sawvell, Kassidy Sawvell, Head Coach John Hess.Middle Roll: Samantha Deutscher, Korra Westby, Emilee Pauley, Elyssa Westby, Jessica Casjens,Jayton McKay, Meghan Patterson, Dawson Hess. Front Row: Josie Blasius, Monica Bielmaier.

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Community/Sports8 Pennington County Courant • March 10, 2016

Courtesy PhotoWall Youth Wrestlers who placed at the District Tournament in Philip on Saturday, will now move on to the re-gional competition at Rapid City Central High School next Saturday. Back Row: Austan Kjerstad (first), TalonAnderson (first), Trevor Schulz (first), Kyler Kjerstad (eighth), Jace Blasius (first), Burk Blasius (first), ThaneSimons (first), Blair Blasius (first), Levi Sharp (third), Kipp Cordes (first), Caden Stoddard (second). Front Row:Tuff Lange (first), Chase Carlbom (seventh), Chance Wagner (seventh), Max Dupris (second), Jeremiah Lange(third), Carter Kendrick (third), Gatlin Cordes (first), Teelan Kjerstad (first), Tyson Dartt (first), Klansey Gew-erth Lange (seventh).

Wall Youth Wrestlers

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Activities association foundation may get boostBy Dana Hess

For South DakotaNewspaper Association

The South Dakota High SchoolActivities Association Foundationhas a goal of raising a $5 millionendowment to relieve some of thefinancial burden on memberschools.

Stephanie Judson, executive di-rector of the South Dakota Com-munity Foundation, met with as-sociation board members Wednes-day, talking about her organiza-tion’s role.

“We’re here as your philan-thropic partner,” Judson said, ex-plaining that the SDCF manages$230 million in endowed funds fora variety of organizations.

The activity association’s foun-dation currently has $141,000.When the fund grows to $5 mil-lion, Judson said a yearly payout

higher ticket prices, Uttermarksaid of the possible donation,“That’s pretty tough to turndown.”

Board member Brian Maher ofSioux Falls said the first conver-sation he every had about theSDHSAA Foundation was “ven-omous.” Subsequent conversationhave been more cordial, he said,as member schools have learnedmore about the foundation.

Maher said the board has to besure to offer the message to mem-ber schools about the foundationand “what that means for kids andopportunities down the road.”

Uttermark agreed that the asso-ciation needs to get better aboutexplaining their vision for thefoundation. “We have not done avery good job of communicatingthis,” Uttermark said.

of about $200,000 would be sent tomember schools to help them payfor association expenses like cata-strophic insurance and dues.

“The fund would be used, Jud-son said, “to remove the financialburden on members long-term.”

Association board presidentJason Uttermark of Aberdeen saidthere’s an opportunity for a signif-icant donation to the foundation.If the association were to raiseticket prices for state events by $1to $7 for adults and $5 for stu-dents and earmark those extradollars for the foundation, ananonymous donor is consideringmaking a matching donation.

Uttermark said the new ticketprices would bring in an estimated$200,000 resulting in a $400,000donation to the foundation.

While board members would ex-pect to hear some opposition to

Schools cautioned about use of NativeAmerican mascots, team names

By Dana HessFor South Dakota

Newspaper AssociationA resolution passed unani-

mously by the board of directors ofthe South Dakota High School Ac-tivities Association Wednesdayrecommends that member schoolsconsider the appropriateness ofusing Native American mascotsand team names.

The resolution, which is not adirective to schools but rather asuggestion, cites examples fromthe American Psychological Asso-ciation, the American SociologicalAssociation and the White HouseInitiative on AmericanIndian/Alaska Native Educationabout the harm those symbols cancause for young Native Ameri-

names found that there are asmany as 16 South Dakota highschools with mascot names thatmight be considered offensive.Those schools include the BennettCounty Warriors, the Britton-Hecla Braves, the CastlewoodWarriors, the Cheyenne-EagleButte Braves, the Crazy HorseChiefs, the Crow Creek Chieftains,the Estelline Redmen, the IroquoisChiefs, the Lower Brule Sioux, theMarty Indian School Braves, theSt. Francis Indian School War-riors, the Sisseton Redmen, theWakpala Sioux, the Sioux FallsWashington Warriors, the Water-town Arrows and the WoonsocketRedmen.

cans.The topic of a lengthy discussion

at the board’s January meeting,the second reading of the resolu-tion passed without much com-ment.

Moe Ruesink of Sioux Valley inVolga was the lone dissenting votein January.

“I totally see this as an aware-ness issue,” Ruesink said, explain-ing his previous vote. “It’s more ofa school issue.”

Board member Linda Whitneyof Sanborn Central remindedRuesink that the resolution was arecommendation to schools. “We’renot dictating,” Whitney said.

Based on wording in the resolu-tion, an Internet search of NativeAmerican mascots and team

Activities board won’t let schools set terms for cooperativeBy Dana Hess


The South Dakota High SchoolActivities Association board of di-rectors turned down a request foran athletic cooperative after theschools tried to set the terms ofhow their teams would be classi-fied.

Representatives of Centervilleand the Irene-Wakonda school dis-tricts were at the board’s meetingWednesday asking that theirschools be allowed to form an ath-letic cooperative for football, girls’basketball and volleyball.

Centerville SuperintendentChad Conaway said it was likelythat without the cooperativeagreement Centerville wouldn’t beable to field those teams. He pre-

after all the schools in the state.”Conaway said he knew the role

of the board. “I’m asking for a lit-tle latitude in judgment,”Conaway said.

Assistant executive director JoAuch said a school with a similarenrollment problem was going toplay a junior varsity schedule.Conaway said he’d have to moveup younger players to make thathappen in Centerville.

“I don’t know if that’s best formy kids,” Conaway said.

Board member Sandy Klatt ofBrandon Valley urged the board tofind a way to allow the Centervillestudents to compete.

“His kids are not going to havean opportunity to play,” Klatt said.

Board member Moe Ruesink ofSioux Valley in Volga disagreed,pointing out that they would havean opportunity to play if theschool districts would be willing togo up in classification.

A motion to not approve the co-operative agreement as submittedwas approved 8-1 with Klatt cast-ing the dissenting vote.

dicted that without the coopera-tive, Centerville would lose atleast two student-athletes to openenrollment.

The request came with the stip-ulation that the only way Irene-Wakonda would agree to the coop-erative would be if its footballteam continued to be classified as9AA and its girls’ sports teams re-tain their Class B designation.

SDHSAA staff objected to therequest, noting that the enroll-ment of the combined schoolsshould boost their football team toan 11-man schedule and theirgirls’ sports to Class A.

Conaway said he couldn’t seeany other way to get a chance forhis students to play sports.

“If it doesn’t get done that way,”Conway said, “I don’t know whatto do for my kids.”

Board members were sympa-thetic to Centerville’s problem butless than enthusiastic about meet-ing the schools’ terms.

“We don’t just look after Center-ville,” said board member BrianMaher of Sioux Falls. “We look

Activities calendar may get overhaulBy Dana Hess


The massive job of overhaulingthe state’s high school athleticsand activities calendar took a stepforward Wednesday. That’s whenthe South Dakota High School Ac-tivities Association board of direc-tors got a look at the work done byits calendar committee.

The calendar committee,headed by Huron SuperintendentTerry Nebelsick, includes superin-tendents, athletic directors, prin-cipals, representatives of the finearts and SDHSAA staff. Nebel-sick’s report can be found on theagenda for the board’s meeting onthe SDHSAA website atwww.sdhsaa.com.

Speaking to the board meetingby phone, Nebelsick said that thecommittee had three main con-cerns as it looked at the calendarfor the school year. They wantedto provide a concussion protocolfor football players by offering aless strenuous playoff schedule;provide a specific, conflict-freetime for students to participate inall-state chorus and orchestra;and provide a rest period for play-ers between the volleyball andgirls’ basketball seasons.

The committee had originallythought that switching dates forfall girls’ tennis, spring boys’ ten-nis and fall boys’ golf would allowthose events to take place in bet-ter weather. Nebelsick said thechanges were not acceptable dueto concerns about student partici-pation dropping for events heldoutside of the school year. Nebel-sick said there was also concernabout job conflicts and higherlodging costs for events held in the

shorter seasons.“I’ve always been a proponent of

activities, the games themselves,”Maher said. “We always have theoption to play less locally.”

Assistant executive directorBrooks Bowman said music direc-tors were in favor of having a pro-tected weekend for all-state cho-rus and orchestra, though theyfeared that previous attempts toblock out some conflict-free for theevent have failed in the past.

Bowman also took issue withthe fifth football playoff option,noting it would lead to more losttime in the classroom.

“There goes the sanctity of theclassroom that we’re trying to pro-tect,” Bowman said.

The calendar committee alsorecommended a five-day holidaymoratorium on games and prac-tices with two of those days set asDec. 24 and 25. The selection ofwhich other days school districtswould black out would be up to thedistricts so as to not interfere withtraditional holiday sports tourna-ments.

Board member Steve Morford ofSpearfish said that was a mistake,having seen a similar plan in an-other state. He said that for theholiday moratorium on activitiesto work, it has to be the same forevery school.

“The five days need to be sethere,” Morford said.

The calendar committee’s rec-ommendations, including the fifthoption for football, will be distrib-uted to member schools. It will beup for board consideration and apossible first reading at theboard’s next meeting on April 19and 20 in Pierre.

Black Hills.The committee recommended a

week off during the football sea-son between the semi-final gamesand the championship games atthe Dakota Dome. All-state chorusand orchestra would take placethat weekend. No sports games orpractices would be allowed so thatstudents would not have to choosebetween a sport or attending theall-state music event.

The committee offered four op-tions for nine-man and 11B foot-ball. Those options included start-ing the season sooner, removingthe bye week, reducing the regu-lar season to seven games and re-ducing the playoffs to eight quali-fying teams.

