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KEYSTONE CHAPTER #33, OES Keystone Chapter #33, OES, met Thursday, June 17, at the Masonic Temple in Yankton, begin- ning with a potluck supper. Worthy Matron Carol Frey presided at the meeting. Buzz Mann, Mike Kline, Bud Kratz, Marilyn Kratz, Mary Johnson, and Christine Bryan were pro tems. The flag was presented in honor of Flag Day. Buzz Mann updated the chapter on their plan to co-host a style show September 18 with The Center. Janelle Kribell, Nancy Kline, and Jane Hornstra will assist Charlotte Gilson who will chair the committee planning the event. All fathers attending were hon- ored. Frey read an inspirational poem for Father’s Day. June and July birthday cele- brants were honored. A coin march was held with proceeds going to the OES Nursing Home in Redfield. The next regular meeting will be on Thursday, September 16, at the Masonic Temple, beginning with a pot luck supper at 6:30. The Memorial Service will be held at the meeting. INTERCHANGE Interchange met on Monday, June 21st at the Waterfront. The meeting was called to order by President, Stacy Winterringer. The pledge of Allegiance was recited. No guests other than the speaker were present. The following announce- ments were made: Stacy Winterringer announced the new Board Members. They are Susan Schavee, Susie Frick and Tammy Matuska. Paula Tacke will be the new President and Kathy Jacobs will be the new Vice President. Deb Overseth reminded everyone of the Goofy Golf event taking place on Sunday, June 27th. She had tickets to sell. Kathy Jacobs announced that the Librarians will be dressed in pirate costumes this week. She also reminded us that Interchange dues are due. Scholarship donations can be made when you pay your dues. A separate check should be written directly to Mount Marty College and a note that it is for the scholarship fund should be on the check. The Women’s and Children’s Shelter is selling raffle tickets as a fund raiser. Kathy Jacobs has tickets for sale. They are also looking for men to sign up for “Walk a mile in her shoes” which will be held on September 18th in conjunction with Yankton Rib Fest. They are also looking for teams to walk this year. Linda Stephenson announced that Dakota Territorial Museum needs a new building and they are hoping that the Mead Building will work. They are trying to raise funds and one of the best ways is to get new memberships. Family memberships are $40. You can see Linda or go to the museum for membership forms. The program speaker was Dr. Lori Hansen. The program topic was the Yankton Ambulatory Program. She discussed the statistics of the pro- gram. This model of Medical Education in Yankton is in it’s 20th year. It is nationally recognized for it’s 3rd year medical program. It is a benefit to the Yankton Community. Yankton will be hosting an interna- tional conference on September 30th, October 1 and 2 of 2011. It is very exciting that the Yankton com- munity will be hosting this event. The 2010 event will take place in Australia. The next meeting will be held on June 28th at noon at the Waterfront. The hostess is Colleen Craig Davis. The speaker is Grete Bodogard and the topic is “Artists in Schools” TOASTMASTER CLUB 6217 Club 6217 met June 10 with David Fiebelkorn leading the invo- cation and Jane Miller handling the General Evaluator duties at the noon meeting in the Benedictine Center. Miller's team consisted of timer Fiebelkorn, “ah” tracker Mindy Schweitzer, and grammarian Eileen O'Connor. Miller asked O'Connor to introduce the word of the day, 'lentic- ular'. Miller also introduced two evalu- ators, Stan Sudbeck for Marie Steckelberg and MJ Rogers for Tim Bohn. The Best Evaluator's trophy went to Rogers. There was a special challenge for the speakers, Steckelberg and Bohn. Shortly upon arrival, they were given newspaper articles. Their challenge was to prepare 3-5 minute impromptu speeches by relating the articles to a personal Father's Day experience. Steckelberg's speech, “Dad and I at the Fair”, related years of childhood memories going to the SD State Fair with her father. Bohn's speech, “My Dad the Handyman”, told a series of antidotes about the lessons he learned from his father while on the farm. Steckelberg received the Best Speaker award. The Table topics Master Steve Anderson was welcomed by toast- master Muriel Stach. Anderson questioned members about family summer vacations. The Best Respondent was Schweitzer, who wishes to vacation in “Bermuda without a cell phone but with lots of low-key beach time”. ASHHT TOASTMASTER CLUB On June 17, Toastmaster MJ Rogers called the Avera Sacred Heart Hospital Toastmasters Club to order at the Benedictine Center at noon. He introduced guest Darrell Adamson. Then Rogers told sever- al facts about Flag Day and asked Melissa Bader to lead the pledge and the invocation. Speakers were Taylor O'Bryan, “Get Organized with Quicken” and Mandy Bell, “Drive”. O'Bryan pro- moted organizational skills using electronic helps and Bell promoted reading a self-help book about what really motivates people. Bell took the Best Speaker award. General Evaluator David Fiebelkorn named the speech