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y Vivian Hansen • vivivi224@yahoo.com<br />
Hit & Miss<br />
Thursday, April 25, 2013 • The <strong>Pioneer</strong> <strong>Review</strong> • Page 4<br />
or betty@pioneer-review.com<br />
elderly Meals<br />
thursday, april 25: Pizza<br />
Day – Assorted Pizzas, Tossed<br />
Salad, Garlic Bread, Rosy Pears.<br />
friday, april 26: Dilled<br />
Salmon, Baby Bakers, Garden Veggies,<br />
Roll, Fruit.<br />
Monday, april 29: Djon Ham,<br />
Mashed Potatoes, Gravy,<br />
Caribbean Veggies, Garlic Cheddar<br />
Biscuit, Apricot Halves.<br />
tuesday, april 30: Wisconsin<br />
Cheese Soup, Pigs In A Blanket,<br />
Tossed Salad, Peach Polka Dot Gelatin.<br />
***<br />
Saturday, April 13, at Somerset<br />
Court, Addie Rorvig had company<br />
at breakfast, her grandson, Noah<br />
Lorensen of Rapid City.<br />
We had individual peach yogurt<br />
for breakfast. Thanks, very special.<br />
And we had cinnamon rolls, so I<br />
had to have half a cup of coffee!<br />
Mildred Young was out with her<br />
daughter, Carol Nielson and they<br />
went to meet Joyce Wheeler for<br />
lunch. Joyce had missed Mildred’s<br />
birthday party at Somerset Court a<br />
couple weeks ago, on account of<br />
driving conditions.<br />
My daughter, Carol Vogan, Colorado<br />
Springs, emailed that the<br />
tumbleweeds, brought in by the<br />
terrific winds, are so bulky that<br />
they need a special crusher. I believe<br />
my son, David Hansen, Ft.<br />
Pierre, could make such an implement.<br />
Are these tumbleweeds the<br />
thistles that make expensive thistle<br />
seed that people buy for their<br />
bird feeders?<br />
Carol is also moving her chives to<br />
make room for a rock area, and she<br />
said she is sending money to the<br />
Somerset Court beauty shop to get<br />
my hair fixed! Thank you, Carol.<br />
The April 11, 2013, Philip <strong>Pioneer</strong><br />
<strong>Review</strong> arrived on Saturday<br />
and I read it pretty much cover to<br />
cover. I found a word that I had<br />
never heard of, vernalization. And<br />
I guessed that it must mean that<br />
the seed, wheat in this case, needs<br />
a certain amount of time in the<br />
ground in cold enough conditions to<br />
sprout properly. Faithful google<br />
told me that was about right.<br />
Sunday, April 14, Stella Hicks<br />
stopped by and said that she likes<br />
to play cards. She likes the game of<br />
“George” and “3-13.” I told her to<br />
come on over and show us how.<br />
Elmae Helfenstein said she would<br />
like to do crosswords, so I said we<br />
should take the Monday Rapid City<br />
Journal crossword and do it together.<br />
(Way to go Vivian. You are<br />
a good friend. – Betty)<br />
Stella Hicks had a visit from her<br />
daughter, Linda Phipps, who came<br />
along to church. Irene McKnight<br />
has a bad cough and did not come<br />
to church. She has a vaporizer and<br />
finds some relief with that. We<br />
hope she will soon be feeling better.<br />
My son, Wayne, phoned at one<br />
p.m. and said that he had caught<br />
two fine fish, (now I forgot if they<br />
were bass or trout) and he would<br />
try to phone M.R. Hansen and Barbie<br />
and ask them over for supper<br />
and they could bring me along. If<br />
they aren’t around, he would come<br />
over to Somerset Court for supper<br />
and bring along my income tax<br />
which he had kindly done for me,<br />
so I can sign and write a check.<br />
Thank you, Wayne.<br />
My daughter, Carol Vogan, Colorado<br />
Springs, is still under the influence<br />
of piles of thistles. She had<br />
written a Limerick about them:<br />
There was a tumbling weed, Who<br />
said, “I must scatter my seed!” So<br />
he tumbled around, All over the<br />
ground, And now there are many<br />
indeed!<br />
Monday, April 15, 2013, at Somerset<br />