Those options were not accept-able to Kelly Messmer, athletic di-rector at Harding County.

“None of these options are ac-ceptable to the nine-man schools,”Messmer said.

Tom Rice, principal at Gayville-Volin, offered a fifth option with aseries of Thursday playoff gamesthat would still allow for a stu-dents to attend all-state chorusand orchestra.

The committee also recom-mended reducing the number ofgames by two for the volleyballand girls’ basketball seasons. Theadvantages of the change, accord-ing to the committee, would bebetter academics, quality practiceand quality rest during the sea-son.

“I don’t think that’s a calendarcommittee issue,” Messmer said,noting that any move to shorten aseason should come through theassociation’s advisory boards.

Board member Brian Maher ofSioux Falls also questioned the

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Senate votes to raise sales tax forteacher pay, property tax relief


After hours of debate and an at-tempt at an amendment, theSouth Dakota Senate endorsedHB1182, the funding portion ofGov. Dennis Daugaard’s plan forraising teacher pay.

Voting 25 to 10, the Senate en-dorsed the governor’s plan to raisethe state’s sales tax by a half cent.The tax would raise a projected$107.4 million with 63 percentdesignated as aid to publicschools, 34 percent flagged forproperty tax relief and three per-cent used to raise instructorsalaries at the state’s four publictechnical institutes.

According to Daugaard, the newtax money would boost the aver-age teacher salary in SouthDakota from $40,000 to $48,500.South Dakota has typicallyranked last in the nation inteacher pay.

Schools must file reports withthe state department of educationto prove that at least 85 percent ofthe new funding is being used forteacher salaries.

The $40 million for property taxrelief didn’t sit well with somesenators. Sen. David Novstrup, R-Aberdeen, offered an amendment

dall, said that while the country’syoung men and women were de-fending America, at home legisla-tors were talking about increasingtaxes.

“When you increase tax, you de-crease freedom,” Van Gerpen said.

Sen. Angie Buhl O’Donnell, D-Sioux Falls, noted that 60 percentof her constituents were rentersand would pay a higher sales taxso that property owners could gettax relief. Despite that fact, shesaid she planned to vote for thebill because “I know that they ben-efit from having great teachers inSouth Dakota.”

As an engineer, Sen. David Om-dahl, R-Sioux Falls, said he hashad to go back to the drawingboard on occasion and that’swhere the Senate should go aswell.

“We’re raising a tax to lower atax,” Omdahl said. “Isn’t that thecraziest thing you’ve ever heard?”

The final vote earned applausefrom the gallery where Housemembers, the high school stu-dents who serve as pages, andteachers were gathered.

The bill now goes to Gov. Dau-gaard for his signature. The newsales tax will go into effect June 1.

that would cut the sales tax in-crease to a quarter cent and doaway with the property tax relief.He said the amended bill wouldraise just more than $50 millionand the additional $17 millionneeded for the governor’s plancould be found through cuts in thestate budget.

An amendment would meanthat the bill would have to go backto the House. Novstrup said thatwouldn’t be a problem.

“We would pick up 10 votes onthe House side,” Novstrup said. “Ifyou’re concerned about concur-rence, I don’t believe you shouldbe.”

After hearing some concernfrom senators about where the ad-ditional $17 million would comefrom, Novstrup offered an amend-ment to his amendment, changingthe quarter percent increase tothree tenths of a percent.

Novstrup said that going up tothree-tenths of a cent would raise$12 million more than the gover-nor originally wanted for in-creased teacher salaries. Bothamendments failed on identicalvotes of 13-22.

Discussion of the bill itself waswide-ranging and heartfelt.

Sen. Bill Van Gerpen, R-Tyn-

Limited use of medical marijuana getscommittee approval


After more than two hours oftestimony and discussion over twodays, the House Health andHuman Services Committee ap-proved a bill that would allow alimited use of medical marijuana.

SB171 allows the use ofcannabidiol, a non-psychoactiveingredient that comes fromcannabis, to be used only in thetreatment of patients with in-tractable epilepsy. The measurepassed through the Senate on a20-15 vote.

While the bill allows for somestate protections against prosecu-tion for patients, caregivers anddoctors, possession of marijuanaor products derived from mari-juana is still against federal law.

Speaking in favor of the bill,Sen. Blake Curd, R-Sioux Falls, aphysician, said cannabidiol hasbeen shown to take children withpediatric intractable epilepsy fromhundreds of seizures a day tonone. While it contains THC, theingredient that allows marijuanausers to get high, cannabidiol “hasno psychogenic effect whatsoever.”

If the bill were to pass, Curdsaid, “South Dakota would not beblazing a trail here.” Thirty-nineother states allow for the distribu-tion of cannabidiol. “Our familieshere in South Dakota can’t haveit.”

Curd told the committee thatapproving the bill would “do some-thing extraordinary for a smallgroup of folks.”

Curd said some opponentswould claim that approval of onetreatment made from marijuanawould lead to more drug use andabuse.

“I don’t believe this is a slipperyslope,” Curd said. “The only waythe slope becomes slippery is if weallow it.”

The committee also heard testi-mony from George and KristinHendrickson whose young sonEliyah has Dravet syndromewhich causes him to have epilepticseizures.

A former law enforcement offi-cer, George Hendrickson said hehad a law officer’s belief that mar-ijuana, as a Schedule 1 drug,should not be legalized in any way.When his son started to sufferseizures, he decided to do some re-search.

“It took a day’s worth of re-search to find out I had beengrossly wrong,” Hendrickson said.

Hendrickson noted that whilecannabidiol isn’t approved by theFDA, it does have a U.S. patent.He said the FDA needs to “get off

committee that FDA trials taketime. “My son may not have sevento 10 years,” Hendrickson said.“I’m going to do everything in mypower to help him.”

A nurse, Kristin Hendricksonsaid she often sees patients ad-dicted to prescription painkillerswho have lost their homes, carsand families because of their ad-diction. She said no one has suf-fered those losses due to usingcannabidiol.

“Can you guys tell me anyonewho has died from marijuana?”she asked. “I’m asking you to havecompassion.”

Curd noted that FDA approvalis not always as safe as it sounds.He told the committee aboutVioxx, a drug that was approvedby the FDA and went on to kill40,000 patients.

Curd called on the committee toreject Heinemann’s amendmentsince it would only give familieslike the Hendricksons the “illu-sion” of progress.

“The Hendricksons don’t havetime to wait any longer,” Curdsaid.

The committee rejected theamendment on a 4-8 vote. A mo-tion by Heinemann to move thelegislation to the 41st day, effec-tively killing the bill, failed on a 6-7 vote. The bill received a do passrecommendation on a 7-6 vote andnow goes to the full House.

their bureaucracy” and give it ap-proval.

Hendrickson said he could getthe cannabidiol delivered by mailto his home.

“Getting it here isn’t the prob-lem,” Hendrickson said. “Owningit here and being able to give it tomy child: two separate felonies.”

Approval of the bill, Hendrick-son said, would allow for relief forthe children who suffer as well astheir caregivers.

“It’s not just the children thatwill benefit,” Hendrickson said,

Speaking in opposition to thebill was Rep. Leslie Heinemann,R-Flandreau, who also serves asvice chairman of the committee.Heinemann admitted it was diffi-cult to speak against the bill withthe Hendricksons and their son inthe room.

“The medical community is notasking for this,” Heinemann said.He offered an amendment to thebill that would allow for the use ofcannabidiol when it has FDA ap-proval.

FDA approval was also a keycomponent of Attorney GeneralMarty Jackley’s testimony againstthe bill.

“There needs to be some levelsof protection,” Jackley said, enu-merating them as FDA approval,the ability for a South Dakotaphysician to prescribe the drugand a South Dakota pharmacist tofill the prescription.

As a former U.S. Attorney, Jack-ley said he could assure parentswho obtained cannabidiol illegallythat they were setting themselvesup for prosecution.

Also speaking in opposition tothe bill were representatives fromthe medical community, countysheriffs, police chiefs and state’sattorneys.

Kristin Hendrickson told the

House panel approves open meetingrecordings while taking shots at media


A bill designed to allow therecording of public meetings wasapproved by the House Local Gov-ernment committee, but not be-fore representatives got a fewshots in about their mistreatmentby the media.

The bill, SB90, says that nopublic body should prevent therecording of a meeting as along asthe recording is “reasonable, obvi-ous, and not disruptive.” The billhas passed unanimously throughthe Senate and now goes to thefull House.

Sen. Ried Holien, R-Watertown,one of the bill’s sponsors, saidother legislators have asked aboutthe necessity for the bill. All leg-islative committee hearings andthe House and Senate sessions arebroadcast on the Internet. Manyare recorded by public television.

“It’s just second nature to us,”Holien said of having legislativemeetings recorded.

He explained that in the past 18months there have been multipleinstances of people being kickedout of local government meetingsfor using recording equipment orbeing told that they can’t use arecording device.

David Bordewyk, general man-ager of the South Dakota Newspa-per Association, spoke in favor ofthe bill, telling legislators that hisoffice often takes calls from news-paper reporters as well as mem-bers of the public about whetheror not they are allowed to recordpublic meetings.

Bordewyk called the legislationa “straightforward” appraisal ofthe right of reporters or membersof the public to record a publicmeeting.

Yvonne Taylor, representing theS.D. Municipal League, gave com-mittee members a letter from thecity of Groton which raised con-cerns about the bill. Taylor em-phasized to the committee thatthe Municipal League was nottaking a stand against SB90.

The Groton letter offered con-

ing to the comments she made atlegislative meetings in Pierre. Solisaid she gives up her right to pri-vacy every time she comes into theCapitol.

“It took me a little while to real-ize that,” Soli said.

The bill was passed by the com-mittee 11-1 with Rozum castingthe lone dissenting vote.