eval- uators. They were Jennifer Wubben for Bell and Bader for O'Bryan. Wubben gave Bell credit for not using notes and for creating interest in the topic. Fiebelkorn presented Wubben with the Best Evaluator tro- phy. Eileen O'Connor used several Americanized Yiddish words to inspire creative impromptu speech- es from the members. The 3-way tie for Best Respondent went to Kary Beltz, Sheryl Schwartz and Muriel Stach. The rest of Fiebelkorn's Evaluation team consisted of Beltz as the “ah” counter, Schwartz as the timer, and Steve Anderson as gram- marian. Anderson's word of the day was “scuttle”, with suggested uses not only for boating but also for per- sonal lives. AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY Yankton American Legion Auxiliary met on June 21, 20 10, President Betty Adam presiding. Gert Boyles reported on Girls State recently held at the University of South Dakota; Yankton girls served in several positions and one received a scholarship; also Auxiliary members helped at regis- tration, worked in the “store” and attended Friday nights’ finale. Helen Simpson, Membership chairman, said we ended the year with 112 members, five new VIM memberships, four new members, two deaths and one unpaid mem- bership; Helen asked the ladies to help recruit new members; she also asked for any changes in names, phone numbers or addresses for next year’s member books. President Betty read correspon- dence from District Seven President, Kathy Hornstra. Mae Tienken gave an interesting report on the American Legion & Auxiliary Convention recently held at Spearfish, SD. The winner of the Samsung Scholarship given at Girls State was present and spoke as did the National Auxiliary President. As the installing officer, Gert installed the following persons to serve for the 2010-2011 year: President – Betty Adams; lst Vice President - Joyce List; 2nd Vice President Theresa Brandt; Secretary – Sue Koepp; Treasurer – Priscilla Mazourek; Sergeant at Arms – Martha List & Mary Kuchta; Chaplain – Kathleen Ekeren. The ten cent cup was won by Marillyn Obr, she donated it to the Auxiliary. A delicious lunch was served by Marillyn Obr and Floris Woodhouse. There will be NO meetings in July and August, the next meeting will be September 20 and the pro- gram given by Girl Staters. Lunch hostesses will be Judy Eisenmenger and Helen Simpson. CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS COURT WILLARD #967 The June meeting opened with the installation of new officers for the new term. District Deputy Kathy Harens was mistress of ceremonies and lead the new officers in their pledge of office. New officers are Janice Cass, Regent; Bev Schmidt, Vice Regent; Kerri Konechne, Financial Secretary; Mary Althoff, Secretary; and Mary Johnson, Treasurer. Representing the State Court was Second Vice Regent Barb Wiechmann from Wagner, SD. Court chaplain Msgr Hermann gave a blessing to the new officers and Fr Bob Lacey, State Chaplain, addressed the membership briefly. A Court reception followed the cere- mony with the June committee serv- ing ice cream sundaes. Regent Janice Cass opened a brief business meeting. Old business: • Memorial Flags were placed in the Yankton cemeteries on the graves of deceased members. Many members met and placed the flags on the Thursday before Memorial Day and the Lemon family collected them the following week. Leah Smith volunteered to make about 10 additional flags. • Thanks to all the outgoing offi- cers for their service the past two years, and to Sherryl O’Rourke for her beautiful work with the Court newsletter. New Business: • Pillow Cleaning with Kraft Pillowing cleaning service will be held at Link Auditorium, Friday July 9th, 2010. Posters were available to advertise the event. • House Of Mary Shrine July 10th, 2010 Bishop Swain will cele- brate a Mass to dedicate a new St Joseph statue for St Joseph’s chapel at the shrine. Ct Willard will be serving a brunch following the Mass. • Spiritual retreat for all CDA members will be held at Broomtree , Oct 8-10, 2010, with Fr Bob Lacey as the retreat master. Sign up with form from May State Newspaper. • Announced that we will be pub- lishing a membership booklet with the new committees for next year. • More members are needed for leading the rosary for wake servic- es. The meeting was adjourned and Msgr Hermann lead us in a closing prayer. HOMETOWNNEWS Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan Saturday, June 26, 2010 www.yankton.net PAGE 3B cleaning DUCTWORK 665-9461 HEATING & COOLING Don’t Breathe Dirty Air! Get your home’s ducts professionally clean and breathe easier. 