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PIONEER REVIEW $ 1 00 Includes Tax A Publication of Ravellette Publications, Inc., Philip, South Dakota 57567. The Official Newspaper of Haakon County, South Dakota. Copyright 1981. Number 13 Volume 106 November 17, 2011 by Nancy Haigh The Philip City Council made quick work of agenda items, in- cluding the Lake Waggoner Dam inspection report, at their meeting Tuesday, November 8. The council and Public Works Director Matt Reckling discussed a report from the Department of Environment and Natural Re- sources regarding an August 11, 2011, inspection of Lake Wag- goner. Recommendations included re- moval of trees and brush from the embankment, spillway structure and secondary spillway channel, add more riprap to areas that are currently inadequate, repair the gabion wall and replace riprap in the basin area and monitor any seepage below the dam. The coun- cil requested that Reckling’s de- partment repair areas that they can. For areas that require equip- ment the city does not have, Reck- ling is to get quotes on the work. Reckling said that for the area of repair below the dam he would need to have another person look at the structure and make a rec- ommendation. The city has their worker’s com- pensation insurance through South Dakota Municipal League, which has recommended that all municipalities replace chop saws used for cutting cement with a saw that is designed like a chain saw. The organization has teamed up with Stan Houston Equipment Company, Inc. and ICS, the saw manufacturer, to proved cities with a 50/50 match grant. The council approved for Finance Offi- cer Monna Van Lint to apply for the grant. Brian Pearson, water department superintendent, will also look at a demonstration of the saw and report back to the council. The council was informed that their premium for the 2012 worker’s comp. insurance would be $8,648. This is an increase of $871 over 2011’s insurance. The board approved the contract. The council approved for the fi- nance office to update their non- sufficient funds check policy. The policy now states after the first of- fense the city will not accept any checks or automatic clearing house payments until all fees have been collected. After a second offense there will be no checks or ACH payments accepted for six months. The third offense is no checks or ACH payments for a period of 24 months. Building permits were approved for Ralph McQuirk (for Paul Elshere) to repair a sewer line, Dean Fitzgerald to renew a permit for a concrete loading pad, for Mike Moses to renew his concrete pad permit, Matt Reckling for a chain link fence and Charles Van Vleck to demolish a shed, install a garage and concrete slab and a deck. The council approved the second reading for Ordinance #2011-11. The ordinance amends chapters one and two of the revised city or- dinances for municipal organiza- tion, officers and employees. Reckling and the council dis- cussed options for the 1986 Case W14B loader that is at Kennedy Implement for repairs. Reckling was advised to report back to the council on the cost of the repairs. They will then decide to repair or put it up for sale next spring. The council approved adding the Corner Pantry to the city’s fuel ro- tation schedule as MG Oil and the city of Philip had worked out a charge agreement. Delta Dental’s increase in dental insurance for next year was ap- proved. Single and family policies saw about a four percent increase for 2012. In reviewing the water purchase agreement with West River/ Lyman-Jones Water System, the board approved to have the con- tract adjusted. The dissolution of the Bad River Rural Water System affects the total amount of water required by Philip. The water sys- tem purchased water from Philip but now those users purchase water directly from WR/LJ. Van Lint estimated the amount would drop by 60,000 gallons per day. If the city requested an adjustment City council makes quick work of agenda Tuesday to their peak water charge, it could save $300 to $500 per month. The council approved for Van Lint to request the contract change. Coun- cilman Mike Vetter abstained. The city council was informed that the Lake Waggoner Golf Course had signed the lease con- sulting and management agree- ment with the city, the city has completed the lead and copper sampling for 2011, that nuisance abatement charges have been as- sessed against a property in city limits, the airport operating li- cense application for 2012 had been submitted, and that the city’s State Water Plan application will be heard during the South Dakota Board of Water and Natural Re- source meeting. Reviewed by the council were the police report, a request for fi- nancial contribution to the Coun- try Cupboard food pantry for fu- ture years, airport lighting and land acquisition/environmental as- sessment projects, city financial status up to October 31, and air- port fuel sales. Pearson and Van Lint were ap- proved to attend meetings. The meeting minutes from October and last month’s bills were also ap- proved. The city offices will be closed No- vember 24 and 25 for the Thanks- giving holiday. The city council’s next meeting will be Monday, December 5, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the courthouse com- munity room. Area Senior Health Information and Insurance Education (SHIINE) volunteer counselor Enid Schulz urges seniors to review their Medicare Part D plans before the De- cember 7 deadline. Schulz said the policy should be reveiwed annually as most compa- nies change their coverage and pre- miums on an annual basis. Also, since the program began 20 compa- nies have dropped out of South Dakota. Schulz said she has one client who will save $1,800 this year after re- viewing their policy. She said every little bit of savings helps when you’re on a fixed income, even if it’s $160 a year. Schulz can be contacted at 859- 2145. If she is unable to come to the phone, she urges people to leave their name and number, she will return their call. The mission of SHIINE is to advo- cate for, inform, educate and assist consumers on Medicare and related health information and insurance is- sues so consumers can make timely, informed decisions and access re- sources to meet their needs. SHIINE has staff and trained vol- unteer counselors available statewide to assist people, free of charge, who have problems or ques- tions regarding Medicare benefits. SHIINE is not affiliated with any company that sells or distributes a product or service. SHIINE is committed to providing free, confidential and unbiased infor- mation to Medicare beneficiaries. West River Supervisor Debbie Stan- gle can be reached at 1-877-286-8072 or 342-8635. Medicare Part D open enrollment December deadline draws near by Nancy Haigh A baby’s cries in the early hours of the morning lead to the discov- ery of a chimney fire in Philip Monday, November 7. Harrold Iwan, Jr., had gotten up to tend to his girlfriend’s son, La- then Jackson, when he discovered the wall by the crib was extremely hot. The 11-month-old baby nor- mally sleeps through the night, but had been sick lately and they believe that is why he was awake. Iwan went downstairs to wake his mother, Karen Iwan, who owns the house, and let her know he thought they had a chimney fire. They checked the wall in the kitchen and it was hot also. K. Iwan said they checked the chim- ney outside but only saw smoke. They tried different tactics, like shutting the damper down, and kept monitoring the walls. After about a half hour they looked out- side again and saw flames coming from the chimney. At that point they called the fire department and got the other four people, Samie and Lathen Jackson, Kyle Iwan, and Holly Iwan, and the pets out of the house. The Philip Volunteer Fire De- partment arrived at about 2:40 a.m. Matt Reckling, fire chief, said when the department arrived the fire was shooting sparks out of the chimney. Reckling said the fire was con- tained to the chimney. He added that when the department extin- guished the flames the chimney cracked and smoke seeped into the house. K. Iwan said the damage was small compared to what it could have been. The chimney is cracked and some of the bricks melted. No water damage to speak of; mostly smoke damage. She said the flames were contained to the chim- ney. Karen said they didn’t know how close they were to losing the house until afterwards when they spoke to the firefighters. Had they waited any longer it could have Tragedy averted when baby awakens family turned out so differently. K. Iwan said they had started a fire in the woodstove the Wednes- day before the fire and the boys had checked the chimney and it looked clear. They had been using the woodstove continously since Thursday prior to the fire. They do have a fuel oil furnace, but it had stopped working. Since the fire, they have been using space heaters and shutting them off at night. Reckling said the chimney had definitely been plugged. The fire department was able to extinguish the fire in short order. The house itself did not sustain any damage. Those living in the house were not injured in the fire. Some of the family spent the remainder of the night at the home of a relative. K. Iwan said their chimney had not been cleaned in several years. Be sure to check yours this year. Reckling said that families need to check the batteries in their smoke detectors, too. Clarification Portions of last week's St. William church story by Barbara Jones was quoted from a history story written by Elizabeth Nemec. Barbara wanted to make sure Elizabeth received credit for her work too. by Nancy Haigh Another rural school falls by the wayside as the Haakon School Dis- trict Board of Education approved to surplus the Ottumwa school building at their meeting Monday, November 14. The school was last used during the 2003-2004 school year. Area parents fought to keep the school open, to no avail. At the time, the board stated it could possibly re- open in the future. The building is a 1974 16’x70’ mobile home. The board is taking sealed bids on the building and will open them at the next meeting. Extra-curricular contracts were approved for Keven Morehart, as- sitant wrestling coach, Deb Smith, annual, Pat Guptill, head girls’ basksetball coach, Tayta West, junior high girls’ basketball coach, and Brad Haynes, assistant boys’ basketball coach. The position for assistant girls’ basketball coach is still open. Scott Brech was named as the board’s representative on the local geothermal district. A contract for the geothermal system was tabled until the December meeting. Secondary Principal Jeff Rieck- man reminded the board that the junior high and high school winter concerts are set for Tuesday, No- vember 29, and Tuesday, Decem- ber 6, respectively. The second quarter grade check is November 23, which is the day classes dis- miss at 1:30 for Thanksgiving break. Superintendent Morehart re- minded the board that the staff School surpluses Ottumwa school building meeting will be November 16. The South Dakota Legislative Audit approved the audit done by Casey Peterson & Associates. The board was given the packet to review and will discuss findings at the next meeting. The board approved to surplus a 1983 blue Ford pickup as it is now inoperable. Also surplused were five 30”x60” metal teacher desks. If anyone is interested in any of the items they can contact the business office. The board approved meeting minutes from October 17, financial reports as of October 31 and last month’s purchases. The board’s next meeting will be Monday, December 19, at 6:00 p.m. by Nancy Haigh Some members of the Philip Chamber of Commerce would like to bring a nationally known per- former to next year’s Philip Fesit- val Days celebration. Branden West and Beau Ravel- lette presented the proposal at the chamber’s meeting Monday night at the 73– Saloon. They would like to see the event grow and believe that combining the annual matched bronc ride with a concert, more people would come to Philip. Ravellette said by spending upward of $30,000 they could bring in a recognizable name and double the amount of people that come to the annual bronc ride. West said he would like to hold the concert after the bronc ride. He proposed bringing a flatbed trailer into the arena for the concert. Discussion revolved around seating, parking, the start timeand ticket price. West said they could start the bronc ride earlier if needed. West said he envisioned the concert as more of a standing versus sitting event. He felt there would be enough parking around the area for the crowd, if surround- ing land was utilized. West said he believed a $30 ticket price would possibly be enough to cover both events, but that could be changed. Matt Reedy voiced concerns over losing that amount of money if it did not work. He was also con- cerned with there being enough seating for everyone. He said it would be real easy to wreck this in the first year if things did not go well. Reedy also brought up that Philip chamber looks at possible concert venue for next Festival Days other expenses would increase dra- matically. Four times as much se- curity detail would be needed as well as insurance and little things like portable toilets. West said he would like a deci- sion as soon as possible so that the event could be promoted at the Black Hills Stock Show early next year. There were not enough chamber members to vote on the issue so ac- tion was tabled until the December meeeting. West and Ravellette were asked to have a budget for both events, and more detailed plans for parking, ticket prices, etc., for the next meeting. The remainder of the meeting, new officers and a membership drive, were tabled until the next meeting, December 12 at 7:00 p.m. at The Steakhouse. Blankets for shelter ... October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Emily Wickstrom, advocate from the Missouri Shores Domestic Violence Shelter in Pierre, presented information to the Philip family and consumer sciences class and family living class on domestic violence on October 19. As part of the Philip Family Career and Community Leaders of America chapter's community service project, members of the FACS classes made six fleece blankets which were presented to the advocate for children who use the shelter. The Philip FCCLA chapter and FACS students have made approximately 100 fleece blan- kets to donate to domestic violence shel- ters over the last 20 years. Brigitte Brucklacher is the Philip FCCLA ad- viser and FACS teacher. Pictured above is the FACS class. Back row from left Blake Martinez, Tristen Rush, Austin Pinney and Paul Guptill. Middle row from left are Bailey Anders, Courtney Bartlett, Ashton Reedy, Brett Carley, Katlin Knutson, Peyton DeJong and Nelson Holman. Front row from left are Wickstrom, Afton Burns, Tyana Gottsleben, Amanda McIlvray, Ted'Dee Buffalo and Todd Antonson. Pictured right from left are the FCS students pictured with Wickstrom, Sayde Slovek, LaRae Van Tassel and Kelvin Ferguson. Courtesy Photo Flag presentation ... Members of Philip’s Forty &Eight group from the American Legion gave a presentation to Philip’s first grade class last Thursday. Each student was also given a flag. Forty &Eight members back row from left are Ron Millage, Marvin Denke, Don Olivier, Duke Westerberg,Phil Pearson, and first grade teacher Jayne Gottsleben. Students in the third row from left are Danessa Heltzel, Gracie Fitzgerald, Taylor Ross, Colby Fosheim, Karlie Coyle, Romy Andrus, McKenna McIlravy and Jason Davis. Second row from from left are Levi Williams, Macy Martin, Rehgan Larson, Gage Ravellette, Layton Terkildsen and Brandon Carpenter. Front row from left are Eastan West, Ali Schofield, Wyatt Schriever, Jesse Fillingim, Hannah Thorson and Tanner Hajny. Not pictured is Derek Fugate. Photo by Nancy Haigh

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PIONEER REVIEW

$100Includes Tax

A Publication of Ravellette Publications, Inc., Philip, South Dakota 57567. The Official Newspaper of Haakon County, South Dakota. Copyright 1981.

Number 13Volume 106

November 17, 2011

by Nancy Haigh The Philip City Council madequick work of agenda items, in-cluding the Lake Waggoner Daminspection report, at their meetingTuesday, November 8. The council and Public WorksDirector Matt Reckling discusseda report from the Department ofEnvironment and Natural Re-sources regarding an August 11,2011, inspection of Lake Wag-goner. Recommendations included re-moval of trees and brush from theembankment, spillway structureand secondary spillway channel,add more riprap to areas that arecurrently inadequate, repair thegabion wall and replace riprap inthe basin area and monitor anyseepage below the dam. The coun-cil requested that Reckling’s de-partment repair areas that theycan. For areas that require equip-ment the city does not have, Reck-ling is to get quotes on the work.Reckling said that for the area ofrepair below the dam he wouldneed to have another person lookat the structure and make a rec-ommendation. The city has their worker’s com-pensation insurance throughSouth Dakota Municipal League,which has recommended that allmunicipalities replace chop sawsused for cutting cement with a sawthat is designed like a chain saw.The organization has teamed upwith Stan Houston EquipmentCompany, Inc. and ICS, the sawmanufacturer, to proved citieswith a 50/50 match grant. Thecouncil approved for Finance Offi-cer Monna Van Lint to apply forthe grant. Brian Pearson, waterdepartment superintendent, willalso look at a demonstration of thesaw and report back to the council. The council was informed thattheir premium for the 2012worker’s comp. insurance would be$8,648. This is an increase of $871over 2011’s insurance. The boardapproved the contract. The council approved for the fi-nance office to update their non-sufficient funds check policy. Thepolicy now states after the first of-fense the city will not accept anychecks or automatic clearing housepayments until all fees have beencollected. After a second offensethere will be no checks or ACHpayments accepted for six months.The third offense is no checks orACH payments for a period of 24months. Building permits were approvedfor Ralph McQuirk (for PaulElshere) to repair a sewer line,Dean Fitzgerald to renew a permitfor a concrete loading pad, forMike Moses to renew his concretepad permit, Matt Reckling for a

chain link fence and Charles VanVleck to demolish a shed, install agarage and concrete slab and adeck. The council approved the secondreading for Ordinance #2011-11.The ordinance amends chaptersone and two of the revised city or-dinances for municipal organiza-tion, officers and employees. Reckling and the council dis-cussed options for the 1986 CaseW14B loader that is at KennedyImplement for repairs. Recklingwas advised to report back to thecouncil on the cost of the repairs.They will then decide to repair orput it up for sale next spring. The council approved adding theCorner Pantry to the city’s fuel ro-tation schedule as MG Oil and thecity of Philip had worked out acharge agreement. Delta Dental’s increase in dentalinsurance for next year was ap-proved. Single and family policiessaw about a four percent increasefor 2012. In reviewing the water purchaseagreement with West River/Lyman-Jones Water System, theboard approved to have the con-tract adjusted. The dissolution ofthe Bad River Rural Water Systemaffects the total amount of waterrequired by Philip. The water sys-tem purchased water from Philipbut now those users purchasewater directly from WR/LJ. VanLint estimated the amount woulddrop by 60,000 gallons per day. Ifthe city requested an adjustment

City council makes quick work of agenda Tuesday to their peak water charge, it couldsave $300 to $500 per month. Thecouncil approved for Van Lint torequest the contract change. Coun-cilman Mike Vetter abstained. The city council was informedthat the Lake Waggoner GolfCourse had signed the lease con-sulting and management agree-ment with the city, the city hascompleted the lead and coppersampling for 2011, that nuisanceabatement charges have been as-sessed against a property in citylimits, the airport operating li-cense application for 2012 hadbeen submitted, and that the city’sState Water Plan application willbe heard during the South DakotaBoard of Water and Natural Re-source meeting. Reviewed by the council werethe police report, a request for fi-nancial contribution to the Coun-try Cupboard food pantry for fu-ture years, airport lighting andland acquisition/environmental as-sessment projects, city financialstatus up to October 31, and air-port fuel sales. Pearson and Van Lint were ap-proved to attend meetings. Themeeting minutes from October andlast month’s bills were also ap-proved. The city offices will be closed No-vember 24 and 25 for the Thanks-giving holiday. The city council’s next meetingwill be Monday, December 5, 2011,at 7:00 p.m. in the courthouse com-munity room.

Area Senior Health Informationand Insurance Education (SHIINE)volunteer counselor Enid Schulzurges seniors to review theirMedicare Part D plans before the De-cember 7 deadline. Schulz said the policy should bereveiwed annually as most compa-nies change their coverage and pre-miums on an annual basis. Also,since the program began 20 compa-nies have dropped out of SouthDakota. Schulz said she has one client whowill save $1,800 this year after re-viewing their policy. She said everylittle bit of savings helps when you’reon a fixed income, even if it’s $160 ayear. Schulz can be contacted at 859-2145. If she is unable to come to thephone, she urges people to leave theirname and number, she will returntheir call. The mission of SHIINE is to advo-cate for, inform, educate and assistconsumers on Medicare and related

health information and insurance is-sues so consumers can make timely,informed decisions and access re-sources to meet their needs. SHIINE has staff and trained vol-unteer counselors availablestatewide to assist people, free ofcharge, who have problems or ques-tions regarding Medicare benefits.SHIINE is not affiliated with anycompany that sells or distributes aproduct or service. SHIINE is committed to providingfree, confidential and unbiased infor-mation to Medicare beneficiaries.West River Supervisor Debbie Stan-gle can be reached at 1-877-286-8072or 342-8635.

Medicare Part D open enrollmentDecember deadline draws near

by Nancy Haigh A baby’s cries in the early hoursof the morning lead to the discov-ery of a chimney fire in PhilipMonday, November 7. Harrold Iwan, Jr., had gotten upto tend to his girlfriend’s son, La-then Jackson, when he discoveredthe wall by the crib was extremelyhot. The 11-month-old baby nor-mally sleeps through the night,but had been sick lately and theybelieve that is why he was awake. Iwan went downstairs to wakehis mother, Karen Iwan, who ownsthe house, and let her know hethought they had a chimney fire.They checked the wall in thekitchen and it was hot also. K.Iwan said they checked the chim-ney outside but only saw smoke.They tried different tactics, likeshutting the damper down, andkept monitoring the walls. Afterabout a half hour they looked out-side again and saw flames comingfrom the chimney. At that pointthey called the fire department

and got the other four people,Samie and Lathen Jackson, KyleIwan, and Holly Iwan, and thepets out of the house. The Philip Volunteer Fire De-partment arrived at about 2:40a.m. Matt Reckling, fire chief, saidwhen the department arrived thefire was shooting sparks out of thechimney. Reckling said the fire was con-tained to the chimney. He addedthat when the department extin-guished the flames the chimneycracked and smoke seeped into thehouse. K. Iwan said the damage wassmall compared to what it couldhave been. The chimney is crackedand some of the bricks melted. Nowater damage to speak of; mostlysmoke damage. She said theflames were contained to the chim-ney. Karen said they didn’t knowhow close they were to losing thehouse until afterwards when theyspoke to the firefighters. Had theywaited any longer it could have

Tragedy averted when baby awakens familyturned out so differently. K. Iwan said they had started afire in the woodstove the Wednes-day before the fire and the boyshad checked the chimney and itlooked clear. They had been usingthe woodstove continously sinceThursday prior to the fire. They dohave a fuel oil furnace, but it hadstopped working. Since the fire,they have been using spaceheaters and shutting them off atnight. Reckling said the chimney haddefinitely been plugged. The firedepartment was able to extinguishthe fire in short order. The houseitself did not sustain any damage. Those living in the house werenot injured in the fire. Some of thefamily spent the remainder of thenight at the home of a relative. K. Iwan said their chimney hadnot been cleaned in several years.Be sure to check yours this year.Reckling said that families need tocheck the batteries in their smokedetectors, too.

