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According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, most of Lincoln and Turner counties in southeast South Dakota continue to see exceptional drought condi-tions.

With the continued absence of signifi cant rainfall in the area, producers started harvest nearly a month in advance of a normal year. And some, like Phil Smit, who farms east of Davis, have fi nished corn and soybean har-vest for 2012.

For the fi rst time, Smit, like many others in South Dakota, combined corn before beans.

“I don’t think I’ve ever done corn fi rst,” he said.

Fellow farmer Steve Sinning of Lennox, said he has started and fi nished harvesting his corn and thinks he will fi nish on soy-beans by the end of the week.

“We are easily, easily about a month early,” Sinning said.

Both Smit and Sinning said that yields are signifi cantly less than an average year.

Sinning said the average yield he sees on corn is 130-150 bushels per acre. This year most of his fi elds were about 60-70 bushels. The corn has been com-ing out dry too at 12 percent to 14 percent moisture.

Smit reported an average of 40-50 bushels per acre on corn. However, he did say that fi elds that saw an extra half-inch to an inch of rain this summer came out a little better at about 85 bushels. The surprising thing for Smit was that the test weight on his corn was still 60 pounds.

Soybeans are coming out very dry with 7 percent to 9 percent moisture. Yields are also low for soybeans at 10-20 bushels per acre.

Aside from his crops, Smit said his cattle are feeling the ef-fects of the drought.

“Our cattle are not satisfi ed with the silage, basically because there’s no corn in it,” he said.

SDSU Extension climate fi eld specialist Laura Edwards said the lack of rain during the summer has done its damage to crops.

“Most of the major impacts of the summer have come and gone with the damage done to crops,” Edwards said. “There are some current concerns with planting winter wheat.”

While it has been a couple of

years since Smit has planted win-ter wheat, he said other farmers in the area do not see good things for the crop this year.

“A big thing is winter wheat. That is pretty much non-existent. Guys aren’t seeding it. I’ve heard guys are sending their seed back,” Smit said.

Edwards said the main ongo-ing issue in the state is the soil

moisture and lack of recovery in soil moisture.

“Without changes to improve soil moisture conditions across the state, we will be at higher risk for dryness impacts next year,” Edwards said. “Some time to recover exists this fall. But time is running out climatologi-cally to get much precipitation.”

Steve Sinning combines soybeans south of Lennox Sept. 29.

Drought affects early harvest yields

■ High enrollment numbers cause board to discuss building Middle School by 2015

A gas leak in Worthing caused the evacuation of the Worthing Elementary School August 31st. During Monday night’s School Board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Robert Mayer commented on how

smoothly the procedure went and thanked all of those involved for their efforts.

The gas leak was caused when crews who were working on water and sewer lines when an excavator hit a gas line near 3rd Street and Juniper Street. The Worthing Fire Chief said the school wasn’t in any danger but evacuated the students as a precaution.

Discussion was held regarding substitute teachers pay scales. Julie Hepler presented a handout to the board, she is the district co-ordinator for hiring the substitutes

needed. She said, “It gives us a centralized database to call from.”

Dr. Mayer also voiced his con-cern about growth issues within the district.

“I don’t think it’s something we have to get overly excited about right now.”

He explained that Kindergar-ten, fi rst, second and third grade classes are in the upper 80’s and although the elementary schools are able to handle the numbers, he felt it would be a challenge for the middle school.

Mayer said, “Last year we grew

by two kids, this year by 30.”Several options Mayer gave

would be to add on to the existing middle school, stating that it would alleviate the middle school growth issue, but not address the Lennox Elementary needs of the future.

He also shared a vision for long range solution; to build a middle school over at the high school site.

Mayer said, “There is land there. We would look at class-rooms not a gym. A dozen class-rooms at the minimum. I don’t know what that would be in dollars and cents, but we’d have to go to

the people for that.”Mayer suggested creating a

planning committee to begin the process. He said, “I think some ac-tion needs to be taken, Alan and I have had some discussion on this.”

He suggested three citizens, three board members, and staff - which would be appointed by Mayer.

Board member Sandy Pop-penga said, “The sooner we start talking about it the more time the communities have to process it.”

