Old Wessington Springs swimming pool was a “pretty cool” place to be on a hot summer afternoon
Pastor Jim Holthus, a Lane-area native who serves as a Lutheran minister in Minnesota (go figure) stopped in the True Dakotan office recently with a couple of old pictures of the Springs swimming pool. Jim had taken the photographs in 1970 when he was the lifeguard
The Springs pool -- around 1970-- when Jim Holthus was lifeguard. This is a composite photo of two that he had taken.
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- Local news notes – July 6, 2010
- Lucky Duckies
- More than 90 people attend Patton family reunion her
- You’ve never seen the “Star Spangled Banner” done this way!
- “I may not be right, but I’m OFFICIAL!”
- Baby deer standing beside the flag — Happy Fourth
- Rural roads severely damaged by water
- Lane all-school reunion held
- Sponsors make Achievement Days possible
- Remember this old building in Hawkeye Valley?
- Fireworks schedule
- Troy Swenson announces county sheriff’s bid
- PUC okays another windfarm near Springs
- National guard called to help with flooding in Woonsocket
- 27th Annual Prairie Hills Art Show is POSTPONED
- New category on this web page lets you look back through True Dakotan photographs
- Doctors begin seeing patients at Jerauld County Dental Clinic
- Tractor drive to Huron is Friday
- Springs Area Community Club sponsors artwork through Weskota Foundation
- 4-H Horse Show held
- Rainfall totals over 4 inches
- Inter-generational Camp to be held At Weskota Manor Avera
- Ruskin Park is in the SD Hall of Fame
- Troy Swenson joins race for Jerauld County sheriff
- Annual Biff Memorial Co-ed Softball Tourney is Saturday, July 10th
- South Dakota Magazine: “Listening to corn grow”
- Someone, or something, from this area inducted into the SD Rock’n'roll hall of fame
- Prairie Dogs: SD animal of the month
- Old meets new…
- At nearly 90 years of age, Marie Simmons stays young by taking daily walks
- Crop dusters, private planes: Activity picks up at City airport
- Fourth of July weekend events planned
- Rural highline wires rebuilt after storm damage
- Foothills Rodeo held here
- Come fly with me….
- Color begins to burst at Shakespeare garden
- Country singers return to Opera House for one show on Saturday
- Foothills Roundup Rodeo will be next week, May 29-30
- Eighth grade
- Local residents mingle with candidates at courthouse
- One final batch of cookies and then Joyce retired
- SD Community Foundation awards $5,000 to Senior Center Fund
- Baseball backers Howard and Dar Cuppy follow the Twins, love the Springs Owls
- Springs Auto gets to keep GM franchise; Chevrolet, Buick products already arriving
- Oops I forgot the bake sale ad
- City park springs back to life after winter months
- truedakotan.com has a new look
- SACOTA prepares Mother’s Day Celebration
- Opera House “Star of the Month”
- Hand picking corn early in South Dakota
- Women’s Spring Escape is well attended
- Johnson honored as SDHSCA basketball official of the year
- FFA teams win @ state convention
- Mini Jukebox — pretty cool for Baby Boomers
- Prom 2010 Wessington Springs High School
- Wessington Springs clean Up Day is May 3
- Board moves to “hybrid model” of four-day school week for next year
- Pictures from across the world… from the air
- Senior Center groundbreaking will be soon
- Smelling like a clean baby!
- Seth Tupper named editor at Mitchell; Springs has several connections to paper
- Shakespeare Garden Annual Meeting will be April 25
- Area Community Foundation grant funds available
- Here is a sure way to clean the INSIDE of your computer screen
- The ten oldest trees in the world.
