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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.
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Go Wildcats! Alpena holds all-school reunion June 22-24
THE ALPENA ALL-SCHOOL Reunion was a huge success due in part to these hard-working committee members who helped plan the event and then made sure it went off without a hitch. From left are: Ryan Jensen, Rob Baruth, Shawn Ochsner, Mark Kopfmann, DeVonne Losing, and Jodi Doering. Not pictured: Leo Jensen, Deb Ball, Andrew Arhart, and Kari Sandmann. The supper at the Red Hog served 300 former Wildcats, their spouses and friends. There was entertainment for everyone including a dance played by the “Renegrades”, a poker run, inflatable playground, another big supper and entertainment by River Rat Dueling Pianos at the Community Center.
Upcoming events
June 29: The fourth annual Blue and Gold Golf Tournament will be held at Springs Country Club on Friday, June 29, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Call the Country Club at 539-1944 to register. Questions? Call Gloria Vavra at 350-2118.
June 29-30:
Twenty-seventh annual Prairie Hills Art Show at the Wessington Springs 1905 Opera House.
June 30:
Firemen’s Ball
The annual Wessington Springs firemen’s ball will be hosted at the fire house on Saturday, June 30. The dance coincides with the Springs Fourth of July festivities
Looking back: Long Lake School – 1951
Long Lake School 1951. Pictured: Vernon Schimke, Nyla Christensen, Virginia Schimke. Mary Cooper was teacher. This was the whole school. Note the picture on the wall above the chalkboard was of Christ in the temple. Long Lake school was northwest of Wessington Springs.
Gone with the wind
A windmill and and REA pole are all that remain standing on an old farmstead between Springs and Alpena.
Little red school house
JERAULD COUNTY’S OWN little red school house sits along the gravel road south of Alpena. The school has been empty for many decades. Its red color comes from the red tile brick used to build it. The school has been pictured in the True Dakotan in the past, but never in color.
Springs, Gann Valley firemen help Kimball contain wind-swept prairie fire
CRAIG WENZEL
MEMBERS OF THE WESSINGTON SPRINGS Volunteer Fire Department provided mutual aid at a prairie grass fire southwest of town on Wednesday, March 28. Firemen Ryan Knipfer, Dusty Weber and Michael Brodkorb. are shown above as they battled flames that were pushed by high winds.
Firemen called to prairie blaze southwest of Springs
Firemen from Wessington Springs were called to a prairie fire southwest of town on Tuesday, March 27.
The Springs volunteer fire department provided what is termed “mutual aid” to the Kimball department to help contain a fire that burned approximately 150 acres.
USDA continues with plan to close selected SD FSA offices
Jerauld County FSA office in Wessington Springs will be closed by USDA -- farmers will have to go elsewhere to conduct their business.
The following item is a news release from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) regarding plans to close several Farm Services Agency (FSA) offices in South Dakota. The Jerauld County office in Wessington Springs is among those planned for closure.
Last week’s weather
LOCAL WEATHER
BY JERRY VOORHEES & KATHY PAGEL
Wessington Springs area weather forecast can be seen on PAGE THREE.
H L PRE.
M., Feb. 6 42 15 0
T., Feb. 7 45 14 0
W., Feb. 8 21 4 0
T., Feb. 9 33 4 0
F., Feb. 10 43 4 0
S., Feb. 11 7 -6 0
S., Feb. 12 18 -8 0
Audra Scheel is new part-time Jerauld County 4-H Advisor
JERAULD COUNTY HAS ENTERED into a four-county cooperative agreement to provide staffing at the county 4-H office in the co
urthouse. Audra Scheel (right) will be in the office on a part-time basis, providing 4-H services. She also will serve in the same capacity at the offices in Plankinton, Woonsocket and Fr. Thompson. She is shown above with Julie Barber (left), who is a part-time administrative assistant/4-H program assistant at the Jerauld County Courthouse SDSU Extension office. Local hours for Barber are Monday and Wednesdays, from 8:00-5:00 and Thursdays from 8:00-noon. Scheel’s office hours are still being worked out.