920 Broadway, Yankton MEETING MINUTES SISTER CLEOPHA WINNERS Jodi Salvatori, RN, ICU, and Melissa Kludt, RN, Peds of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, are the recipients of the 2010 Sister Cleopha Scholarship for Continuing Education. The Sister Cleopha Scholarship was established as a scholarship for nursing staff of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital to attend workshops. This scholar- ship was established through the Benedictine Health Foundation as a permanent scholarship in the memory of Sr. Cleopha. Salvatori, used the scholar- ship to attend the Press Ganey symposium “Improving the Health of Heath Care.” Kludt used her scholarship to attend a conference in Wyoming on Hot Topics in Primary Care. The award was presented to Salvatori and Kludt by Kelly Kathol, Executive Director of the Benedictine Health Foundation. SUBMITTED PHOTO Jodi Salvatori (left), RN, ICU, and Melissa Kludt (right), RN, Peds of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, are the recipients of the 2010 Sister Cleopha Scholarship for Continuing Education. The award was presented to Salvatori and Kludt by Kelly Kathol (center), Executive Director of the Benedictine Health Foundation. Salvatori, Kludt Named Sister Cleopha Scholarship Winners Yankton Volunteer Receives JA Leadership Award The JA Worldwide® Headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO has honored Jeral Gross of First National Bank South Dakota for his outstand- ing service and support to Junior Achievement of Yankton’s economic education efforts. Jeral was recently pre- sented with the JA Worldwide Bronze Leadership Award at the JA Yankton board retreat. The Bronze Leadership Award recognizes superior lead- ership and support for Junior Achievement. Jeral has served as the Board Chair, Fund Drive Chair and he has been an active volunteer in the classroom. "We are proud to have Jeral as part of our team and appreci- ate his dedication and guidance. His commitment and leadership to JA of Yankton has been invaluable." said Kristie Fiegen, President of Junior Achievement of South Dakota, Inc. Junior Achievement of Yankton provided traditional programming in 33 public and private classrooms and reached over 700 students during the 2009-10 school year. In addi- tion, 15 executive-level volun- teers impacted over 200 high school students with ethics edu- cation through JA Excelling through Ethics. Across South Dakota, JA volunteers impacted over 43,000 students in the 2009-10 school year. These classroom volunteers served as role models and used hands-on activities to teach young people about financial literacy, entre- preneurship, and work readi- ness. SUBMITTED PHOTO Kayla Bickett, JA District Director, presents the Junior Achievement Bronze Leadership Award to Jeral Gross of First National Bank South Dakota during the JA Yankton annual board retreat. RIVERBOAT DAYS DONATION SUBMITTED PHOTO Pictured is Cleo Reiff of Wal-Mart presenting a check to Dick Hunhoff, a member of the Board of Directors of Yankton Riverboat Days. Riverboat Days is one of the region’s largest celebrations. Hundereds of volunteers make this free event possible. It consists of top-notch entertainment, a parade, arts and crafts, food vendors, continuous shows in the apitheater and many more forms of enter- tainment. The date of this year’s Riverboat Days is Aug. 20-22. RECYCLING ELECTRONICS People were anxious, as always, to get rid of those unwanted and outdated com- puters and TVs at the Electronic Recycling collec- tions hosted by the Northeast Nebraska Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D) Council and the City of Wayne. The horse trailer, van, pickups, and trucks quickly filled up! Eighteen (18) volunteers were glad to assist by unloading all the old electronic equipment that arrived. These environmen- tally-friendly events are a great way to practice good stewardship of natural resources. The collections at Niobrara, Plainview and Wayne brought in 334 moni- tors, laptops, and TVs, all of which have hazardous materi- als in them. Other items recy- cled were towers, printers, keyboards, computer mice, VCRs, telephones, power sup- plies, bunches of cords, speakers, and more. People came from 12 communities and 136 households and busi- nesses were served. The Northeast Nebraska RC&D has previously spon- sored three events like this in 2006, five in 2008 and three in 2009 in cooperation with the Department of Environmental Quality granting programs. This year there were no grant dollars used for this project. The RC&D Council is made up of private citizens doing public good. Two of their pri- orities, protecting the environ- ment and conserving resources, coupled with citizen need guided their desire to host these recycling events. RC&D Hosts Electronics Recycling Event In Nebraska SUBMITTED PHOTO Pictured are a few of the items collected during the RC&D electronics Recycling Event held recently in Nebraska. BOY’S AND GIRL’S CLUB SUBMITTED PHOTO First Dakota’s Market Manager, Marc Mooney is shown presenting a check in the amount of $5,000 to the Yankton Boys & Girls Club Unit Director, Mike Johnson. Also on hand for the presentation was Rob Ness, Operations Officer of First Dakota, and J.D. O’Grady, Just For Kids (JFK) Unit Director, along with many of the children who enjoy the benefits of the Club. WOMEN’S SHELTER SUBMITTED PHOTO Yankton’s First United Methodist Church Worship Committee sold hearts (in honor of or in memory of) for Mother’s Day as a fund rais- er for the Yankton Women’s/Children Center. They raised $355.00 for the Center. Pictured L to R: Rural Advocate Camille Mertins, Worship Committee Chairman Evie Sime, Executive Director Desiree Slaba and Pastoral Assistant Bob Cappel.