- One pair of hands — inspirational
- Annual Prairie Hills Art Show will be held June 25-26
- Evans to run for U.S. Senate as Independent
- New dentists will begin practice here
- Springs Area Community Club’s total economic impact exceeds $43,000 in 2009
- From Jerauld County to the Gulf of Mexico
- Healthcare legislation is not a “government takeover”
- Happy Easter
- Weskota Manor turns 45 years old
- eEmergency Training
- Survey results:Students, parents favor 4-day school week; not the staff
- Weber announces candidacy for Sheriff’s Office
- From Daily Republic paperboy to publisher
- Springs team rocketed to the top of the nation
- SOUTH GULCH CREEK
- Calving season begins —
- THE FIRESTEEL CREEK
- President disaster declaration request approved
- High school group performs at banquet; prepares for trip to Orlando
- Plenty to smile about
- From the letterbox:
- County, school expect windfall tax payments to arrive this spring
- Blonde jig-saw puzzle
- A windfall
- Can spring be far away?
- Charges filed in fatal crash
- Tax changes effect ag landowners in SD
- Coach of the year
- Farm and Home Show scenes
- County requests disaster status after January 24 ice storm
- Mary Gohring is SD Science Teacher of the Year
- Springs couple has been married for 70 years
- Jim Burg appointed to FSA Post
- Baker’s Design now has flowers
- Names Quinten Burg House Legislator of the Year for 2009
- Crews set 50 poles to restore final Central Electric power consumer on Thursday
- Help was on the way
- The sign at the entrance to town
- Power restored to rural Jerauld County residents
- Weskota Manor Happenings
- Tough calls over the past month
- Daddy’s gonna eat your fingers!
- Legislative Update
- Poles snap, power lines grounded by ice storm
- SACC donation brings kids’ Haiti relief fund to more than $1,000
- Much of western Jerauld County rural area still has no power
- Frost show
- 5th-6th graders donate to Haiti
- WSADC announces 2010 board members, unveils traveling exhibit from SD Historical Society
- Public meeting concerning addition to wind farm is planned at White Lake
- Springs woman treated for frostbite after New Year’s blizzard
- Landowners asked to clear snow away from fire hydrants on their property
- A page from the 1948 Independent… anybody you know mentioned here?
- City election petitions to be circulated
- New Year’s blizzard on the heels of Christmas storm
- AWMMC awarded $17,500 eEmergency grant
- First the Christmas blizzard, now this!
- Vote for 2009’s Top Wessington Springs Area Stories
- L.S.I. employees care
- Friends at work and nursing home residents say goodbye to Jasmyn
- Christmas baby is first child born at local hospital since 2000
- How is everyone?
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
- Oh, Frosty night
- RN WANTED
- Full and/or part time positions open on a farm
- Full-time highway maintenance worker
- Manager for bar and kitchen at American Legion/Prairie Lounge
- Aurora Brule Marketing Director
- CITY MAINTENANCE WORKER
- Full time and/or part time harvest help
- Wessington Springs School District
- ARE YOU LOOKING for a change?
- Santa greets the kids
- Local business robbed; ATM taken
- BREAKING NEWS: Deer poachers being sought
- Plywood Santa seems to wave to the neighbors across the street
- Residential Christmas lights
- Residential Christmas lights
- Residential Christmas lights
- Residential Christmas lights
- Residential Christmas lights
- Residential Christmas lights
- Residential Christmas lights
- Christmas concert last Friday evening
- FFA fruit sales
- Avera Mission Team makes holiday donations to Food Pantry
- Tour of lights planned
- Holiday events schedule
- Sunset at the North Pole
- Thanks for your visits to the website
- Service at the gym honors Jasmyn
- Saying goodbye
- High school senior, Jasmyn Knippling dies in car accident
- Brrrrrr!!!!
- Spaghetti supper will benefit Schmidt family
- Horizon begins management of Springs dental clinic
- Second graders decorate at the courthouse
- Local organizations receive a total of $4,000
- Yup, you guessed it!
- Ronnie E. Linn
- 4-H Recognition Event
- WSHS school play held
- Happy Holidays from the Chamber of Commerce
- Local artists honored
- The way things once were
- Page from 1948 Wessington Springs Independent
- Why’d ya’ move?
- October’s weather in November…. cool!