A related open government bill,SB73, was approved by the fullHouse on a 62-4 vote. The bill clar-ifies the meaning of an officialmeeting. According to the bill, anofficial meeting “is any meeting ofa quorum of a public body atwhich official business of thatpublic body is discussed or de-cided, or public policy is formu-lated, whether in person or bymeans of teleconference.”

The bill expands the definitionof teleconference to include anyaudio, video or electronic medium,including the Internet. Having al-ready been passed unanimouslyby the Senate, the bill now goes tothe governor.

cern about local experiences withrecordings at meetings that wereintrusive.

“I do want to stress that theseare open meetings,” Holien said.“Elected officials will adapt andlearn.”

Rep. Tona Rozum, R-Mitchell,said she was concerned aboutsomeone videotaping a meetingand using quotes out of context totell a story that was not true.

“We know we’re quoted out ofcontext,” Rozum said, noting therewas nothing in the bill to requirea full accounting of the quote.

“If you can get everyone to tellthe truth,” Taylor said, “this willbe quite a committee.”

“The mass media does this allthe time,” said Rep. Scott Craig,R-Rapid City, with short soundbites used by commentators totwist the words of elected officialsor candidates. “We can’t fix it.”

Rep. Karen Soli, D-Sioux Falls,recalled how surprised she waswhen she found out that con-stituents back home were listen-

Lawmaking can have a lighter sideBy Dana Hess

Community News ServiceMaking laws is serious busi-

ness, but that doesn’t mean thatlawmakers have to be serious allthe time. Here are a few examplesof the lighter side of the Legisla-ture.

Sen. Gary Cammack, chairmanof the Senate Agriculture and Nat-ural Resources Committee, offersa beefy warning to anyone whosecell phone goes off during a com-mittee meeting. Since Cammackis a beef producer, at the nextmeeting the offender has to pro-vide jerky for the entire commit-tee. That’s bad news for the forget-ful and good news for beef produc-ers since Cammack chairs threeSenate committees.

***Testifying before the Joint Ap-

propriations Committee, TourismSecretary Jim Hagen said hecouldn’t divulge the tourism num-bers for 2015 because Gov. DennisDaugaard reserved that duty forhimself at the annual tourism con-ference. Hagen did tell the com-mittee, “It was a very, very, verygood summer. You can tell it wasgood anytime I use three ‘verys.’”

***After hearing testimony from

Steve Pirner, secretary of the De-partment of Environment andNatural Resources, about assaultson states’ rights by federal agen-cies, Sen. Gary Cammack, R-Union Center, said it proved theold adage that “whiskey is fordrinking and water is for fightingover.”

***During an Appropriations Com-

mittee meeting, Sen. Bill Van Ger-pen, R-Tydall, asked Tourism Sec-retary Jim Hagen about the logis-tics of building a float for the RoseBowl Parade. “Did you raise allthose flowers?”

***After seeing DENR’s detailed

aerial photos of the Rapid Citylandfill, Sen. Mike Vehle, R-Mitchell, said the picture was soclear he was sure he was able topick out fellow committee memberSen. Bruce Rampelbert, R-Rapid

the advances in word processingprograms—brought out an inter-national flair when the votingstarted in the House Local Gov-ernment Committee. Instead ofvoting “aye,” some members triedout their language skills:

Rep. Sam Marty, R-Rapid City:“Oui.”

Rep. Karen Soli, D-Sioux Falls:“Ya.”

Rep. Kristin Conzet, R-RapidCity: “You betcha.”

***During testimony on a bill tak-

ing away the time limit on free col-lege tuition for veterans, Sen. BillVan Gerpen, R-Tyndall, said he al-ways wanted to be a historyteacher, but after his service in themilitary, life got in the way. Thisled to a comment from Rep. JimBolin, R-Canton, a retired teacher:“I’m glad I could live your dream.”

***In the midst of the debate about

the governor’s proposed half-centsales tax increase, Sen. Jeff Mon-roe, R-Pierre, ended his remarksby saying, “I’m losing 5,000friends no matter how I votehere.”

***After hearing proponent testi-

mony on a bill that would addrooms to the veterans’ home inHot Springs, House Health andHuman Services CommitteeChairman Scott Munsterman, R-Brookings, asked if there was anyopponent testimony, Munstermansmiled and winked when he said,“We have all day.” As if anyonewas going to testify against a billthat helps veterans.

***During testimony in the House

Local Government Committee onSB64, a bill to revise the votingauthority of an alderman, sponsorScott Fiegen, a Republican sena-tor from Dell Rapids, offered anamendment that overhauled alarge portion of the legislation.This caused Rep. Leslie Heine-mann, R-Flandreau to ask whatled to the extensive changes sincethe bill had already made itthrough the Senate. Fiegen ex-plained: “A lawyer looked at it.”

City.***

Lawmakers had fun with a billoffered by Sen. Betty Olson, R-Prairie City. Opening debate onthe Senate floor concerning a billto make Daylight Saving Timepermanent, Lt. Gov. Matt Michelsasked, “Does anybody really knowwhat time it is?”

***House members adopted as

their own Peyton Manning’s pen-chant for calling audibles with thesignal, “Omaha, Omaha,” using itin a variety of ways. Having hadprocedures questioned by Rep.Tim Rounds, R-Pierre, HouseSpeaker Dean Wink, R-Howes,said new legislative Rule 1022Omaha, Omaha, didn’t allow forquestions from Packer fans.

***During an informational pres-

entation to the House Agricultureand Natural Resources Commit-tee, Game, Fish and Parks Secre-tary Kelly Hepler showed a photoof himself with a coyote he killedon Jan. 1. “I sent that out to theSheepgrowers (association) saying‘Happy New Year,’” Hepler said.

***With a lobbyist for bankers of-

fering testimony before the SenateCommerce and Energy Commit-tee, Sen. Jim Bradford, D-PineRidge, couldn’t resist asking, “Doyou know what you say about fivebankers at the bottom of theocean? That’s a good start.”

***Welcoming fifth-graders from

Kennedy School in Pierre, Lt. Gov.Matt Micheals, asked, “Are wesmarter than a fifth-grader?”

***Offering testimony about his

bill to give the Legislature over-sight of any refugees SouthDakota would accept, Sen. BrockGreenfield, R-Clark, talked aboutthe lack of border security: “Wedon’t have border security to keepNorth Dakotans out.”

***A bill designed to keep munici-

palities from having to offer somedocuments in foreign languages—a requirement made obsolete by

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ANGUS BULLS & HEIFERS sell-ing St. Onge Livestock, March18th. Great calving ease forheifers, 2015 Grand ChampionJr. and Yearling Champions byDakota and Freedom, as well ashalf brothers, tested, super gen-tle, ready to go. Put pounds onyour next calf crop. Call SchaafAngus, 605-390-5535 or 605-515-1502. P13-3tc

FOR SALE: Thunder Creek 750gallon fuel tank, service shopspecial, air, generator, toolboxes, (2) oil tanks with pumps,40 gal./minute fuel pump. TerryBuchert, 859-2217 or 685-3430.

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automotiveFOR SALE: 2009 Kawasaki Voy-ager. Nice ride. Lots of powerwith the 1700cc. Very well takencare of. Only 18,500 miles.Ready to hit the road, contactme soon! $8,499. 605-350-2051,ask for Ron. P3-tfn

business & seRviCeTAX PREPARATION: Personaland small business. ContactEileen Stolley, Registered TaxReturn Preparer, Stolley Tax andBusiness Service, Kadoka 837-2320. K9-6tc

HILDEBRAND STEEL & CON-CRETE will do all your concreteconstruction jobs. Call us andwe will give you a quote. Office,837-2621, Rich’s cell, 431-2226,toll free, 877-867-4185. K32-tfn

O’CONNELL CONSTRUCTION,INC., PHILIP: Rock, Sand,Gravel (screened or crushed). Wecan deliver. Dams, dugouts,building sites. Our 40th year.Glenn or Trace, 859-2020.

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NEED A PLUMBER? Licensedplumbing contractor for all yourindoor plumbing and outdoorwater and sewer jobs. Call DaleKoehn, 441-1053 or leave a mes-sage at 837-0112. K38-tfn

WEST RIVER EXCAVATIONwill do all types of trenching,ditching and directional boringwork. See Craig, Diana, Saunteeor Heidi Coller, Kadoka, SD, orcall 837-2690. Craig cell: 390-8087, Sauntee cell: 390-8604;wrex@ gwtc.net K50-tfn

faRm & RanCHCOVER CROP SEED: Secureyour seed supply – radish,turnip and more. Custom mixesto suit your needs. Unbeatableprices, shipping available.Dakota’s Best Seed, 605-337-3318, [email protected],www.dakotasbestseedllc.com

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SEED PRODUCTION: Growerswanted for many different springseeded crops. Call Dakota’s BestSeed, 605-337-3318, [email protected], www.dakotasbest-seedllc.com PR26-4tc

FOR SALE: 1998 JD 9200 trac-tor, 4WD, 24 speed transmis-sion, 42” tires, big 1000 PTO, 4hyd. outlets, 3-point with quick-hitch, Case drain, Green Starready with JD Universal, autosteer with monitor and key card(brown boxes). Terry Buchert,859-2217 or 685-3430. P13-2tc

FOR SALE: Rope horse halterswith 10’ lead rope, $15 each.Call 685-3317 or 837-2917.