School Board forms planning committee for long term growth solutions

■ SCHOOL BOARD, page 3

■ HARVEST, page 3

John’s Journey

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▼John Pribnow

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I boarded a bus and left Sucre one week ago. My next destination

was one of the most unique natural wonders in all of South America- the Salar de Uyuni.

History: tens of thousands of years ago southwest Bolivia was covered by an inland sea hundreds of feet deep. Time happened and the sea dried up leaving behind over four thousand square miles of remarkably fl at land covered by a solid salt crust. In some places the salt crust is meters thick and in some places just centimeters thick. Beneath all that salt is half the world’s reserve of lithium, a valuable ingredient of electric batteries. The lithium is present in liquid brine that sometimes appears where one attempts to drive and leaves the group stuck for three hours. I personally vouch for its potential to entrap an unsuspecting touring jeep.

Mineral-rich Bolivia has been exploited time and again over its history by corporations extracting its natural mineral abundance, but with the lithium Bolivia’s current administration is so staunchly against potential foreign extraction of the mineral that no mining is being done, whatsoever. The balance is delicate between guarding against exploitation and slowing potential economic progress.

In my short life experience, a sunny day after a snowstorm in the barren fi elds of the Midwestern countryside is the most similar thing to the salt fl ats

of Uyuni I have seen. Endless amounts of blinding whiteness. In the salt fl ats the guide

constantly reminded us to apply sunscreen with the harsh rays beating down around 12,000 feet of elevation and no reminder was needed to utilize sunglasses.

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The salt desert is only part of the natural beauty of the area, however. The thought of South America often brings to mind warm temperature, but I assure you that is not always the case—one morning, when lodging was around 16,000 feet of elevation, I was rudely awakened to being able to see my own breath at temperatures in the twenties. Later that morning I warmed my hands in the nearby crater and its geothermal geysers. The region is peppered with volcanoes, not all of which are of the “inactive” category. Mountains and volcanoes were mostly snow-covered at the top, and at the bottom many were complemented by multi-colored lagoons populated by fl amingos. The lagoons were invariably shallow and the ones that hosted fl amingos smelled like a fl ock of big birds lived there.

As always, what made

Crossing the salt flats of Uyunithe experience especially memorable were the people in my tour group. The four others all spoke French, leaving me the odd one out in that respect, but they all spoke some level of English also. Suyana was a half-Bolivian Swiss gal visiting family around the country. Silvian and Bridget were a married couple from Quebec taking a month off from life to see Peru and Bolivia. The Frenchman Hervé was a professional travel photographer capturing the Salar. The combination of personalities along with our Bolivian tour guide, Lucio, and Rubén, the driver, made an unforgettable experience. It took contributions

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Sinning shares the worry on what moisture will be available next spring.

“I think subsoil moisture, there will be none,” Sinning said. “There’s absolutely noth-ing left. That’s a big concern. It’s going to take a wet winter to start replenishing it.”

A big decision producers like Smit and Sinning have to make this fall is whether to proceed as usual with their farming practices or alter them. Sinning plans to go ahead as usual with his fall fertilizing and fall tillage methods. Smit plans to apply fertilizer but to cut back on that. He also plans to do some tillage but do a light workup of the soil instead of deep tillage.

“A guy wants to ridge it up a little bit in case we do get some snow or we could have a wet spring and then we’d really be in trouble, if you don’t try and follow your normal practices a little bit,” Smit said. “A guy’s got to have faith and hope for next year so you’ve got to try and do something.”

So far Sinning does not think the drought has had a large impact on the community thus far, but it could if the drought continues. He thinks it may af-

■ HARVEST, from page 1

Drought affects early harvest yieldsfect some purchases on his farm.

“There’s some things I was going to replace and upgrade and I think a lot of people will, depending on what the insurance does,” Sinning said. “I think it

(drought) will have some effect because Sioux Falls and the vicinity and the communities all around are ag-orientated so I think it will have some effect.”

It was decided that board mem-bers Mary Peters, Poppenga and Board President Alan Rops would serve on the committee.