ClarificationPortions of last week's St. William

church story by Barbara Jones wasquoted from a history story writtenby Elizabeth Nemec. Barbara wantedto make sure Elizabeth receivedcredit for her work too.

by Nancy Haigh Another rural school falls by thewayside as the Haakon School Dis-trict Board of Education approvedto surplus the Ottumwa schoolbuilding at their meeting Monday,November 14. The school was last used duringthe 2003-2004 school year. Areaparents fought to keep the schoolopen, to no avail. At the time, theboard stated it could possibly re-open in the future. The building isa 1974 16’x70’ mobile home. Theboard is taking sealed bids on thebuilding and will open them at thenext meeting. Extra-curricular contracts wereapproved for Keven Morehart, as-sitant wrestling coach, Deb Smith,annual, Pat Guptill, head girls’basksetball coach, Tayta West,

junior high girls’ basketball coach,and Brad Haynes, assistant boys’basketball coach. The position forassistant girls’ basketball coach isstill open. Scott Brech was named as theboard’s representative on the localgeothermal district. A contract forthe geothermal system was tableduntil the December meeting. Secondary Principal Jeff Rieck-man reminded the board that thejunior high and high school winterconcerts are set for Tuesday, No-vember 29, and Tuesday, Decem-ber 6, respectively. The secondquarter grade check is November23, which is the day classes dis-miss at 1:30 for Thanksgivingbreak. Superintendent Morehart re-minded the board that the staff

School surpluses Ottumwa school buildingmeeting will be November 16. TheSouth Dakota Legislative Auditapproved the audit done by CaseyPeterson & Associates. The boardwas given the packet to review andwill discuss findings at the nextmeeting. The board approved to surplus a1983 blue Ford pickup as it is nowinoperable. Also surplused werefive 30”x60” metal teacher desks.If anyone is interested in any ofthe items they can contact thebusiness office. The board approved meetingminutes from October 17, financialreports as of October 31 and lastmonth’s purchases. The board’s next meeting will beMonday, December 19, at 6:00p.m.

by Nancy Haigh Some members of the PhilipChamber of Commerce would liketo bring a nationally known per-former to next year’s Philip Fesit-val Days celebration. Branden West and Beau Ravel-lette presented the proposal at thechamber’s meeting Monday nightat the 73– Saloon. They would like to see the eventgrow and believe that combiningthe annual matched bronc ridewith a concert, more people wouldcome to Philip. Ravellette said byspending upward of $30,000 theycould bring in a recognizable nameand double the amount of peoplethat come to the annual bronc ride. West said he would like to holdthe concert after the bronc ride. Heproposed bringing a flatbed trailerinto the arena for the concert.

Discussion revolved aroundseating, parking, the start timeandticket price. West said they couldstart the bronc ride earlier ifneeded. West said he envisionedthe concert as more of a standingversus sitting event. He felt therewould be enough parking aroundthe area for the crowd, if surround-ing land was utilized. West saidhe believed a $30 ticket pricewould possibly be enough to coverboth events, but that could bechanged. Matt Reedy voiced concerns overlosing that amount of money if itdid not work. He was also con-cerned with there being enoughseating for everyone. He said itwould be real easy to wreck this inthe first year if things did not gowell. Reedy also brought up that

Philip chamber looks at possible concert venue for next Festival Days

other expenses would increase dra-matically. Four times as much se-curity detail would be needed aswell as insurance and little thingslike portable toilets. West said he would like a deci-sion as soon as possible so that theevent could be promoted at theBlack Hills Stock Show early nextyear. There were not enough chambermembers to vote on the issue so ac-tion was tabled until the Decembermeeeting. West and Ravellettewere asked to have a budget forboth events, and more detailedplans for parking, ticket prices,etc., for the next meeting. The remainder of the meeting,new officers and a membershipdrive, were tabled until the nextmeeting, December 12 at 7:00 p.m.at The Steakhouse.

Blankets for shelter ... October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Emily Wickstrom, advocate from theMissouri Shores Domestic Violence Shelter in Pierre, presented information to the Philip family and consumer sciencesclass and family living class on domestic violence on October 19. As part of the Philip Family Career and CommunityLeaders of America chapter's community service project, members of the FACS classes made six fleece blankets whichwere presented to the advocate for children who use the shelter. The Philip FCCLA chapter and FACS students havemade approximately 100 fleece blan-kets to donate to domestic violence shel-ters over the last 20 years. BrigitteBrucklacher is the Philip FCCLA ad-viser and FACS teacher. Pictured aboveis the FACS class. Back row from leftBlake Martinez, Tristen Rush, AustinPinney and Paul Guptill. Middle rowfrom left are Bailey Anders, CourtneyBartlett, Ashton Reedy, Brett Carley,Katlin Knutson, Peyton DeJong andNelson Holman. Front row from leftare Wickstrom, Afton Burns, TyanaGottsleben, Amanda McIlvray, Ted'DeeBuffalo and Todd Antonson. Picturedright from left are the FCS studentspictured with Wickstrom, SaydeSlovek, LaRae Van Tassel and KelvinFerguson. Courtesy Photo

Flag presentation ... Members of Philip’s Forty &Eight group from the American Legion gave a presentation toPhilip’s first grade class last Thursday. Each student was also given a flag. Forty &Eight members back row from leftare Ron Millage, Marvin Denke, Don Olivier, Duke Westerberg,Phil Pearson, and first grade teacher Jayne Gottsleben.Students in the third row from left are Danessa Heltzel, Gracie Fitzgerald, Taylor Ross, Colby Fosheim, Karlie Coyle,Romy Andrus, McKenna McIlravy and Jason Davis. Second row from from left are Levi Williams, Macy Martin, RehganLarson, Gage Ravellette, Layton Terkildsen and Brandon Carpenter. Front row from left are Eastan West, Ali Schofield,Wyatt Schriever, Jesse Fillingim, Hannah Thorson and Tanner Hajny. Not pictured is Derek Fugate.

Photo by Nancy Haigh

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MILESVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT … will hold its an-nual meeting on Monday, December 5, at 7:00 p.m. at the EastSide Fire Hall. Everyone welcome!

MILESVILLE HALL ANNUAL MEETING … will be heldMonday, November 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the hall. There will bean election of two directors.

To have your NON-PROFIT meeting listed here, pleasesubmit them by calling: 859-2516, or e-mailing to:ads@pioneer-review. com. We will run your event no-tice the two issues prior to your event at no charge.

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weather forecast–––––––––––––––––––––––Wednesday Night: Mostly clear. Lows around 15. Southwest

winds 5 to 10 mph.Thursday: Mostly sunny. Highs around 50. South winds 5 to

15 mph. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.Friday: Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Friday Night:

Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Lows in the lower20s.

Saturday: Snow likely. Light snow accumulations. Highs in theupper 20s. Chance of snow 70 percent. Saturday Night: Mostlycloudy in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows around11.

Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s. Sunday Night:Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lowsaround 19.

Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Log on to www.pioneer-review.com for all

of the latest weather updates for your area.

The Philip FFA chapter traveledto Lemmon Monday, November 14to particpate in the regional careerdevelopment event. The top three placings in indi-vidual events will move on to thestate competition in Pierre. Thetop two placings in group cate-gories advance to state. Creed speaking: Justina Cvach -4th, Ben Stangle - 10th. Extemporanious speaking:Colter Cvach - 1st, Nick Hamill -

4th. Public speaking: Sam Haigh -3rd, Seth Haigh - 4th. Ag job sales: Wyatt Johnson -3rd, Wyatt Schaak - 8th. Job interview: Bailey Radway -6th. Ag marketing: Philip - 2nd (CarlPoss, Gavin Snook, and ThomasDoolittle). Ag broadcasting: Doolittle - 5th,Johnson - 6th.

Philip FFA travel to Lemmon for regional CDE contest

Pusing the edge of the envelope.Genius can be described as un-precedented achievement born ofexceptional creativity.

Wolfgang A. Mozart attributessuch grand accomplishments to,“Love, love, love, that is the soul ofgenius.” The famed French aviatorand author Antoine De Saint-Exu-pery once wrote that, “If you wantto build a ship, don’t drum up peo-ple to collect wood and don’t assignthem tasks and work, but ratherteach them to long for the endlessimmensity of the sea.”

In an effort to instill the desire togo further, faster, and higher thananyone has ever gone before, theteachers and administrators of thePhilip Elementary School will onceagain be hosting the elementaryscience fair on March 22.

As in years past, science projectsare designed to be inclusive, andcan be anything from:

•building models in order to gainan understanding of a scientificconcept – i.e. model of a barometer,

•conducting a demonstration toclarify a scientific principle – i.e.how specific gravity can be used toidentify substances,

•to making a collection to in-crease their awareness of the worldaround them – i.e. insect or leaf col-lection,

•to conducting an actual investi-gation or experiment – i.e., howchanging the center of gravity ef-fects aircraft performance.

All scientific research beginswith a question, which opens thedoor to a wonderful journey of dis-covery. To navigate across timeand space, the young voyager willutilize the scientific method toguide them as other travellers haveused compasses and sextants tonavigate across uncharted seas.

Everyone who embarks uponsuch a journey is a winner, becausein so doing, they push back theboundaries of ignorance; thereby,increasing our understanding ofthe corner of the universe in whichwe live.

Time to start thinking aboutspring science fair project

Thomas Petersen trial set for April 10, 2012The Greene, Iowa, man accused

of murdering his wife will standtrial in April 2012.

Thomas Petersen, 40, was tohave stood trial on October. 18 ona single charge of first-degree mur-der in the June 4 stabbing death ofhis wife, Judy Renee Petersen, 36,at their Greene home.

Petersen's trial has now been setfor 9 a.m. April 10, 2012, in ButlerCounty District Court in Allison,Iowa.

Petersen has pleaded not guiltyto killing his wife.

He is being held in the ButlerCounty Jail in Allison on $500,000bond.

Petersen was apprehended in

Kadoka, after a police chase. Inthat incident, Petersen forced onesheriff's vehicle off the road andrammed another vehicle head-on.The incident injured a county sher-iff. The couple's two-year-old sonwas also in the car during thechase but was not hurt.

Petersen was extradited to Iowaon August. 11, although he couldstill face charges in South Dakotafor the chase.

If convicted, Petersen faces amandatory life sentence withoutany possibility of parole.

reprinted with permission--by Peggy Senzarino

Globe Gazette

Philip graduate teaching at USAF academy Daniel Lee Vaughan graduated

from Philip High School in May1994, and left for basic training inthe United States Air Force in Au-gust 1994. Having completed theMitchell Award while a member ofthe Philip Composite Squadron ofthe Civil Air Patrol, Daniel beganhis Air Force career as an airman1st class.

Vaughan then attended trainingto become a precision measure-ment equipment laboratory techni-cian at Biloxi, Miss. Vaughan’snext duty station was in Anchor-age, Alaska, where, after complet-ing his bachelor degree and beingpromoted to staff sergeant, he wasselected for the Air Force OfficerTraining School.

After graduating as a “Mustang”prior enlisted, 2nd Lt. Vaughan be-came an Air Force scientist andwas stationed first at Dayton, Ohio,then Tucson, Ariz., where heearned his master’s degree and waspromoted to captain, and finally Al-buquerque, N.M.

In July 2011, Captain Vaughanreported to the United States AirForce Academy in ColoradoSprings, Colo., where he nowteaches military history. On Octo-ber 31, the head of the history de-partment, Colonel Mark Wells, pro-moted Major Vaughan to his pres-ent rank. Vaughan’s wife, Amielyn,and his father, Lee Vaughan,Philip, pinned on his oak leaves.

The couple’s five children,Katielyn, Nathan, Isaac, Gideon,and Justin were also at the cere-mony. His mother, RobertaVaughan, was unable to attend theceremony, so grandson MatthewTerkildsen went for her.

D. Vaughan fondly recalls grow-

ing up in Philip and is especiallythankful for the opportunity of hav-ing known his high school crosscountry coach and history teacher,Herbert W. Blakley, who inspiredhis love of the subject.

Pinning of the oak leaves ... Lee Vaughan, left, was able to pin on hisson, Daniel’s, oak leaves at a recent ceremony. Amielyn Vaughan also took partin the ceremony. Courtesy Photo

Donuts for Dads ... The annual event was a huge success as the lunchroom was filled to overflowing with dads en-joying a treat with their children. The Philip Elementary School hosted the dads Thursday, November 10.

Photo by Nancy Haigh

FCCLA in Denver ... Twenty-seven members of the Philip Family Career and Community Leaders of America chap-ter attended the FCCLA cluster meeting at Denver, November 11-13. The conference included motivational speakers andeducational sessions. They traveled by chartered bus which was shared with eight members of the Lake Andes FCCLAchapter. Standing from left are Marcus Martinez, Jade Konst, Brad Huffman, Austin Davidson, Gavin Brucklacher, BlakeMartinez, Nelson Holman, Brian Pfeifle and Brad Pfeifle. Third row from left are Krista Wells, Tara Cantrell, Holly Iwan,Brett Carley, Afton Burns, Sam Johnson, LaRae Van Tassel, Rachel Wheeler, Misty Johnson and Allison Pekron. Secondrow are Tate DeJong, Tyana Gottsleben and Tara Gottsleben. Front row are Sam Stangle and Tristen Rush. Also attendingthe meeting were advisor Brigitte Brucklacher and parent-chaperones LaRae Carley and Susan Van Tassel.

Courtesy Photo

More South Dakota students aretaking Advanced Placement examsand are performing better on thoseexams, according to a report re-cently released by the CollegeBoard. Participation in Advanced Place-

ment exams has risen steadily inSouth Dakota since 2006-2007,when 1,948 students took at leastone AP exam. Last year, 2,481 stu-dents took at least one AP exam, anincrease of more than 27 percent infive years’ time. Those 2,481 stu-dents took a total of 4,207 APexams. “What’s even more impressive is

that the number of exams on whichstudents scored a three or betterincreased by 15 percent over theprevious year,” said Sarah Carter,who oversees Advanced Placementfor the state. Students who receive a score of 3

or better on an AP exam can re-ceive college credit. The pass percentage for all stu-

dents in South Dakota was 67.9percent in 2011, 10 percentagepoints higher than the national av-erage of 57.9 percent. “Increasing the rigor of the high

school experience and making sure

that our students are properly pre-pared for education beyond highschool are extremely important,”said South Dakota Secretary of Ed-ucation Melody Schopp. “AP is oneconcrete way we can ramp up therigor for our students. So, we’re ex-cited to see these results.” Schopp credits the increase in

the number of AP exam test takers,in part, to the South Dakota Vir-

tual School. Since its introductionduring school year 2007-2008, theSouth Dakota Virtual School hasexpanded to include a more robustmenu of Advanced Placementcourses, including a number of APcourses offered to students and dis-tricts for free. That allows studentsin remote areas of the state to ac-cess AP resources not available be-fore to them.

South Dakota AP students make gains

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Rural Living November 17, 2011 • The Pioneer Review • Page 3

Jones’Saddlery, Bottle & VetLocally owned & operated859-2482 • Philip

Stock up forweaning time!

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by Bob Fanningfield specialist, Winner

Regional Extension CenterWinner Regional Extension

Center Update Although the Winner RegionalExtension Center is one blocksouth of the stoplight, the correctphysical address is 325 S. MonroeSt., Winner, SD 57580. The mail-ing address is P.O. Box 270. Thatis a correction and addition fromearlier information. The telephonenumber to reach the center is 842-1267. I encourage you to call theExtension Center phone numberfirst, but if you don’t reach anyonethere, you can also call Bob’s cellphone; 730-4072.

* * * * *The Benefit of Crop Rotations

With the growing season over,and harvest wrapping up, cropproducers may want to reviewtheir crop rotations, or if you don’trotate, consider the benefits. Bydefinition, crop rotation is thepractice of growing a series of dis-similar types of crops in the samefield in sequential seasons. Some of the general purposes ofcrop rotations are to improve ormaintain soil fertility, reduce ero-sion, reduce the build-up of pests,spread the workload, reduce risk ofweather damage, reduce relianceon agricultural chemicals, and in-crease net profits. Some farmers may resist rotat-ing crops because they require ad-ditional planning andmanagement skills, making farm-ing more complex. For long-termsustainability however, particu-larly with no-till, one or more goodcrop rotations are crucial. Crop rotation provides a numberof benefits to the soil. A traditionalelement of crop rotation is the re-plenishment of nitrogen throughthe use of green manure in se-quence with cereals and othercrops. Crop rotation can also im-prove soil structure and fertility byalternating deep-rooted and shal-low-rooted plants.Pest control is often an importantreason for crop rotation. Rotationscan be used to prevent or partiallycontrol several pests and reducethe reliance on chemical and me-chanical control. A combination ofcrop rotation and pesticides isoften more effective in reducingpest populations to economic levelsthan pesticides alone. Pesticidesthat provide economical controlare not available for pests such aswhite mold in potato, dry bean,and sunflower, and crop rotationsare the only feasible controlmethod for reducing the impact ofsclerotinia. Crop rotation has tremendouspotential for reducing and oftenpreventing the transmission of dis-ease. Yields of both winter andspring wheat in much of SouthDakota in 2011 generally hadmore to do with what the previous

crop was than any other factor,and diseases were the main rea-

son. Crop rotation, in combinationwith cultural practices plus neces-sary fungicides, is the most desir-able method of disease control.A number of insects can be con-trolled entirely or in part by croprotations. Insect populations may

also become greater within a re-gion where only one or two cropsare continuously grown in contrastto a region where several crops aregrown in rotation.Crop rotations can be used tocause shifts in weed populations.

Populations of certain weedspecies can be suppressed by com-petition from the crop raised or bythe selective use of herbicides.For more information on how croprotations can benefit your farm,contact your closest Regional Ex-tension Center.

Calendar 11/29-30 – Ag Horizons Confer-ence, Ramkota Inn, Pierre, SD 11/29-12/1 – Range Beef CowSymposium XXII, Mitchell, NE 12/5-6 – Organic AgricultureConference, Ramkota Hotel, SiouxFalls, SD

Extension News

South Dakota State UniveristyExtension professionals were rec-ognized for their contributions toSouth Dakota youth during the Na-tional Association of Extension 4-HAgents conference held in Omaha,Neb., October. 24-28. SDSU Extension specialists rec-

ognized with the Excellence inTeamwork Award for the project"Kids Take 'Stock' in Science andAgriculture include Jessica Eik-meier, Kadoka, Amy Rans,

Spearfish, Rebecca Poelstra, Stur-gis, Tana Clark, Rapid; City, PennyNester, Kidder County, NorthDakota, formerly of Sturgis, RobinSalverson, Buffalo, LaDonna McK-night, Rapid City, Tiffany Meyer,Rapid City, Deb Rombough,Spearfish, and Sheila Snyder,Rapid City. Jodi Loehrer, Watertown, was

recognized with the Achievementin Service Award. Marilyn Ras-mussen, Brookings, received theDistinguished Service Award.Steven E. Munk, Dell Rapids, re-ceived the Meritorious ServiceAward and the 25 Years of ServiceAward. The national association is a pro-fessional's organization for thosededicated to promoting, strength-ening, enhancing and advocatingfor the 4-H youth development pro-fession. It is one of the largest pro-fessional associations for youthdevelopment workers with a di-verse membership of nearly 3,600youth development professionals.

Eikmeier recongized atnational 4-H event First National

Bank in Philip859-2525 • Philip, SD

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When caring for livestock, make sure to takegood care of them and your own health properly … and … see us for all the ag

financing needed to run your operation.

The South Dakota Departmentof Environment and Natural Re-sources (DENR) permit for apply-ing pesticides to waters of the stateunder the federal Clean Water Actwent into effect on October 31.

The federal Sixth Circuit Courtof Appeals determined in 2009 thatdischarge permits are required forthe application of pesticides towater bodies. The deadline to ob-tain coverage under the permit wasultimately set for Ocober 31.

Anyone who applies pesticides inor over water bodies must have adischarge permit. That includespesticide application activities formosquito control, weed and algaecontrol in lakes, ditch and streambank pest control, a declared pestemergency, and even aerial appli-cation if there are wetlands on theproperty. In South Dakota, En-cironmental Protection Agency hasdelegated issuing discharge per-mits to DENR under the federalClean Water Act.