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TRAILER TIRES FOR SALE:14-ply, 235/85/16R. $170,mounted. Les’ Body Shop, 859-2744, Philip. P40-tfn

HelP WantedSUMMER BIOTECH POSI-TIONS at Badlands NP $11.30 to$15.49 per hour. Apply onlineonly at USAJOBS.gov. Applica-tions accepted from March 9 to22 for more information call433-5285 or 5264. WP29-2tc

CEDAR PASS LODGE, IN THESCENIC BADLANDS NAT’LPARK, HIRING FOR 2016 SEA-SON: April – October. CPL oper-ates a fast paced kitchen and islooking for all kitchen help /Cooks, prep-cooks, dishwashers,and kitchen help workers.Please apply on line at cedarpasslodge.com and or callSharon, HR Manager at 605-433-5460. P14-4tc

WAITRESSES WANTED: Stop inat The Steakhouse in Philip andtalk to Don Carley. P14-tfn

PHILIP HEALTH SERVICES –many job openings! Full timeand part time. More details atwww.philiphealthservices.com.Full Time benefit package avail-able at 30 hours per week(health, dental, life, vision). Drugtest and background check re-quired. EOE. Apply in person,email [email protected], or call 605-859-2511 andextension of the manager listed.Dietary: Evening Aide: Thurs-Sun, 11:30am-7:30pm. FT andPT Evening Cooks: 10:30am-6:45pm. FT or PT Morning Cook:5:00am-1:30pm. Contact Emilyat ext. 118. Maintenance: FullTime Maintenance position.Construction, trade or mechani-cal experience desired. ContactJennifer at ext. 191. Nursing:CNA/Nurse Aide. Training paid!please call Carmen at Ext. 161.Housekeeping: FT Laundry Aideneeded. Call Denise at Ext. 154.

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CEDAR PASS LODGE, IN THESCENIC BADLANDS NAT’LPARK, HIRING FOR 2016 SEA-SON: April – October. CPL iscurrently seeking a Retail Man-ager! Management/Lead, retailexperience, and customer serv-ice are required skills. Pleaseapply on line atcedarpasslodge.com and or callSharon, HR Manager at 605-433-5460. P14-4tc

KADOKA SUBWAY is looking foran outgoing, motivated, respon-sible team player who enjoysworking in a fast-paced environ-ment. We currently have anopening for a night shift sand-wich artist. This position is forevenings including week-ends.We offer competitive wages, paidtraining and advancement op-portunities. If you would like tobe a part of our team pleaseapply by logging on to mysub-waycareer.com and enter storenumber 59470 or stop by thestore to pick up an application.

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POSITION OPEN: JacksonCounty Highway Superintendentposition. Experience in roadmaintenance. Supervisory/ad-ministrative experience pre-ferred. Position open until filled.Salary DOEQ. Information 837-2410 or 837-2422, Fax 837-2447. K9-7tc

HELP WANTED: Looking forevening cook. Apply at Club 27or call 837-2241, wages dependson experience, Kadoka.

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HELP WANTED: JacksonCounty Highway DepartmentWorker. Experience in roadmaintenance preferred. CDL Pre-employment drug and alcoholscreening required. Applications/ resumés accepted. Information837-2410 or 837 - 2422, fax837-2447. K9-7tc

TECHS & MAINT. PERSONS:Need motivated technicians andshop general maintenance per-son. Excellent compensationpackage. 401K, paid vacationand holidays, profit sharing,medical insurance, productionbonuses. Climate controlledwork environment. Apply atGrossenburg Implement inPhilip. Will train the right per-son. P2-tfn

NOW HIRING FULL-TIME: Weare looking for a motivated indi-vidual for our sheetfed and webpress operation. Applicant mustbe detail-oriented and able towork under a deadline. Mechan-ical abilities a plus. Overtimeavailable certain times of theyear. For more information callDon or Beau at 859-2516, Rav-ellette Publications, Philip.

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Jobs WantedPERSON LOOKING FOR EM-PLOYMENT on a ranch or farmwith cattle or grain. Ken Ander-son, 608-214-0031, Monroe, WI.If no answer, leave message.

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Real estateOFFICE BUILDING: 919 MainSt., Kadoka, SD. $25,000. Willdo contract for deed, or rent onyearly lease, $200 monthly. CallTeddy Louise (cell) 307-855-5372. P12-4tp

HOME FOR SALE: 3 bdrm, 1.5baths, 3 heat sources, attachedshop/garage, partially fur-nished, one block from MainStreet in Kadoka, space includedfor expansion, $32,050 price ne-gotiable, call 605-840-0163,605-840-2533, 605-842-2533. K7-tfn

BUSINESS FOR SALE: Prof-itable, turn-key business in-cludes building and equipment.Excellent family business. PizzaEtc. in Philip. Price reduced to$100,000. 605-859-2365 or 175S. Center Ave., Kim or Vickie.

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WANTED: Ranch/farm with orwithout cattle and equipment,approximately 500 to 2,000acres located in South Dakota,house optional, private partycash transaction. Call Don, 413-478-0178. PR3-tfn

Classified PoliCyPLEASE READ your classifiedad the first week it runs. If yousee an error, we will gladly re-run your ad correctly. We ac-cept responsibility for the firstincorrect insertion only. Ravel-lette Publications, Inc. requestsall classifieds and cards ofthanks be paid for when ordered.A $2.00 billing charge will beadded if ad is not paid at thetime the order is placed. If an addoes not have an area code onthe phone number, it is a 605area code.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

GOLDEN EAGLE LOG HOMES will beat the Home Show in Rapid City March11th-13th, Rushmore Plaza Civic Cen-ter. See what is New 1-800-270-5025www.GoldenEagleLogHomes.com.

EMPLOYMENT

SEEKING MS PRINCIPAL; HS Princi-pal; Grade 6-12 Special EducationTeacher; HS Math teacher; HS Scienceteacher; Kindergarten teacher andThird Grade teacher for the Mobridge-Pollock School District 62-6 for the2016-2017 school year. Contact TimFrederick at 605-845-9204 for more in-formation. Certified Application andResume can be mailed to: Mobridge-Pollock School District 62-6; Attn: TimFrederick; 1107 1st Avenue East; Mo-bridge SD 57601. Open until filled.EOE.

RNs up to $45/hr., LPNs up to$37.50/hr., CNAs up to $22.50/hr.Free gas/weekly pay. $2000 Bonus.AACO Nursing Agency 1-800-656-4414Ext. 8.

BOWES CONSTRUCTION, Brookings,SD, Current Positions Open: TruckDrivers, Various Equipment Operators,Mechanic, Welder, Road Reclaimer,General Laborer. For complete detailsemail: [email protected] or call 605.693.3557.

PERKINS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OF-FICE accepting applications for adeputy sheriff eligibility list. An EOEPerkins County Sheriff’s Office PO Box234 Bison, SD 57620 605-244-5243.

CUSTER REGIONAL HOSPITAL andCuster Clinic are accepting applica-tions for RNs, LPNs, and Medical Assis-tants. New Graduates welcome! Comejoin our growing team in the beautifulsouthern Black Hills, Custer is a greatplace to live and enjoy the outdoors. Weare just a short distance from MountRushmore, Wind Cave National Park,Custer State Park, Jewel Cave NationalPark and many other outdoor attrac-tions. We offer competitive pay and ex-cellent benefits. Contact Human Re-sources at (605) 673-9418 for more in-formation or log onto www.regional-health.com to apply. EEOC/AA.

ELK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICTis seeking applications for a part-timesuperintendent for the 2016-2017school year. The Board of Education islooking for a highly motivated, creativeindividual, who can lead the district inthe education of its students. Submityour resume, documentation of appro-priate credentials and a letter of inter-est to Joann Boggs, School Board Pres-ident, 11181 Pleasant Valley Road,Edgemont, SD 57735 [email protected].

FOR SALE

PROM DRESS and wedding dress sale,buy your own tuxedo $99.00, good se-lection of sizes at The Hollywood Shop,Pierre, SD, 224-6222.

JOB OPPORTUNITY

LOOKING FOR A JOB? Exploring ca-reers? Come to the BBR Job Fair!Noon-6pm, Friday, March 11th at thePHS Fine Arts Building in Philip, SDwww.badlandsbadriver. com.

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WALL CITyCOUNCIL MEETING

COMMUNITy CENTERMEETING ROOM

FEBRUARy 18TH, 2016 6:30PM

Members Present: Marty Huether,Mayor; Rick Hustead, Councilman; DanHauk, Councilman; Gale Patterson,Councilman; Stan Anderson, Council-man via. Video; Jerry Morgan, Council-man

Others Present: Carolynn Anderson-Fi-nance Officer; Garrett Bryan-PublicWorks Director; Nancy Haigh-Penn. Co.Courant; Cindy Schuler – Wall ChamberDirector

Members Absent: Mike Anderson, Coun-cilman

(All action taken in the following minutescarried by unanimous vote unless other-wise stated.)

Motion by S Anderson, second by Haukto approve the agenda. Motion carried.

Motion by Patterson, second by Morganto approve the consent agenda. Motioncarried. „Minutes of February 4th City councilmeeting „Claims for City of Wall, Fire Dept.,Library and Cemetery „Budget report •Review Building Permits; VevaWernke – replace roof material on houseat 709 Hustead Street

Cindy Schuler addressed the council witha request from a group, Gold Wing RoadRiders Association. The group is sched-uled to host their annual motorcycle Rallyat the community center on August 25th-27th, 2016. They have already reservedmotel rooms for their event and will beplanning for 250 – 300 people in atten-dance. They are a non-profit organizationand therefore try to keep costs for theevent low, so those in attendance canspend their money doing things in thelocal area. The group was questioning ifthe City would be willing to reduce thecost for renting the community center orwaiving the fee all together. CouncilmanS Anderson asked if the Chamber wouldbe willing to cost share the rental fee forthem. Schuler indicated she had nottalked with the board on this but felt theChamber budget would only be able togive $75 to help with the cost. Council-man Hustead felt there should be a costshare and it could be an incentive forthem to return each year. Motion by Pat-terson, second by S Anderson for theCity to waive the cost of $150.00 towardthe rental fee for the Gold Wing Riders.Motion carried. Schuler explained theywould like to have a parade with theirmotorcycles during one of the eveningswhile they are here. They would like totravel down Main Street and over toPrairie Village. It was suggested thatpossibly the center parking on MainStreet could be blocked off and to checkwith the Fire Dept. and others to helpwith blocking traffic at the intersection ofSixth Avenue and Glenn Street.