- Part of Veterans Day program
- Young combiners
- A BURNING BUSH
- Thompsons “adopt” the museum
- Corn harvest exceeds expectations…. and they already thought it was going to be good!
- Dr. Roscoe E. Dean
- Harvest Bee held at Salmen’s
- Deans are Grand Ol’ Opera House “Stars of the Month”
- Weskota Manor Avera Christmas Gift fund raisers
- Gann Valley Volunteer Fire Department receives $9,585.00 Rural Fire Assistance funds
- Pheasants Forever banquet held
- News notes
- News notes (see more in your copy of the True Dakotan)
- Fall (Winter?) begins early this year
- A page from June 15, 1933 Wessington Springs Independent
- Are you a dog lover? Check out the cute pictures!
- Pheasants Forever has big fund raiser
- 99-year old donates to museum
- Land, Range judging contest held here
- “Drawn to the Land” exhibit to appear in three locations here
- Pheasant season opens Saturday
- Oldest True Dakotan subscriber will be 109
- Three day resident pheasant season opens Saturday
- PEO fund raiser mixes music and humor
- Hospital staff conduct emergency training program
- Thanks FOR 4,000 Visits to truedakotan.com
- Spartans were state B champions in football thirty years ago this month
- Quick Notes
- Homecoming pictures
- Also in your issue of the True Dakotan
- Youth season kicks off the SD pheasants seasons
- Scarecrow Festival at Weskota Manor Avera
- Community survey seeks input on movie theater
- Heritage Center kicks off 2010 “Adopt the Museum” program
- Non-denominational AWANA Kids Club begins at Immanuel Baptist
- Walk through the Bible coming; to be held at courthouse, September 26
- Company Cowboys observe 40th
- Visits from old friends
- New business in Alpena
- Flowers in the field
- News brief
- News brief
- News briefs
- Residents visit SD Cultural Heritage Center during Jerauld County Week
- Irene Zastrow: 87-year old Gann Valley woman has the secret to long life
- Jerauld County Clinic awarded grant to add oral health services here
- Dustin will return for show that honors “Company Cowboys” 40th anniversary
- Mayor’s Classic golf tournament held here
- Late gardens begin to bear fruit
- Eight year old attends 4-H photography camp, then takes a nice wildlife photo
- Twin Lakes to be restocked following fish winterkill
- Jack Links employees give to food pantries
- Combining wheat
- Fire destroys baler near here
- Springs teens travel to Europe with Midwest Ambassadors
- Hi folks
- Don’t choke on your choke cherries
- 4-H Achievement Days photos
- My Two Cent’s Worth
- Relay for Life held for American Cancer Society
- If you build it, they will come
- Vacation issue is August 18
- Relay for Life is Saturday
- Annual Car and Tractor show is Saturday
- SACOTA PROGRAMS summer update…
- “It was frivolous to have a dress and bonnet for only club events”!
- “Springs Pride” program kicks off
- Arson suspected in bale fires last week
- What, another storm?
- Lisa Edwards is state PEO president
- Area kids take advantage of Springs swimming lessons
- Is there a Governor in the house?
- Storm causes damage in area
- County will re-appraise town’s buildings
- It takes a lot of volunteers at Shakespeare Garden
- Springs Free Methodist Church changes name to Foothills Bible Fellowship
- Another park picnic shelter
- Fourth of July holiday events
- School board election held
- Wolter benefit is Saturday
- WSHS Class of ’59 holds reunion
- Speaking of kids…
- Prairie Hills art show is June 26-27
- New veterinarian, Travis White begins practice
- Wolter benefit is June 27
- Subscribe to South Dakota Magazine
- Chamber makes Fourth of July plans
- Valverndale from the top
- Shakespeare Garden in full bloom
- WSACF grants awarded to local organizations
- Former Residents, Symes and Crouch adopt the Heritage museum for June
- South Dakota: Different in good ways
- Photographs from the Springs wind farm
- MYRN HEIM
- Seventh annual Foothills Rodeo here this weekend
- A page from the past — 1932 WS Independent
- Thrivent Food Pantry drive held
- High school geometry team wins third national title; Algebra team is runner up
- South Dakota Magazine is coming to the pages of the True Dakotan
- City cleanup day is May 18
- This week’s True Dakotan
- Showing some “Happiness”
- More Details on Wolter Benefit
- New apple tree and grazing muledeer won’t mix
- “Mrs. Coffeebreath” wins state essay contest
- Read this week’s classified ads
- Springs bike customizer featured in national magazine
- 1930s WSHS Glee Club: Are you –or your parents or grandparents– in there?