“To implement this new federalmandate, DENR staff worked dili-gently with the state Departmentof Agriculture, local governments,and agriculture, ag-chemical, andpesticide applicator organizationsstatewide to meet the federal dead-line” said DENR Secretary StevePirner. “We want to thank thosewho helped and participated inDENR’s outreach efforts as thatinput was crucial in helping us de-velop a permit that would best fitSouth Dakota.”

DENR completed all of the nec-essary steps for public notice, re-view, and comments to meet thedeadline. Now that DENR’s permitis in effect, all pesticide applica-tions into waters of the state arecovered. There is no separate appli-cation process. Larger applicatorsthat meet annual thresholds willneed to submit annual reports toDENR.

The pesticide general permit isavailable on the department’s web-

site at http://denr.sd.gov/des/sw/PesticidePermit.aspx. DENR staffwill be available to provide techni-cal assistance and ensure that ap-plicators understand and complywith the new permit.

Pesticide general permit requirement now effective

Bringing ’em home... The Dan and EstherOldenberg family heldtheir annual cattle driveNovember 4-6. They hadabout 15 riders help themtrail the 250 cows, 30miles from just north ofKadoka to a few mileswest of Philip. Above, theyare bringing them downtoward the Gene Michaelplace just east of Philip onday two of the drive. Atleft, they are just west ofPhilip on the road home.Courtesy Photos

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Hit & Miss November 17, 2011 • The Pioneer Review • Page 4by Vivian Hansen E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

Elderly Meals Thursday Nov. 17: ChipolteLime Tilapia, Baby Bakers,Cauliflower Au Gratin, Roll, Ba-nana. Friday, Nov. 18: Beef TipsDijon, Mashed Potatoes, CheesyBeans, Roll, Cran-apple Delight. Monday, Nov. 21: ChickenCordon Bleu, Wild Rice, PrinceEdward Veggies, Roll, Fruit Par-fait. Tuesday, Nov. 22:Steak and Grilled Onions,Roasted Potatoes, Peas and Car-rots, Roll, Fruit, Pudding. Wednesday, Nov. 23: RoastBeef, Mashed Potatoes andGravy, Corn, Roll, Fruit, Pista-chio Eclair Dessert.

*** Philip people have been notic-ing Vivian Hansen’s debut intoan acting career on television.Many have caught her in the adfor Somerset Court. Keep up thegood work, Vivian. It is good tosee you having fun. The Rapid City Journal of No-vember 6 had the obituary ofRichard Burnett, Philip.Richard and Jeanette Burnettwere my good neighbors in

Philip. They shared their applesand pears, year after year. Mysympathy to family and friends. Also in the Journal that daywas the obituary of DaleHansen, Frazier Park, Calif.,formerly of Philip. He was myhusband’s brother, son of Alvinaand Ralph Hansen. Dale and hiswife, Doris, raised a family ofnine and helped over 100 otherkids on their way when theyneeded a place to stay and some-one to care for them. His obitu-ary mentioned that Dale was anaccomplished machinist andthat he had his own precisiongrinding business. Dale lovedbasketball and helped neighbor-hood kids learn and appreciatethe game. Dale loved music andart. He made unique creationsout of recycled materials. In2009, he drove to Philip for my90th birthday. He drove a mo-torhome that he had made onthe back of a small pickup. Itlooked like a miniature cabin.We love you, Hunka Daley! Graveside services for Dalewere held Saturday, November

12, 2011, at Philip MasonicCemetery with Pastor FrezilWesterlund officiating. Sunday, Wayne and M.R.Hansen came to Somerset Courtto visit Vivian Hansen andstayed for lunch. M.R. stayed forscrabble. It was not a spectacu-lar game. Sunday, November 6, 2011,we had church services withPastor Terry Pulse and Steve.Thanks also to Jack Humke forplaying the piano for hymnsinging. Present were Terry andMrs. Pulse, Steve, Jack, Macand Dorothy, Don, Connie, Jean-nie, Floy, Ruth S., Irene McK-night, Erma Brandt, EdnaBuckles, Virginia Gray, LoisSchultz, Ellen, Annette, Jim andEleanor, and Vivian Hansen. Tuesday, whist was scheduledand Irene A. and Irene C. beatSandy and Vivian. At Tuesday bingo, winnerswere Jeannie, twice, Addie,Doris, Ruth S., Irene A., IreneMcK., and Violet. Thank you,Sandy, for calling bingo num-bers. For snack and chat, we hada variety of cheese slices, rolledup meats and white and wheatcrackers. Very tasty. Thank you,Amy, Shawn and Sandy. After bingo, Floy and I walkedlaps. I showed Floy the prettypostcard that my granddaugh-ter, Crystal Jackson, Hunting-ton Beach, Calif., had made.Thank you for the beautiful,imaginative card, Crystal. Crys-tal said ther her colored corn hasa little ear, which is surprising,because Southern California isnot really corn country. She hasa tiny avocado in a pot. I like av-ocadoes for houseplants, and Ihave two of them. (Just plantthe big pit out of an avocado.The plant has pretty leaves. Oneof mine is 18 inches tall. Theycan be trimmed back for house-plants.) Last night, I got down the spe-cial paper that I use for Christ-mas snowflakes. It is onion skin,25 percent rag. M.R. Hansenprovided me with a whole reamof this special paper a few yearsago, and I use it only forsnowflakes. (Note from PioneerReview: Vivian makes beautifulsnowflakes. We put them upevery year at Christmas time.)We used to call it second sheets

when we typed things. It made astrong, but thin, copy to cutdown on storage. I cut twosnowflakes. If you get a Christ-mas greeting from me, it willprobably have a snowflake withit. I finished reading the book,“Heaven Is For Real,” which wasone of the books sent to me fromthe Rapid City library on theirhomebound program. This bookhas been on the USA Today’sbest seller list for severalmonths. It is about a little boyand the story of his near deathexperience as related by his fa-ther who is a minister. What youthink of the book will of coursebe determined by what youbring to the book. Wednesday, November 9,Somerset Court had a bus loadof residents going for lunchbunch out to the Elks Club in-cluding Ruth Sharp and herdaughter, Virginia, Anne Brink,Connie Stevens, Blanche, Ann

Onymous, Agnes, Ellen, Violetand Charlie. They reported a bigdinner at a pretty place. Sandy and Shawn played a lit-tle whist with Inez and Vivian.Next we went to fully fit exer-cises. These exercises use smallweights, one or two pounds, in avariety of stretching and liftingroutines. Fully fit is a SomersetCourt activity that is usuallyscheduled twice a week. We just received a pamphletin which there is an article ask-ing “Are You Flexible?” It en-courages a 10-minute routineand outlines the benefits fromstretching. It suggests startinggradually and building up to 10minutes. The illustrations showthe standing hamstring stretch,the standing backward bend,posterior shoulder stretch, backexpansion, chest expansion, andcalf stretch. Violet, Sandy, and Vivian hada little session of pool Wednes-day. Violet’s daughter comes to

see her regularly and they shoota little pool. Thank you, RoseAnn andLarry Schulz, Philip, for yournice note. I just finished the Rapid Citylibrary book, “Hotel on the Cor-ner of Bitter and Sweet,” byJamie Ford. It was a fascinatingstory of the historic times inWWII when the Japanese resi-dents of Seattle were sent toconcentration camps in Idahoand Nevada. The main charac-ter is a Chinese boy there inSeattle, whose parents makehim speak only English. He be-comes acquainted with a Japan-ese girl who is also a scholarshipstudent. She speaks only Eng-lish. They couldn’t just have anormal life and go dating. Readthe book and find out what hap-pens. Somerset Court plans to senda bus to the Rush hockey gameSaturday evening, November12.

If you have a news itemyou would like to

submit and cannot getahold of Vivian, please

e-mail it to: [email protected]

or call 859-2516.We will be more thanhappy to take your

news over the phone!

Please come and meet

Karsyn QuinnPorch

(daughter of Brockdon &Felicia Porch)at a Baby Shower on

Sunday, November 20th • 1:30 p.m.Philip Ambulance Building

The family ofGregor & Dorothy Weber

requests a Card Shower in honorof their

65th Wedding Anniversary.They were married in Appleton,

MN, on November 9, 1946.

Cards may be sentto the couple at:

PO Box 441, Philip, SD 57567

Saturday, November 26thJoin in Philip Vol.Fire Dept.’s AnnualPRE-

REGISTER:ROGERWILLIAMS:859-2745 or685-3258

PVFD BBQHamburger & Chili Feed

Serving at 4:30 p.m.at the Philip Fire Hall

The Philip Hospital Auxiliary will be serving

FREEhot chocolate!*******

Modern Woodmen of Americamatching funds up to $2,500.

Parade line-up begins at 5:45 p.m. at the

American Legion HallParade begins

at 6:30 p.m.

The family of Belle Ravelletteexpresses their most heartfelt

thanks for your prayers,concerns, food and visits after the

loss of our mother, grandmother and

great-grandmother. We especially thank those at Philip

Health Services hospital and nursing home who gave their pro-

fessional care to her. It is a blessing to havesuch a wonderful facility that truly does

care about each and every one there.Pastor Kathy Chesney, thank you for

being there for our family when Motherwas in the hospital and helping us get

through this difficult time. Jack, Gayle and DJ, thank you for the

great service you provided.As our mother would have said:Perhaps you sent a lovely card,

Or sat quietly in a chair;Perhaps you sent beautiful flowers,

if so we saw them there.Perhaps you sent or spoke kind words,

As any friend could say;Perhaps you were not there at all,

Just thought of us that day.Whatever you did to console the heart,

We thank you so much, whatever the part.

– Trudye & Dan Fosness & family– Jolene & Don Haynes & family

– Ron Ravellette & family– Don & Tami Ravellette & family

November 18-19-20-21:Real Steel (PG-13)Fri: 8:00 p.m. Sat: 8:00 p.m.

Sun: 1:30 p.m. Mon: 7:00 p.m.

Gem Theatre859-2000 • Philip

UPCOMING MOVIES:November 25-28:Puss in Boots (PG)

I have planted many trees in mylifetime and gained a lot of knowl-edge about their care. In good con-science, then, I simply can’t keepall this useful information to my-self so I thought I had better shareit with you. You might get an un-quenchable desire to plant trees atsome point in your life and need toknow what it’s all about. My first effort was in partner-ship with my sister when we werekids. We went out and dug up anelm tree somewhere and planted itbehind our house. As far as I re-call, this was quite small anddidn’t need much digging either toremove it from where it was or toreplant it. We watered it a little,but we’d planted it where it gotrunoff from the roof so it didn’tneed a lot of care. Then we prettymuch ignored it, but it grew any-way. It grew so much, in fact, thateventually it was huge and tallerthan our two-story house. It actu-ally was situated right outside myparents’ bedroom window and pro-vided a fine place for my one cropof chickens to collect when theyfirst woke up in the morning. Thenthey would sit on the branches andsing their little hearts out at firstlight to provide a pleasant wakingexperience for Mom and Dad. I’mnot sure why Dad took to lockingthem up in their house until afterhe got up. I suppose he was afraidthe coyotes would get them or

something. This elm, unfortunately, diedafter making its amazing growth.I think it might have been a casu-alty of either elm bugs or Dutch-elm disease. Like I said, it wassituated where it got runoff fromthe roof so its demise probablywasn’t from lack of water. Then,too, it had put some roots into thesewer system and gotten moisturefrom there which was advanta-geous to it but not so much to thoseof us who had to keep cleaning outthe sewer pipe. Since it makes onea little nervous to have big deadtrees hanging over the house, mybrother-in-law and a son or twoone day took it upon themselves tocarefully dismantle the thing afterit died, cut some of it into firewood,and haul the rest away. The bigstump remains there, however, asa testament to the fact that evenkids can grow trees. My next effort involved fruittrees. This was when I was still inhigh school. I ordered some bare-root apples and others and happilyfollowed all the instructions thatcame with the dead-looking things.I dug big old holes, spread theroots out as instructed, and care-fully refilled the holes. Then I wa-tered them and watched themgrow. Some were actually deadand not just dead looking, but oth-ers did throw out some leaveswhich were promptly attacked by

bugs. I dealt with those fairly well,but I think we still had DDT to usethen although that stuff was obvi-ously bad for people as well asbugs and is no longer available. After planting, all you need todo to produce fruit is to water thetrees about every day in the sum-mer that it doesn’t rain. Youshould also prune them, pick offthe webworms, tie little pieces ofsmelly soap to them to keep thedeer away, fertilize them withthose spikes that you’re supposedto be able to pound into the groundbut can’t, and generally worryabout them a lot. I actually gainedthese post-planting care tips fromwatching my wife who did all thosethings and grew a small orchard.With those dead-looking sticks Ihad planted, they either neversprouted, died from lack of water,or were plowed out by my dad orsome other helpful soul. Here’s atip from my own experience andnot Corinne’s. Plant a tall steelpost by every tree so someone elsewon’t run over it or plow it out. Cedar trees, of course, are na-tive to our area and can be grownquite easily with a minimum ofcare. They will turn an ugly browncolor all winter, but they can bepretty for a short while in thespring. Pine trees only grow in se-lected areas and will probablycroak straight away if you aren’t inone of those areas. This is so evenif you personally water them a lotand instruct your kids and all yourrelatives to water them too as mybrother-in-law did. His “baby”grew about ten-feet tall and died.That stump, like the elm’s, is stillsticking out of the ground as a tes-timony to the fact that pines don’tfare very well on our sandy hill. Frankly, every tree I’ve everplanted has now died so my adviceis that you shouldn’t bother toplant them at all. Let your wife orfather do that since they’re obvi-ously better at it than you are.You, personally, can go on to otherand better things. Alternately,move to a forest where you’re sur-rounded by acres of those smellypines that make a nasty swooshingsound in the wind. On the otherhand, if you want trees, go down tothe spring, creek or river and situnder one for awhile and then goback home. That has alwaysworked the best for me and is whatI strongly recommend.

Tree Planting

Lookin’ Aroundby Syd Iwan

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SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCHPhilip – 859-2664 –[email protected]

Fr. Kevin AchbachSaturdays: Confession from 3 to 4 p.m.

Saturday Mass: 5:00 p.m.Sunday Mass: 8:30 a.m.

9:30 a.m. (August)Tues-Wed-Fri. Mass: 8:30 a.m.

Thurs. Mass: 10:30 a.m. at Philip Nursing Home

******ST. WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCHMidland – 859-2664 or 843-2544

Fr. Kevin AchbachSaturday Mass: 7:00 p.m.

(Feb., April, June, Aug., Oct., Dec.)Sun day Mass: 11:00 a.m.

(Jan., Mar., May, July, Sept., Nov.)Confession: Before Mass

******ST. MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH

Milesville –859-2664Fr. Kevin Achbach

Sunday Mass: 11:00 a.m.(Feb-April-June-Oct-Dec)

Sunday Mass: 7:30 a.m. (August)Saturday Mass: 7:30 p.m.

(Jan-March-May-July-Sept-Nov)Confession: Before Mass

Monday Release Time: 2:15 p.m.******

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCHPastor Frezil Westerlund

859-2336 • PhilipE-MAIL: [email protected]

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 8:30 a.m.Lenten Services: Wed. @ 5:30 p.m.

1st Sunday: Coffee & Rollsafter worship

W.O.W.: 2nd Wed., Bible Study, 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.

(ex. July & Aug)******

TRINITY LUTHERANPastor Frezil Westerlund

Midland – 843-2538SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:30 a.m.Ruth Circle: 3rd Tues. at 2 p.m.

Nowlin Circle: Last Wed. at 9 a.m.Rebecca Circle: Last Wed. at 7 p.m.

(Nov. thru Feb.); 6:30 p.m. (Mar. - Oct.)******

DEEP CREEK LUTHERAN Moenville – 843-2538

Pastor Frezil WesterlundSUNDAY WORSHIP:

1:30 p.m. (CT)ALCW: 3rd Thursday, 1:30 p.m.

******OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN

Long ValleyPastor Frezil Westerlund

Saturday Evening: 5:00 p.m.******

DOWLING COMMUNITY CHURCHEvery Sunday in July

Services at 10:00 a.m.followed by potluck dinner

CONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCHPastor Art WeitschatKadoka – 837-2390

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:00 a.m.******

OUR REDEEMERLUTHERAN CHURCH, Philip

(605) 669-2406 • MurdoPastor Ray Greenseth

Sunday Worship Services: 1:00 p.m.******

OPEN BIBLE CHURCH • MIDLANDPastor Randy Ellendorf

843-2143 • [email protected] School: 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.Bible Study: Wed. at 7:30 p.m.

Women’s Ministries: 2nd Thurs., 1:30

ST. PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH10 miles SE of Midland •Pastor

Glenn Denke • 462-6169Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. (CT)

Sunday School: 10 a.m. CTSunday Bible Study: 10 a.m.

******PHILIP COMMUNITY

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHPastor Gary Wahl –Philip – 859-2841

Sunday School – 9:15 a.m.Sunday Services – 10:30 a.m.Last Sunday of the month –

potluck dinner following church servicesLast Monday of the month –

Evangelical Ladies Service/Bible Study -7:00 p.m.

Wed. Night Prayer & Bible Study: 7 p.m.Everyone Welcome!!

******HARDINGROVE COMMUNITY

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHPastor Gary Wahl – Philip

859-2841 • [email protected] Service: 8:00 a.m. • Children's

Church: 8:30 a.m.Ladies’ Aid - 2nd Thurs. at 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study & Prayer, Mondays at 7 p.m.******

UNITED CHURCH OF PHILIPPastor Kathy Chesney • 859-2310

Home: 859-2192 • E-mail:[email protected]

Sunday Worship: 10:00 a.m.UCW meets 2nd Friday at 9:30 a.m.

******FIRST PRESBYTERIANCHURCH OF INTERIOR

Pastor Kathy Chesney • 859-2310E-mail: [email protected]

Sunday Worship: 8:00 a.m.

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Church & Community November 17, 2011 • The Pioneer Review • Page 5

THE GRACE OF GOD by Cornelius R. StamIn the Bible, the grace of God is His loving favor toward fallen man. St. Paul has

more to say about grace than any other Bible writer, opening every one of his epis-tles with the declaration: "Grace be unto you and peace."Little wonder, for he himself was God's greatest demonstration of salvation by

grace. In I Tim. 1:13,14, he says: "[I] was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy... andTHE GRACE OF OUR LORD WAS EXCEEDING ABUNDANT...."

After years of service and suffering for Christ, he declared: "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dearunto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify THEGOSPEL [GOOD NEWS] OF THE GRACE OF GOD" (Acts 20:24).

Salvation is wholly by God's grace, not partly by man's works, for in Rom. 11:6 we read: "...if [it be] by grace, then is it nomore of works: otherwise grace is no more grace."

And in Rom. 4:4,5: "...to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, butbelieveth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." Thus salvation is "not of works" but "untogood works" (Eph. 2:8-10). Good works is the fruit, not the root.

"All have sinned," says Rom. 3:23 but, thank God, all may be "justified freely by His grace through the redemption that isin Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:24).

Thus it is God's purpose "that in the ages to come He might show THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE in Hiskindness toward us through Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:7).

To the Reader:Some of our Two Minutes articles were written many years ago by Pastor C. R. Stam for publication in newspapers. When many of these articles were later

compiled in book form, Pastor Stam wrote this word of explanation in the Preface:"It should be borne in mind that the newspaper column, Two Minutes With the Bible, has now been published for many years, so that local, national and

international events are discussed as if they occurred only recently. Rather than rewrite or date such articles, we have left them just as they were when firstpublished. This, we felt, would add to the interest, especially since our readers understand that they first appeared as newspaper articles."

We hope that you'll agree that while some of the references in these articles are dated, the spiritual truths taught therein are timeless.

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The Milesville Rangers 4-H Clubmet Saturday, October 29, 2011, atthe Milesville Hall with four mem-bers present. Since this was thefirst meeting of the 4-H year, weset club goals and elected officers:president, Rachel Parsons, vicepresident, Ben Stangle, secretary,Mark Stangle, treasurer, GracePekron, and reporter, Sarah Par-sons. Our next meeting will be No-vember 10.