Motion by Hustead, second by Hauk toapprove Resolution 16-02; signing EDDdocuments. Motion carried.

RESOLUTION 16-02

A RESOLUTION INSUPPORT OF ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENTCOMMITTEE

AUTHORIZATION

WHEREAS, the Wall CityCouncil has approved the hir-ing of an Economic Develop-ment Director; and

WHEREAS, the Wall CityCouncil has appointed a com-mittee to work with the Direc-tor on the formation of policies,procedures and strategies;and

WHEREAS, the Mayor is amember of this committee andis given authorization annuallyby the City Council to signdocuments on behalf of theCity; and

NOW THEREFORE BE ITRESOLVED, the Wall CityCouncil shall authorize theMayor and the Economic De-velopment committee to exe-cute Economic Developmentdocuments on behalf of theCity.

Dated this 18th day of Febru-ary, 2016.

____________Marty Huether,Mayor

________________Carolynn Anderson,Finance Officer

Mayor Huether commented he met withBlaise Emerson and Cheyenne McGrifffor ideas on the strategic planning com-mittee meeting scheduled for February27th. Blaise will be attending the meetingto help with making it more productive.

Motion by Patterson, second by S Ander-son to approve the change in the PolicyHandbook for giving ‘personal leave’ toan employee that is exempt from over-time and comp time. Motion carried.

There was discussion on proposed waterrate increases. Finance Officer (FO) An-derson shared data for the last five yearson utility increases. Mayor Huether ques-tioned if there was a change to a Satellitesystem for reading meters, if payrollmoney could be saved with the publicworks needing to spend less time in thewater department. FO Anderson ex-plained the public works payroll is basedon each employee’s job description andwhere the majority of their time should bespent. Public Works Director (PWD)Bryan commented that high usage is de-tected immediately and water leaks canbe tracked sooner with the Satellite Sys-tem. It was the consensus of the council

for the water committee to meet andgather more information and cost esti-mates for the Satellite System to bringback to the next meeting.

FO Anderson explain the District meetingwill be March 23rd in Hill City and if any-one wishes to attend, she will need toknow by the March 8th meeting to be in-cluded on the bill list. Anderson com-mented this is one of the Board meetingsthat she serves as President on, andwould like to have approval to attend.Motion by Patterson, second by Hauk toapprove Anderson attending the Districtmeeting on March 23rd. Motion carried.

PWD Bryan shared a completed list onthe condition of all property owners’ curbstops. The list has been organized bystreet name rather than by propertyowner name; since people move. Bryancommented there may be a need to pur-chase a locater to help find some of themissing curb stops. Mayor Huether saidhe may be able to get a locater that canbe used. Councilman Hustead felt the re-port was very helpful and there has beenprevious discussion on how the City mayhelp with the cost of replacing curb stops,which by ordinance is the propertyowner’s responsibility. Bryan commentedthe pickup was delivered on Wednesday.

FO Anderson stated the Geiger Architectfirm are reviewing the blueprints of thecommunity center and would be ready tomeet with the committee within a coupleof weeks. It was the consensus of thecommittee to plan for a meeting onWednesday, March 16th at 10:00am.

FO Anderson reported no applicationswere received for the community centermaintenance position and there would bea need for executive session.

Motion by Hustead, second by Pattersonto move into Executive Session for thepurpose of discussing legal/personnel is-sues according to SDCL 1-25-2 at7:39pm. Motion carried.

Mayor Huether declared the meeting outof executive session at 8:12pm.

Motion by Patterson, second by Morganto hire Carolynn Anderson as the tempo-rary custodian for the community centerfor $15.00 an hour. Motion carried.

The next City Council meeting will beTuesday, March 8th at 6:30pm, with thepersonnel meeting beginning at 5:30pm.

Mayor Huether declared the meeting ad-journed at 8:14pm.

____________Marty Huether,Mayor

________________Carolynn M. Anderson,Finance Officer

Published March 10, 2016, at the totalapproximate cost of $78.24.

WALL SCHOOLBOARD OFEDUCATION

SPECIAL BOARD MEETINGUNAPPROVED MINUTES

FEBRUARy 25, 2016

The Board of Education of the WallSchool District #51-5 met in special ses-sion on Thursday, February 25, 2016, inthe Library of Wall School. Memberspresent: Chairperson Eisenbraun, Vice-Chairperson Cordes, Members Ander-son, Kjerstad, Bielmaier, Leonard, andSimons. Also attending were Superin-tendent Garnos, Business ManagerMohr, and Kent Anderson. ChairpersonEisenbraun called the meeting to orderat 7:33 a.m.

All action taken in the following minutescarried by unanimous vote unless other-wise stated.

Business Manager Mohr took a roll callof the board members. Member Simonswas absent.

The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.

5125. Cordes moved to approve theagenda. Seconded by Anderson. Mo-tion carried.

The Board looked at estimated cost onthe different designs that have been dis-cussed. There were ideas and discus-sion on ways to possibly do the projectcheaper.

Member Simons arrived.

Superintendent/Principal Garnos calledTyler Walker, Geiger Architecture, andput the call on conference. Walkerhelped explain the crawl space thatwould be present with the drilled pier op-tion and also went over the engineersrecommendations on engineered fill ordrilled piers. The projected numberswere discussed. A prospective timelinewas estimated.

After the conference call, the Board dis-cussed all options and information.

5126. Cordes moved to approve draw-ing C2-R – Enhanced Concept 1A includ-ing an alternative bid of using 4ft of blockwith the remainder of the walls beingframed and sided with metal siding. Sec-onded by Anderson. A roll call vote wastaken. Yes – Anderson, Cordes, Kjer-stad, and Leonard. No – Eisenbraun,Bielmaier, and Simons. Motion carried.

With no further business brought to theboard, Chairperson Eisenbraun declaredthe meeting adjourned at 9:27 a.m.

Respectfully submitted by Niki Mohr,Business Manager.

______________Scot Eisenbraun,Chairperson

________________Niki A. Mohr,

Business Manager


SCHOOL LANDLEASE AUCTION

A school land lease auction will be heldat the Pennington County AdministrationBuilding, Commissioners Room, 130Kansas City Street in Rapid City, SD onMarch 24, 2016 at 10:00 AM (MT).

A list of tracts available for lease can beobtained at the Pennington County Audi-tor’s Office, by visitingsdpubliclands.com, or by contacting MikeCornelison, Office of School & PublicLands, 500 E Capitol Avenue, Pierre, SD57501-5070 or phone (605)773-4172.Disabled individuals needing assistanceshould contact the Office of School andPublic Lands at least 48 hours in ad-vance of the auction to make any neces-sary arrangements.

Published February 25, March 3, 10 &17, 2016, at the total approximate cost of$30.69.

NOTICE OFDEADLINE

FOR FILINGNOMINATING PETITIONS

The deadline for filing nominating peti-tions is March 29, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. If apetition is mailed by registered mail byMarch 29, 2016, at 5:00 p.m., it shall beconsidered filed.

Nominating petitions for the offices ofPennington County Commissioner – 4year term (District 2, District 4); Penning-ton County States Attorney – 4 year term;Pennington County Treasurer - 4 yearterm; Delegate to the Republican PartyState Convention (3); RepublicanPrecinct Committeeman (1 per precinct);Republican Precinct Committeewoman(1 per precinct); shall be filed in the officeof the Pennington County Auditor locatedin the Pennington County AdministrationBuilding at 130 Kansas City St, Ste 230,Rapid City, SD 57701 between the hoursof 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., local time.

Nominating petitions for the offices of USSenate – 6 year term; US Representative– 2 year term; State Senate – 2 yearterm (Legislative Districts 27, 29, 30, 32,

33, 34 and 35); and State House – 2 yearterm (Legislative Districts 27, 29, 30, 32,33, 34 and 35); shall be filed in the officeof the Secretary of State, State CapitolBuilding, Pierre, SD 57501 between thehours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., CentralTime Zone (CST).

Julie A. PearsonPennington County Auditor

Published March 10 & 17, 2016, at thetotal approximate cost of $27.30.

NOTICE OFMEETING

OF LOCAL REVIEW BOARD

Notice is hereby given that the governingbody, sitting as a Review Board for theCity of Wall, Pennington County, SouthDakota, will meet at the Wall communitycenter meeting room in said taxing juris-diction on Monday, the 21st day ofMarch, 2016, for the purpose of review-ing and correcting the assessment ofsaid taxing district for the year 2016.

All persons considering themselves ag-grieved by said assessment are required

to notify the clerk of the local board nolater than Thursday March 17th, 2016 at4:00pm. The clerk’s office is located at501 Main Street, Wall, SD.

Carolynn AndersonFinance OfficerCity of Wall


PENO TOWNSHIP #9

BOARD OF EQUALIZATION

Peno Township #9 will meet as aBoard of Equalization Monday, March 21,2016, at the Rick Johnson residence, at7:00 p.m., and through March 25, asneeded. Appeal forms must be returned to theclerk by Thursday, March 17, 2016.