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KEYSTONE CHAPTER #33, OESKeystone Chapter #33, OES,

met Thursday, June 17, at theMasonic Temple in Yankton, begin-ning with a potluck supper. WorthyMatron Carol Frey presided at themeeting. Buzz Mann, Mike Kline,Bud Kratz, Marilyn Kratz, MaryJohnson, and Christine Bryan werepro tems. The flag was presented inhonor of Flag Day.

Buzz Mann updated the chapteron their plan to co-host a style showSeptember 18 with The Center.Janelle Kribell, Nancy Kline, andJane Hornstra will assist CharlotteGilson who will chair the committeeplanning the event.

All fathers attending were hon-ored. Frey read an inspirationalpoem for Father’s Day.

June and July birthday cele-brants were honored. A coin marchwas held with proceeds going to theOES Nursing Home in Redfield.

The next regular meeting will beon Thursday, September 16, at theMasonic Temple, beginning with apot luck supper at 6:30. TheMemorial Service will be held at themeeting.

INTERCHANGEInterchange met on Monday,

June 21st at the Waterfront. Themeeting was called to order byPresident, Stacy Winterringer. Thepledge of Allegiance was recited. Noguests other than the speaker werepresent. The following announce-ments were made: StacyWinterringer announced the newBoard Members. They are SusanSchavee, Susie Frick and TammyMatuska. Paula Tacke will be thenew President and Kathy Jacobswill be the new Vice President. DebOverseth reminded everyone of theGoofy Golf event taking place onSunday, June 27th. She had ticketsto sell. Kathy Jacobs announcedthat the Librarians will be dressed inpirate costumes this week. She alsoreminded us that Interchange duesare due. Scholarship donations canbe made when you pay your dues.A separate check should be writtendirectly to Mount Marty College anda note that it is for the scholarshipfund should be on the check. TheWomen’s and Children’s Shelter isselling raffle tickets as a fund raiser.Kathy Jacobs has tickets for sale.They are also looking for men tosign up for “Walk a mile in hershoes” which will be held onSeptember 18th in conjunction withYankton Rib Fest. They are also

looking for teams to walk this year.Linda Stephenson announced thatDakota Territorial Museum needs anew building and they are hopingthat the Mead Building will work.They are trying to raise funds andone of the best ways is to get newmemberships. Family membershipsare $40. You can see Linda or go tothe museum for membership forms.The program speaker was Dr. LoriHansen. The program topic was theYankton Ambulatory Program. Shediscussed the statistics of the pro-gram. This model of MedicalEducation in Yankton is in it’s 20thyear. It is nationally recognized forit’s 3rd year medical program. It is abenefit to the Yankton Community.Yankton will be hosting an interna-tional conference on September30th, October 1 and 2 of 2011. It isvery exciting that the Yankton com-munity will be hosting this event.The 2010 event will take place inAustralia. The next meeting will beheld on June 28th at noon at theWaterfront. The hostess is ColleenCraig Davis. The speaker is GreteBodogard and the topic is “Artists inSchools”