The Milesville Rangers 4-H Clubmet Thursday, November 10, 2011,at 7:00 p.m. at the Milesville Hall.Six members answered the rollcall, "The Thing I Would Most LikeOff My Christmas List." PresidentRachel Parsons presided over themeeting. We discussed communityservice projects, and leader DonnaStaben gave us a list of upcomingevents. We also drew names for ourChristmas gift exchange. Rachelgave a demonstration on how tojudge and give reasons. Pekronsprovided a snack. Our next meet-ing will be Sunday, December 4, atthe bowling alley in Philip for ourChristmas party. Since her surgery last week,Jeanne Radway has a new address:Jeanne Radway, West HamptonCare Center, 78 Old Country Road,West Hampton, NY 11987. MarkRadway left Friday to spend aweek in New York with his mother.He said it is about 50 miles fromNicole's house (Jeanne's grand-daughter) to the rehab hospital. Wehope your physical and occupa-tional therapy go well, Jeanne. A good crowd attended the Hard-ingrove Church's Harvest FestivalSunday night. After supper, thegroup "Three Legged Stool" fromSpearfish sang and played whichwas very enjoyable. A week ago Wednesday, Bill andKaryl Sandal joined Donnie andVirginia Ferguson, Ron and Mari-lyn Millage and Kevin Coleman atthe home of Terry and BarbaraWentz for supper to visit Craig andTamara Millage and daughters,Emily and Eleanor, who were vis-iting from Connell, Wash. Tuesday, November 7, KarylSandal, Kay Ainslie, GloriaFrench, Gayle Rush and TheresaClements attended the Pierre con-cert. It was the "Dominant 7"which consisted of eight trumpets,electric bass and drums performingeverything from symphonic ex-cerpts to jazz to hip-hop. The groupwere all undergraduate studentsfrom Northern State University.

Ray and Carla Berry, Anna,Matthew and Timothy, moved fromWetmore, Kan., to Arcadia, Neb.,around the first part of September.Arcadia is a town with a populationof approximately 350 people. Thisis the 22nd year the Berrys haveserved with Village Missions, anorganization which places pastorsin small towns. They are glad to be

closer to Ray's family (Kenneth andDoris). From Wetmore it was a 600mile trip, now they are only 300miles away. Ray and Carla's newaddress is: P.O. Box 128, Arcadia,Neb. 68815. Gene and Theresa Deuchar andDennis Miller, Mandan, N.D., weresome of the guests for the baptismof Coy Hoffman in Wall November13. Megan and Zeb Hoffman hosteda lunch afterwards. On the wayhome, Gene, Theresa and Dennisvisited Jim Deuchar in Philip. Allison Pekron and Sam Stangleattended the FCCLA Cluster meet-ing in Denver, Colo., over the week-end, along with many other stu-dents from Philip. William and Makaley Parsonsare visiting for a few days at thehome of Will's dad, Grant and San-dra Parsons. They live in Lucedale,Miss. Visiting Saturday at Jim Boband Kayla Eymers' were Glendonand Pam Shearer,Wall, Joe Carleyand Donnie and Marcia Eymer. Lindsey and Mesa Mangis, Pied-mont, spent the weekend withLarry and Linda Smith. Karen Carley hosted the Novem-ber meeting of the CommunityClub Tuesday night. All eightmembers attended. A date was setfor decorating the tree at the court-house and also for the Christmasparty. Our president, Gayla, hadsome quizzes pertaining to child-hood games and also a quiz on theabbreviations of several of ourstates. Did you know that bingooriginated in the 1500s? Wednesday night, nine membersof the Hardingrove Ladies Aid metat the church for their regularmeeting. Plans were made for thesoup supper to follow the Christ-mas program December 11. Tim and Judy Elshere visited atShawn and Thamy Elshere's inRapid City Sunday. Zane and Beth Jeffries and MattArthur met Brad and Amber Beerand boys at the home of MurdockArthur in Enning for supper andbirthday cake Thursday night.They celebrated Blake Beer'sfourth birthday. Guests at Mark and Pat Hanra-han's Friday and Saturday wereJerri Drury and boys, Rapid City. Sharon Olivier, Jodi Parsons andJanice Parsons were among thelarge crowd at the shower honoringlittle Kaleb Roth last Saturday af-ternoon in Philip. Kaleb was bornin Ethiopia and is the newlyadopted son of Wes and Kim Rothof Sturgis. Joanne Parsons, Rapid City, wasdown for the shower and spent Sat-urday night with Boyd and KaraParsons, returning home Sunday. Many families entertainedhunters over the weekend andsome will be here yet throughoutthe week.

At Donnie and BobetteSchofields' were the Bruce Dunkerfamily, Wall, Mark Jimerson, Col-orado, Davis, Daryl and TayorSchofield, Jeff Clelland, Pierre,Tom Kotilnek and Charles Sisk. Leo and Joan Patton had severalfamily members for the long week-end of hunting and visiting. Theyincluded Bill Patton, Janet Pen-land and Kendra and Karen Howefrom Minnesota, Bob, April, Kait-lyn, Seth, Christine and CaydenKnight, Gary Stephenson, Jim,Linda, Ben and Mark Stangle, andJennifer Stangle and friend, Shan-non, Brookings. Sunday, Leo andJoan entertained for a cookout theabove named plus Kay and GeorgeAinslie, Marlene and BrookeScheessle and friend, Mike andGail Gebes, Vanessa Foley andTommy, and Ralph and CarolKroetch. Wednesday, Joan had din-ner with Irene Patton. Guests at Bill and Connie Par-sons’ Saturday were Glenn and Di-anne Parsons, Philip, Jeremy,Shayla, Taiven and Nolan Delaney,Rapid City, Grant and Sandra Par-sons and Cole, Will and MakaleyParsons, Bob, a friend of Will’s,Gerald and Gladys Morgan, RapidCity, Dave Aughenbaugh, DonBuss, and Bill Wuttke. Fred Neville, Box Elder, andGeorge and Liz Jackson, Newell,were at Lee and Debbie Neville's. Donna Quinn had some of herfamily home for the weekend in-cluding Kevin and Lori Bierwagen,Elliott and Alyssa, Sioux Falls,Kathy and Rick Borkovec, RapidCity, and Janelle Smith, Bellevue,Neb. From Thursday through Sunday,guests at Miles and Erin Hovland’s'were Mile’s brother, James andMelony Gyles, Madison and Pre-ston. John and Gina Giardino, RapidCity, were guests at Virgil andCarla Smith's Friday night andSaturday.

Hugh Harty's guests over theweekend were Paul and MoneikStephens and daughter, Mikaela.Coming to join them in huntingwere Jim and Molly Harty, Satur-day and Sunday. Adele and babyOwen came for supper Saturday.Ed left Saturday morning for NorthDakota. While he was home for theweek, he celebrated his 26th birth-day which was the 10th.

Keagan Fitch spent Saturdayplaying with his friend, CarsonHamill. Bill and Karyl Sandal accompa-nied Donnie and Tami Ravellette toVermillion Friday to watch theWall vs. Canistota championshipfootball game. Ridge and GabeSandal, who played for the Wallteam thought it was really fun toplay in the dome, even though theylost their game 66 to 6. Friday, Karyl Sandal's nephew,Dalen Roe, and his friend, Al, came

for deer hunting. Dalen broughtback Bill's team of horses, that hehas trained. Karyl wasn't sure ifthey are parade ready yet, but theyare teamed up and the rest is up toBill! Dalen and Al are from Or-tonville, Minn. Todd Sandal and friends, Mike

and Taylor, came Saturday for deerhunting. They only spent one nightand headed back to Langford Sun-day. Todd has a wedding to getready for! Karyl helped serve the'hunters’ breakfast at the ambu-lance building both Saturday andSunday mornings. Thursday, Lana Elshere got towatch grandsons, Talon andThayne, play in their last basket-ball game at Union Center. Lana Elshere attended the 50thwedding anniversary of her cousin,Janet and Norm Widvey in Ft.Pierre Saturday. It was fun gettingtogether with a lot of her cousins.

Milesville Newsby Janice Parsons • 544-3315

Honoring the dads ... The annual Donuts for Dads was held at the PhilipElementary School Thursday, November 10. Students and their dads got achance to spend some special time together enjoying donuts and a drink and vis-iting the classroom. Photo by Nancy Haigh

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November 17, 2011 • The Pioneer Review •Page 6Contact Sonia Nemec • 843-2564e-mail: [email protected] Socials

It’s Monday and it’s cloudy at themoment and the wind is blowingbut…we don’t have that white stuffyet! Sounds like we may get somemoisture later in the week! We coulduse some moisture before the groundfreezes but just between you and meI prefer rain to snow at this point.And haven’t we had some beautifulnights with that full moon making amost picturesque photo. I do enjoythose evenings when the sky is full ofstars and there is a full moon. Goddoes paint an awesome picture ofnatural beauty! The deer have theirantennas out watching and listeningfor those hunters that are on themove. Orange caps and orange vestsand jackets can be seen across theprairie as those hunters search forthat prize buck. Jerry and I droveout to the DeYoung place later Sun-day afternoon and did we see thedeer…bucks and doe and Mulley’sguess that’s the way you spell it. Ourfamily is not hunters so I don’t knowmuch about those four legged ani-mals. They are a graceful animal asthey clear those fences, but, on theother side of the coin, they can causea lot of damage to a vehicle and to thepersons in that vehicle when theymake contact. I prefer not to be outon the road at night for that very rea-son. Notice: Anyone wishing to pur-chase a DVD of the 100th celebrationof St. William Catholic Church cancontact Sally Ehlers at 843-2270. Karel Reiman had a full householdover Veteran’s Day weekend! Herson Steve Reiman, Patrick and Re-cecca, Mandan, ND arrived onWednesday evening as did her sonMark Reiman from Kadoka. Herdaughter Anne Moege, Mitchell ar-rived at noon on Friday. It was abusy, busy weekend as on Friday af-ternoon brother-in-law Bob List,Yankton and a friend Marvin Guth-miller were there to do some hunting.The whole group attended and en-joyed the soup and sandwich meal,put on by the Midland Legion mem-bers the evening of Veteran’s Day.Bob and Marvin seemed to have a bitof a comedy of errors on their huntingexpedition but enjoyed themselves inspite of it. Bob had a lesson of thepheasant with Steve’s kids, Patrickand Rebecca, showing them the beau-tiful and unique colored feathers of apheasant and how each one had itsplace and seemed to change colorwith the lighting. It is just a nicething when folks take the time toshare something like this with kidsand down the road those kids manythink…remember when? Afterchurch on Sunday and a bite to eateveryone headed for home but for thetwo hunters…they had some morehunting to do and were planning onleaving for home around noon onMonday. According to Karel Reiman, JoeHanrahan and his crew from Kadokaare putting new siding on the St.Peter’s Lutheran Church south ofMidland starting today, Monday.Some of the men folk from the parishhelped out and the ladies were going

to serve those men folk a hot meal atthe church. Some of the Hunt sisters, ChristineNiedan and Michelle Meinzer, Mid-land and Teresa Palmer, Murdo at-tended the Zonta Fair at theRamkota in Pierre on Saturday.They reported there was a goodcrowd with many folks showing theirwares and giving people some ideasfor Christmas gifts. Jan (Hunt) Tolton spent twoweeks with her daughter JennaTolton at El Pasco, TX getting ac-quainted with that new granddaugh-ter Keenan Derex Gonzales. Keenanis the daughter of Jan Tolton andOscar Gonzales. This makes anothergreat-grandchild for Ida Hunt andthe late Lyle Hunt. It’s hard whenthose grandchildren are so far away.You just don’t have a chance to seethem very often! This makes twograndchildren for Jim and JanTolton. Their son Jordan Tolton anddaughter Jessica live at Aberdeen. Reminder: Christmas in Midlandwill be on December 3rd this year sobe watching for ads telling of all thatwill be going on! This will be theninth year for this event! Carol Huntcame up with the idea for Christmasin Midland those years ago and gotothers involved and it has become anenjoyable event each year. Roy andCarol Hunt went to Rapid City onSaturday to get some things forChristmas in Midland. And as Carolsays: “Thanksgiving is just aroundthe corner and yet when you go shop-ping everything is getting set up forChristmas. I can’t believe it is againtime for Christmas in Midland. It isscheduled for Saturday, December 3,2011 at the Midland Legion Hall.The Senior Citizens will again beserving soup and sandwiches in thelunch room that day. If anyone is in-terested in setting up a tree orChristmas scene please contact CarolHunt (843-2537) or Sophie Foley(843-2861. Come join us to see thetrees and scenes set up by local peo-ple in the community.” Pat and Sophie (Larson) Foley hadhunters over the weekend. Todd Lar-son and sons Kendall and Logan ofSioux Falls and Jim Larson, Mid-land! Sophie said her daughterRenee Schofield of Kadoka and So-phie’s granddaughter AshleySchofield who attends college atBlack Hills State University atSpearfish brought supper over foreveryone Saturday night, which So-phie much appreciated. Lisa and Matt Foley of Wagnerwere visitors at the parental Geneand Audrey Jones home from Fridaynight till Sunday afternoon. Sundayafter Mass Edna Dale and Mirandaand Mariah joined the Joneses andFoleys for dinner before all left fortheir homes. In visiting with Celia Doud byphone Monday morning she told thatJim and Jessie Root had supper withthem Saturday and the main dishwas walleye caught by you knowwho? What’s that, Jim Root you say?You would be right! Celia said this isan annual event before Jim and

Jessie head south for the winter.Celia also shared she had been work-ing on and had finished a floweredquilt her mother Genieve Koehlerhad embroidered some many yearsago. Celia said her mom would haveembroidered it sometime in the late30’s and the colorful flowers her momembroidered on that quilt were everybit as fancy as those new sewing ma-chines you can buy will do. Hermother had finished all of the flowerson the guilt and so what Celia haddone was the backing of that guilt.Reports are, “it is a beautiful quilt”.I am sure it is! And that quilt hasspecial meaning because of beingdone by her mom. Have you ever no-ticed that often times when we leastexpect it something special comesinto our lives and that special some-thing gives a lift to ones days. Celiais a quilter in her own right andmakes some beautiful quilts. Georgeand Genieve Koehler and family livedin Powell, SD during that time andthey had sheep and her mom woulddrive the pickup and herd thosesheep. It is no secret, heart-warmingstories are a passion of mine and thisparticular quilt is one of those sto-ries. "Fiddler on The Roof" was the lat-est musical attended Friday eveningin Rapid City by Judy Daly, PatSnook, and Marcia Jackson andDiane Jacobson from Hot Springs.Barb Jones wasn't able to go andgave her ticket to daughter-in-lawJen Jones. Diane Jacobson is Jen’smother. They all thought the per-formance great. Morris and Barbara Jones left forBismarck, ND Friday morning,where they picked up their daughterJill Sheldon and traveled to Center,ND to attend the funeral of LynetteHatzenbihler. Lynette was themother of their daughter-in-law, San-dra Jones. She passed away at theage of 66 years from cancer. On re-turning to Bismarck, they stayedwith Jill and helped her and Todd forthe next two days, cleaning up theyard and house so the Sheldon familycould move back into their home atHogue Island near Bismarck. Theymoved out as a result of this pastyears flooding on the Missouri Riveron May 27th. Their home had waterin the basement but they were able tokeep it out of the upper floor withsandbags, dikes and water pumpsrunning constantly. Sunday, five anda half months later, they moved backhome. There is much work left to bedone, but being in your own homeagain is a great feeling. We to ex-press our sincere sympathy to thefamily of Lynette Hatzenbihler! Andto Jill and Todd, we are glad you arefinally in your home once again! While the Joneses were in NorthDakota, Carrie and Wes Mentele andboys of Howard, and Tom Riddle ofMitchell came to hunt at the Jonesranch. Denny and Wanda Mentelealso of Howard joined them in thehunt. Pat Jones, Braden, Monicaand Piper of Wessington Springscame to Midland on Saturday to filltheir deer licenses also. By Mondaynoon, six buck deer were harvestedoff the Jones’s ranch. As I close my news column thisTuesday morning in looking towardsthe west the clouds have a cold win-tery look to them. Sounds like partsof western South Dakota got some ofthat white stuff called snow. Brrrrr!Guess it’s getting time to bring outthose winter coats and mittens!There has been a lot of activity goingon in the new house just to the southof us. Heard tell hopes are to bemoved in by Thanksgiving! There

will still be work to do but some ofthose things can be done after youare moved in. Building a new homeis a lot of work but there is also ex-citement as you move into that newhome. Jerry and I were at the soupand sandwich meal put on by theMidland Legion members on Vet-eran’s Day. We sat down by a familywe didn’t know and in seeing a manand a woman and two small childrenI thought…ah huh, this must be thenew Open Bible pastor and his fam-ily. We introduced ourselves andwhen telling my name was Sonia hisremark was, “you must be the Soniawho writes the Midland News?” Ithought, “You have got to be kidding,I don’t even know this man and heknows someone named Sonia writesthe Midland News.” Well, he is thenew Open Bible pastor and he andhis family recently moved here fromOregon. When he learned he and hisfamily would be moving to Midlandhe had bought some copies of the Pi-oneer Review to try and learn somethings about the folks in Midland,SD. I told them, “You know you livein a small town when….people havefigured who you are because in thatroom you are the only ones they don’tknow.” They seem like a nice familyand we do welcome them to our com-munity and wish them all the best.Have a good day and a good week andkeep warm!

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Greetings from breezy, coolernortheast Haakon County. Theweather here has been so wonder-ful, but it sounds like we may seeour first snow of the season thisweekend. I am just thankful thesnow has held off this long – hope-fully it will mean that our winterwill be shorter this year. Last weekend was opening week-end of the West River deer season,so there was a lot of activity in thecommunity. Saturday, I spent mostof the day working on projects inthe house, just in case some straybullets came flying through theyard. But all was well – there did-n't appear to be any stray bullets,and my house benefited from theextra cleaning I was doing. Duane and Lola Roseth had twoof their children home for theweekend. Son Rhett Roseth anddaughter Kayce and her husband,John Gerlach, arrived Friday nightto spend the weekend deer hunt-ing. The group left Sunday, but Ididn't hear if they were successfulin finding the deer they wanted.Lola made a trip to the doctor inPhilip this week. The good news isthat she is continuing to improvefrom her recent illness, but the badnews is that it will take a while be-fore she is back to her normal, en-ergetic self. While she was inPhilip, she visited her father-in-law, Roy Roseth, who is a patientin the Philip hospital. Actually, Ithink Roy has been moved to swingbed status – so glad he is continu-ing to recover from his recent sur-gery. Billy and Arlyne Markwed had ahouse-full of hunters over theweekend also. Friday, Clint andJenna Bresee, Sioux Falls, Eric andDamion Bresee, Wall, and Bruceand Cindy (Markwed) Bresee,Spearfish, arrived. Saturday.

Grandson T.J. Gabriel and familyjoined the group for lunch and sup-per. T.J. and Jeanine's sons, Dylanand Kyler, spent Saturday nightwith Grandma Cindy. I don't knowif Cindy got much rest, but theyhad a great time. Sunday, Bunkyand Connie (Neuhauser) Bogerstopped by for a visit. While visit-ing with Arlyne, I found out why Iwasn't able to reach them for newslast week – they were busy findinga new water heater after the oldone sprung a leak! Arlyne climbedout of bed and found herself stand-ing in water, so she was very moti-vated to get the problem solved.There was probably a point in timeyears ago when water heaters wereconsidered a luxury, but now theyare a necessity! Congratulations to Bruce Breseeon being named Region IV coach ofthe year for 2011 by the SouthDakota Football Coaches Associa-tion. Bruce is the football coach atSpearfish High School. Nels and Dorothy Paulson werein Pierre on business last Mondayand Tuesday. Wednesday, Nelsworked in his shop, making morepreparations for winter. Paulsonshad deer hunters over the week-end. Their friend, Otis Funk,Pierre, and a couple of his buddieswere out, as was Clint Habek andhis son from Ft. Pierre. Nels andDorothy have known Clint fromyears ago when Nels and Dorothywere active in the Kirley B-B gunteam. Clint was an excellent shotin those days, but he shot for ateam for the southeast part of thestate, so he gave the Kirley shoot-ers a lot of competition. Lee and Mary Briggs entertaineddeer hunters over the weekendalso. Their grandson, Chancey Rig-gle, and some of his friends werehunting Saturday, and they hadgood success. The Briggs' alsohosted three gentlemen from Red-field. Dick and Gene Hudson went toWhitewood last Friday to visit Sonand Jean (Hudson) Keffler. Jeanhasn't been feeling very well thisfall. On the way home, Dick andGene stopped in Piedmont for sup-per. Their niece, Lori (Snook) andher husband, Tracy Konst, own arestaurant there, so Dick and Genegot to enjoy a good meal and a nicevisit all at the same time! Genesaid their chickens are still not lay-

ing eggs, and she is looking for so-lutions to that problem. It soundslike some of the roosters may losetheir heads. If anyone has any surefire remedies to the egg layingproblem, be sure to let Gene know! Kevin and Mary Neuhauser hadseveral hunters from the SiouxFalls area over the weekend. As isthe tradition, the hunters cookedpork loins and other goodies onSaturday night, and several neigh-bors joined in the feast. Kevin andMary's daughter, Sarah, and one ofher friends spent the weekend atthe ranch, also. A week ago,Kevin's friend, Chuck Heimes,,Sioux Falls, visited for several daysand did a little turkey hunting. This is a busy time of year forCole Briggs. He works with severalcattle producers around the state,preg testing their cattle. He usesultrasound technology, ensuringthe efficiency and accuracy of thetest. Cole also says using the ultra-sound is faster than the older pal-pation method, plus it is easier onthe cow. He also sells the ultra-sound machines, and he feelsstrongly that the technology helpsstrengthen the cattle industry.Cole will be heading to Coloradonext week to test cattle at a largeranch there. Julian and Coreen Roseth had ahouse full of kids and grandkidsover the weekend. Kristin (Roseth)Martin and her children came outFriday. Saturday, Kristin, alongwith brother Nick and brotherAdam and sister-in-law Jodi wentdeer hunting. Kristin had a meet-ing in Pierre Monday, so the grand-kids stayed with Grandma Coreen. Clark and Carmen Alleman en-tertained their usual group ofhunters over the weekend, and itwas a houseful. Saturday evening,Dick and Mary Carter and Elliotand Mary Jane Nelson, Pierre,joined the group for supper. Thehunters had good success, which isgood news. Shirley Halligan went to Pierrelast Friday to attend Les Mitchell'sfuneral. Afterwards, she joinedJerry and Marie Sylva and HazelRathbun for lunch. Friday night,Frank and Shirley took friends,Billy and Nancy Webb, out to sup-per. The Webbs will be leaving soonto spend the winter in Texas. Hazel Rathbun said that her sis-ter, Hattie Clark, is very comfort-

Moenville Newsby Leanne Neuhauser • 567-3325

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73— SALOON859-2173 • DOWNTOWN PHILIP

NFR Fun Night &Calcutta

Tuesday, Nov. 29th6:30 p.m. – Steak-out & Social7:00 p.m. – The Fun Begins!