Kay Sieler,Treasurer


Public NoticesMarch 10, 2016 • Pennington County Courant 11

ANNUAL REPORT FOR PENNINGTON COUNTY

AS OF AND FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2015

GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS--MODIFIED ACCRUAL BASIS

PCCCE Other TotalRoad and Bridge Accumulated Capital Governmental Governmental

General Fund Fund Building Projects Fund Funds Funds

Beginning Balance ......................................$14,459,399.21...........$13,284,338.69............$5,783,153.63.............$2,640,096.26.............$1,254,746.85...............$37,421,734.64Revenues and Other Sources (minor level):

Taxes:Current Property Taxes ..........................$28,599,182.81............$1,671,099.95.............$4,952,816.31 ....................$0.00 ....................$1,221,376.43...............$36,444,475.50Delinquent Property Taxes .......................$109,018.46.................$12,858.43..................$13,175.76 ......................$0.00 .......................$6,480.92 .......................$141,533.57Penalties and Interest ...............................$54,685.67 ...................$5,790.14 ....................$8,242.41 .......................$0.00 .......................$3,015.53 .........................$71,733.75Telephone Tax (Outside).............................$5,172.03 .......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...............................$5,172.03Mobile Home Tax.......................................$68,541.45 ...................$7,515.81 ...................$11,464.04.......................$0.00 .......................$3,498.25 .........................$91,019.55Tax Deed Revenue ........................................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00......................................$0.00Other Taxes ...............................................$77,260.09 .....................$74.33 .....................$13,331.78 ......................$0.00 .......................$1,357.34 .........................$92,023.54

Licenses and Permits .................................$178,444.99................$140,451.42 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ......................$32,550.00 ......................$351,446.41Intergovernmental Revenue:Federal Grants .........................................$852,233.13 .....................$0.00 .....................$775,238.78 .....................$0.00 .....................$160,749.24 ..................$1,788,221.15Federal Shared Revenue ..........................$98,823.59.................$275,385.82 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ......................$39,015.10 ......................$413,224.51Federal Payments in Lieu of Taxes.........$1,476,352.00 ....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00........................$1,476,352.00State Grants .............................................$267,400.00................$461,740.81 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$729,140.81State Shared Revenue:...........................$1,089,829.92.............$6,853,250.07 ....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ....................$1,262,820.01.................$9,205,900.00State Payments in Lieu of Taxes....................$0.00 ..........................$19.79 ..........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00....................................$19.79Other Payments in Lieu of Taxes ............$20,230.15 ......................$0.00 .......................$3,503.48 .......................$0.00 .........................$355.76...........................$24,089.39Other Intergovernmental Revenue ...........$191,312.89 .....................$0.00 .....................$410,412.42 .....................$0.00 ......................$87,035.62 ......................$688,760.93

Charges for Goods and Services:General Government ..............................$2,354,563.10 ....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ......................$68,023.30 ...................$2,422,586.40Public Safety ..........................................$11,099,865.26 ...................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ....................$1,894,038.18...............$12,993,903.44Public Works .................................................................................$109,593.83 .....................$0.00....................................................................................................$109,593.83Health and Welfare...................................$344,738.31 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$344,738.31Culture and Recreation ..................................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00......................................$0.00Urban and Economic Development...........$50,116.86.......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 .............................$50,116.86Conservation of Natural Resources .........$132,439.97 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$132,439.97Other Charges...........................................$42,349.01 ......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00.............................$42,349.01

Fines and Forfeits:Fines...........................................................$7,440.99 .......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 .......................$2,147.00 ...........................$9,587.99Costs ..........................................................$7,432.07 .......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...............................$7,432.07Forfeits ...........................................................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00......................................$0.00

Miscellaneous Revenue and Other Sources:Investment Earnings...................................$5,820.93 ...................$10,981.28...................$8,206.47 .....................$257.41 .......................$908.31...........................$26,174.40Rentals .......................................................$1,200.00 .......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...............................$1,200.00Special Assessments .................................$2,338.60 .......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...............................$2,338.60Contributions and Donations ....................$281,000.00 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$281,000.00Refund of Prior Year's Expenditures..........$20,362.80 ......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ..........................$17.01............................$20,379.81Other Miscellaneous Revenue ..................$19,463.83 ...................$2,872.66 .......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 .......................$3,690.23 .........................$26,026.72General Long Term Debt Issued......................... ..............................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ....................$9,997,026.55 ....................$0.00........................$9,997,026.55Insurance Proceeds ...................................$1,630.25 ....................$2,034.35.........................................................................................................................................$3,664.60Sale of County Property ............................$10,522.09..................$30,264.03.................$200,000.00 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$240,786.12

Total Revenue and Other Sources..............$47,469,771.25............$9,583,932.72.............$6,396,391.45.............$9,997,283.96.............$4,787,078.23...............$78,234,457.61

Expenditures and Other Uses (subfunction level):Legislative .............................................$882,277.35 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$882,277.35Elections ................................................$396,639.11......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$396,639.11Judicial System .....................................$306,854.24 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$306,854.24Financial Administration .......................$1,414,591.66 ....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00........................$1,414,591.66Legal Services .....................................$6,537,503.95 ....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00........................$6,537,503.95Other Administration ............................$6,874,895.48 ....................$0.00 .....................$779,380.02.................$69,825.27..................$27,599.43 ...................$7,751,700.20Law Enforcement ................................$27,392,889.80...................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 .....................$454,582.18 ................$27,847,471.98Protective and Emergency Services......$115,476.57......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ....................$3,824,115.94 .................$3,939,592.51Highways and Bridges..............................................................$1,538,418.23 ....................$0.00.................................................................................................$1,538,418.23Sanitation .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Transportation ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Water System...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Other Public Works ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Economic Assistance ...........................$1,641,441.60 ....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 .........................$823.10 .........................$0.00........................$1,642,264.70Health Assistance..................................$195,848.00 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$195,848.00Social Services.........................................................................................................................................................................................$45,000.00 ........................$45,000.00Mental Health Services .........................$640,540.90 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$640,540.90Culture.....................................................................................................................................................................................................$490,426.00 .....................$490,426.00Recreation ..............................................$19,446.00 ......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 .....................$180,791.00 .....................$200,237.00Soil Conservation ..................................$587,642.78 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 .......................$5,000.00 .......................$592,642.78Water Conservation ....................................$0.00 ......................$45,018.00 ......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00.............................$45,018.00Urban Development ..............................$638,632.41 .....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00...........................$638,632.41Economic Development .........................$35,000.00 ......................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00.............................$35,000.00Intergovernmental Expenditures ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Debt Service..........................................$740,997.94 .....................$0.00 ....................$4,250,529.34 ..............$142,800.00................$464,379.34 ..................$5,598,706.62Payments to Local Education Agencies ...........................................................................................................................................................$ ...........................................0.00Capital Outlay........................................$727,337.19 ..............$7,298,964.18 ....................$0.00 ....................$4,111,067.74................$77,754.62 .................$12,215,123.73Discount on Bonds Issued ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Payments to Refunded Debt........................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00

Escrow Agent ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Total Expenditures and Other Uses ............$49,148,014.98............$8,882,400.41.............$5,029,909.36 .............$4,324,516.11 .............$5,569,648.51...............$72,954,489.37

Transfers In (Out)........................................$(2,713,170.16)............$1,097,992.72 ...............$(5,929.51) ...............$1,000,000.00 ..............$621,106.95 ................................$0.00Special Items (specify) .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Extraordinary Items (specify) ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Changes in Nonspendable ...............................................................$(127,947.37) .................................................................................................................................$127,947.37

Increase/Decrease in Fund Balance...........$(4,391,413.89)............$1,799,525.03.............$1,360,552.58.............$6,672,767.85 .............$(161,463.33) .................$5,279,968.24

Ending Balance:Nonspendable ............................................$521,482.22...............$1,313,642.11 ....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00........................$1,835,124.33Restricted.........................................................$0.00 ....................$1,902,555.36.............$6,987,876.07 .............$8,312,864.11...............$783,970.32 ................$17,987,265.86Committed.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$0.00Assigned ...................................................$7,098,024.00 ............$11,739,718.88..............$155,830.14 ..............$1,000,000.00 ..............$309,313.20 ................$20,302,886.22Unassigned ...............................................$2,448,479.10 ....................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00 ...........................$0.00........................$2,448,479.10

Governmental Long-term Debt ............................................................................................................................................................................................................$63,930,712.60

PROPRIETARY FUNDS--ACCRUAL BASIS

Medical Self-

Insurance Fund

Beginning Balance .....................................................................................$797,288.08Revenues................................................................................................$5,927,963.60Expenses ................................................................................................$4,794,038.81Transfers In (Out) ..................................................................................................$0.00

Ending Balance:Restricted ..........................................................................................................$0.00Unrestricted..........................................................................................$1,206,415.43

Long-term Debt .....................................................................................................$0.00

The preceding financial data does not include fudiciary funds orcomponent units. Information pertaining to those activities may beobtained by contacting the County Auditor at (605) 394-2153.

*Unaudited 2015 Financial Publication

Published March 10, 2016, at the total approximate cost of $330.15.

Pennington County Courant • March 10, 2016

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TUESDAY, MAR. 22: SPECIAL FEEDER CATTLE SALEFEATURING BANGS VACCINATED HEIFERS & REGULARCATTLE SALETUESDAY, MAR. 29: REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, APR. 5: SPECIAL STOCK COW, BRED HEIFER

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FEATURING BANGS VACCINATED HIEFERS & REGULARCATTLE SALETUESDAY, APR. 19: SPECIAL STOCK COW, BRED

HEIFER, & PAIR SALE & REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, APR. 26: SPECIAL FEEDER CATTLE, STOCK

COW, BRED HEIFER, & PAIR SALE & REGULAR CATTLESALETUESDAY, MAY 3: BULL DAY & REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, MAY 10: SPECIAL FEEDER CATTLE SALE &

REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, MAY 17: SPECIAL PAIRS, STOCK COW, &

BRED HEIFER SALE & REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, MAY 24: SPECIAL PAIR SALE & REGULAR

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TUESDAY, MAY 31: NO SALETUESDAY, JUNE 7: SPECIAL FEEDER CATTLE SALE &

REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, JUNE 14: REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, JUNE 21: REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, JUNE 28: DRY COW SPECIALTUESDAY, JULY 5: NO SALETUESDAY, JULY 12: REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, JULY 19: REGULAR CATTLE SALETUESDAY, JULY 26: SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY YEARLING

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12:00MTTUESDAY, MAY 3: BULL DAY.

