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Jase Kraft career highlights (so far)
A story regarding Wessington Springs High School distance runner Jase Kraft appears in the January 29, 2013 issue of the True Dakotan. Here is an unedited list of his accomplishments (so far) in his career. He is a junior at WSHS.
JASE KRAFT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
[ Jase Kraft has been coached by Becky Bell Krueger all of his years of running]
CROSS COUNTRY
2012 – Junior:
• 2nd place at State Meet in Huron (team does not make medal stand)
• SDHSAA Top Twenty Five All-State Award across all 3 classes
Owls finish outstanding season
Owls finish outstanding season
Go down swinging in 3-0 loss in opening round of SD State Amateur Baseball Tournament
The Wessington Springs Owls competed Friday night at the State Amateur Baseball Tournament held this year in Mitchell. The Owls would take on the Alexandria Angels and their pitching ace Trever Vermeulen. “Going into the game we knew we had our work cut out for us facing Vermeulen,” stated Owls manager Nathan Hainy, “but we have a solid team and feel like we could play with anyone.”
TRUE DAKOTAN PHOTO/DUKE
CARTER GROHS is pictured with his show sheep at last week’s Achievement Days. Carter was in his first year of showing. Look for all the results in next week’s paper. More pictures are printed INSIDE THIS ISSUE.
2012 Foothills Classic Car & Tractor Show is one of the best yet
TRUE DAKOTAN PHOTO/DUKE
A VIEW of many vintage and collectible cars on Main Street in Wessington Springs last Saturday, August 4. The Foothills Classic Show has become a summer-time fixture in downtown Wessington Springs over the past few years and gets bigger and better every year. Besides cars, tractors, pickups and motorcycles are also featured.
Linafelter reunion hits the road during big weekend in Springs
RUE DAKOTAN PHOTO/DUKE
THE DESCENDANTS OF Ray and Elsie Linafelter held their annual family reunion in the city park last weekend. Every year brings a new theme. This year’s was Old West, complete with dance hall girls and cowboys. The group is pictured above touring the town in a wagon pulled by Ralph Winegar on one of his antique tractors. The name of the game when this group gets together is fun, fun, fun!
Owls Earn State tourney berth
Owls Earn State tourney berth
Wagon train goes on after Ron Ogren’s death
TRUE DAKOTAN/DUKE WENZEL
Activities at the second annual Kyle Evans Wagon Train were shrouded in sorrow as one of the event’s organizers was killed in an unfortunate highway accident on the morning of the first day of the event. Wessington Springs farmer Ron Ogren died in an accident Thursday morning, September 6, when a tractor he was driving collided with a fuel truck about three miles west of Wessington Springs on SD Highway 34. Wessington Springs volunteer firemen and law enforcement personnel are shown at the scene of the accident. Ogren was dead at the scene of the accident. The driver of the truckJoshua McGillvrey, 28, of Wolsey, was not seriously injured. Ogren’s wife, Lynn Ogren, asked that the wagon train go on as planned on September 6-7-8. Ogren was a talented singer/entertainer, farmer/rancher and enjoyed telling cowboy stories. He and his wife also operated a pheasant hunting business at his farm. The South Dakota Highway Patrol was assisted in the investigation by the Jerauld County Sheriff’s Department, Jerauld County Ambulance and the Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department.
Craig R. Larson
OBITUARY
Craig R. Larson
Craig R. Larson, 63, of Wessington Springs died early Thursday morning Aug. 2, 2012 at the Avera Queen of Peace Hospital in Mitchell. Mass of Christian Burial was held Monday, August 6, 2012 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Wessington Springs.
Burial was in the Hope Cemetery rural Wessington Springs, SD.
Craig was born on November 4, 1948 in Wessington Springs the son of Floyd and Caroline (Spies) Larson.
He attended elementary and high school at Wessington Springs graduating in 1968. He then attended Northern State College in Aberdeen, SD.