(calcutta)

CITY OF PHILIPRUBBLE SITE HOURS

The City Rubble Site hours have changed to itswinter month’s schedule.

Residents should call the City Finance Office at859-2175 during regular office hours of Mondaythrough Friday, 8-12 and 1-5, to schedule a timeto deliver items to the Rubble Site during theweek.

(*Rubble Site surcharge of 25% will be suspended during the winter months.)

City of PhilipResidential HolidayGarbage Collection

Schedule

City of Philip residents are advised that residential garbage collection will take place on

Wednesday, November 23, due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Friends ofHans Hanson

are invited to help himcelebrate his 90th Birthday

on Saturday, November 19thfrom 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the

Philip Nursing Home.Cards may also be sent

to Hans at:PO Box 99

Philip, SD 57567

85 Years AgoNovember 17, 1927

Miss Opal Root, who conductedclasses and gave private instruc-tion in voice and piano here lastwinter, has returned from Chicagowhere she studied under the direc-tion of Professor Witherspoon andis again prepared to accept stu-dents. Miss Root has had three andone-half years of study at YanktonCollege in voice and piano and fur-ther fitted herself for this work bytaking a course under ProfessorWitherspoon. Local News … Dr. Ramsey wascalled to the Solan Brooks homeTuesday to see Mr. Brooks, who isconfined to his home suffering fromvegetable poisoning.

75 Years AgoNovember 19, 1936

Ten thousand pounds of dressedturkeys – more than 1,000 birds –hanging on racks that almost filledhalf of a large room. That is whatcould be seen in the old planningmill building east of the Unicorncreamery over the weekend.

*** Wm. Steen has been appointedmanager of the local PeterMintener Lumber yard, succeedingH.G. Morrissey, who resigned to ac-cept a similar position in the lum-ber yard at Wood.

*** Miss June Brekke of Sioux Fallsbecame the bride of Owen Newmanof Natchez, Louisiana.

*** The WPA crew working on thenew city well have it down about 24feet and well into the shale under-lying the waterbearing gravel.Water is said to be running into thewell at the rate of about 45 gallonsper minute. North Fork News … Gravel wasfound on the Babcock place and apit was opened last week. A barnwas built and a well dug and thegravel trucks were to report forwork Monday morning. Fairview Headlights … One daylast week, Mrs. Henry Searls heardthe children making a fuss out inthe yard. She went to see what thetrouble was and found a snake outsunning itself. The Fairview children had apeanut shower on Mary Pavlas oneday last week. it being her eighthbirthday. Milesville News … Mr. and Mrs.B.T. Haley received word that theyhave a new granddaughter namedBarbara Ellen Mehrhof. Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Tavernierhad their baby baptized Sunday.They named the young man Ter-rence Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Berry ofPhilip are the proud parents of a

baby girl. Butte View News … A largegroup of neighbors and friendsgathered at the Ray Smith homeSaturday evening to help them cel-ebrate their 22nd wedding anniver-sary which was November 10. Elbon Chaff … Owing to muddyroads there were only a few at thecard party at O’Deas. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Baye and JoeRausch attended the party atO’Deas Saturday night. Mrs. Rausch and Joe spent Sun-day at Bayes. Kingsbury Hardware … Heavyduty radio batteries, $1.37; goldseal rugs congoleum 9x12 $6.989x10-1/2 $5.98; Aladdin mantlelamps $4.25; No. 2 lamp chimneys9¢; 21” galv. wash tub 73¢. For coal hauling and draying callRay Coyle – truck at PeterMinterer Lumber Yard when idle. Local Briefs … Two Philip youngpeople and two from Kadoka sus-tained minor injuries Sunday nightwhen the car in which they wereriding crashed into the cementabutment of a culvert betweenPhilip and Kadoka. LucilleVanEpps suffer a badly sprainedankle, sprained finger and cuts andbruises. Harriet Hopkins sustaineda gash on her forehead that re-quired several stitches by the doc-tor to close. Walter Brown ofKadoka received a cut on the kneeand bruises, and Don Brugman,also of Kadoka, escaped with onlya severe shakeup. A daughter was born to Mr. andMrs. Carl Berry on Friday, Novem-ber 18. Midland News … Showing at theMidland Theatre – The DionneQuintuplets. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Nemec arethe proud parents of a baby girlborn at the St. Mary’s hospital inPierre on Wednesday, November11. Grindstone News … The smallson of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Knut-son has been named Dale Gordon.

50 Years AgoNovember 16, 1961

Robert (Stub) Votroubek, 22,Rapid City draftsman whose par-ents live at Quinn, was one of thetwo men killed early last Saturdaymorning when the car in which hewas a passenger, rolled over com-ing down Skyline Drive there.Votroubeck was a former employeeat Dorothy Bros. in Philip, the sonof Mr. and Mrs. George Votroubek.

*** A large crowd was on hand lastFriday night at the Philip City Au-ditorium to help school studentsstage a very successful carnival. Allbooths, displays and games werewell attended.

Miss Dorothy Kay Paulson andMarshall Carr, both high schoolseniors were selected as the royalcouple to reign over the event.

*** It is not generally known thatGrindstone was the first post officeestablished in what is now HaakonCounty. The post office was startedin the home of Mr. Solomon S.Shoun, on March 31, 1890. Thepost office building stood near theDeadwood Trail. The house wasbuilt of Black Hills lumber aboutthe year 1883, by Mr. Shoun. Therewere very few white settlers hereat that time. Among the first pa-trons were the Shoun family, theCarstensen family, Joe Ladgin andthe Thorson family. The first mailcarrier was Bill Brown, whobrought the mail out from FortPierre by way of Bad River andGrindstone Creek, twice a week. Ittook two days to make the trip outfrom Fort Pierre to Grindstonewith a buckboard drawn by twobroncs. Mr. Brown received$735.00 a year for carrying themail. Mr. Shoun received $1.70 aspay for being postmaster the firstyear. By 1895 his pay had been in-creased to $28.85. Milesville News … The GeorgeFitzgeralds went to Pierre Tuesdayand then on to Gettysburg to seethe bomb shelter that is in theprocess of being made there. Old Trail News … Shirley Mc-Daniel had a birthday party forBill’s fourth birthday on Friday.Lillian DeKnikker and children,Bea Williams and Sandra and Bev-erly McDaniel and children wereguests.

25 Years AgoNovember 20, 1986

Christy Kennedy was chosenPhilip’s 1987 Junior Miss.

*** Three Philip students, Mike Par-sons (humorous reading, “Mutinyon the Sea Puss”), Todd Fischerand Shane Daniel (duet memorizedinterpretation of Abbott andCostello’s “Who’s On First”), ad-vance on to state in declam. Mr.David Zirpel was justifiably proud.

Blast from the PastFrom the archives of the Pioneer Review

Roses for Food – An unlikely trade that feedsthe hungry and homeless With unemployment hovering at

9.7% across America, local foodpantries are seeing increases indemand for donated food of from30% to 150%. Florists across cen-tral United States intend to dosomething about it. After 13 yearsof Caring Rose Week, the programwill likely surpass a total of threequarters of a million pounds of do-nated food. During Caring Rose Week, No-vember 14-19, 2011, participatingflower shops deeply discount bou-quets of one dozen long-stemmedroses, and accept canned goodsand other non-perishable foods aspartial payment. “It’s not a money-maker for us,”said Marilee Toman, a co-owner ofDutch Mill Florists in Bismarck,ND. “We do it because it’s the rightthing to do.” Ms. Toman calls it a win-win-win. “The person who donates thefood feels good, and the person whogets the roses feels good, and wefeel good, knowing we’re helpingjust before the holidays.” Across town at the Abused AdultResource Center, a local recipientof the donated food, Diane Zainhof-ski agrees. “Demand [for donatedfood] goes up in winter months, es-pecially after the holidays. It cer-tainly is a great amount of food. Itmakes a big difference in our fund-ing.” “People bring in more than therequested 2 cans of food. Theybring in bags of it,” said RyanVisher of Hope & Faith Floral inMadelia, MN. “The need has neverbeen greater. At each of our stores,it all goes to the local emergencyfood shelf.” The florists in each communitychoose a local food-distributioncharity. Collected canned goodsare distributed through the charityto feed those within the commu-nity who cannot otherwise meettheir nutritional needs. Coming

at the onset of seasonally coldweather, the program helps food-distribution programs when fami-lies begin to experience thegreatest financial pressure. Begun in 1998, Caring RoseWeek was created by HarryWhelden, General Manager ofNorth American WholesaleFlorists in Sioux Falls, SD. A for-mer food-industry businessman,Whelden took an interest in “Na-tional Hunger and HomelessnessAwareness Week” sponsored bythe National Coalition for theHomeless and the National Stu-dent Campaign Against Hunger &Homelessness which takes placeeach year one week before Thanks-giving.“For us to hit 750,000 pounds offood this year, the thanks go out toover 350 flower shops across theGreat Plains who take the timeand energy to help meet thisneed,” says Whelden. “AmidChristmas gifts like toys and jew-elry, many across America aregoing hungry. We’re trying to do

our part.”“It comes at a time when ourshelves are getting empty,” saidCindy Sahli, who runs the Ed-munds County Food Pantry in Ip-swich, SD. “September is a busymonth, so we need the food beforethe holidays.”“We took 37 boxes of food to ourlocal pantry,” said Lynn Gauer,owner of the Petal Pushers in Ip-swich, who also uses the event toraise money for local non-profitgroups. “First they wonderedwhere they were going to put it all.Everything but the turkey. Butother business in town catch thespirit, and donate the rest of themeal. It feels like the whole towncatches on.” For more information about Na-tional Hunger and HomelessnessAwareness Week, see the NationalCoalition for the Homeless web-site: http://www.nationalhome-less.org/projects/awareness/index.html For local information, contactyour local participating florist.

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November 17, 2011 • The Pioneer Review •Page 8Sports & Accomplishments

Rock ’NRoll Lanes

859-2430 •Philip

Weekly Special:Swiss Bacon Chicken FilletSandwich & French Fries

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Sunday Special:

Honey Stung ChickenServed with Mashed Potatoes & Gravy,

Salad Bar & Dessert

The Western Great Plains all-conference football team was an-nounced last week.

For the Philip Scotties, seniorCody Reder was named all confer-ence. Honorable mentions werejuniors Tate DeJong and CassidySchnabel and sophomore ReedJohnson.

The South Dakota FootballCoaches Association selected the2011 all-state football teams lastweek in Vermillion. PHS athletesselected for the 9A team wereChaney Burns as kicker and Rederas honorable mention all-state cor-nerback.

All-conference football playersfor Kadoka were Brady Sudbeckwas named all conference. Honor-able mentions went to Clint Stout,Chance Knutson and ChandlierSudbeck.

Wall’s players included all-con-ference Chavis Shull, LaketonMcLaughlin, Jess Williams, JesseWillis, Tyler Trask and TaranEisenbraun. Honorable mentionswere Lane Blasius, Clancy Lytleand Ridge Sandal. Shull wasnamed most valuable player for the

2011 season.New Underwood had Travis

Smith, Dalton Bentor andCameron Koch as all-conference.Honorable mention went to AaronOberlander, Lucas Hall and ColtKinsella.

For Jones County all-conferencewent to Philip Mathews, GusVolmer and Skyler Miller. KyleManke and Chad Johnson werehonorable mentions.

Lyman players named all confer-ence were Charlie LaRoche, JaylenUthe, Evan Smith, Dillon DeJongand Ryder Schweitzer. Honorablemention went to Jaelani Uthe,Tanner Langdeau ad Ben Authier.

For White River, all conferenceplayers are Wyatt Krogman, EliotHight, Nic Waln, Matt Gillen andGilbert Morrison. Honorable men-tions were Logan Tucker, PatrickLehman and Michael Grass.

Western Great Plains all-conference football

All conference ... Cody Reder, left, was named to the Western Great Plainsall conference team. Honorable mentions to the team were from left, Tate De-Jong, Reed Johnson and Cassidy Schnabel. Photo by Nancy Haigh

Two of Philip’s cross country run-ners were named to the Class B allstate cross country teams.

Senior William Coyle was se-lected for the boys’ team and juniorHolly Iwan was chosen for the girls’team.

The selections are made by theSouth Dakota Cross Country andTrack and Field Coaches Associa-tion. Philip’s runners were eachone of nine chosen for the teams.

Wall’s Austin Huether was alsonamed to the boys’ Class B team.

Coyle and Iwan named to 2011cross country all state teams

William Coyle Holly Iwan

Looking toward the future ... On Thursday, October 20, Philip HighSchool juniors and seniors attended Post High School Planning Day at the Rush-more Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. Representatives from military branchesand colleges were available to speak to the students about their programs andcampus. Above from left are Tara Cantrell, Sam Houston and Katelyn Enders.Below, Roger Davis gets some hands-on experirence at one booth.

Courtesy Photo

2011 football awards ... Team voted football awards were presented lastThursday afternoon at Philip High School. Back row from left Jade Berry - out-standing defensive lineman, Cody Reder - most valuable offense, most valuabledefense, Hitter Award, outstanding running back, outstanding defensive back,and Scottie Award, Jade Konst - outstanding offensive lineman and ScottieAward. Front row from left are Austin Pinney - Oil Can Award, Reed Johnson- outstanding defensive linebacker, Chaney Burns - most valuable player specialteams, and Cassidy Schnabel - Hitter Award and outstanding receiver.

Photo by Nancy Haigh

Academic all-state team ... Two members of the Philip High School foot-ball team were named by the South Dakota Football Coaches Association to its2011 academic high school football all-state team. From left are Trey DeJongand Sam Haigh. The requirements for this award are that a player must be asenior, have a 3.5 or higher grade point average and must have played or man-aged three years of football. Photo by Nancy Haigh

The Philip FFA Chapter wel-comed Connor Powell, state FFAsentinel, and Jamie Flint, statevice president on November 2.While at the school, Powell andFlint presented workshops to agri-culture education classes aboutteamwork, goal setting, communi-cation, and the benefits of being anFFA member. During a year of service to the or-ganization, state FFA officerstravel to FFA chapters in the stateto talk about opportunities avail-able to students enrolled in agricul-tural education. State officersdevelop fun interactive workshopsthat encourage students to developleadership skills and take advan-tage of opportunities available to

FFA members. Agricultural education incorpo-rates three aspects of learning. Theclassroom provides basic knowl-edge. FFA develops leadership andpersonal skills. A Supervised Agri-cultural Experience (SAE) provideshands-on learning while workingon the job or in an agriculturalbusiness. FFA is an integral part of agri-cultural education. Agricultural in-structors encourage students totake the knowledge and skills theyhave acquired in class and apply toFFA events, such as the career de-velopment events, which help stu-dents explore a career interest inagriculture.

State FFA officers visit Philipchapter, conduct workshops

Philip High School’s oral inter-pretation students have been gar-nering wins this fall. Their first meet was in SturgisOctober 14. Brooke Nelsen receivedfourth in novice poetry and Ster-ling Ellens received sixth in noviceserious prose. They traveled to Pierre October22. In the novice category Nelsonplaced first in poetry, Brad Pfeifleplaced fifth in poetry, Ellens tookninth place in serious prose andWyatt Johnson received 10th placein humorous. “Everyone did exceptionally wellat districts in Winner,” said coachKali Leitheiser. Advancing to re-gional competition are Kaci Olivier.Ellens, Johnson, Nelson, Pfeifle,and Allison Pekron in reader's the-ater - “Cinderella Bigfoot,” Ellensin serious prose - “My Story,” John-son and Ellens in a duet - “WaysideSchool,” Nelson in poetry - “CowboyTime.” Those who received an al-ternate placing for regional compe-tition were Pekron in oratory - “TheCrisis” and Johnson in humor -“Take Me Back to Old Yesterday.” District 9 competitions were

Tuesday, November 8. Schools inthis district include Andes Cen-tral, Armour, Burke, Colome,Crazy Horse, Edgemont, JonesCounty, Kadoka Area, Kimball,Lower Brule, Lyman, Marty In-

dian, New Underwood, Oelrichs,Philip, Rapid City Christian, SouthCentral, Walland White River. Region V competition will be inPierre Monday, November 21.

PHS oral interp students finding success

Going to regional competition ... The Philip High School oral interpre-tation group will travel to region competition in Pierre, November 21. Back rowfrom left are Brooke Nelson, Wyatt Johnson and Brad Pfeifle. Front row fromleft are Allison Pekron, Kaci Olivier, Sterling Ellens and coach Kali Leitheiser.

Photo by Nancy Haigh

Regional Student Council meeting ... Philip High School student coun-cil members attended the regional workshop and meeting October 5, 2011, inSturgis. Back row from left are LaRae Van Tassel, Brad Pfeifle, Nelson Holman,Trey DeJong, Holly Iwan, Nick Hamill, Wyatt Johnson, Gavin Snook, Paul Gup-till, Peyton DeJong and Kianna Knutson. Middle row from left are Ryan VanTassel, Gavin Brucklacher and Tate DeJong. Front row from left are AllisonStahl, Josie Guptill, Audra Antonsen, Sayde Slovek and Katlin Knutson. TreyDeJong is also the Rushmore Region president and he led the business meeting.The PHS crew attended various speakers and leadership workshops which werebased on the Dr. Seuss book, "Oh The Places You Will Go." Students and advi-sors from Sturgis, Lead-Deadwood, Custer, Hill City, Edgemont, Oelrichs, RapidCity Stevens, Wall, Douglas and Harding County also attended the workshop.