In other business it was ap-proved to pay the assistant Cross Country coach, who has been volunteering up until now. Board members agreed that with 32 kids going out for Cross Country it should be a paid position.

The scoreboard presentation was listed under action items as well, Activities Director Rich Luther in-troduced Don Hanson, a Daktronics Representative.

Hanson presented several op-tions to the Board. Although the handout was not given to those in attendance; Hanson explained the options as a scoreboard/message board for the gymnasium as well as a scoreboard/message board for the football fi eld.

Hanson said, “It is great for statistics, messages, game informa-tion, for people who don’t hear very well, player fouls.”

He added that other schools use the message boards for gradua-tions, parent teacher conferences, and more.

The pricing Hanson showed the school board did not include the physical structure at the football fi eld. He said that could be $10,000 to $20,000 additional, stressing the idea of fi nding a local contractor to help with it.

Installation for the message center for the gym would require a local electrician and local contrac-tor as well.

When asked if the current foot-ball scoreboard structure could be re-used, Hanson said only if replaced with the same size board. He said the one in the proposal was twice the size of the current board.

Poppenga mentioned $80,000 then as the total cost with installa-tion for the football scoreboard in the proposal.

Board member, Nancy Nelson said, “So we are looking at get-ting advertisers to help fund this project? Do we get sponsors and then determine how much we have available?”

Hanson said that Daktronics charges a fee for this process, sell-ing the sponsorships, but later in the meeting, said, “If we have to travel, we will attach a fee, if the intern does it we will not.”

Hanson said typically a price is set for the advertising and then they

go to the people.He said, “We talk about running

ads before the games, we try not to disrupt the game. We see how you want it done. Matt would come down — we will help you with it if you buy our equipment. No one writes a check until next spring.”

Nelson said, “I understand the need for the football scoreboard but in the gym I think we need a sound system before we need a display.”

Hanson said, “We do have sound, nothing is cheap if you want good quality, we could generate enough to pay for a sound system too. We can see if we can make it work.

Rops said, From a board per-spective, we need to decide if want advertisers in our venues.”

He added, “Look at the major league parks… You get inundated with fl ash and dash and all this stuff - instead of going to watch a game. From my perspective.”

Luther explained that part of this process was talking to some-one on the Booster Club who had done a project like this before. He said, “She had good contacts, and discussed some things, although with no commitments. We need to replace the football one, and it depends on how much do you want to upgrade.

Hanson said, “Most of these are paid for with fi nancing. Some schools take it out of capital outlay, businesses will not write a $10,000 or $20,000 check up front.”

Rops said, “We have to replace that board, it’s our cost anyway. We have to provide a serviceable board for the activities we provide.”

Approval was given for Marsha and Rich to go out and try to get sponsorships.

Hanson added, “Then we can come back and give you a proposal. We will not sign contracts.”

Rops made sure to clarify, say-ing, “We are not talking tax dol-lars here, but talking sponsorship dollars.”

Also approved was the par-ticipation in Health Occupation for Students of America, known as HOSA. Rops explained the program as another tool to identify kids who are interested in going into medical careers.

Lennox fast-pitch softball was approved as a club sport.

An open enrollment was ap-proved as presented.

An executive session followed to disuses student matters, person-nel matters and pricing strategies.

■ SCHOOL BOARD, from page 1

School Board forms planning committee for long term growth solutions

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Four grants totaling $2,400 were awarded at the annual Lennox Area Community Fund meeting on Sept. 25. Mrg Simon, president of the LACF, and Dick Stone, trea-surer, presented the grants.

Tina Buhta accepted the grant for ACTION (Achieving Commu-nity Togetherness in Our Neighbor-hoods). Buhta explained that the group has been making improve-ments to West Evergreen Park (located at 4th and Cleveland in Lennox). The grant funds will be used to purchase nets that can be used for soccer in the summer and hockey in the winter.

Librarian Lorraine Nordmann and assistant librarian Priscilla Buskohl and Library Board Presi-dent Laurel Shaffer accepted the award for the Lennox Community Library. The funds will be used to purchase a laminator.

