Newspaper for Lane, Alpena, and Wessington Springs SD
Springs Area Community Club (SACC) members John Paulson, Evelyn Bradley and Gary Bradley delivered a check for $500 to the Wessington Springs 5th & 6th grade classes to help them with the fund raiser they were doing for the people of Haiti. The SACC donation brings the kids’ total donation to over $1,000. It was reported in last week’s True Dakotan that the children had raised $500 to help the victims of the recent Haiti earthquake. True Dakotan photo/Duke Wenzel
Wisconsin crew arrives to assist Central Electric in the restoration process after ice storm downs lines
BY CRAIG WENZEL - TRUE DAKOTANTRUE DAKOTAN PHOTO/DUKE WENZEL - HELP IS ON THE WAY--- A crew from Moll’s Utility Service, Hammond, WI, pulled into Wessington Springs Monday morning, ready and willing to assist with getting the power on in the rural area. A dozen or more vehicles was in the caravan, including service people who will assist
TRUE DAKOTAN PHOTO/DUKE WENZEL
HEAVY FROST HAS PROVIDED some beautiful winter scenes around the area over the past couple of weeks. The canon on the lawn at the American Legion building on the south side of town is show beside a frosty cottonwood tree. The frost can be troublesome when it combines with ice to coat power lines. The city electric crew was called out last Thursday morning as ice and frost had caused an outage in the south part of tower. A few outages were also reported in various rural areas around the county with the Central Electric crew being called out.
Pheasants leave cover to fly to a corn field
THE SPRINGS ELEMENTARY 5th and 6th grade classes were already raising money to help make life better for a school girl in Haiti when the earthquake hit last week. The kids and their teachers, Connie McLaughlin and Kelli Schryock, already had over $500 saved to help Remica Dahana Raymond in school. The students and teachers realized that the country could use the money now and it is going to a relief fund that gives 100% of the money to the victims. The rest of the story tells about how the classes’ relationship with the girl from Haiti came about and can be found in your copy of the True Dakotan.
See more in your copy of the True Dakotan - Send $45 (out-of-state) or $37.10 (in-SD) to PO Box 358, Wessington Springs, SD 57382
TRUE DAKOTAN PHOTO/DUKE WENZEL
Some of the Wessington Spirngs Area Development Corporation officials on hand at the January 13, 2010 meeting are, from left, Jim Burg, Gail Arnott, Linda Burg, John Paulson, Laura Keiser and Kevin Mebius. The 2010 Board of Directors: John Paulson / President, Gail Arnott, Gwyneth Witte, Terri Groves, Linda Burg, Kari Fagerhaug, and Patsy Sorben. Other officer positions will be chosen at our February board meeting.
BY CRAIG WENZEL – TRUE DAKOTAN
The public is invited to attend an open meeting on Monday, March 1, 2010 to hear the proposal for a wind energy project in this area. The meeting will be hosted by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and will be held at the American Legion in
White Lake.
PrairieWinds SD1 –a subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Co.– filed an applicatoin with the PUC for a facility permit for the construction of a 151.5 megawatt wind energy facility that begins approximately one-half mile south of Crow Lake in Jerauld County. The wind farm would continue 10-15 miles south toward White Lake.
The project site would cover 37,000 acres of land within Brule, Aurora and Jerauld counties.
A Wessington Springs woman is being treated for frostbite following an incident that happened at the home of James and Marie Woods during the New Year’s blizzard.
Marie Woods went out to check on the couple’s dog before bedtime, apparently fell and was temporarily knocked unconscious while the temperature was well below zero degrees. She was admitted to Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center for treatment of severe frostbite on her hands.
She has since been released from the hospital and has returned to her home to recover.
The Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department requests property owners in the town to clear snow away from fire hydrants that are located on their property.
In the case of a fire emergency, it would cost the firemen precious minutes to locate and clear a fire hydrant.
The fire department also wants the public to know that there are openings on the force. If you are interested in becoming a fireman please contact Keith Wetzel.
True Dakotan photo/Duke Wenzel -- The "contraption" that has provided the free ride up the sledding hill (looking downward... note the panoramic scene overlooking the prairie) for a couple of generations.
BY CRAIG WENZEL
TRUE DAKOTAN EDITOR
Remember this? Back in the 1950′s –when I was just a kid, REALLY– there was a local guy who did excavating and digging, building roads, earthen dams, and whatever else needed to be done. A.J. Gebhardt was a bit of a genius, actually, able to fabricate about anything you –or he– could imagine. So the Wessington Springs city park had this big hill that kids used for sledding in the wintertime, but A.J. –and probably some of the town council members– decided a rope lift would be good. And they were right. Once A.J. set his mind to it the rope lift would carry us kids back up the hill for another run.