Court, we had the movie, “Little<br />
Women.” The activity directors<br />
took several residents in the bus to<br />
the dollar store. I had asked I had<br />
asked Sandi to bring me some<br />
flower pots so I could start a bunch<br />
of airplane plants for the May<br />
fundraiser for the Special<br />
Olympics. She brought me some<br />
potting soil as well. Thank you,<br />
Shawn and Sandi.<br />
Irene McKnight had company at<br />
lunch Monday, her son, Stan. Good<br />
to see you, Stan. Pat Staley also<br />
had company Monday, her sister,<br />
Kathryn Dennis, and her niece,<br />
Marilyn, of Rapid City who came<br />
Please join her loving family in a<br />
Card Shower<br />
to celebrate<br />
Marie Lamm’s<br />
85th Birthday<br />
on April 22,<br />
2013.<br />
Cards may be sent to:<br />
PO Box 186<br />
Philip, SD 57567<br />
and took Pat out for lunch.<br />
Happy birthday to my grandson,<br />
Blaise Hansen, Cheyenne, Wyo. He<br />
recently finished studies which<br />
grant him the title of professional<br />
engineer. He had graduated from<br />
South Dakota School of Mines and<br />
was also in the Army as a ranger.<br />
Most recently, he is working for the<br />
Wyoming Department of Transportation.<br />
An email just came from Betty<br />
Jean LaBeau, Philip. Thank you,<br />
Betty Jean. She said she was glad<br />
we take up quilting when the<br />
weather is confining. No time to be<br />
bored. She said we were blessed<br />
with the recent snow and rain. I<br />
was just going to email Betty Jean<br />
to ask her if she knew any Jarl<br />
family from Philip or Midland. I<br />
was pretty sure I had heard of<br />
Emma Jarl. Anyway, when M.R.<br />
Hansen and I were playing scrabble,<br />
we found in the scrabble book<br />
the word, jarl, meaning a Scandinavian<br />
nobleman.<br />
April 14, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. at<br />
the SDSM&T Surbeck Center, a<br />
leadership awards reception and<br />
leadership hall of fame induction<br />
was held. M.R. Hansen attended as<br />
he was receiving recognition as an<br />
outstanding student organization<br />
advisor.<br />
April 15, M.R. Hansen came to<br />
take me to Wayne Hansen’s for<br />
supper. First time I have been out<br />
since February when we went to<br />
Philip.<br />
Somerset Court is displaying a<br />
huge, gorgeous floral arrangement<br />
in the front lobby. The flowers are<br />
from the funeral of Ronald Bailie.<br />
At Somerset Court Tuesday<br />
bingo winners were Doris Wellman,<br />
three times, Mary Lou Peters,<br />
Irene McKnight, Irene Cox,<br />
Betty Downen, and Ina Oerlline.<br />
For snack and chat, following<br />
bingo, the treats were chocolate<br />
brownies, ice water and hot coffee.<br />
Saturday, April 20, 2013, a<br />
brunch will be served to people who<br />
volunteer at Somerset Court. This<br />
includes Amy Voles, personal attendants<br />
and our ministers and<br />
their wives and Women Who Care.<br />
We have a new resident at Somerset<br />
Court, Shirley Hussman.<br />
Shirley is a longtime friend of Connie<br />
Stevens. Dennis Eliason, our<br />
new driver, used to live at Philip<br />
for 12 years, some time ago. His<br />
wife had the variety store in Philip.<br />
April 26-27-28-29:<br />
The Host (PG-13)<br />
Fri: 8:00 p.m.<br />
Sun: 1:30 p.m.<br />
Sat: 8:00 p.m.<br />
Mon: 7:00 p.m.<br />
May 3-4-5-6:<br />
Olympus Has Fallen (R)<br />
May 10-11-12-13:<br />
Snitch (PG-13)<br />
May 17-18-19-20:<br />
Oblivion (PG-13)<br />
<br />
<br />
Dennis said he would be looking in<br />
the <strong>Pioneer</strong> <strong>Review</strong> to see if he still<br />
knew some of the people.<br />
April 19, 2013, I took a trip to Dr.<br />
Eaton’s office and he looked me<br />
over and prescribed amoxicillin<br />
and nose drops for my coughs,<br />
sneezes, runny nose and aches and<br />