Karen Ketcham accepted the grant for the Middle School Perfor-mance Plus, an after school tutorial program. Ketcham explained that the program helps to guide students to a more successful academic experience.

The Olde Towne Dinner The-atre of Worthing was the fourth grant recipient.

Those winning door prizes (plants or silver dollars) were: Tina Buhta, Laurel Shaffer, Deb Schmidt, Lorraine Nordmann, Helen Sweeter and Darren Ellwein.

Don Sweeter was the auction-eer for the evening’s live auction. Funds raised help support the fund-raising efforts of the LACF committee. Various items were auctioned off - from home-grown melons to an overnight stay at Steeverhouse Bed and Breakfast.

The Lennox Area Community Fund is a permanent endowment established to benefit civic and charitable causes in the Lennox, Chancellor and Worthing area.

The LACF committee works tirelessly to raise funds. Each year the interest made by the fund is returned back to the community in the form of grants.

Donations are tax-deductible and may be made to Lennox Area Community Fund Treasurer, c/o Valley Exchange Bank, PO Box 19, Lennox, SD 57039.

LACF Grants awarded to local organizations

Don Sweeter was the auctioneer at the live auction during the LACF meeting.

West Prairie Lu-

theran Church recently installed an Automated External Defi brillator (AED) in the entry to the church as a means of providing rural residents of the area with a potentially life-saving device. A grant from the LACF in 2011 helped make this purchase pos-sible.

Located between Lennox and Worth-ing, the members of the church felt it was necessary to have an AED “due to [the] length of arrival time of emer-gency help, aging members, and [the] church’s rural setting,” said Michelle Bittner and Julie Roach, committee members who spearheaded the effort. The AED is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the potentially life threatening ar-

rhythmias of ventricular fi brilla-tion and ventricular tachycardia in a patient. It is able to treat the patient through defi brillation, the application of electrical therapy to stop the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to reestablish an effec-tive rhythm.

The AED provides simple au-dio and visual commands, mak-ing it simple for the average per-

son to use. According to Bittner and Roach, the congregation has been given a brief demonstration on how to use the AED, making everyone more familiar with this lifesaving tool. They summed up by saying “Thank you for the grant which enabled us to purchase this most useful and needed piece of equipment.”

Rural AED installed at West Prairie Lutheran

West Prairie Church is located at 28155 SD Hwy 115.

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Pumpkins, apples, and pencils were the settings at the tables at West Prairie Church on Sept. 16 for the Nelson Rural School District No. 34 all-school reunion.

The reunion started off with a moment of silence for loved ones lost, the Pledge of Allegiance, and table Grace. Everyone feasted on pork loin sandwiches, fresh fruit, corn, scallop potatoes, spring salad, pickles, cake, ice cream, bars, coffee and lemonade.

A short program was put on by former teacher JoAnn Lappegard, with the singing of “God Bless America,” “The Hokie Pokie,” and “Little Tom Tinker.” Some his-tory and short quotes from former teachers about subjects that they recalled from years past at Nelson #34 was shared. Group, class and teacher pictures were taken.

People enjoyed a day of remi-niscing old memories of days gone past.

The event was very well at-tended by 70-80 people.

Former teachers in attendance were Alene Wiebesiek, Charlotte Smit, Deloris Nelson, Dorothy Schnose, JoAnn Lappegard and Laura Schmidt.

Others in attendance came from Alcester, Beresford, Canton, Cen-terville, Davis, Lennox, Madison, Mitchell, Sioux Falls and Worthing areas and Park City, Utah.

Nelson #34 students enjoy all-school reunion

Past students of Nelson Rural School District #34 enjoyed an All-School Reunion on Sept. 16. Students pictured above include (from front to back, left to right): Orwin Fodness, Arlo Larson, Vince Fodness, David Hovrud, Patty (Fossum) Sinning, David Fodness, Jeanine (Fodness) Tims, Steve Fod-ness, Ellen (Fossum) Eddy, Dean Bossman, Cleo Mae (Fodness) Poppens, Keith Bossman, Virgil Fodness, Brian Beck, Darlene (Caldwell) Jacobson, Vivian (Sweeter) Eitriem, Betty (Fodness) Beeners, Harlan Fischer, Elaine (Sweeter) Farmer, Bill Beck, Norma (Farmer) Reiners, Jeff Sweeter, Lowane (Fodness) Bossman, Faye (Anderson) Boom, Don Sweeter, Joyce (Stubsten) Schrepel, Dorothy (Sweeter) Van Bockern and Dale Renner.