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Philip League Bowling

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Monday Nite MixedBadland’s Auto..........................27-13Rockers......................................24-16Groven Chemical ......................23-17Shad’s Towing...........................20-20Dakota Bar................................19-21Handrahan Const .......................7-33Highlights:Trina Brown..................219, 216/552Jason Petersen ............234 clean/638Marsha Sumpter .5-10 & 3-10 splits;.....................................183 clean/516Rick Groven...........................214/532Le´Anna Buxcel ..................5-10 splitMatt Griffin ...............3-10 x 2 spllitsGail Reutter..........................5-6 splitJanet Theye ........................3-10 split

Tuesday Men’s EarlyG&A Trenching...........................17-7George’s Welding ........................16-8Corks ...........................................15-9People’s Mkt..............................14-10Kadoka Tree Service.................11-13Kennedy Imp.............................10-14Ghost Team.................................8-16Bear Automotive.........................5-19Highlights:Tony Gould....................234, 206/636Steve Varner .........................233/623Bill Stone...............................203/571Dakota Alfery...............................556Alvin Pearson................201, 215/553Alex Moos....................3-10 split; 551James Mansfield ..........................512Johnny Wilson .............................504Wendell Buxcel...................5-10 split

Wednesday Morning CoffeeCutting Edge Salon ....................31-9Jolly Ranchers ..........................28-12State Farm Ins....................19.5-20.5All Star Auto.......................18.5-21.5Invisibles ...................................18-22Highlights:Karen Foland ................201, 200/524Marsha Sumpter...................170/467Judy Papousek ......................150/442Deanna Fees .........................2-7 splitCharlene Kjerstad...........5-6-10 splitMarti Kjerstad .............................173

Wednesday Nite EarlyFirst National Bank ...........24.5-15.5Morrison’s Haying ..............21.5-18.5Dorothy’s Catering .............21.5-18.5Wall Food Center......................21-19Chiefie’s Chicks ..................18.5-21.5Dakota Bar................................18-2299 Pins.......................................18-22Just Tammy’s............................17-23Highlights:Emily Kroetch........5-10 & 2-7 splits;

...............................................169/439Christi Michael .....................156/412Sue Willis.............5-10 split; 152/437Heather Nelson............................169Karen Iwan ..................................136Cheryl Behrend............................134Rhonda McLaughin ..............182/473Lindsey Hildebrand .....................172LouAnn Reckling .........................172Ashley Reckling..................4-10 splitJanet Theye ..............5-7 & 4-5 splitsRose Bennett ......................3-10 split

Thursday Nite MensA&M Laundry.............................17-7O’Connell Const ..........................16-8West River Tanks .....................13-11Coyle’s SuperValu ........................NADakota Bar................................11-13WEE BADD.................................9-15Steakhouse..................................8-16McDonnell Farms.........................NAHighlights:Jordan Kjerstad ....................243/529Bryan Buxcel.........................224/574Matt Griffin..................................226Doug Hauk .3-10, 9-10 &2-5-7 splits;...............................................205/563Rick Coyle .............................243/560Jason Petersen......................231/656Ronnie Coyle .........................202/579Alvin Pearson3-6-8-10 split; 208/572Wendell Buxcel....3-10 & 4-5-7 splitsBill Slovek .........................5-7-9 splitNeal Petersen....................5-7-9 splitJohn Heltzel .......................3-10 splitRonnie Williams .................3-10 split

Friday Nite MixedKing Pins...................................29-11Cristi’s Crew .............................27-13Randy’s Spray Service..............22-18High Rollers ..............................20-20Rowdy Rollers ...........................20-20Rusty Spurs ..............................18-22Hart to Hart..............................16-24Roy’s Amigo’s ..............................8-32Highlights:Deanna Fees..........................168/464Cory Boyd..............................226/606Alvin Pearson ...........229 & 202 both.............................................clean/599Michael Schofield.........................220John Heltzel ................3-6-7-10 split; .............................................216 cleanHayli Mayfield .............................148Earl Park .............5-10 split; 214/619Trina Brown.................................193Brian Pearson .....224, 206 clean/576Duane Hand..........................205/568Rachel Hajny ........................5-7 splitKelly Fees .............................2-7 split

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NOTICE OF HEARINGTO SUPPLEMENT

BUDGETS

There will be insufficient funds in the budget allowances in the101 Fund in the 2011 budgets of (130) Court Expenses, (163) Reg-ister of Deeds and (212) Jail Expenses. It is hereby proposed thatthe following Supplemental Budgets be adopted for the 2011year.

101 – 130 Courts $7,400.00101 – 163 Register of Deeds $12,500.00 101 – 212 Jail Expenses $13,500.00

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners ofHaakon County, South Dakota, will hold a public hearing on theabove proposed supplemental budgets for the year 2011 at 1:15p.m. on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at which time any personinterested may appear and be heard in favor of or opposed to theproposed budget.

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERSHAAKON COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTAGary Snook, Chairman

ATTEST:Patricia G. FreemanHaakon County Auditor[Published November 10 & 17, 2011, at the total approximate cost of $266.40]

November 17, 2011 • The Pioneer Review •Page 9Official Newspaper for the City of Philip,Haakon County, Haakon School District 27-1& the Town of MIdlandLegal Notices

Proceedings of theCity of Philip

REGULAR MEETINGNOVEMBER 8, 2011

A regular meeting of the Philip City Coun-cil was held on Tuesday, November 8,2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Commissioner’sRoom of the Haakon Co. Courthouse.Present were Mayor John F. Hart, Fi-nance Officer Monna Van Lint, CouncilMembers Tom Struble, Shirley Chin, GregArthur, Jason Harry, John Kangas, andMike Vetter. Also present were Deputy Fi-nance Officer Brittany Smith, PublicWorks Director Matt Reckling, Police Of-ficer David Butler, and Nancy Haigh withthe Pioneer Review.

Absent: None.

Motion was made by Arthur, seconded byStruble to approve the agenda as pre-sented. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Vetter, seconded byArthur to approve the minutes of the lastmeeting as published in the Pioneer Re-view. Motion carried.

Council Member Vetter questioned whatthe transport fee from O’Connell’s Con-struction included. FO Van Lint advisedthat it was for the use of their equipmentto transport the chipper to Philip.

Motion was made by Vetter, seconded byArthur to approve payment of the billsfrom the appropriated funds. Motion car-ried.

Gross Salaries - October 31, 2011:Gross Salaries: Adm. - $2,795.86; Police- $5,735.59; Sewer - $4,659.19; Water -$7,156.92

AFLAC, Employee Supplemental Ins.- 10/11........................................237.00EFTPS, S.S., Medicare, Withholding- 10/11.....................................4,217.79SDRS, Employee Retirement- 10/11 ....................................2,713.06

This Month's Bills:AT&T, Cell Phone 09-10/11 ..........79.28Cenex Harvest States, Fuel/ Supplies 09-10/11 ................1,159.98CRA Payment Center, Equip. Supplies - 09/11 ......................361.87Dakotacare Health Ins. Employee Health Premium - 11/11 .....10,037.94Delta Dental Ins., Employee Dental Premium - 11/11 .....................635.001st Nat’l Agency, Airport Liab 10/11-10/12 .........................2,678.00 2011 Case Loader - 2011 .......149.00

1st Nat’l Bank - Philip Utility Postage - 11/11 .......................................109.741st Nat’l Bank - S.F. SRF Loan #02 Pay #156 - 11/11 .................2,163.90 SRF Loan #03 Pay #59 - 11/11 ....................................2,223.41Fitzgerald Oil Co., Fuel 09-10/11 .................................314.44Galls, PD Supplies 08-09/11 ......134.94Golden West, Telephone/Internet 09-10/11 .................................572.74Haakon Co. Treasurer, Office Rent - 11/11 .........................................60.00Heartland Waste Mgmt, Inc., 379 Residential Collection - 10/11 ....................................4,131.10Ingram Hardware, Supplies - 10/11 .......................................123.39Jones’ Saddlery, PD Vest Repairs - 10/11 .........................10.40K-Log, Inc. File Cabinet - 10/11...536.98Lake Waggoner Golf Course, 20 Year Lease Payment 2011-2031 ......20.00Morrison’s Pit Stop, Fuel 09-10/11 .................................275.55O’Connell Construction, Inc., Chipper Transport Fee - 11/11 .............718.75Office Max, Inc., Desk/Supplies - 10/11 ....................................1,961.49Petty Cash, Postage/Supplies/Land/ Fees 08-10/11 ..........................48.91Pioneer Review, Publishing - 10/11 .......................................908.11Prairie Schooner Towing, Code Enf. Towing - 10/11 ........................190.00Quill, Supplies 10-11/11 ..............277.55RVS Software, Maint./Updates 11/11-11/12 .............................582.00Safety Benefits, Pearson Training Reg. - 11/11 .......................................65.00SD Dept. of Revenue, Sales Tax Payable - 10/11 ......................336.18 Water Coliform Testing 10/11 ....12.00

SD Municipal League, Van Lint Election School Reg - 11/11 .......................20.00SD One Call, Locates 07-09/11 ....28.35Smith, Brittany, Mileage Reimb. - 10/11 .......................................203.50Tollefson, Gay, Attorney Retainer - 11/11 .......................................150.00Twilight First Aid, Service Supplies - 10/11 .........................................20.50USDA, RD Loan Pay #83 - 11/11 ....................................3,069.00VISA - UMB Bank SDML Conf. Travel Exp. - 10/11 ............................545.44West Central Electric Electric Charges 09-10/11 ..............................2,423.73WR/LJ Rural Water 3,198,000 gals. - 10/11 ....................................3,997.50 Contract Min. - 10/11 ...........3,000.00 Airport Water - 10/11 ................37.50

Zeeb Pharmacy, PD Supplies - 10/11..........................................29.99Total Expenditures - 11/08/11............................$44,403.16

Old Business:Motion was made by Vetter, seconded byStruble to approve the 2nd reading ofOrd. #2011-11, Amending Chapter 01 and02 of the Revised Ordinances of the Cityof Philip, SD. Motion carried with all mem-bers voting aye. (The Ordinance waspublished in its entirety following the firstreading and is on file in the Finance Of-fice.)

New Business:Council reviewed the following buildingpermits as presented: Ralph McQuirk forPaul Elshere - repair sewer line; DeanFitzgerald - renew concrete loading padpermit approved on 11/02/09; MikeMoses - renew concrete slab permit ap-proved 5/03/10; Matt Reckling - chain linkfence; Charles VanVleck - demolish shed,install garage & concrete slab, deck.

Motion was made by Kangas, secondedby Struble to approve the above listedbuilding permits as presented. Motioncarried.

The City’s State Water Plan applicationsfor sanitary sewer and storm water im-provements will be heard during the SDBoard of Water & Natural Resource meet-

ing on Nov. 10, 2011. The City has beennotified that attendance at the meeting isnot required.

Airport:Council reviewed an update on the AirportLand Acquisition and Environmental As-sessment (LA/EA) and the Medium Inten-sity Runway Lighting (MIRL) Designproject from the Airport engineer, RodSenn with Kadrmas, Lee and Jackson(KLJ).

Council then reviewed correspondencefrom KLJ regarding the City’s 2012 AirportImprovement program.

FO Van Lint informed the Council that theprogram outlines the City’s five-year im-provement plan and goals. Mr. Senn hasadvised that since the City has committedto the MIRL project in 2012, the City canwait until 2012 to update the plan unlessthere is a need to revise the current plansor goals.

By general consensus, the Council deter-mined to wait until 2012 to review and up-date the Airport Improvement program.

Motion was made by Arthur, seconded byHarry to approve the 2012 Dental Insur-ance premiums increase of 3.9% for sin-gle and 4.0% for family coverage permonth, effective Jan. 2012. Motion car-ried.

Council also reviewed the City’s WorkersCompensation Insurance renewal for2012. The cost of the insurance will in-crease $871 from $7,777 in 2011 to$8,648 in 2012.

Council Member Vetter questioned ifSDML Work Comp fund has providedreasoning for the somewhat large pre-mium increase.

FO Van Lint noted that the premiums arebased on preliminary payroll audits. Oncethe actual figures are available, the Citywill be refunded for any over payment.

Following review, motion was made byArthur, seconded by Vetter to approve theCity Workers Compensation Insurancerenewal for 2012. Motion carried.

Council reviewed correspondence fromSD DENR regarding their inspection ofLake Waggoner Dam on Aug. 11, 2011.SD DENR has made recommendationsfor the City to complete to prevent furtherdeterioration of the dam. The recommen-dations include: removing the trees andbrush from the embankment; monitoringthe upstream slope and repairing inade-quate riprap; repairing the gabion walland displaced rock riprap; and, monitorthe seepage below the dam.

Council Member Arthur questioned if theCity crew could complete a portion of thework such as placing the concrete on thedam grade and removing the trees andbrush.

PWD Reckling confirmed that the Citycrew would perform these jobs. He thenquestioned the Council as to who theywould like to hire to repair the gabion walland rip rap as there are two local contrac-tors, Petoske Construction and G & G Ex-cavation. It was noted that the work willnot have to be bid if it is below the bidlimit. He further questioned if the Councilhad any input on how they would like tohave the gabion wall repaired and sug-gested contacting the City’s Engineer,Harlan Quenzer, for recommendations.

By general consensus, PWD Recklingwas directed to have the City crew haulin the concrete and remove the trees andbrush. He shall also review the neededrepairs for the gabion wall with Mr. Quen-zer, and obtain quotes from both of thelocal contractors for the gabion wall andriprap repairs if it is below the bid limit.

The Lake Waggoner Golf Course hassigned the Lease, Consulting and Man-agement Agreement with the City. Theoriginal agreement expired in July 2010and the City Council had approved the re-newal in October 2010.

FO Van Lint advised the Council that shehas been contacted by Mike West repre-senting the Country Cupboard. TheCountry Cupboard is a food pantry lo-cated in Wall that serves low income fam-ilies in the Philip, Wall, Milesville, andWasta areas. Mr. West would like theCouncil to consider future appropriationsin the amount of $200 - $250 per year tothe Country Cupboard starting in 2013.According to Mr. West, there are approx-imately 160-180 families in the area uti-lizing their services. They are also in theprocess of establishing a backpack pro-gram for kids whose families meet the in-come guidelines and are gone working onthe weekends.

No action was taken at this time. The re-quest will be considered during the 2013budget meetings.

Council went on to review a request fromM.G. Oil Company regarding the City’sfuel rotation schedule policy. They wouldlike the Council to consider adding theirCorner Pantry in Philip on the scheduleand have agreed to make accommoda-tions in order for the City to maintain acharge account with them.

Following discussion, motion was madeby Vetter, seconded by Arthur, to add theCorner Pantry in Philip onto the City’sFuel Rotation Schedule. Motion carried.

Council reviewed a 50/50 matching grantopportunity from the SDML Workers’Compensation and Stan Houston Equip-ment to purchase an ICS concrete saw.The saw is being promoted to replace thehazardous concrete and water pipe cut-ting saw which was reported as claiminga South Dakotan’s life. Currently, the Citymaintains one of these hazardous saws.

The grant eligibility criterion was reviewedand it was noted the price for SDMLmembers range from $2,089.00 to$3,249.00 before the grant. They will beproviding a demo of the saws during thismonth’s Safety Conference in Oacoma.Gen. Maintenance staff, Brian Pearson,will be attending and was requested to re-view the saws at that time.

PWD Reckling was questioned if theywould prefer the gas or hydraulic saw.PWD Reckling confirmed that they wouldprefer the gas saw. It was also noted thatreplacement chains are expensive andthey may want to consider a sharpener.

By general consensus, the City will applyfor the grant following a review of thesaws by Pearson. The deadline for thegrant application is Dec. 31, 2011.

Departmental Reports:The quarterly Administrative report wasreviewed with Finance Officer Monna VanLint.

Council reviewed the year-to-date rev-enues and expenditures and investmentreport. The year-to-date sales tax rev-enues were reported at $330,195.81 ascompared to the 2010 total revenues of$354,648.82.

Council also reviewed the City's Deposi-tory Disclosure for the account balancesending October 31, 2011, as follows. (seebox below)

Council reviewed a proposed Non-Suffi-cient Funds (NSF) Check Policy whichoutlines how payments will be acceptedfollowing the receipt of a NSF check orACH payment. FO Van Lint noted that thepolicy will provide guidance on how totreat such payments as currently the onlyguideline is that of the NSF returnedcheck fee of $30.

Following review, motion was made byChin, seconded by Harry to approve theNSF Check policy as stated below. Mo-tion carried.

NSF Check Policy

First Offense - No Checks/ACH pay-ments will be accepted until all fees arecollected.

Second Offense - No checks/ACH pay-ments will be accepted for a period of six(6) months.

Third Offense - No checks/ACH pay-ments will be accepted for a period oftwenty-four (24) months.

*Payment arrangements following a thirdoffense will be at the discretion of the Fi-nance Office with input from the CityCouncil Water Committee.

Motion was made by Kangas, secondedby Vetter to approve the surplus and dis-posal of a portion of the desk purchasedin 1996 for $396.00. The stable portion ofthe desk was moved to the Rubble Sitebuilding for use there. Motion carried.

The quarterly Airport report was re-viewed.

The YTD fuel revenues were reported at$17,155.94.

The City’s 2012 operating license for theAirport has been submitted.

The monthly Police Dept. report was pre-sented and reviewed with Officer Butler.

Officer Butler reported that the trapping ofthe reported mountain lion has been un-successful.

The monthly Street Dept. report was re-viewed.

PWD Reckling updated the Council onthe 1986 Case Loader repairs stating thathe is still waiting for a repair quote fromKennedy Implement. He has also visitedwith the Titan Machinery salesman, whichhas experience with these types of load-ers. In his opinion, the motor will have tobe removed in order to make the neces-sary repairs.

He then questioned the Council as to therepairs of the loader and the amount thatthey would like to invest in repairing it.

By general consensus, the Council willvote on the repair quote via email and for-malize the action during the Decembermeeting.

Mayor Hart questioned if the loader is re-pairable, would the City rather keep orsell it. PWD Reckling stated that an addi-tional loader would only be beneficial dur-ing certain times. In his opinion, the Citywould be better off selling the loader es-pecially considering the amount of inter-est he has received from variousindividuals.

PWD Reckling also reported that he hasconfirmed with Thor Roseth that PhilipLivestock Auction will be hosting their an-nual machinery auction during the sum-mer of 2012. He mentioned that theCouncil may want to consider listing theloader on the sale along with the City’sother surplused items.

The monthly Water Dept. report was re-viewed.

The City has completed the DrinkingWater Program’s required lead and cop-per sampling for 2011.

Council reviewed correspondence fromWR/LJ Rural Water Systems, Inc. con-firming that the Bad River Rural Water(BRRW) conversion is complete.

FO Van Lint revisited the City’s prior au-thorization to explore a reduction in themonthly minimum contract amount withWR/LJ. The City’s contract is based onthe daily peak water use and since theCity will no longer be supplying water toBRRW, approximately 60,000 gals. ofpeak water usage will be reduced. Thecurrent contract allows for 600,000 gals.of water per day for the City as a wholeand if the contract is reduced by the60,000 to 100,000 gals., the City couldsave approximately $3,600 to $6,000 peryear. The City will lose approximately$2,500 to $3,000 in revenue by not sup-plying water to BRRW.

She then questioned if the Council wouldlike to maintain the 600,000 gals. or seethe amount reduced.

Following discussion, motion was madeby Arthur, seconded by Chin to authorizeFO Van Lint to negotiate a new monthlyminimum contract with WR/LJ consider-ing the loss of BRRW as City customers.Motion carried with Vetter abstaining fromthe vote.

Nuisance Abatement charges have beenassessed against property legally de-scribed as Lot 12, Block 04 of OriginalTown, City of Philip, SD.

Public Comments:None

In Other Business:Motion was made by Kangas, secondedby Struble to authorize Gen. Mainte-nance, Brian Pearson’s attendance at the2011 Safety & Loss Training in Oacoma,Nov. 16-17, 2011. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Kangas, secondedby Chin to authorize FO Van Lint’s atten-dance at the 2011 Election School in

Rapid City on Dec. 7, 2011. Motion car-ried.

The Rubble Site hours have changed tothe winter month’s schedule, effectiveNov. 1, 2011. The Finance Office wasasked to publish a notice in the localnewspaper to this effect.

The City Offices will be closed Nov. 11, 24and 25, 2011, in observance of legal hol-idays.

Personnel evaluations need to be com-pleted and filed with the Finance Office byNov. 30, 2011.

The next regular Council Meeting will beheld on Monday, December 5, at 7:00p.m. in the Community Room.

With no further business to come beforethe Council, Mayor Hart declared themeeting adjourned at 7:35 p.m.

/s/John F. Hart, Mayor

ATTEST:/s/Brittany Smith, Deputy Finance Officer

[Published November 17, 2011, at thetotal approximate cost of $252.06]

Notice of Audit of theFiscal Affairs of the

Haakon School DistrictNo. 27-1

Notice is hereby given that the HaakonSchool District No. 27-1, Philip, SouthDakota, has been audited by Casey Pe-terson & Associates, Ltd., Certified PublicAccountants, for the year ended June 30,2011. A detailed report thereon is avail-able for public inspection, during normalbusiness hours, at the business office ofthe School District, and also available atthe Department of Legislative Audit inPierre, South Dakota, or on the Depart-ment of Legislative Audit website at:http://www.state.sd.us/.legislativeaudit/re-ports_all.htm

The following findings and recommenda-tions provide a brief description of mate-rial weaknesses in internal control, legalnoncompliance and other matters that aredescribed in more detail in the audit re-port.

Finding 2011-1:

Condition: Lack of adequate controls re-lated to numerous accounting functionsincluding the following cycles/ processes:cash receipts cycle, reconciliations of ac-counts, the posting of general journal en-tries, the cut-off and proper recognition ofrevenues and expenses, and the prepa-ration of the financial statements.