pains. We were to start the antibiotic<br />
that night.<br />
The April 18, 2013, Philip <strong>Pioneer</strong><br />
<strong>Review</strong> arrived on Friday. It<br />
had all the main local news. One<br />
item I could relate to was Jessica<br />
Wheeler’s third grade class and<br />
their study of a cow’s eye. The<br />
Philip meat locker donated the<br />
cow’s eye. It is a wonderful lesson<br />
to read print through the lens in a<br />
cow’s eye. When I taught at the<br />
Shoun School over by New Underwood,<br />
my pupils and I took a hike<br />
out in a neighborhood pasture, and<br />
dug out a cow’s eye from a carcass.<br />
We took it to school and studied it<br />
and read print through it.<br />
I liked Mary Eide’s story about<br />
an old neighbor, John Cowen. John<br />
lived a couple of miles north of<br />
Philip and he used to go by with his<br />
team and wagon on his way town.<br />
He would strip the wagon to its<br />
running gears, the better to bring<br />
back posts, boards, wire and fivegallon<br />
cans. He lived in a party underground<br />
home. His sister was always<br />
after him to have a nice<br />
house, so she built him a little concrete<br />
block building. By and by, she<br />
took him back to Iowa to live with<br />
her. One time, Virgil invited John<br />
Cowen in to have a bath in our<br />
bath tub. We could hear him<br />
splashing and singing in the bathroom.<br />
The West Central Electric magazine<br />
carried a list of upcoming<br />
events. Among them were the<br />
Shrine Circus, May 3-5, at the<br />
Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in<br />
Rapid City. Somerset Court will<br />
take residents to this event if they<br />
wish to go. The circus is free. If you<br />
want snacks or souvenirs, you<br />
must bring your own money.<br />
Another item that I noticed on<br />
the list is May 12, 2013, from 1-4<br />
p.m. at an art gallery’s Mother’s<br />
Day open house. This is an outdoor<br />
event, so weather permitting. The<br />
iron work there is unique.<br />
Betwixt Places <strong>News</strong><br />
by Marsha Sumpter • 837-2048 • bilmar@gwtc.net<br />
As I looked out the window, the<br />
green grass is really coming to life.<br />
Robins dot the backyard, interspersed<br />
with meadowlarks, maybe<br />
they are the early birds that will<br />
get the worms. The little finches<br />
are busy rebuilding their nests, one<br />
in the wreath on the garage and<br />
one where they took over a swallow<br />
nest over our light. Last year, even<br />
with the heat, they hatched three<br />
batches of babies. Then came snow<br />
Sunday night, where do the birds<br />
seek refuge.<br />
A hearty congratulations is in<br />
order for Marcia and Michael West<br />
who were featured in the Rapid<br />
City Journal Sunday, April 21, for<br />
all the wonderful things they do<br />
now that they are “retired,” being<br />
good neighbors. Keep up the good<br />
work you two.<br />
The annual jamboree and honors<br />
banquet is July 26-27, 2013, in<br />
Pierre at a convention center with<br />
bowling at the lanes in Pierre. If<br />
you want to attend be sure to check<br />
it out and get signed up.<br />
Monday, our area, along with the<br />
rest of the nation, had their focus<br />
on the tragedy at the Boston<br />
Marathon with the bombings.<br />
Man’s inhumanity to man, loss of<br />
life and loss of the life many knew.<br />
It will be a long recovery for those<br />
injured. Also, the tragedy in Texas<br />
with the fertilizer plant explosion.<br />
Monday, Bill and I were in Rapid<br />
City for appointments. We had a<br />
little time to spare so we bowled<br />
three games after lunch. I still<br />
have a little advantage over Bill<br />
and beat him at his own game. I’d<br />
CITY OF PHILIP<br />
RUBBLE SITE HOURS<br />
The City Rubble Site will be starting summer<br />