UPCOMING HORSE SALES:TUESDAY, MAR. 15: REGULAR HORSE SALE FOLLOWING THE

CATTLE SALE

TUES., MARCH 8, 2016A real big run of feeders and a light run ofweigh-ups. Real big crowd of buyers for thesale and a good market.FEEDER CATTLE:JOHN, DEDE & JUSTIN LONG - UNION CENTER85 .................................BLK & BWF STRS 639# ................... $190.00 86 .................................BLK & BWF STRS 634# ................... $190.00 84 .................................BLK & BWF STRS 631# ................... $190.00 109 ...............................BLK & BWF STRS 546# ................... $208.50 78 .................................BLK & BWF STRS 732# ................... $168.25 HUETHER RANCH - INTERIOR85...........................................RED HFRS 673# ................... $176.00 CHUCK & ELEANOR ZUCCARO - MIDLAND40...........................................RED HFRS 672# ................... $175.00 HAMMERSTROM & WEST - NEW UNDERWOOD69............................................BLK STRS 491# ................... $219.00 13............................................BLK STRS 377# ................... $227.00 111 .........................................BLK HFRS 467# ................... $201.00 VOLMER RANCH - OWANKA63............................................BLK STRS 573# ................... $198.75 ED THOMPSON - STURGIS79............................................BLK STRS 627# ................... $187.00 75............................................BLK STRS 756# ................... $165.25 75............................................BLK STRS 745# ................... $165.25 75............................................BLK STRS 763# ................... $164.50 SHORTY JONES RANCH - MIDLAND82............................................BLK STRS 764# ................... $164.75 82............................................BLK STRS 763# ................... $164.75 81............................................BLK STRS 757# ................... $164.75 82............................................BLK STRS 748# ................... $166.50 82 .................................RED & BLK STRS 758# ................... $164.50 92............................................BLK STRS 655# ................... $180.25 92............................................BLK STRS 656# ................... $180.25 15 .................................RED & BLK STRS 644# ................... $173.00 JEFF & YOLONDA LONG - ENNING85............................................BLK STRS 679# ................... $179.50 76............................................BLK STRS 770# ................... $164.00 80 ...........................................BLK HFRS 637# ................... $166.50 JUNE HUSTON - MIDLAND21............................................BLK STRS 574# ................... $194.50 32 ...........................................BLK HFRS 558# ................... $182.50 JIM STRATMAN - BOX ELDER28............................................BLK STRS 583# ................... $198.50 32 ................................BLK & BWF HFRS 532# ................... $179.00 JOHN CAPP RANCH INC. - FAITH92 ................................BLK & BWF HFRS 641# ................... $168.50 93 ................................BLK & BWF HFRS 641# ................... $168.50 27 ................................BLK & BWF HFRS 556# ................... $178.75 18................................RWF & BWF HFRS 567# ................... $175.00 CLIFF POSS - PHILIP23 ...........................................BLK HFRS 602# ................... $171.00 ROCKY WILLIAMS - PHILIP27 ...........................................BLK HFRS 600# ................... $171.50 TRIPLE T RANCH - RAPID CITY17................................CHAR & BLK STRS 501# ................... $201.00 11.................................RED & BLK HFRS 529# ................... $173.00 AARON MANSFIELD - KADOKA55 ...........................................BLK HFRS 614# ................... $170.00 7 .............................................BLK HFRS 566# ................... $174.00 ROBERT THOMSEN - LONG VALLEY15................................CHAR & BLK STRS 550# ................... $197.50 24 ...........................................BLK HFRS 508# ................... $181.00 OBIE BRUNSKILL - PHILIP82............................................BLK STRS 737# ................... $167.50

BUCHHOLZ & RISLOV - PHILIP75 ...........................................BLK HFRS 702# ................... $157.50 75 ...........................................BLK HFRS 691# ................... $161.00 75 ...........................................BLK HFRS 685# ................... $161.00 88 ...........................................BLK HFRS 634# ................... $165.00 CLYDE & CONNIE ARNESON - ELM SPRINGS33 ................................RWF & BWF STRS 674# ................... $173.50 17 ................................BLK & BWF HFRS 580# ................... $175.50 NEIL FANNING ANGUS - MARTIN59............................................BLK STRS 791# ................... $158.50 11............................................BLK STRS 1006# ................. $138.00 10 ...........................................BLK HFRS 623# ................... $163.00 15 ...........................................BLK HFRS 512# ................... $176.00 BILL WELLER - KADOKA41 ...........................................BLK HFRS 656# ................... $165.50 11 ...........................................BLK HFRS 560# ................... $175.00 STEVE MCDANIEL - MIDLAND20 .................................RED & BLK STRS 683# ................... $172.50 14 .................................RED & BLK STRS 533# ................... $203.00 WILLIAMS & PALMER - KADOKA14................................CHAR & BLK STRS 590# ................... $176.00 50 ...............................CHAR & BLK HFRS 568# ................... $174.00 JAMES TIMMONS - WHITE OWL10 .................................BLK & BWF STRS 673# ................... $174.00 WES & DUSTIN REEVES - OWANKA14 .................................BLK & BWF STRS 564# ................... $191.00 23 ...........................................BLK HFRS 525# ................... $178.00 TODD & NANCY COLLINS - STURGIS32 ................................BLK & BWF HFRS 663# ................... $166.00 GABE GROPPER - LONG VALLEY37 .................................RED & BLK STRS 741# ................... $164.00 29 ...........................................BLK HFRS 740# ................... $144.00 22...........................................RED HFRS 721# ................... $145.00 JAMES PRESTON - HERMOSA14............................................BLK STRS 659# ................... $175.00 KETELSEN FAMILY - UNION CENTER38 ...........................................BLK HFRS 673# ................... $158.00 SHAUN MCKAY - WALL12..........................................BLK BULLS 535# ................... $180.00 GLEN & JANET LONG - ENNING30 ...........................................BLK HFRS 595# ................... $172.00 DENNIS & MIKE SIELER - QUINN49 ...........................................BLK HFRS 583# ................... $176.50 10 ...........................................BLK HFRS 484# ................... $183.00 CHUCK CARSTENSEN - PHILIP18 .................................BLK & BWF STRS 669# ................... $171.00 6 .................................CHAR & BLK STRS 563# ................... $190.00 ROXY RICHARDSON - LONG VALLEY26...........................................RED HFRS 677# ................... $151.00 RICHARD JOBGEN - KADOKA22 ...........................................BLK HFRS 622# ................... $165.00 PATSY TINES - WASTA6 .............................................BLK HFRS 632# ................... $160.50 HEINRICH RANCH - CAPUTA9...................................BLK & BWF STRS 885# ................... $146.00 19 ................................BLK & BWF HFRS 797# ................... $140.50 5 ..................................BLK & BWF HFRS 639# ................... $152.00 GERAD & MEGAN JULSON - WALL13 ...........................................BLK HFRS 600# ................... $164.00 A CONSIGNMENT37 ...........................................BLK HFRS 620# ................... $164.50 BILL ADRIAN - WHITE RIVER48................................CHAR & BLK STRS 383# ................... $215.00 46 ...............................CHAR & BLK HFRS 364# ................... $191.00

TRASK - PETERSON ANGUS BULLS: ............ ............................$2948

WEIGH-UPS:ROXY RICHARDSON - LONG VALLEY1 .............................................RED COW 1225# ................... $92.00 1 .............................................RED COW 1205# ................... $88.00 1 .......................................RED COWETTE 1050# ................. $102.00 CHUCK & JANET VANDERMAY - KADOKA7 ...........................................BLK HFRTS 929# ................... $134.00 JEFF WILLERT - BELVIDERE1..............................................BLK COW 1285# ................... $89.00 CLYDE & CONNIE ARNESON - ELM SPRINGS1 ............................................BWF HFRT 1045# ................. $123.00 2 ..................................BLK & BWF HFRS 888# ................... $130.00 MURDOCK ARTHUR - QUINN1.............................................BLK HFRT 1050# ................. $120.00 CASEY DOUD - MIDLAND3...........................................RED HFRTS 917# ................... $115.00 LENDEN KJERSTAD - CREIGHTON1.............................................BLK HFRT 975# ................... $137.00 1.............................................BLK HFRT 1105# ................. $114.00 1.............................................BLK HFRT 885# ................... $129.00 1 .......................................BLK COWETTE 1080# ................. $106.00 TRAVIS & JONE ENRIGHT - UNION CENTER12 ...........................................BLK HFRS 1018# ................. $136.50 DEL BROST - MURDO15 ....................................BLK COWETTES 1137# ................. $100.00 8 ...........................................BLK HFRTS 991# ................... $109.00 MIKE NOTEBOOM - PHILIP1 .............................................BLK BULL 2155# ................. $102.50 JW CATTLE CO - BELVIDERE1 ............................................RED HFRT 1010# ................. $113.00 JAYDEN CARRIER - HERMOSA1 .......................................BLK COWETTE 1245# ................. $105.00 NATHAN RIGGINS - KADOKA1 .......................................BLK COWETTE 1255# ................. $104.00 CJ & L LIVESTOCK - HERMOSA1 .............................................BLK BULL 1720# ................. $102.50 BILL WELLER - KADOKA1 .............................................RED COW 1275# ................... $88.00 1..............................................BLK COW 1210# ................... $83.00 3 ............................................BLK COWS 1405# ................... $77.00 2 ......................................BLK COWETTES 1195# ................. $107.00 3 ...........................................BLK HFRTS 1047# ................. $126.00 2 ...........................................BLK HFRTS 1053# ................. $116.00 MORRIS JONES - MIDLAND1..............................................BLK COW 1230# ................... $86.00 1 .............................................RED COW 1305# ................... $79.50 A CONSIGNMENT1..............................................BLK COW 1345# ................... $85.00 AARON MANSFIELD - KADOKA1 .............................................BWF COW 1290# ................... $83.00 2 ...........................................BLK HFRTS 1008# ................. $135.00 1.............................................BLK HFRT 1060# ................. $125.00 GENE FORTUNE - INTERIOR20 ..........................................BLK COWS 1354# ................... $79.00 1 .......................................BLK COWETTE 1240# ................... $91.00 ROGER & KATHY PETERSON - PHILIP1..............................................BLK COW 1315# ................... $79.00 KETELSEN FAMILY TRUST - UNION CENTER1 .............................................BWF COW 1485# ................... $78.50 1..............................................BLK COW 1395# ................... $77.00 1 .......................................BLK COWETTE 1165# ................... $98.00 1 .......................................BLK COWETTE 1120# ................... $97.00 1 .......................................BLK COWETTE 1195# ................... $94.00 2 ...........................................BLK HFRTS 1058# ................. $113.00 STEPHEN RIGGINS - KADOKA1 .......................................BLK COWETTE 1175# ................. $105.00

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todd Sieler

LAKE CREEKTOWNSHIP #6


Lake Creek Township #6 will meet asa Board of Equalization on Monday,March 21, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. at theNathan Kjerstad home. Appeal forms must be returned to theclerk by March 17, 2016.