- Veterinarian plans to practice here
- Severe weather awareness week
- WSHS musical, “Ducktails and Bobby Socks” held at the 1905 Opera House
- Krueger, Brown, Krohmer Agency and Shakespeare Society honored at annual Awards Banquet
- Heartland CEO unveils School Wind Tower Plan
- It’s time for letter writers to stop defending threatening Mitchell physician
- Clinic offers “Urgent Care”
- Creative Puns for Educated Minds
- Like the snow picture
- More wind towers may be on the horizon near here
- Join Shakespeare Society
- Applications are now available for Wessington Springs Area Community Fund grants
- “Foothills Singers” will perform “Gaither’ music
- Chamber/WSADC banquet is Saturday
- Clinic offers morning “Urgeant Care”
- Signs of the times
- Foothills Singers Concert postponed due to weather
- Hi
- Crock pot cooking — this is really good!
- Who said South Dakotans are hicks?
- We’re talkin’ turkey here!
- SACC Donates to Heritage Center
- Coming in next week’s True Dakotan:
- To Critics of the Stimulus Plan:
- Memoirs tell new chapter in Blizzard of ’88 saga
- Hi everyone!!
- Don’t forget Tyler Easton benefit
- Winter sports award program is Tuesday
- Chamber of Commerce minutes
- What trees are best suited for South Dakota?
- Calving seasons reminds us of spring
- Slain Woonsocket woman worked in Wessington Springs
- Tyler Easton benefit is March 21
- Church news
- A hundred years ago in Wessington Springs
- Johnson Announces $34,556 in Funding for Wessington Springs Housing Commission
- News from the state legislature
- News from the state legislature
- News from the state legislature
- Jerauld County Thrivent chapter wins award
- Amy Schimke featured on RFD channel’s “Women’s Pro Rodeo Today”
- Sargents observe 70th anniversary at their farm home
- Legislative Report
- SACC club makes money, keeps giving it away
- Subscribe to the True Dakotan
- RocketMidwest: New Springs business
- New at the Jerauld County Heritage Museum
- Chamber minutes
- Good afternoon
- A sure sign that spring is just around the corner
- Wessington Springs receives 10-state regional award
- Good morning
- Farm & Home show is Monday
- Jerauld County man killed in farm accident
- There’ve been a lot of changes since 1908
- Notes from the House of Representatives
- Notes from the House of Representatives
- Thanks for visiting truedakota.com
- Spartan Sparklers entertain at ball games
- Bergeleen sisters (and Dad) entertain
- Springs FFA receives $1,200 donation
- Proud to be an American
- Tyler Easton benefit held
- Adopt the Museum program successful
- True Dakotan adds color to page one
- Notes from the Senate
- Super bowl QB must be a “Super Guy”
- What would you like?
- Full color front page begins next week
- Jerauld County’s tallest building is a Crow Lake area landmark
- This site is great!!!
- My two cents worth
- This site is great!!!
- Here’s something you don’t see every day!
- Muilenburg takes 140# individual title
- Bald eagles make Jerauld County their feeding ground this winter
- Craig’s two cents worth
- Kids, kilowatts and business kickoffs among efforts celebrated as Development Corp. Meets
- Company Cowboy Band to observe 40th anniversary at Black Hills Stock Show
- Connie Ness settles into job as county treasurer
- Fire at Lane elevator
- Here’s an idea….