hours, on Saturday, May 4th. The site will<br />
be OPEN from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the<br />
following days:<br />
1st Saturday of the Month<br />
2nd Friday of the Month<br />
3rd Saturday of the Month<br />
4th Friday of the Month<br />
5th Saturday of Month<br />
Mark your calendars ~<br />
Free Dump Weekend is May 10th & 11th!<br />
“I can find<br />
WHATEVER<br />
you’re<br />
looking for!”<br />
–David<br />
Burnett,<br />
Owner<br />
2009 Chevy Impala LTZ<br />
Heated leather, sunroof remote start, only 43K miles<br />
Cell: 605-441-2859 • Res: 605-859-2875 • Fax: 605-859-3278<br />
520 E. Hwy. 14 PO Box 38<br />
Philip, SD 57567 • www.all-starauto.net<br />
better enjoy it while I can, he’s getting<br />
better every time he bowls.<br />
Don and Vi Moody stayed around<br />
the ranch the greater part of the<br />
week and got everything taken<br />
care of before the forecasted<br />
weather change. Moisture is always<br />
welcome.<br />
Tony Harty made the usual trip<br />
for mail and had lunch out Monday,<br />
then visited by phone with<br />
family and friends.<br />
Tuesday morning, Bill and I<br />
stopped by Dan Smiley’s shop to<br />
check out the big door he has been<br />
crafting. It is going to be quite a<br />
masterpiece when done. I had a<br />
trip for the Haakon County Prairie<br />
Transportation to Philip and had a<br />
little time so visited Berdyn Parsons<br />
briefly, and did other errands<br />
around town. Bill was up to his<br />
usual playing cards and bowled in<br />
the evening. I rode over with Wendell<br />
Buxcel and kept score, riding<br />
home with Bill. It was beginning to<br />
snow when we were on the way<br />
home.<br />
Tuesday, Tony Harty got his<br />
mail, then went to Philip to get<br />
supplies. He also went to the sale<br />
barn and visited with folks who<br />
came and went. On the way home,<br />
he ventured off the highway and<br />
caught Don and Vi Moody at their<br />
home. They had an enjoyable afternoon<br />
of visiting about memories<br />
back when Vi and her mom,<br />
Shirley, and Tony’s mom, Margaret,<br />
and Tony met at Ranchers<br />
Bible Camp in the Black Hills near<br />
Nemo. Tony and Vi shared some<br />
stories about his sister and Vi's sister<br />
who went to St. Martin's Academy<br />
at Sturgis back in the early<br />
1960s and several of the local girls<br />
would carpool from Kadoka Junction<br />
on weekends to Sturgis. That<br />
saved the parents a lot of travel<br />
time.<br />
Wednesday, we awoke to wet<br />
snow. Steve Varner picked up a vehicle<br />
and took it to Philip for some<br />
work. I visited Les and Muree<br />
Struble in the afternoon as well as<br />
stopping by the nursing home and<br />
visited Ruth Klundt and Emma<br />
Jarl. About five o’clock I gathered<br />
the eggs and milked the cow, (in<br />
other words, went to the grocery<br />
store). That evening, I visited Bonnie<br />
Riggins at her apartment and<br />
she shared some desert with us.<br />
Cathy Fiedler reported that in<br />
the Sturgis area they have also had<br />
snow, fog and the temperature was<br />
in the 30s the better part of the<br />
week. The moisture has been great,<br />
but I’m so ready for some sun and<br />
warm weather.<br />
Speaking of weather, for so many<br />
months the news media had gone<br />
on about the drought all across the<br />
nation. Grain prices jumped<br />
around at each report. Now, “planting<br />
is delayed” due to flooding in<br />
the Midwest. Farmers don’t know<br />
if they will be able to plant the<br />
corn, soybeans and spring crops<br />
planned due to all the rain, snow<br />
and flooding.<br />
Thursday, John Kramer with<br />
West River/Lyman – Jones Rural<br />
Water stopped by to visit with me<br />
about some work. Tony Harty came<br />
by in the afternoon and we engaged<br />
