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75 YEARS AGOFriday, August 11, 1939
• United States senators on thewhole are “regular guys” and notabove speaking to elevator opera-tors and such, Joe Dowling, Yank-ton boy who is now employed inWashington, operating an elevatorin the senate office building, hasdiscovered.
• It’s getting to be monotonousand a habit this reporting of the Citysoftball league. That’s because thesame two teams win every nightand since there are only six clubs inthe loop, this means there is onlyone game in which there is anydoubt as to the outcome.
50 YEARS AGOTuesday, August 11, 1964• Coach Don Baker’s Yankton
Teeners completed their 1964 sea-son with a 30-4 season and LloydBrunick walked off with most of thepitching and batting honors.
• Dr. Fred Guindon of Beresfordwas the champion of the third an-nual Yankton Chamber of Com-merce Golf Play Day at HillcrestGolf and Country club yesterday.
25 YEARS AGOFriday, August 11, 1989
• Four years ago, ElizabethFoss of Yankton began a disserta-tion on a pioneer woman in SouthDakota for the Germans from Rus-sia society. The dissertation be-came so overwhelming that Fossturned her information-gatheringproject into a one-woman pioneershow. “Pioneer Woman” will be pre-sented by Foss during Pioneer DayMonday as part of Yankton’s cele-bration of the South Dakota Cen-tennial. Foss will perform the showat Westside Park at 11 a.m. thatday.
• A motorcycle-tractor accidenthas left two Yankton people hospi-talized, David Hunhoff, YanktonCounty sheriff, said.
SATURDAY’S RESULTSDAKOTA CASH: 11-21-25-27-
31. Estimated jackpot: $85,000HOT LOTTO: 16-19-28-31-34,
Hot Ball: 9. Estimated jackpot:$10.34 million
POWERBALL: 03-12-31-34-51, Powerball: 24, Power Play: 2
WILD CARD: 04-09-19-26-32,Wild Card: JH. Estimated jackpot:$225,000
2 BY 2: Red Balls: 10-11, WhiteBalls: 2-24
MYDAY: Month: 8, Day: 29,Year: 91
PICK 3: 0-3-5PICK 5: 06-08-16-23-32. Esti-
mated jackpot: $66,000
SUNDAY’S RESULTS2 BY 2: Red Balls: 5-6, White
Balls: 16-26
Steamboating Program At Terr. CapitolToday (Monday) and Tuesday, Aug. 11-12, Missouri Na-
tional Recreational River will present “Rollin’ on the River” atthe Dakota Territorial Capitol replica in Yankton’s RiversidePark.
Historic photos and ranger commentary reveal the risksand rewards of steamboating on the Missouri. A steamboat of-ficer from 1877 will tell stories of life on the river at 11 a.m.and 1 p.m.
The capitol replica will be open this week from 10 a.m.-4p.m. Monday and Tuesday only due to Riverboat Days.
Crest Road To Be Closed This WeekCrest Road, the road that crosses the Gavins Point Dam,
will be closed from 8 a.m. today (Monday) through 3:30 p.m.Friday, Aug. 15. This closure will include nighttime hours. Thepublic is asked to plan on an alternate route of travel duringthis time.
The closure is a result of the inspection, repair and paint-ing of the spillway gates at Gavins Point Dam. There will be pe-riodic closures throughout duration of the construction,which will continue into the fall.
People can stay informed about upcoming road closuresby checking www.nwo.usace.army.mil/gavinspoint or by call-ing (402) 667-2546.
Johnson To Hold Coffee In Yankton SIOUX FALLS — Sen. Tim Johnson will make a stop in Yank-
ton Tuesday, Aug. 12, as part of his “Tour of Thanks” acrossSouth Dakota.
He will be holding a coffee at the Yankton Community Li-brary, 515 Walnut, at 4 p.m. The public in invited to attend.
GFP: Practice Safety While BoatingThe South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks re-
minds boaters to have a safe and enjoyable summer on thewater. To ensure safe boating, operators should monitor theiralcoholic beverage intake and have a designated boat opera-tor.
SDGFP will be conducting sobriety checks throughout themonth of August on lakes, streams and rivers.
Community Quiz Bowl Slated Aug. 24Southeast Job Link is holding the first Community Quiz
Bowl. on Sunday, Aug. 24, at 2 p.m. at 1200 West 21st Street inYankton.
The Community Quiz Bowl is designed as a team-buildingevent for area businesses; an enjoyable afternoon of net-work-ing with other community leaders, as well as the current andfuture community workforce; and as an important fundraiserfor our organization.
The purpose of this event, and the funds raised through it,are to help support current classroom grants, to create newprogramming opportunities that will increase academic excel-lence for our Adult Education students and our youth pro-gramming participants, and to support the training needs ofthe area workforce.
Each team is comprised of up to five members who collab-orate to answer 60 questions in four categories on a broadrange of topics. Highest Ranking teams will move to a series ofelimination rounds. The winning team will earn the right todisplay the Quiz Bowl traveling trophy for the year.
To reserve a table(s) for your team or to sponsor a team,or for more information, contact Sheri Duke or Teresa Rentschat 605-668-3480; or email [email protected]. QuizBowl information is also available on the Southeast Job Linkwebsite: www.southeastjoblink.org/.
Remember these dates: Aug. 15 — Business Sponsorshipsare due; Aug. 22 — Team Registrations are due; Aug. 24 — TheCommunity Quiz Bowl event.
VERMILLION — For the 16th consec-utive year, The Princeton Review saysthe University of South Dakota is one ofthe nation’s best institutions for under-graduate education. The educationservices company features USD in thenew 2015 edition of its annual collegeguide, “The Best 379 Colleges.”