Heather Nelson,Clerk


NOTICE OFVACANCy

AND FILING DEADLINEWEST RIVER WATER

DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

The following offices will become vacantdue to the expiration of the present termsof office of the elective directors or va-cancy in director areas:

DIRECTOR 2: Representing the cities ofKadoka, Cottonwood, and Belvidere inJackson County; Grandview II, Wall,Jewett, and Weta townships in JacksonCounty; the cities of Quinn and Wall inPennington County; Fairview, LakeCreek, Lake Flat, Wasta, Lake Hill, andQuinn townships in Pennington County;and Northwest Jackson and NortheastJackson Unorganized Territories in Jack-son County. FOUR YEAR TERM.

DIRECTOR 4: Representing the cities ofDraper and Murdo in Jones County;Pratt, Rose, Vivian, Bailey, Pleasant, andRex townships in Lyman County; Muss-man, Buffalo, Draper, Dunkel, Kolls, Vir-gil, and South Creek townships in JonesCounty; Central Lyman, East Lyman, andWest Lyman Unorganized Territories inLyman County; Rich Valley, CentralJones, and North Jones UnorganizedTerritories in Jones County; and the citiesof Presho and Kennebec in LymanCounty. FOUR YEAR TERM.

DIRECTOR 5: Representing the cities ofOacoma and Reliance in Lyman County;Oacoma township in Lyman County; andEast Lyman and Lower Brule Unorgan-ized Territories in Lyman County. TERMEXPRIES DECEMBER 31, 2018.

Nominating petitions may be obtainedMonday through Friday from the follow-ing offices between the hours of:

8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at Secretaryof State’s office & County Auditor’s of-

fice8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at West River

Water Development District office

(a) Secretary of StateState Capitol, Suite 204500 E. CapitolPierre, SD 57501Phone No. 773-3537

(b) West River Water DevelopmentDistrictPO Box 407307 Main StreetMurdo, SD 57559-0407Phone No. 669-2931

(c) All local County Auditor’s offices

The petition must be filed with the Sec-retary of State’s office no earlier than the1st day of January, 2016, and no laterthan 5:00 p.m. CT, Tuesday, March 29,2016, for the primary election. Petitionswhich are mailed by REGISTERED ORCERTIFIED MAIL prior to 5:00 p.m. CT,March 29, 2016, the last day to file, willbe considered timely filed.

Jake Fitzgerald, ManagerWest River Water Development District


NOTICE OFMEETING

OF LOCAL REVIEW BOARD

Notice is hereby given that the governingbody, sitting as a Review Board for theTown of Wasta, Pennington County,South Dakota, will meet at the Wastacommunity building in said taxing juris-diction on Monday, the 21st day ofMarch, 2016, for the purpose of review-ing and correcting the assessment ofsaid taxing district for the year 2016.

All persons considering themselves ag-grieved by said assessment are requiredto notify the clerk of the local board nolater than Thursday March 17th, 2016 at4:00pm. The clerk’s office is located at401 South Blvd West, Wall, SD.

Niki MohrFinance OfficerTown of Wasta


NOTICE OFHEARING

BEFORE THE PENNINGTONCOUNTy PLANNING AND ZONING

COMMISSION AND THEPENNINGTON COUNTy BOARD

OF COMMISSIONERS

Notice is hereby given that the followingpetitioners have applied to the Penning-ton County Planning Board of Commis-sioners under the provisions of the Pen-nington County Zoning Ordinance as fol-lows:

Thomas and Janeane Price have appliedto amend the Pennington County Com-prehensive Plan to change the FutureLand Use from Planned Unit Develop-ment Sensitive to Suburban ResidentialDistrict located on That Portion of Lot 1,T and J Price Subdivision located in theN1/2N1/2SE1/4 of Section 1, T2S, R5E,BHM, Pennington County, South Dakota,12989 Old Hill Road, in accordance withSections 208, 213, and 508 of the Pen-nington County Zoning Ordinance.

Mitch Morris has applied for a Rezone torezone 559.68 acres from General Agri-culture District to Low Density Residen-tial District and to amend the Compre-hensive Plan to change the Future LandUse from Limited Agriculture District toLow Density Residential District locatedon the NE1/4SW1/4 and theSE1/4SW1/4 of Section 33, T1N, R8E;The SE1/4 of Section 33, T1N, R8E; TheE1/2NE1/4SE1/4; TheW1/2NE1/4SE1/4; The NW1/4SE1/4; GL1-2 all located in Section 4, T1S, R8E;GL 4 and NW1/4SW1/4 of Section 3,T1S, R8E; The SE1/4NE1/4 of Section33, T1N, R8E; Lot 2 of SW1/4NW1/4 andLot 2 of W1/2SW1/4 of Section 34, T1N,R8E, BHM, Pennington County, SouthDakota, properties located off of S. High-

way 79 and Old Folsom Road, in accor-dance with Sections 205, 206, 207, and508 of the Pennington County Zoning Or-dinance.

Notice is further given that said applica-tions will be heard by the PenningtonCounty Board of Commissioners in theAdministration Building at 10:30 a.m. onthe 5th day of April 2016. At this time, anyperson interested may appear and showcause, if there be any, why such requestsshould or should not be granted.

ADA Compliance: Pennington Countyfully subscribes to the provisions of theAmericans with Disabilities Act. If you de-sire to attend this public meeting and arein need of special accommodations,please notify the Planning Director sothat appropriate auxiliary aids and serv-ices are available.

PJ Conover,Planning Director

Julie A. Pearson,Pennington County Auditor


NOTICE OFHEARING

BEFORE THE PENNINGTONCOUNTy PLANNING AND ZONING

COMMISSION AND THEPENNINGTON COUNTy BOARD

OF COMMISSIONERS

Notice is hereby given that RodneyVollmer has petitioned to the PenningtonCounty Planning Commission and Boardof Commissioners for vacation of the fol-lowing described plat under the provi-sions of SDCL 11-3-21.1:

NE1/4 includes Lot A, Section 22, T2N,R8E, BHM, Pennington County, SouthDakota.

Notice is further given that said hearingwill be held by the Planning Commissionon Monday, March 28, 2016, at 9:00 a.m.and the Pennington County Board of

Mitch Kammerer residence. Appeal forms must be returned to theclerk by March 17, 2016 or before.

Mitch Kammerer,Clerk


CEDAR BUTTETOWNSHIP #4


The Cedar Butte Township #4 Super-visors will meet as a Board of Equaliza-tion on Monday, March 21, 2016, at 7:00p.m., in the home of Gene Patterson,Township Clerk, for the purpose of re-viewing and equalizing all property withinthe township. Complaint on your assessment maybe made to your local Township Board ofEqualization by filing written notice withthe clerk no later than Thursday, March17, 2016. My address is Gene Patterson,18523 228th St., Wall, SD 57790.

Gene Patterson,Township Clerk


Anita Heathershaw,Clerk


ASH TOWNSHIP


Ash Township will meet as a Board ofEqualization on Monday, March 21,2016, at the Josh Geigle residence, at7:00 p.m., and any other dates asneeded. Appeal forms must be returned to theclerk by Thursday, March 17, 2016.

Shasta Geigle,Clerk


HURONTOWNSHIP #10


The Huron Township #10 will hold theirBoard of Equalization meeting on Mon-day, March 21, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., at the

Commissioners on Tuesday, April 5,2016, at 10:30 a.m. in the Commission-ers’ Meeting Room at the PenningtonCounty Courthouse, Rapid City, SouthDakota. At this time, any person inter-ested may appear and show cause, ifthere be any, why such requests shouldor should not be granted.

ADA Compliance: Pennington Countyfully subscribes to the provisions of theAmericans with Disabilities Act. If you de-sire to attend this public meeting and arein need of special accommodations,please notify the Planning Director sothat appropriate auxiliary aids and serv-ices are available.

PJ Conover,Planning Director

Julie A. Pearson,Pennington County Auditor


CONATA TOWNSHIP


Conata Township will meet as a Boardof Equalization on Tuesday, March 21,2016, at 2:00 p.m., at the WilliamHuether residence. Appeal forms must be returned to theclerk by March 17, 2016.

Patty Huether,Clerk


LAKE HILLTOWNSHIP #5


Lake Hill Township #5 will meet as aBoard of Equalization on Monday, March21, 2016, at 7 p.m., at Terry Peters’ shop. Appeal forms must be returned to theclerk by March 17, 2016.

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