in the game of farkel. I was the<br />
winner this time, but the word puzzle<br />
he took hands down. Phyllis<br />
Word also stopped for a visit.<br />
Class of 1963 is getting closer<br />
now to letting everyone know about<br />
their reunion taking place June 15<br />
and 16. Be sure and send emails<br />
and/or Facebook to remind everyone<br />
about the reunion. If there are<br />
questions please call Nancy Ekstrum<br />
or Vi Moody as they are<br />
planning a parade entry for Saturday<br />
morning and reunion gathering<br />
Saturday night at the golf clubhouse.<br />
They are planning for a<br />
great celebration and fun time to<br />
reunite during Scotty Philip Days!<br />
This will be 50 years.<br />
Don and Vi Moody went to their<br />
Rapid Valley home Thursday afternoon<br />
since they had appointments<br />
in Rapid City Friday. They stayed<br />
throughout the weekend to finish<br />
up more appointments the first of<br />
next week.<br />
Doug Frein helped George Gittings<br />
get some cattle moved out of<br />
the corrals Friday.<br />
Bill and I were on the road again<br />
for appointments in Rapid Friday.<br />
We met Zack Seager, Cori Barber<br />
and little Ryder for lunch. We enjoyed<br />
the company of a gal who<br />
needed a ride back to her work in<br />
Wanblee, so a co-op ride was something<br />
worked out and we took<br />
Highway 44 home.<br />
Rich and Donna Perez, Rapid<br />
City, visited George and Sandee<br />
Gittings Saturday afternoon.<br />
Saturday, Cathy Fiedler rode to<br />
Rapid with Sherry Hanson and<br />
Elsie, who had eye appointments.<br />
Ralph worked at the store, then he<br />
and Cathy went out for supper.<br />
Saturday, after getting the mail,<br />
Tony Harty went out for breakfast,<br />
then escaped to the Herber ranch<br />
down on the White River. The river<br />
is running quite full, but dams are<br />
still suffering from the need of runoff.<br />
He visited with his brother,<br />
Bernard, and Barbara and family.<br />
Their son, Matt, and family were<br />
visiting from Dell Rapids, so he enjoyed<br />
them. The men were busy<br />
sorting cattle.<br />
Don and Vi Moody ventured off<br />
to Deadwood for a steak dinner<br />
Saturday afternoon and ran into<br />
friends, Bruce and Bonita Weber,<br />
who were in a slot tournament.<br />
They also enjoyed a brief visit with<br />
Kathy Willuweit at the place where<br />
she works. Kathy loves to "hug" her<br />
Philip friends when they are in<br />
town so makes fun for all!<br />
Bright and early Saturday morning<br />
I was on the road to Pierre,<br />
picking up Lee and Roberta<br />
Vaughan on the way through<br />
Philip. We attended the South<br />
Dakota Wing Civil Air Patrol conference.<br />
The roads were good on<br />
the way home, a bit of snow going.<br />
We picked up Lee Vaughan, Sr.,<br />
and we all had supper out before<br />
returning home.<br />
“Nothing will be accomplished if<br />
all possible objections must first be<br />
overcome.” Main Street Memories<br />
George Gittings and Kurt<br />
Gustafson went to Henry Hanson's<br />
Sunday afternoon to get some cattle<br />
cake.<br />
There was rain during the night<br />
and Sunday morning the rain<br />
gauges showed 6/10s. Not too sure<br />
if that was melted snow included,<br />
but now we know it can rain too. A<br />
call from cousin John Fairchild in<br />
the afternoon was enjoyed. In Virginia<br />
Beach, they are keeping busy<br />
with yard work and such. He said<br />
to tell all Aunt Pearl’s bridge players<br />
hello. Bill and I went out for<br />
supper and got home before snow<br />
started.<br />
Sunday, Tony Harty attended<br />
church and had dinner out.<br />
“A small town is: where the best<br />
civic lessons are taught with a lot of<br />
heart, community action and community<br />
spirit.” Main Street Memories.