Auditor’s Recommendation: Reconcilia-tions of accounts and journal entries pre-pared by the Business Manager shouldbe reviewed by the Superintendent or aBoard member. In addition, proceduresshould be developed to ensure propercut-off and recognition of revenues andexpenses. It is the responsibility of man-agement and those charged with gover-nance to determine whether to accept therisk associated with the District’s auditorsdrafting the financial statements, becauseof cost or other considerations. If the Dis-trict chooses not to accept the risk, train-ing should be provided to thoseemployees responsible for drafting the fi-nancial statements.

The report does not contain other findingsand recommendations concerning lesssignificant deficiencies in internal controlat the District.

/s/Casey Peterson & Associates, Ltd.Casey Peterson & Associates, Ltd.Certified Public AccountantsRapid City, South DakotaOctober 27, 2011

[Published November 17, 2011, at thetotal approximate cost of $25.27]

DEPOSITORY DISCLOSURE - CITY OF PHILIP, SDFIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PHILIP, SOUTH DAKOTA

June 30, 2011 Oct. 31, 2011GENERAL FUND Checking Account 10,419.70 10,277.09 Petty Cash (Finance Office) 50.00 50.00 Savings/Cash Mgmt. Acct. 525,637.39 507,523.31 CD #27909 73,000.00 73,000.00 Assigned Cash 168,076.00 77,056.00 Assigned Cash - R. Site 55,061.92 56,791.92 832,245.01 724,698.32WATER Checking Account 3,202.29 3,080.79 Savings/Cash Mgmt. Acct. 293,988.33 316,653.62 CD #27910 40,000.00 40,000.00 Assigned Cash 62,863.00 62,863.00 Restricted Cash - Rural Dev. Loan 37,000.00 37,000.00 437,053.62 459,597.41SEWER Checking Account 6.16 22.21 Savings/Cash Mgmt. Acct. 295,968.06 330,029.60 CD #27911 2,000.00 2,000.00 CD #27979 10,000.00 10,000.00 Assigned Cash 71,400.00 71,400.00 379,374.22 413,451.81GARBAGE Checking Account 1.59 37.68 Savings/Cash Mgmt. Acct. 59,681.92 62,697.78 CD #27982 20,000.00 20,000.00 Assigned Cash 20,150.00 20,150.00 99,833.51 102,885.46

Total Checking 13,629.74 13,417.77Total Petty Cash 50.00 50.00Total Savings/Cash Mgmt. Acct. 1,175,275.70 1,216,904.31Total Certificates of Deposit 145,000.00 145,000.00Total Restricted Cash 414,550.92 325,260.92

TOTAL CASH 1,748,506.36 1,700,633.00

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November 17, 2011 • The Pioneer Review •Page 10Official Newspaper for the City of Philip,Haakon County, Haakon School District 27-1& the Town of MIdlandLegal Notices

Proceedings of theTown of MidlandRegular Meeting Minutes

November 8, 2011

The Town Board of the Town of Midlandmet on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, at7:00 pm in the Town Hall with the follow-ing members present: President NickiNelson, Paula Duncan, Finance OfficerMichelle Meinzer and Utilities OperatorLawrence Stroppel.

Absent: LaVerne Songer

Also present: Clint Jensen, Angie Doolit-tle and Reuben Vollmer, Jr.

Discussed personnel policy. No actiontaken at this time.

The regular meeting of the Town Boardof the Town of Midland began at 8:00p.m. in the Town Hall with the abovementioned members and guests present.

Minutes of the October 11 and October13, 2011, meetings were approved aspublished.

Songer turned in his resignation effectiveimmediately. Board will start looking forsomeone to finish his term.

Discussed old computer and lawnmower. Duncan made a motion to de-clare all as surplus, second by Nelson.Items will be put up for sale by sealedbids to be opened at our next regularBoard meeting.

Discussed landfill. Landfill will be open byappointment to residents of the Town ofMidland only by contacting the UtilitiesOperator. Notices will be posted.

Discussed rental property. No actiontaken at this time but we will discuss thisat our next regular meeting.

Vollmer asked Board about purchasing agarage door opener for the Fire Hall. Mo-tion was made and second to approvethis request.

Discussed need for a new cutting bladefor the city tractor. Stroppel to look intocost and installation of this.

Motion by Duncan, second by Nelson topay the following claims:Lawrence Stroppel, Wages/ Retirement...............................549.98Lawrence Stroppel, Health Insurance.................................300.00Michelle Meinzer, Wages, mileage, supplies ...................................614.63Ernies LLC, Supplies ..................230.04Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, employee tax ............ 303.81Golden West, Phone/Internet ......139.92Heartland Waste, Refuse Service ................................... 948.00Ron Larson, computer/labor.....1,896.00Northwest Pipe, Supplies ............560.39Pioneer Review, Publications ......209.13SD Department of Revenue, Lab Fees ...................................12.00SD Federal Surplus Agency, Tools ..........................................75.00SD Municipal League, Annual Dues........................................120.91SD Assn. of Code Enforcement, Dues..........................................40.00SD Governmental Finance Officers Assn., Dues...............................40.00SD Governmental Human Resources Assn., Dues...............................25.00SD Municipal Liquor Control Assn., Dues..........................................25.00SD Street Maintenance Assn., Dues..........................................35.00SDML Workers Compensation Fund, Renewal ..................................819.00SD Retirement System, Retirement................................ 81.90SD State Treasurer, Sales Tax ......75.84West Central Electric, Electric Supply .....................................758.33WR/LJ Rural Water System, Water Supply .....................................848.75Nicki Nelson, Supplies...................27.55Tammy Williams, Water Deposit Refund.......................................75.00

There being no further business to comebefore the board, the meeting adjourned.

Nicole Nelson, PresidentMichelle Meinzer, Finance Officer

[Published November 17, 2011, at thetotal approximate cost of $45.49]

Proceedings of West River Water

Development DistrictOctober 20, 2011

CALL TO ORDER:The West River Water Development Dis-trict convened for their regular meeting atthe West River Water Development Dis-trict Project Office in Murdo, SD. Chair-man Joseph Hieb called the meeting toorder at 10:28 a.m. (CT). Roll Call was taken and ChairmanJoseph Hieb declared a quorum waspresent. Directors present were: JosephHieb, Casey Krogman, Lorne Smith,Marion Matt and Veryl Prokop. Also pres-ent: Jake Fitzgerald, Manager; Kati Ve-nard, Sec./Bookkeeper.

ADDITIONS TO AGENDA: None

APPROVE AGENDA: Motion by DirectorProkop, seconded by Director Smith toapprove the agenda. Motion carriedunanimously.

APPROVE MINUTES: The minutes ofthe September 15, 2011, meeting werepreviously mailed to the Board for theirreview. Motion by Director Matt, sec-onded by Director Krogman to approvethe September minutes. Motion carriedunanimously.

FINANCIAL REPORT: A. APPROVAL OF BILLS: JosephHieb - $56.61, Casey Krogman - $56.61,Lorne Smith - $56.61, Marion Matt -$56.61, Veryl Prokop - $56.61, WestRiver/Lyman-Jones RWS - $1,000.00,Pennington County Courant - $26.32,Lyman County Herald - $27.41, KadokaPress - $34.12, Murdo Coyote - $28.27,Todd County Tribune - $28.52, PioneerReview - $28.27, US Postmaster -$69.48, Internal Revenue Service -$111.72, USGS - $10,650.00 (previouslyapproved).

Motion by Director Krogman, secondedby Director Smith to approve the Districtbills. Motion carried unanimously.

B. DISTRICT FINANCIAL STATUSREPORT: The financial status of the Dis-trict to date was previously sent to theBoard. A copy of the September Finan-cial Report is on file at the District officein Murdo. Motion by Director Prokop,seconded by Director Matt to approvethe September Financial Report. Motioncarried unanimously.

REPORTS: A. MANAGER'S REPORT: ManagerFitzgerald presented his October reportto the Board. Motion by Director Matt,seconded by Director Smith to approvethe Manager’s Report. Motion carriedunanimously. B. OTHER REPORTS: NoneREVIEW FY 2012 TAX LEVY: We re-ceived the individual county tax leviesfrom the Department of Revenue for theFY 2012 Tax Resolution and the Boardreviewed the numbers.

STATE CONSERVATION COMMIS-SION: Manager Fitzgerald received a let-ter from the South Dakota Department ofAgriculture asking for nominations for aWater Development representative onthe State Conservation Commission.After discussion, the board decided notto nominate anyone at this time.

USGS GAGING STATIONS: ManagerFitzgerald received the proposed jointfunding agreement between the Districtand USGS for monitoring and operationof streamflow gages. They are seekingcost share funding in the amount of$10,950 for two gaging stations: WhiteRiver near Kadoka and White River nearWhite River. Motion by Director Krog-man, seconded by Director Matt to ap-prove the joint funding agreement withUSGS for FFY 2012 in an amount not toexceed $10,950.

ADJOURNMENT:There being no further business, themeeting was adjourned at 10:48 a.m.(CT).

ATTEST:Kati Venard, Recording Secretary_____________________________Joseph Hieb, Chairman

[Published November 17, 2011, at thetotal approximate cost of $38.34]

I was sorry to hear that Bill Jan-klow has an incurable brain cancer.He had an announcement on TVfor the public to let them know andto ask for complete privacy duringthis time for his family and him-self. I don’t know how other feltabout Bill, I for one think that hewas a good governor and that hedid a lot for South Dakota. Ilearned a lot from him. I sat on hisadvisory and task force boards andhe was always thinking of ways tobetter our state. He was a greatforce in transportation and espe-cially for buses for the elderly andhandicapped. He got the govern-ment to release monies, that theygave to South Dakota for trolleycars which South Dakota had nouse for, and turn it over to bustransportation. That was when Ireceived an invitation from Bill tobe his guest at the governor’s man-sion for lunch. I declined the firsttwo and he called a third time andsaid it was very important that Iattend, so I went. Philip has him tothank, as that was the day he gaveus a new 16-passenger bus, free ofcharge, from the trolley car funds.As you may notice, I called himBill, as that was what he wanted tobe called whenever we would meetwith him. He also acknowledgedhis mistakes and asked for forgive-ness for them during his announce-ment. Several from our community at-tended the funeral of Richard Bur-nett. Our sympathy goes out to hisfamily. Mike and Judy Melvin came toJudy’s brother’s, Jim Oldenbergs’,to be here for Mike Gebes’ birthdayparty Saturday. Vickie Eide met Carla inSpearfish, Wednesday, andbrought her grandkids home tovisit a few days. They were out ofschool. They like to come wheneverthey get a chance. Monday, Novem-ber 14, will be a busy day here asthey will be working cattle for pregtesting and sorting out old and drycows that need to go to market. Carla Eide’s kids, Kiley and Tae-gan, just enjoyed seeing what thisarea had to offer while they werehere. Vickie took them to the court-house in Philip and went throughit. While at the sheriff’s office, theywere presented with can holdersfrom the deputy sheriff. On Novem-ber 11, Mary Eide took them up toDwight Slovek’s to the PrairieMoon Ranch to see his buffalo andjacks where they enjoyed havingDwight tell them the history of hisanimals. Many pictures were takenby Kiley with her cell phone, aswell as by a regular camera byMary. Taegan was impressed with a bigsix-year-old buffalo. He asked whyhe had such a large beard? It washard to get a picture of him, as hewould always stay in the center ofthe herd. The young, spring calfwas the smallest. Dwight invitedthem to come back in the springand enjoy the new little babies. Hesaid they were so cute to watch asthey played. He also told about thebig lion that spooked the Slovekcalves at Casey’s place and by thesize of the footprints, it was a bigcat. We sure had a good host.Thank you, Dwight. Carla Eide came down late Fri-day night to pick up the kids andher car that was at a garage get-ting fixed. They enjoyed visitingwith Colby, Jensen and RaylerFitch, Saturday, November 12, atMarvin and Vicki’s. Later thatevening, Mary Eide, and Trevorand Christa Fitch came over forsupper. Brayden and Keagan didnot come but they had seen themearlier in the week in Philip. They

returned to Gillette after lunchSunday. There were two cattle drives thisweek, one modern and one old fash-ioned. Marvin Eide, Dustin Poss,and Dan Oldenberg on four-wheel-ers and Vicki and her side by side,and Marvin’s two trusty dogs, Pep-per and Ginger, brought his year-ling heifers home from the lateGeorge Oldenberg place. It tookthem about four hours to make the10-mile drive. They said all wentwell and it was a beautiful day forthe job. The other drive was done the old-fashioned way November 11 whenDan Oldenberg drove his cattlefrom a short distance west ofKadoka to his ranch 20 miles westof Philip. There were three wagonsused on this trip. Danny had histeam and wagon and there werealso two other team and wagonsfrom Kadoka. He said there weretoo many riders to name them all,but one special rider was hiscousin, Gary Oldenberg, son of thelate George Oldenberg, came allthe way from Mitchell to go on theride. It had been a long time sinceGary had ridden, but he did great.On the first day, they got to GlennBennett’s place where they had anoldfashioned campout thatevening. Then it was on to thehome ranch. It was a fun time andexperience for everyone who wentalong. It is nice that some folks goto the trouble of keeping our her-itage alive and it is cheaper thanusing all the gas and hiring help.This is not new to me, as I grew upriding horseback and driving ateam. We did all our haying withhorses as we couldn’t afford trac-tors and the gas. We had one oldtractor we used to saw wood to selland pull the potato digger and attimes we would plow with a twobottom plow. Times were hard andI helped the neighbor lady for 25cents for all day. It cost 12 cents togo to a show and 10 cents for pop-corn. Oh, the memories! The Jim Oldenbergs and theMike Melvins enjoyed a late break-fast at Wall Drug Sunday morning.Bob and Kathy Hamann joinedthem for part of the day, as they at-tended the craft show in Wall also. Mary Eide visited the Jim Olden-bergs Sunday afternoon to visitwith Mike and Judy Melvin. Theyall went to The Steakhouse for din-ner which was nice as it was openfor the hunter’s convenience andwe got to enjoy the meal too. As Iwas leaving Oldenberg’s, Mary KaySandal came to visit. Darrel Terkildsen’s dad, Lavern,has been on the sick list and under-went surgery. We hope he has aspeedy recovery and will be homesoon. Lavern and his wife live inWall. The deer hunters in our commu-nity have been having good luckgetting their deer. Grandson, Kea-gan Fitch has been hunting, buthave not heard if he got his deeryet. Talking to some of the out ofstate hunters, they still need to gettheir deer, but will stay longer tosucceed. They feel they will get thejob done. No one has called with theirnews so will bring this to a close forthis week. I had to laugh when Iwas told something and they said,“Now don’t put that in the paper!”and I said I wouldn’t. There aresome things you just don’t put inprint even if you do have a goodlaugh over it. From birth to 18, a girls needsgood parents. From 18 to 35, sheneeds good looks. From 35 to 55,good personality. From 55 on, sheneed good cash. I’m saving mymoney. Sophia Tucker

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Just when you know the an-swers, they change the questions!At least that seems to apply tothese darned log in names andpasswords. I much prefer the use ofthe old ways of doing business buthave resigned to using a few ac-counts online. Well, Sunday whenit would benefit me to log in and dosome business, things went frombad to worse. I managed to get thelog in numbers right the first time,when I entered the password itmust not have been the one theymade me change it to (an every sixmonth event) then here came anew question – what was the colorof your FIRST car? Hmmm, wasthat first car a green Mercury – orwas it the black one that could hit110 in a quarter of a mile; wrong!Guess again, same dumb question– maybe a good guess would beblack, wrong again! Never had ablue car but that would be as gooda guess as any, wrong for the thirdtime – I struck out, now the ac-count was closed until I talk to aperson. Then the next trick, get e-statements, no more paper to clut-ter up the house. Well, guess what,you need to print the darned thingsyourself, use your paper and ink soyou have a tax record, thus the ex-pense is on you now. Oh my, last week when we wereat the Robbinsdale bowling alley,we ran into Don Keyser, he spendsabout as much time at the bowlingalley as I do. He was sporting a pinfor bowling 75 pins over average,that is pretty good when you haveclose to a 200 average. Sandee Gittings went to thesixth grade classroom early Mon-day afternoon. The AARP/RTA hadsponsored an essay contest aboutgrandparents last year and wasgiving out the awards. Kobie Daviswas the winner. Sandee attendedthe grade school's "Red, White andBlue" concert Monday evening. Tony Harty and Russ Hattelwent to Pierre on Monday. BothRuss and Tony visited Merlin Ben-nett for appointments. Russjumped ship on Tony and caught aride back to Kadoka with anotherfriend. Tony met the Hutteriteswhile in Pierre and picked up somemore poultry. On the way home hevisited Ramona Buchholz anddropped off a turkey the Hutteritessent for her Christmas gift. Monday, I came straight awayhome after spending the night withBill in the motor home and drovethe HCPT van to Rapid City for anappointment. I got home in time todo some business then bowl. Iturned North and spent the nightwith Bill at the motor home. Tuesday, Tony Harty visitedSteve and Lisa Doudy and made adelivery to them. He had coffee outwith the local folks and visited hisniece Kathy Brown in the after-noon. Tuesday, I returned home in themorning and was busy doing thingsaround the place. In the afternoonI drove several to Philip in theHCPT van for appointments get-ting home after dark, which isn'ttoo hard since it gets dark about4:30! Bill moved the motor homeback home that evening. Wednesday, November 9, TonyHarty was in Philip making deliv-eries of poultry, watched bowlingwhile having coffee. He returned toKadoka and visited Russ Hattel inthe afternoon. It seems Bill and I can't ride to-gether anymore. Wednesday morn-ing after breakfast we made thetrip to Philip for the services forRichard Burnett in separate cars.It was a blessing in disguise, ournot riding together, since the vanwas locked and the keys inside. Billtook the other car and went homeand got the keys then went on tocombine corn in the afternoon. Itseemed only fitting that Bill woulddo some farm work since Richardso enjoyed the farming he did. I en-joyed visiting with Gary Keyserand Dale Keyser of Wall. They hadsome stories to tell on Dad, whichwere enjoyable. Gary told about

when they were in Arizona at arestaurant Dad cut the line and in-quired if they didn't know who hewas, didn't they recognize SenatorBarry Goldwater? He got the wholegroup seated in no time. Dale saidhe remembered that dad's favoritesaying was he wasn't a “bad” child,or a “good” child, but a “Fair” child.Our bowling team, All Star Auto,did a make up game in the after-noon with Donna Newman as asub. Shirley Parsons was so gra-cious to keep score for us but westill lost all the games. I had coffeewith Shirley and Joy Neville thenstopped by Gary Stephenson's toleave off a part of a camera I'dmissed when putting in batteries.Gary gave me a tour of his newhome. Don and Vi Moody had a visitfrom Doug Melhoff from Rapid Cityand a friend at their ranch onWednesday. Don enjoyed showingthe fellows some of his collectiblesand they had a nice visit. Wednesday morning in Sturgisthey had a little bit of snow, justenough to stick to the grass. Itrained before the snow so the roadswere a little slick. Ralph appreci-ated his new retirement, since thephone didn't ring to get him out tosand or clear roads. Ralph andCathy Fiedler braved this first signof snow and went to Philip, theyhad lunch at the Sale Barn Café sothey could visit with Diana andRichard Stewart. After lunch theywent to the nursing home to visitwith Cathy's Mom, Katy Dragesett.Cathy played bingo with her andthe other residents. A great oppor-tunity to see friends that volunteerto help with bingo. After snacksRalph and Cathy returned to Stur-gis. It gets dark so early they wereon the alert for deer all the wayhome. Thursday both Tony Harty andPhyllis Word popped in at our placefor a visit. Tony caught up on read-ing the papers. Bill went to Plain-view early and was cutting cornuntil late. Lack of places to go withthe corn slows harvest down. Don and Vi Moody had somebusiness that took them to RapidThursday, so they stayed over theweekend at their Rapid Valleyhome. They did venture to the Hillslate Friday. Several deer huntersset up camp and were looking forthat big buck back at the ranch. George and Joe Gittings workedon some projects for George on Fri-day and then worked on MarieLamm's trailer house. Gary andGreg Wolbrink, Greg Kastner andRob Maher of the Sioux Falls andBrookings areas arrived at theGeorge Gittings home Fridayevening for deer hunting. Friday, Tony Harty visited hisniece Kathy Brown in the morning.After he had coffee out, he helpedKathy run some errands then hewent to Martin for the Knights ofColumbus Smoker, returning homelate that evening. He brought homesome excess Rocky Mountain Oys-ters all cooked up and ready toenjoy later. I made a practice run at babysit-ting the great grandson Elijah Sea-ger and sister Aviana at their homein Rapid City. Eric and Chacielwere going to have an overnight getaway and were excited to go to abed and breakfast in Lead. Theymade it to Deadwood and calledabout finding the B&B, only to beadvised the reservation was for thenext night. They came home but Igot along good for about four hours.As I headed for home, I promised toreturn the next day and give it a goagain. Saturday afternoon, Ralph andCathy Fiedler went to Spearfish.Ralph went to the BHS & Techfootball game with Eric Hansonand Loman while Sherry, Elsie andCathy put the finishing touches onEric's 40th birthday supper.Friends and family gathered atHudson Hall for a birthday supperand party for Eric. A good supper,cake and ice cream were enjoyed by

Betwixt Places Newsby Marsha Sumpter • 837-2048 • [email protected]

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE: All real estate advertised in this newspaper is subject to the FederalFair Housing Act of 1968, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, or discriminationon race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, or any intention to make any such preference,limitation, or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is a violationof the law. Our readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are avail-able on an equal opportunity basis.