TOASTMASTER CLUB 6217Club 6217 met June 10 with

David Fiebelkorn leading the invo-cation and Jane Miller handling theGeneral Evaluator duties at thenoon meeting in the BenedictineCenter.

Miller's team consisted of timerFiebelkorn, “ah” tracker MindySchweitzer, and grammarian EileenO'Connor. Miller asked O'Connor tointroduce the word of the day, 'lentic-ular'.

Miller also introduced two evalu-ators, Stan Sudbeck for MarieSteckelberg and MJ Rogers for TimBohn. The Best Evaluator's trophywent to Rogers.

There was a special challengefor the speakers, Steckelberg andBohn. Shortly upon arrival, theywere given newspaper articles.Their challenge was to prepare 3-5minute impromptu speeches byrelating the articles to a personalFather's Day experience.Steckelberg's speech, “Dad and I atthe Fair”, related years of childhoodmemories going to the SD State Fairwith her father. Bohn's speech, “MyDad the Handyman”, told a series ofantidotes about the lessons helearned from his father while on thefarm. Steckelberg received the BestSpeaker award.

The Table topics Master Steve

Anderson was welcomed by toast-master Muriel Stach. Andersonquestioned members about familysummer vacations. The BestRespondent was Schweitzer, whowishes to vacation in “Bermudawithout a cell phone but with lots oflow-key beach time”.

ASHHT TOASTMASTER CLUBOn June 17, Toastmaster MJ

Rogers called the Avera SacredHeart Hospital Toastmasters Club toorder at the Benedictine Center atnoon. He introduced guest DarrellAdamson. Then Rogers told sever-al facts about Flag Day and askedMelissa Bader to lead the pledgeand the invocation.

Speakers were Taylor O'Bryan,“Get Organized with Quicken” andMandy Bell, “Drive”. O'Bryan pro-moted organizational skills usingelectronic helps and Bell promotedreading a self-help book about whatreally motivates people. Bell tookthe Best Speaker award.

General Evaluator DavidFiebelkorn named the speech eval-uators. They were Jennifer Wubbenfor Bell and Bader for O'Bryan.Wubben gave Bell credit for notusing notes and for creating interestin the topic. Fiebelkorn presentedWubben with the Best Evaluator tro-phy.

Eileen O'Connor used severalAmericanized Yiddish words toinspire creative impromptu speech-es from the members. The 3-way tiefor Best Respondent went to KaryBeltz, Sheryl Schwartz and MurielStach.

The rest of Fiebelkorn'sEvaluation team consisted of Beltzas the “ah” counter, Schwartz as thetimer, and Steve Anderson as gram-marian. Anderson's word of the daywas “scuttle”, with suggested usesnot only for boating but also for per-sonal lives.

AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARYYankton American Legion

Auxiliary met on June 21, 20 10,President Betty Adam presiding.

Gert Boyles reported on GirlsState recently held at the Universityof South Dakota; Yankton girlsserved in several positions and onereceived a scholarship; alsoAuxiliary members helped at regis-tration, worked in the “store” andattended Friday nights’ finale.

Helen Simpson, Membershipchairman, said we ended the yearwith 112 members, five new VIMmemberships, four new members,two deaths and one unpaid mem-bership; Helen asked the ladies tohelp recruit new members; she alsoasked for any changes in names,phone numbers or addresses fornext year’s member books.

President Betty read correspon-dence from District SevenPresident, Kathy Hornstra.

Mae Tienken gave an interestingreport on the American Legion &Auxiliary Convention recently heldat Spearfish, SD. The winner of theSamsung Scholarship given at GirlsState was present and spoke as didthe National Auxiliary President.