Fewer than 15 percent of America’s2,500 four-year colleges and only fourcolleges outside the U.S. are profiled inthis year’s issue, which is The Prince-ton Review’s flagship college guide. Itincludes detailed profiles of the col-leges based on the publication’s sur-veys of 130,000 students attending the
colleges. USD receives praise for its at-tentive faculty and the Honors Programis described as “the best-kept secret inthe country.” While the nursing pro-gram is the most frequently praised,The Princeton Review profile saysUSD’s “business, biology, premed, lawand psychology classes are very solid”and that the “dental hygiene, music,and journalism” programs also stand-out.
The Princeton Review’s school pro-files and ranking lists in “The Best 379Colleges” are posted at PrincetonRe-view.com. USD is the lone South Dakotacollege or university featured in “The
Best 379 Colleges,” which does not rankcolleges academically or numericallyfrom 1 to 379 in any category.
“Rankings like this one are the directresult of our extraordinary faculty, qual-ity programs and outstanding facili-ties,” said USD President James W.Abbott. “USD is focused on providingour students the best academic andstudent life experiences possible.”
“The Best 379 Colleges: 2015 Edi-tion,” the 23rd issue of The PrincetonReview’s annual college guide, was re-leased this week and can also be foundat www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx/.
USD Lauded By Publication
books, transportation and per-sonal costs.
“We really feel stronglyabout students not getting hitover the head with debt,”Koxer said. “If a student justgoes off and takes another setof loans outside of school thatwe don’t even know about, itis really hard to counsel themabout their loan debt and whattheir repayment plan will be.”
During Kocer’s testimony,he recommended school certi-fication for all private loans.By involving the education in-stitutions in the process, itwould allow schools to trackthe students’ borrowing sothat the school could helpcounsel the students on theiroverall loan debt.
“We consider this a goodpractice as it provides us withmore information to assist inpreventing students from over-borrowing.”
Kocer also recommendedthat Congress should mandatethe creation of a single webportal where students can ac-cess information about all oftheir student loans in oneplace.
“Students need an accessi-ble ‘one-stop shop’ where they
can manage their studentloans. Many borrowers havemultiple loans with differentloan holders that may be invarious stages of repayment,”said Kocer during his testi-mony. “Having a central web-site where borrowers couldaccess information about all oftheir loans would significantlyhelp students as they managetheir borrowing and repay-ment.”
The National Student LoanDebt System (NSLDS) partiallyserves this to students be-cause it only includes somefederal student loans in it’ssystem. Expanding this datawould largely benifit studentsby having everything in oneplace.
Looking back on the testi-mony, Kocer said he felt thathe delivered some some goodinformation right to thesource.
“This was an excellent op-portunity to express views notonly for Mount Marty but thestate of South Dakota,” hesaid.
To view Kocer’s testimonygo to http://www.banking.sen-ate.gov/ and click on the hear-ings tab.
You can follow JordynneHart on Twitter attwitter.com/hartjordynne. Dis-cuss this story at www.yank-ton.net.
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or something for everybody toget all emotional about whenwe should be getting out infront of this and taking a good,hard look,” he said. “We’ve gota great opportunity here to doa 20-year plan and we’re open-ing up the doors so much foreverybody to have an input.”
Another obstacle thecounty faces in the creationand implementation of a 20-year plan is a nearly-40 yearold county resolution barringYankton County from taking onany new roads. This was donein part because of the growingnumber of subdivisions in thecounty. Since then, many morenew subdivisions have poppedup, especially in the Lewis &Clark Lake area, where roadmaintenance and constructionis the responsibility of the resi-dents living along them.
County Commission chair-man Bruce Jensen said the1976 resolution isn’t con-ducive to the growth of thecounty.
“(It) needs to change be-cause a lot has happened in30, 40 years,” Jensen said. “It’stoo restrictive. I’m not con-demning (the previous Com-mission), they did what theythought was right. But every-thing changes.”
The resolution arose dur-ing last week’s commissionmeeting when residents along310th St. sought to have thecounty come in and lay downgravel on the road. The countyturned the proposal down dueto the 1976 resolution, since310th St. is not a county road.
While Jensen expects thecommission to go through theprocess to strike the resolu-tion down, he pointed outthere will still be standards bywhich the county takes onnew roads.
“We’ll be selective — we’renot just going to build roadsall over,” he said. “We’ll pickthe criteria of where weshould put roads (based on)the traffic, safety and howmany people live there.”
Garrity said there’s a num-ber of projects the 20-yearplan will look at, including in-terconnecting bike trails thatlink the county’s communities;priority lanes for trucks get-ting in and out of Lesterville,Utica, Mission Hill and Volin;and how to get pedestrianssafely across Highway 52 and arailroad crossing in Utica.
The next public meeting isscheduled to take place some-time in either late Septemberor early October A firm datewill be released later.
You can follow Rob Nielsenon Twitter at twitter.com/Rob-NielsenPandD/. Discuss thisstory at www.yankton.net/.
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The Yankton County Vet-erans Service Office will beclosed to the public theweek of Aug. 25-29. MichaelMcDonald, the county veter-ans service officer, will beattending a national accred-itation training school forveterans service officers inPierre that week.
McDonald will be back inthe office on Tuesday, Sept.2.
McDonald would like toremind the veteran publicthat his office is located onthe second floor of the Yank-ton County Government Cen-ter. He can be reached byphone at 605-260-4420. Thecounty veterans service officeis funded by the county on ahalf-time basis, so McDon-ald’s office hours are: 1-5 p.m.Mondays, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
County Veterans ServiceOffice Closed Aug. 25-29
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