The Lincoln County Extension clubs will hold their annual Holiday Fair on Oct. 20 at the Worthing Legion Hall. Registration for the event will be at 1 p.m. and the program will begin at 1:30.

This year the program will consist of a reenactment of the musical play, “Memories” written by Doris Stensland of Canton, South Dakota. This play was written and fi rst presented in May of 1972. Then the show went on the road and was given at the CFEL state meeting, CFEL district meeting in Flandreau, at the Senior Citizen’s Center in Sioux Falls and at the Canton Corn Festival. It includes many songs and scenes down through the years as Cy and Miranda, the Lazy Farmer and his wife, reminisce about days gone by and their own favorite ‘memories’ through the years of their marriage.

The audience will join in the old songs as the scenes unfold in a picture frame on stage. The scenes will be enacted by members of the Extension clubs.

Come join them as they sing, listen to solos and a Barbershop quartet while enjoying the ‘pictures’ of the past. There will also be a silent auction, used book sale, door prizes and refreshments. There will be a registration fee of $3.

CFEL to present “Memories”

Former teachers enjoyed the recent Nelson Rural School reunion. Pic-tured (left to right) are: Charlotte Smit, JoAnn Lappegard, Laura Schmidt, Dorothy Schnose, Alene Wiebesiek and Deloris Nelson.

The attendees would like to extend a big thank you to Dean Bossman and all his helpers that planned the reunion.

“Thanks for a job well-done,” said Laura Schmidt.

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Phase I completed for school improvement project

Phase I of the school improve-ment project has been completed, reported Worthing City Adminis-trator Jeff Tanner.

Phase I included three blocks of water lines—two blocks on 2nd St between Juniper and Louise, and one block on Juniper between 2nd and 3rd.—and 1 block of sewer line, on 3rd St. between Cedar and Juniper. Compaction testing has passed and the gravel roads graded.

The City will bid the next phase of the project in February or March with work to begin after school is out for the year. That phase will include streets, curb and gutter and storm sewer.

Tanner also said that he is working with the utility companies to go underground with the street lights.

“It will give the area a more modern look,” he said.

General Election to be held Nov. 6Candidates are campaigning

hard for the General Election, which is just a few weeks away. Voters in the Worthing precinct will be voting at a different poll-ing place this November. Lincoln County has requested the use of the Worthing Community Center as the polling place for primary and general elections. The Worth-ing Commissioners have approved the change. Previously, the polling place was in the Worthing Elemen-tary School.

The date for the General Elec-tion 2012 is Nov. 6, 2012. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Besides voting for the presi-dential electors, voters will also vote for a United States Repre-sentative—Democrat Matt Varilek will face incumbent Republican Kristi Noem.

Matt McGovern, Democrat; Kristie Fiegen, Republican; and Russell Clark, Libertarian will vie for the six-year term Public Utili-ties Commissioner. Nick Nemec, Democrat and Chris Nelson, Re-publican will vie for the four-year term PU Commissioner.

Worthing voters will also weigh in on the State Senator for District 16. Michael O’Connor, Democrat, will face Dan Leder-man, Republican, for that position.

On the State Representative side, running for two open seats are Ann Tornberg, Democrat; Stanley Jacobson, Democrat; Jim Bolin, Republican; and Patty Miller, Republican.

Worthing voters will also help decide who will represent them at the Lincoln County Commission. Running for that seat is Andrew Larsgaard, Democrat, and David Gillespie, incumbent Republican.

Several ballot issues are also on the election ballot this year—four Constitutional Amendments, an Initiated Measure, and two Re-ferred Laws.

The Constitutional Amend-ments include: Amendment M, re-garding certain provisions relating to corporations; Amendment N, repealing certain reimbursement restrictions for travel by legisla-tors to and from a legislative session; Amendment O, changing the method for distributions from the cement plant trust fund; and Amendment P, adding balanced budget requirements.