As the installing officer, Gertinstalled the following persons toserve for the 2010-2011 year:President – Betty Adams; lst VicePresident - Joyce List; 2nd VicePresident – Theresa Brandt;Secretary – Sue Koepp; Treasurer –Priscilla Mazourek; Sergeant atArms – Martha List & Mary Kuchta;Chaplain – Kathleen Ekeren.

The ten cent cup was won byMarillyn Obr, she donated it to theAuxiliary.

A delicious lunch was served byMarillyn Obr and Floris Woodhouse.

There will be NO meetings inJuly and August, the next meetingwill be September 20 and the pro-gram given by Girl Staters. Lunch

hostesses will be Judy Eisenmengerand Helen Simpson.

CATHOLIC DAUGHTERSCOURT WILLARD #967

The June meeting opened with theinstallation of new officers for the newterm. District Deputy Kathy Harenswas mistress of ceremonies and leadthe new officers in their pledge ofoffice. New officers are Janice Cass,Regent; Bev Schmidt, Vice Regent;Kerri Konechne, Financial Secretary;Mary Althoff, Secretary; and MaryJohnson, Treasurer. Representingthe State Court was Second ViceRegent Barb Wiechmann fromWagner, SD.

Court chaplain Msgr Hermanngave a blessing to the new officersand Fr Bob Lacey, State Chaplain,addressed the membership briefly.A Court reception followed the cere-mony with the June committee serv-ing ice cream sundaes.

Regent Janice Cass opened abrief business meeting.

Old business: • Memorial Flags were placed in

the Yankton cemeteries on thegraves of deceased members.Many members met and placed theflags on the Thursday beforeMemorial Day and the Lemon familycollected them the following week.

Leah Smith volunteered to makeabout 10 additional flags.

• Thanks to all the outgoing offi-cers for their service the past twoyears, and to Sherryl O’Rourke forher beautiful work with the Courtnewsletter.

New Business: • Pillow Cleaning with Kraft

Pillowing cleaning service will beheld at Link Auditorium, Friday July9th, 2010. Posters were available toadvertise the event.

• House Of Mary Shrine July10th, 2010 Bishop Swain will cele-brate a Mass to dedicate a new StJoseph statue for St Joseph’schapel at the shrine. Ct Willard willbe serving a brunch following theMass.

• Spiritual retreat for all CDAmembers will be held at Broomtree ,Oct 8-10, 2010, with Fr Bob Laceyas the retreat master. Sign up withform from May State Newspaper.

• Announced that we will be pub-lishing a membership booklet withthe new committees for next year.

• More members are needed forleading the rosary for wake servic-es.

The meeting was adjourned andMsgr Hermann lead us in a closingprayer.

HOMETOWNNEWSYankton Daily Press & Dakotan ■ Saturday, June 26, 2010www.yankton.net PAGE 3B

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M E E T I N G M I N U T E S

SISTER CLEOPHA WINNERS

Jodi Salvatori, RN, ICU, andMelissa Kludt, RN, Peds of AveraSacred Heart Hospital, are therecipients of the 2010 SisterCleopha Scholarship forContinuing Education.

The Sister CleophaScholarship was established as ascholarship for nursing staff ofAvera Sacred Heart Hospital toattend workshops. This scholar-ship was established through theBenedictine Health Foundation

as a permanent scholarship inthe memory of Sr. Cleopha.

Salvatori, used the scholar-ship to attend the Press Ganeysymposium “Improving theHealth of Heath Care.” Kludtused her scholarship to attend aconference in Wyoming on HotTopics in Primary Care. Theaward was presented to Salvatoriand Kludt by Kelly Kathol,Executive Director of theBenedictine Health Foundation.

SUBMITTED PHOTOJodi Salvatori (left), RN, ICU, and Melissa Kludt (right), RN, Peds ofAvera Sacred Heart Hospital, are the recipients of the 2010 SisterCleopha Scholarship for Continuing Education. The award waspresented to Salvatori and Kludt by Kelly Kathol (center), ExecutiveDirector of the Benedictine Health Foundation.