- Booth space available for 19th annual Farm & Home Show
- Baby, it’s cold up there!!!
- Quote of the week
- Local corn heads to the ethanol plant
- Peaceful wildlife scene
- Today’s winter scene is much different from the one early settlers saw in the Springs hills
- 281 Conference tournament planned
- Chamber hosts legislative forum
- Old Shultz home was a “twin” to the Fransen house next door to the library
- Local organizations need volunteers
- New tree planting does its job at the school
- Remember the old sledding hill?
- Old is new… new is old!
- Happy New Year
- Kathy Dean retires after 40-year career
- Community Foundation awards grants to local charities
- Margaret Schmidt celebrates 25 years of art classes
- A barn sits alone
- Prairie Livestock Supply is new business in town
- Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center wins national award two years in a row
- Heather Larson is new Extension Educator for Jerauld County
- Santa Claus makes pre-Christmas visit
- SACC chili feed raises money for Springs Area Bus
- Old Main Street decorations on display
- Someone poaches elk in Hand County
- Christmas decorations around Springs
- Rodeo injury may have saved the life of a Wessington Springs cowboy
- It’s THAT time of year again!
- Present-day Sioux warriors recreate infamous 1862 trek from Lower Brule to Mankato
- Here’s a special Christmas greeting “click”
- Christmas greetings issue
- Holiday Gala benefits Parish Nurse program
- Spartan winter sports seasons begin
- FFA fruit sales top 400 boxes
- News notes from the True Dakotan – Dec. 9, 2008
- Joyce Rogers makes the best Christmas fudge
- AA Baker’s Design screen printing, etc.
- Inside this week’s True Dakotan
- Main Street Christmas Lights opening ceremony held
- True Dakotan page one November 25 – free sample
- Wessington Springs “Republican” April 1945
- Foothill Singers in Concert at Free Methodist Church December 6
- Food pantry coupons available at TJ’s
- Alpena United Parish to present Christmas cantata, benefit Food Pantry
- School holiday concert is Tuesday
- Springs wind farm begins producing power
- Homeland Security grant provides emergency electrical generator at county ag building
- Chamber plans Christmas decorations official lighting Friday
- Class of ’58 makes donation to Shakespeare Garden Society
- Melissa Rex bagged a buck on opening day
- World War II vet, Pete Bult receives long-overdue French Knight medal
- “Japs Surrender”
- Hospital Auxiliary ends after 55 years of service
- 2008 Volleyball team
- Some things change on the area landscape, Some things remain the same
- Locals win Masters awards
- Burg returns to House; Huron’s Gibson, Hansen win legislative seats
- Duke and Karen’s 50th anniversary
- King sent to penitentiary for attack
- Welcome home soldiers
- Mike Gohring surprised by how much his baby daughter had grown
- 4-H Halloween carnival held at ag building
- South Dakota outdoorsman, Tony Dean dies
- Obituary
- Sports
- Pheasants Forever banquet is held
- 4-H Halloween carnival is Sunday
- Hunter success diminished by crops in the fields, winds
- Wind farm is dedicated: Governor speaks here
- A mountain lion in Jerauld County?
- Chad Eagle’s dogs are lion hunters
- Blackhawks win WSHS homecoming tilt
- Cross Country team wins third straight CSDC title
- Craft fair is Saturday
- 4-H Carnival
- Inside this week’s True Dakotan (Oct. 14, 2008)
- King to face sentencing
- Obituaries (October 14 issue)
- Can’t respond to emails today
- A scene along “whiskey road”
- Craig Jost bags big Hills bull
- Homecoming king and queen selected for 2008
- Spartan Spotlight
- Magic Mirror is now just a memory
- Old mill stands among new wind towers
- Gov. Rounds to deliver keynote address at wind farm dedication
- Final tower goes up at Springs wind farm
- Aerial view of combining corn
- Fall harvest begins with soybeans
- OBITUARY
- Remember this old mill in Hawkeye Valley?