Initiated Measure 15 was pro-posed by petition for submission

to the voters. This measure would increase state general sales and use taxes for additional K-12 public education and Medicaid funding.

Referred Law 14 is an Act to establish the Large Project Devel-opment fund.

Referred Law 16 is an edu-cation reform act to establish a teacher scholarship program; create a program for math and science teacher bonuses; create a program for teacher merit bo-nuses; mandate a uniform teacher and principal evaluation system; and eliminate state requirements for teacher tenure.

The full text of the ballot is-sues can be found in this week’s issue of The Lennox Independent, available at Blue Sky Junction. A sample ballot will also be pub-lished in the Independent prior to the election.

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The seventh grade football team took on Harrisburg at home on Tues-day, Sept. 11 with Lennox falling 22-14 to the Tigers. For the sev-e n t h g r a d -ers, Josh Van Houten threw one touchdown to Tadan Wil-son. The Ori-oles got their other touch-down on a Holdyn Breck run.

The eighth grade football team had a nail-biter of a game against Har-risburg with the eighth graders falling 16-14 in overtime to the Tigers. Cole Halouska scored a passing touchdown for the Orioles and Braedon Wallenstein rushed for a long touchdown in the game. Brock Stein scored a two point conversion during regulation to force overtime. Coaching the Junior High this season are Mike Fodness and Chris Sattler.

The team was scheduled to play Dakota Valley on Tuesday Sept. 18.

Pictured above is the Lennox seventh grade football team taking on Har-risburg. Quarterback Josh VanHouten hands the ball off to Holdyn Breck.

Pictured above: Seventh grader Addison Stubbe blocks the defender on Tuesday, Sept. 11 in the Orioles game against Harrisburg. The Orioles will take on Dakota Valley at home on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

Junior High football season in full swing Worthing Elementary is incorporating

the Character Counts pillars into their cur-riculum and everyday living.

“Each month we will focus on one pil-lar. The fi rst pillar that we focused on was the pillar of Trustworthiness,” said Worthing Principal Kym Johnston.

Trustworthiness consists of these con-cepts:

• Be honest—don’t deceive, cheat, or steal • Be reliable—do what you say you’ll do • Have the courage to do the right thing • Build a good reputation • Be loyal—stand by your family, friends,

and countryStudents who were selected as “trustwor-

thy” in their classrooms are pictured at right: (left to right) Grace Schroeder (4th), Grace Edwards (2nd), Josie Stucky (5th), (back) Ryan Vest (3rd), Jack Aasheim (Kdgn) and Dayne Moeller (1st).

Elementary students focus on trustworthiness

Flu shots being offered for studentsThe Lennox School

District will be offering fl u shots to students on October 22 at Lennox and Worthing Elementary, on October 25 at Lennox Middle and High School.

The school is asking each student for a $1 do-nation to help cover the administrative costs (al-cohol swabs, bandaids, and syringes) for the fl u shot clinic.

LWC Middle School to hold fundraising eventOn Saturday, Nov. 10 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Lennox Worthing Chancellor Middle School fundraising event will be held. The Holiday Bazaar and Craft Show event will feature shopping, bake sale, food and Oriole Spiritwear. The event will take place at the LWC middle school gym with all proceeds benefi ting LWC middle school.

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Homecoming 2012Homecoming 2012Lennox went for the gold and wasn’t disappointed during September’s

Homecoming activities. Coronation provided gold-winning entertainment and the crowning of Homecoming Queen Amber Kost and Marshal Carl Lang. The cross country boys took top honors at the Big 8 Conference Meet and the Oriole volleyball team defeated West Central during Homecoming week. The sun shone on Friday’s parade and on the Oriole football team, who defeated the Vermillion Tanagers, 40-0.

The 2012 Royalty court is pictured above and included: Derek DeWitt, Ethan Zimmerman, Joe Hendrickson, Tyler Youngquist, Megan Stewart, Katie Odland, April Lackas, Taylor Wentz; Marshal Carl Lang and Queen Amber Kost.

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