Salvatori, Kludt Named SisterCleopha Scholarship Winners

Yankton Volunteer Receives JA Leadership Award The JA Worldwide®

Headquarters in ColoradoSprings, CO has honored JeralGross of First National BankSouth Dakota for his outstand-ing service and support toJunior Achievement ofYankton’s economic educationefforts. Jeral was recently pre-sented with the JA WorldwideBronze Leadership Award at theJA Yankton board retreat.

The Bronze LeadershipAward recognizes superior lead-ership and support for JuniorAchievement. Jeral has servedas the Board Chair, Fund DriveChair and he has been an activevolunteer in the classroom.

"We are proud to have Jeralas part of our team and appreci-ate his dedication and guidance.His commitment and leadershipto JA of Yankton has been

invaluable." said Kristie Fiegen,President of Junior Achievementof South Dakota, Inc.

Junior Achievement ofYankton provided traditionalprogramming in 33 public andprivate classrooms and reachedover 700 students during the2009-10 school year. In addi-tion, 15 executive-level volun-teers impacted over 200 highschool students with ethics edu-cation through JA Excellingthrough Ethics. Across SouthDakota, JA volunteers impactedover 43,000 students in the2009-10 school year. Theseclassroom volunteers served asrole models and used hands-onactivities to teach young peopleabout financial literacy, entre-preneurship, and work readi-ness.

SUBMITTED PHOTOKayla Bickett, JA District Director, presents the JuniorAchievement Bronze Leadership Award to Jeral Gross of FirstNational Bank South Dakota during the JA Yankton annual boardretreat.

RIVERBOAT DAYS DONATION

SUBMITTED PHOTOPictured is Cleo Reiff of Wal-Mart presenting a check to DickHunhoff, a member of the Board of Directors of Yankton RiverboatDays. Riverboat Days is one of the region’s largest celebrations.Hundereds of volunteers make this free event possible. It consistsof top-notch entertainment, a parade, arts and crafts, food vendors,continuous shows in the apitheater and many more forms of enter-tainment. The date of this year’s Riverboat Days is Aug. 20-22.

RECYCLING ELECTRONICS

People were anxious, asalways, to get rid of thoseunwanted and outdated com-puters and TVs at theElectronic Recycling collec-tions hosted by the NortheastNebraska ResourceConservation & Development(RC&D) Council and the Cityof Wayne. The horse trailer,van, pickups, and trucksquickly filled up! Eighteen(18) volunteers were glad toassist by unloading all the oldelectronic equipment thatarrived. These environmen-tally-friendly events are agreat way to practice goodstewardship of naturalresources.

The collections atNiobrara, Plainview andWayne brought in 334 moni-tors, laptops, and TVs, all ofwhich have hazardous materi-

als in them. Other items recy-cled were towers, printers,keyboards, computer mice,VCRs, telephones, power sup-plies, bunches of cords,speakers, and more. Peoplecame from 12 communitiesand 136 households and busi-nesses were served.

The Northeast NebraskaRC&D has previously spon-sored three events like this in2006, five in 2008 and three in2009 in cooperation with theDepartment of EnvironmentalQuality granting programs.This year there were no grantdollars used for this project.

The RC&D Council is madeup of private citizens doingpublic good. Two of their pri-orities, protecting the environ-ment and conservingresources, coupled with citizenneed guided their desire tohost these recycling events.

RC&D Hosts ElectronicsRecycling Event In Nebraska

SUBMITTED PHOTOPictured are a few of the items collected during the RC&Delectronics Recycling Event held recently in Nebraska.

BOY’S AND GIRL’S CLUB

SUBMITTED PHOTOFirst Dakota’s Market Manager, Marc Mooney is shown presentinga check in the amount of $5,000 to the Yankton Boys & Girls ClubUnit Director, Mike Johnson. Also on hand for the presentation wasRob Ness, Operations Officer of First Dakota, and J.D. O’Grady,Just For Kids (JFK) Unit Director, along with many of the childrenwho enjoy the benefits of the Club.

WOMEN’S SHELTER

SUBMITTED PHOTOYankton’s First United Methodist Church Worship Committee soldhearts (in honor of or in memory of) for Mother’s Day as a fund rais-er for the Yankton Women’s/Children Center. They raised $355.00for the Center. Pictured L to R: Rural Advocate Camille Mertins,Worship Committee Chairman Evie Sime, Executive DirectorDesiree Slaba and Pastoral Assistant Bob Cappel.