CHICKENS FOR SALE: (29)young laying hens, near Wall.Call 279-2235. $4.00 each. WP13-2tp

FOR SALE: 640 lbs. of cleanand dry 2011 alfalfa seed.$3.50/lb. OBO. Call 859-3520. WP12-3tc

WINTER PASTURE FORLEASE: Up to 50 head for 2-4months. Call 837-2541 or 488-0151 for details. P48-2tc

FOR SALE: Harvested grainsorghum. Also: Alfalfa & alfalfamix hay. 859-2943. P43-tfn

HELP WANTEDFULL-TIME POSITION AVAIL-ABLE: An aggressive weeklyagricultural newspaper basedout of Philip, SD, is looking to filla full-time graphic artist posi-tion. Be creative and work in arelaxed environment of WesternSouth Dakota. Send resumé to:The Cattle Business Weekly, Box700, Philip, SD 57567: Contactthe owners: Don Ravellette,(605) 685-5147, [email protected] or Don-nie Leddy,[email protected], (605) 695-0113 PR13-2tc

HELP WANTED: Clerical/officetype, part time position availableat The Cattle Business Weekly,Philip, SD. Send resumé to TheCattle Business Weekly, Box700, Philip, SD 57567. For infor-mation contact the owners, DonRavellette (605) 685-5147, drav-e l l e t t e @cattlebusinessweekly.com, orDonnie Leddy, [email protected], (605) 695-0113. PR13-2tc

VETERAN SERVICE OFFICER/ EMERGENCY MANAGEMENTDIRECTOR MEADE COUNTY,SD (STURGIS) is responsible forperforming professional admin-istrative and managerial dutiesto assist veterans with eligiblebenefits. Additionally, the devel-opment and maintenance of anEmergency Management Pro-gram for Meade County. Positionincludes a generous benefitsprogram. See: www.meade-county.org for application in-structions. Contact: Jerry Derrat 605/720-1625; jderr@ mead-ecounty.org. Closes December 1,2011. P49-3tc

CARPENTERS WANTED: Em-ployer desires applicant to havea high school diploma, at leastsix months of construction expe-rience and be familiar with useof hand and power tools. Willprovide some training to personwho has good work history andis dependable. Must be able tolift at least 50 lbs. and possessdriver’s license. Will generallywork Mon.-Fri., 40 hours ormore per week. Starting wage of$15-$20 per hour and up, DOEand qualifications, more for ex-perienced carpenters. Job sirelocated 20 miles west of Murdo,SD. Call 843-2869. PR10-tfn

HELP WANTED; Maintenanceworker, must weld, operateequipment, light mechanicwork. Wage DOE. Call Thor at685-5826. P46-tfn

MISC. FOR SALEFOR SALE: Electric corner fire-place, oak finish mantel, 45”h x56”w x 31”d, thermostat control,plugs into a 110 outlet. Asking$400 OBO. Remodeling, don’thave room. Call 279-2819. WP13-2tc

FOR SALE: Gifts for that hard-to-buy-for person, as well aseveryone else on your X-mas list!Del’s, Exit 63, Box Elder. 390-9810. PR12-6tp

FOR SALE: Kohler & Campbellspinet piano with bench. Call837-2541 or 488-0151 for ede-tails. P48-2tc

FOR SALE: Heavy duty lumber

or ladder rack for a short box, 4-door pickup. Black in color. Ask-ing $225. Call Nathan at685-3186. P47-tfn

FOR SALE: Rope horse halterswith 10’ lead rope, $15 each.Call 685-3317 or 837-2917. K44-tfn

NOTICES/WANTEDNOTICE: Nancy Pauly, BennettCounty Extension Educator, andSHIINE volunteer Enid Schulzwill be at the Haakon CountyCourthouse Community Roomon Wednesday, November 16, toassist Medicare recipients incomparing the costs of drugplans for 2012. Open enroll-ment ends December 7. For in-formation, call Enid at 859-2145and leave name and number; onthe 16th, call 454-8492 or callthe Extension office at 859-2840. P49-1tp

WANTED TO BUY: Old snowmo-biles, running or not. Call (763)478-7938. P47-3tc

WANTED: Looking for used oil.Taking any type and weight. CallMike at 685-3068. P42-tfn

PETS/SUPPIESFOR SALE: (8) blue heeler pups,six weeks old, good working par-ents. Call 685-5856. P49-2tp

REAL ESTATEHOME FOR SALE; 204 PhilipAve., Philip, SD. 2 bedroom, 2.5bath with unfinished basementon large lot. Detached 2 cargarage. Call 303-912-3898. P46-4tp

HOUSE FOR SALE, LOCATEDAT 607 SUNSHINE DRIVE,PHILIP: 3 bedroom, 2 bath,2100 sq. ft. home on a large lotlocated on a quiet cul-de-sac.Has attached 2-car garage, stor-age shed, large deck and an un-derground sprinkler systemwhich operates off a private well.Contact Bob Fugate, Philip, at859-2403 (home) or 515-1946(cell). PR8-4tc

RENTALSFOR RENT: 3 bedroom, twobathroom trailer house in Philip.Please call 859-2204 or 685-3801. PR13-tfn

APARTMENTS FOR RENT INPHILIP: Philip Plaza 1 & 2 bed-rooms available. Riverview Apts.2 bedrooms available, laundryhook-ups in apts. SenechalApts. 1 bedroom, utilities in-cluded. For more informationcall PRO/Rental Management at1-605-347-3077 or 1-800-244-2826. Equal Housing Oppor-tunty. PR39-tfn

APARTMENTS: Spacious onebedroom units, all utilities in-cluded. Young or old. Needrental assistance or not, we canhouse you. Just call 1-800-481-6904 or stop in the lobby andpick up an application. GatewayApartments, Kadoka. WP32-tfn

CLASSIFIED POLICYPLEASE READ your classifiedad the first week it runs. If yousee an error, we will gladly re-run your ad correctly. We acceptresponsibility for the first in-correct insertion only. Ravel-lette Publications, Inc. requestsall classifieds and cards of

thanks be paid for when or-dered. A $2.00 billing charge willbe added if ad is not paid at thetime the order is placed.

THANK YOUS Bev Tucker loved Philip andWest River South Dakota. Hisfamily and friends heard allabout it. Constance, Sarah, Stew-art and Nate and their familiesknow how lucky we have beenthat he found it. Thank you all foryour warm welcome. This is a re-markable place. I forgot to have his obit say thathe wanted any contributions togo to Haakon County 4-H or tothe Philip Volunteer Fire Depart-ment, two of the groups thatmake this community work.

Constance Tucker

The family of Alice Carr wouldlike to thank everyone who sentcards, flowers and plants, memo-rial contributions and brought

food to the house for your kind-ness and thoughtfulness. Our thanks to Dr. Klopper forhis excellent care of our motherover the years. To Karen andstaff at the Silverleaf, the nurses,CNAs and staff at the hospital,we also extend our thank you.Better care than our mother re-ceived would be hard to find else-where. Thank you, DJ, Jack andGayle Rush for your professionalcaring services; to Pastor Frezilfor being there for all of us. To the people of Philip, thankyou for being you: caring andsharing, loving and giving, laugh-ing and crying, working andplaying and making Philip a won-derful place to want to be.

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Thank you to the American Le-gion and their sponsors for thegifts we won at game night.

Alvin & Ruby Pearson

age. A/C service departments.Wages vary on experience. CallGrossenburg Implement (800)658-3440.

RDO EQUIPMENT CO. - It’s timefor a change. Competitivewages, benefits, training, profitsharing, opportunities forgrowth, great culture and inno-vation. $1,500 Sign on Bonusavailable for Service Techni-cians. To browse opportunitiesgo to www.rdoequipment.com.Must apply online. EEO.

EDUCATION:

ALLIED HEALTH CAREER train-ing – Attend college 100% on-line. Job placement assistance.Computer available. FinancialAid if qualified. SCHEV certified.Call (800) 481-9409. www.Cen-turaOnline.com.

FOR SALE:

RESTAURANT EQUIPMENTOUTLET; New & Used Restau-rant Equipment see www.Chill-masters.biz for more info; SiouxCity, IA 1-800-526-7105

LAND AUCTION:

160+/- ACRES BUFFALOCounty, Cropland, 12 milesNorthwest of Gann Valley, SD,November 29th, 2011 CallDakota Properties, Todd Schuet-zle, Auctioneer, 605-280-3115,www.DakotaProperties.com

LAND FOR SALE:

160 ACRES SOUTH DAKOTA,$63,840 (($399/ac) with $840dn/$630 per month. No creditchecks! Joan (949) 722-7453.

NOTICES:

LOOKING FOR MY granddaugh-ter. Born October 6, 1980,Huron, S.D. Saw her once thenadopted by unknown. ContactBox 668, Skagway, Alaska99840.

WANTED:

ANTLERS/PORCUPINES $5.00lb. good brown, $8.00 exlarge /$3.00 lb. damaged / $2.00 lb.white / $.50 cracked / trophynegotiable. Porcupines $10.00.(605) 517-0397, [email protected].

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AUTOMOTIVEFOR SALE: (8) Virgin 11-24.5traction truck tires. Call 386-2635 or 515-3585. PR13-2tp

BUSINESS & SERVICESHILDEBRAND STEEL & CON-CRETE: ALL types of concretework. Rich, Colleen and HavenHildebrand. Toll-free: 1-877-867-4185; Office: 837-2621;Rich, cell: 431-2226; Haven,cell: 490-2926; Jerry, cell: 488-0291. K36-tfn

TETON RIVER TRENCHING:For all your rural water hook-ups, waterline and tank installa-tion and any kind of backhoework, call Jon Jones, 843-2888,Midland. PR20-52tp

BACKHOE AND TRENCHING:Peters Excavation, Inc. Excava-tion work of all types. Call BrentPeters, 837-2945 or 381-5568(cell). K3-tfn

DIEDRICHS CONSTRUCTIONPost & Stick Frame Buildings,grain bins, custom made homes,general contracting, siding androofing. Call John at 441-1779.P47-tfn

GRAVEL: Screened or rock. CallO'Connell Construction Inc.,859-2020, Philip. P51-tfn

WEST RIVER EXCAVATIONwill do all types of trenching,ditching and directional boringwork. See Craig, Diana, Saunteeor Heidi Coller, Kadoka, SD, orcall 837-2690. Craig cell: 390-8087, Sauntee cell: 390-8604;[email protected] K50-tfn

FARM & RANCHHAY FOR SALE: Grass/alfalfa,round bales, 1000 lbs. Call JerryJ. Nemec, 843-2564. PR13-2tc

The Pioneer ReviewBusiness & Professional Directory

RONALD G. MANN, DDSFamily Dentistry

Monday - Tuesday - Thurs. - Friday8:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 5:00

859-2491 • Philip, SD104 Philip Ave. • South of Philip Chiropractic

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BECOME DIETARY MANAGER(average annual salary $45,423)in eight months in online pro-gram offered by Tennessee Tech-nology Center at Elizabethton.Details www.ttcelizabethton.edu, 1-888-986-2368 or [email protected].

EMPLOYMENT:

FULL TIME POSITION available.An aggressive weekly agricul-tural newspaper based out ofPhilip, SD, is looking to fill a fulltime graphic artist position. Becreative and work in a relaxedenvironment of Western SouthDakota. Send resume to TheCattle Business Weekly Box 700Philip, SD 57567: Contact theowners: Don Ravellette (605)685-5147 [email protected] and DonnieLeddy, [email protected] (605) 695-0113

CUSTER REGIONAL HOSPITALhas an excellent opportunity fora full time Advanced PracticeClinician. Located in the beauti-ful Black Hills of Western SouthDakota, our practice settings aresurrounded by nature’s beautyincluding Mt. Rushmore, WindCave Nat’l Park & Crazy Horse.Enjoy a mild climate and manyoutdoor activities, such as hik-ing, biking, fishing, hunting andskiing. Custer Regional Hospitaloffers a competitive and compre-hensive benefits package. It’s agreat place to work and a beau-tiful place to live. Visit our web-site for more information atwww.regionalhealth.com andapply on-line. This website offersmuch more information aboutour facilities, benefits, and thearea. EEOC/AA

CUSTER REGIONAL HOSPITALOccupational Therapy job avail-able in Custer, SD. 40 hours perweek OT position. Therapist toprovide services in Skilled Nurs-ing Facility, Hospital and HomeHealth settings to a varied pa-tient population. Job involvesworking with an interdiscipli-nary team to provide qualitytherapy services. Opportunity towork with a supportive team ofprofessional therapists in theSouthern Black Hills; a greatplace to live and enjoy the out-doors. Competitive salary andexcellent benefits. Please contactJim Simons, Rehab Services Di-rector, at jsimons@ regional-health.com or apply on line atwww. r eg i ona lhea l th . com.EEOC/AA.

CITY OF NEW Town seekingWater Plant Operator. Manda-tory Water/Sewer Operator Li-cense. Benefits package. Submitresume: Auditor, PO Box 309,New Town, ND 58763-0309.

BUSINESS BROKER, THE Na-tion’s Premier Business Broker-age is opening an office in yourarea. Owner/Operator andAgents wanted. High Commis-sion Potential. Will Train. Busi-ness Experience a must. RealEstate license a plus. Email re-sume to Ezra Grantham –[email protected] www.murphybusiness.com.

THE CITY OF Chamberlain isaccepting applications for PoliceOfficer. Complete benefit pack-age: medical insurance, vaca-tion, sick leave, state retirement,uniform allowance. Closing date11/30/11. Call 605-234-4401or send resume or standard LETapplication to: City of Chamber-lain, 715 N Main Street, Cham-berlain SD 57325. EOE.

SERVICE TECHNICIANS AT astable dealership with three lo-cations. Excellent benefit pack-

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•Glass Installation •Painting •SandblastingToll-Free: 1-800-900-2339

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The Steakhouse & LoungeOpen Daily

Monday thru Saturday

Lunch Specials:

Monday-Friday

11:00 to 1:30

Call for

specials!

Salad BarAvailable atLunch!

Reservations:

859-2774

Friday Buffet, November 18th:Ground Sirloin

Stuffed Peppers • Fish

DowntownPhilip

Tuesday, November 15th:Petite Ribeye

Wednesday, November 16th:Basket of Barbecued Pork Ribs

Thursday, November 17th:Beef Tips

Saturday, November 19th:Steak & Shrimp Skewers

(Regular & Garlic) Monday, November 21st:Petite Top Sirloin

WELCOME HUNTERS!Restaurant open from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Sundays, November 20 & 27

(continued from page 10)all. After Eric opened his giftsthings were cleaned up and every-one headed for home. When theparty broke up it was raining hard,but Ralph and Cathy ran out of itjust after Whitewood. Kathy Brown got some benefitfrom the Smoker food when shehad lunch with Tony Harty Satur-day. Saturday morning Bill and Iwent to breakfast at the Ambu-

lance building in Philip then wenton to the little farm and installed astorm door. Opening day of deerseason and we could hear quite alittle shooting while we worked. Assoon as the door was on and work-ing I headed to Rapid City and set-tled in to take care of the kids.Grandson Zack Seager and CoriBarber brought little Ryder overfor a visit too, so it was an enjoy-able time. Everyone survived ingood shape. Eric and Chaciel had a

nice evening at their little retreat.Eric said there were deer that camearound and a group of turkeysbrushed by him as he was cleaningthe snow off the car Sunday morn-ing. They had a great breakfastthen arrived home Sunday morn-ing. Bill got in some rest andwatched races while I was gone. “Every child comes with the mes-sage that God is not yet discouragedof man.” Radindranath Togore

Betwixt Places Newsby Marsha Sumpter • 837-2048 • [email protected]

(continued from page 6)able at the Golden Living Center inPierre. Other residents at the cen-ter include former neighbors, Max-ine Norman and Just Anderson.Leo Stoner is also there for thetime being, but he may move toPhilip if there is room for him.Thank goodness for facilities tohelp care for us when we can nolonger care for ourselves. Ray and Nancy Neuhauser wentto supper at the Senior Citizen'sCenter last Saturday night. Overthe weekend, their guests wereNancy's daughter, Carrie, and hus-band, Tom, Sheridan, granddaugh-ter, LaCosta, and family from theMission area, and daughter,Sandy, Ree Heights. Ron and Helen Beckwith hadhunters over the weekend, andthey got some very nice deer. Helensaid her hip pain is better, and shehopes to go back to work next week.Ron and Helen visited theirbrother-in-law, Leo Stoner, inPierre Friday. Bill and Polly Bruce had a busyweek of cattle work at the ranch.They sold calves Friday. SonsDavid and Andy and friend, MattGil de Leon, were on hand to helpVince and Bill with the cattle work.Andy left Friday, and the rest leftSunday. Vince's friend, Katie Good-win, also spent the weekend at theranch, helping with some of thecooking. Bill and Polly attendedchurch in Midland Sunday, fol-lowed by lunch at the local restau-rant. Max and Joyce Jones are hostingdeer hunters from Utah – the guysare enjoying the hunting, and theladies are enjoying the visiting.Saturday, Joyce, son Todd, hiswife, Darcy, and children, Mattieand Luke, attended an open housefor Jan and Norm Widvey's 50thanniversary. Jan is Darcy's aunt,and she is also Mattie and Luke'spiano instructor. Marge Briggs is hosting huntersfrom Minneapolis and New Yorkstate. The hunters have come tothe ranch for years and have be-come good friends. Monday, HelenBeckwith visited Marge, bringingher some taco soup. Marge said thesoup is very good – sounds like Ishould get the recipe! Ruth Neuhauser's daughter,Connie, has had a busy week also.She and her husband, BunkyBoger, have been attending a meet-ing in Billings, Mont., and theycame back through Sunday, visit-ing with Billy and Arlyne Mark-wed, Kevin and Mary Neuhauser,and Randy and LeanneNeuhauser. They then went toPierre to visit one of Connie's highschool friends. Monday, they wenton to Highmore to spend the daywith Ruth, bringing her gifts forher birthday and helping her withher Christmas letter. After leavingHighmore, they had the misfortuneof hitting a deer, which is compli-cating their return to their home inArkansas. Fortunately, Connie andBunky weren't hurt – I don't knowhow the deer came out. We had a ranch full of huntersover the weekend, also. Among theguests were our daughter, Jen, andher husband, Ross Tschetter,Salem, as well as our daughter,Chelsea, Spearfish. Our friend,Chuck Ulen, Northern Minnesotaspent Monday night with us also –he was headed home from a tripthat took him up and down thewest coast and various spots in be-tween. As I read back through the news,it seems that deer hunting hasbeen the main activity in the com-munity. I know that not everyoneis a proponent of hunting, but it isan important component of manag-ing the deer population. If no onehunted, the deer would becomeoverpopulated, which leads to dis-ease among the herd. This week, I am grateful forAunt Ruth Neuhauser. She willcelebrate her birthday Wednesday,November 16, and I hope she has awonderful day. She has been sucha kind, loving, giving woman herentire life, and she has been an in-spiration to me and many others.She and her husband, Bob, raiseda wonderful family, she was ateacher and a 4-H leader, and itseemed that she never missed anopportunity to help someone if theyneeded it. She wrote the MoenvilleNews for years and has alwaysbeen active in the community, andshe has done it all with a smile!Even now, when small everyday

tasks are no longer easy for her,she still has an upbeat attitude anda kind word. I hope that I can ageas gracefully as Aunt Ruth has –she is a gem!

I hope all of you are enjoyingthese snow-free days! Make themost of them – go out and make ita great week!

Moenville Newsby Leanne Neuhauser • 567-3325