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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF JONES COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA.<br />
MURDO<br />
“SERVING THE AREA SINCE 1904”<br />
<strong>Coyote</strong><br />
A PUBLICATION<br />
$1.00<br />
Includes tax<br />
Number 41<br />
Volume <strong>10</strong>6<br />
October <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
OF RAVELLETTE PUBLICATIONS, INC.<br />
<strong>Coyote</strong><br />
News<br />
Briefs<br />
U.M.Y.F. Meeting<br />
On Wed., Oct. 24, youth will<br />
help with the bazaar at the<br />
church, Following the bazaar<br />
youth will go door to door in<br />
Murdo and Draper for “Trick or<br />
Treat, So Others Can Eat,” asking<br />
for non-perishable food<br />
items, to help stock the local<br />
food pantry.<br />
Jones County 4-H<br />
On Wed., Oct. <strong>10</strong> at 6:30 p.m.,<br />
the Jones County 4-H Club will<br />
be holding an informational<br />
meeting at the Dan Parish Technology<br />
Center. The meeting will<br />
be for parents and kids interested<br />
in joining 4-H. Anyone interested,<br />
but unable to attend the<br />
meeting can contact the Jones<br />
County extension Office at 605-<br />
669-7<strong>10</strong>1.<br />
Ambulance needs EMTs<br />
The Jones County Ambulance<br />
is looking to expand their EMT<br />
members and would like to have<br />
anyone who might be interested<br />
in becoming an EMT to let them<br />
know. They would like to host a<br />
training class but first need candidates<br />
that are willing to take<br />
the course.<br />
Anyone with an interest or<br />
anyone with questions that the<br />
ambulance crew could answer<br />
are asked to call and leave a<br />
message at 669-3<strong>12</strong>5 or to call<br />
Tammy Van Dam at 530-7553.<br />
Exercise room reminder<br />
The exercise room at the Tech<br />
Center is open Mon.–Fri. from 7<br />
a.m. to 5 p.m. If you have a key<br />
card, the room is open additionally<br />
from 5–7 a.m. and 5–<strong>10</strong><br />
p.m., Mon.–Fri. It is also open<br />
on Sat. from 5 a.m.–5 p.m. and<br />
on Sun. from 1–6 p.m. Patrons<br />
need to be out of the building<br />
one hour after the doors are<br />
locked; no later than <strong>11</strong> p.m. on<br />
weekdays.<br />
If you have any questions or<br />
would like a key card, contact<br />
the high school office.<br />
Al-Anon<br />
For Al–Anon meetings call<br />
669-2596 for time and place.<br />
Open AA meetings<br />
Thursdays 8:00 p.m. at the<br />
East Commons. Call 530-0371<br />
or 280-7642.<br />
West Central Electric Cooperative<br />
holds 63rd annual meeting October 3<br />
Steve Reed, West Central Electric<br />
Cooperative CEO addresses<br />
cooperative members at the<br />
WCEC annual meeting held<br />
October 3.<br />
Courtesy photos<br />
by Del Bartels<br />
The 63rd annual West Central<br />
Electric Cooperative meeting, held<br />
in Philip, Wednesday, October 3,<br />
was a warning of diminishing<br />
income, an increasing need for<br />
more power plants, an environmental<br />
condemnation of coal-powered<br />
plants and an awareness of<br />
peak power requirements.<br />
Approximately 250 guests and<br />
West Central Electric personnel<br />
gathered in the Philip Fine Arts<br />
Building. The official business<br />
meeting was followed by a roast<br />
beef supper provided by the Philip<br />
Volunteer Fire Department. The<br />
evening’s entertainment was the<br />
Jim Szana Trio jazz group.<br />
Door prizes included beef certificates,<br />
small appliances and<br />
grand prizes of a color television, a<br />
patio barbecue and a tabletop barbecue.<br />
During the meeting, the<br />
Philip chapter of Family, Career<br />
and Community Leaders of America<br />
provided child care. The opening<br />
prayer was given by Father<br />
Kevin Achbach and the national<br />
anthem was sung by the Philip<br />
High School honor choir.<br />
West Central Electric is a rural<br />
cooperative serving members in<br />
Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lyman<br />
and Stanley counties. The cooperative<br />
maintains around 3,573 miles<br />
of line in an area of more than<br />
7,000 square miles, serving<br />
approximately 3,660 members.<br />
The cooperative’s monthly<br />
New sound system<br />
for Murdo Auditorium<br />
PTO and Turner Youth Foundation present check…<br />
Wyatt Walker from the Turner Youth Foundation presents Larry<br />
Ball with a check for $2,000 to be used for a new sound system<br />
for the Murdo Auditorium.<br />
Photo by Karlee Barnes<br />
by Karlee Barnes<br />
The Turner Youth Foundation<br />
and the Jones County PTO, pictured,<br />
are two of the community<br />
organizations who have committed<br />
to contributing to the sound system.<br />
Others committed include:<br />
the City of Murdo, the Class of<br />
20<strong>12</strong>, the Lions Club, and the<br />
Jones County School District.<br />
Larry Ball is waiting to hear back<br />
from a few other community<br />
organizations before the new<br />
sound system is decided on and<br />
purchased.<br />
Ball said, “It is time to get serious<br />
about the sound system.” The<br />
current sound system in place in<br />
The 63rd annual WCEC held in Philip drew in a large crowd.<br />
Approximately 300 members attended the meeting.<br />
newsletter, “Cooperative Connections,”<br />
includes energy saving programs,<br />
current events and issues<br />
about the cooperative, along with<br />
local, state and national news and<br />
information. Almost 40 people are<br />
employed by West Central Electric.<br />
West Central Electric officers<br />
presented the projected future of<br />
the cooperative. Chief Executive<br />
Officer Steve Reed said, “One<br />
thing about electricity, a warm<br />
winter is not necessarily a good<br />
thing.” He pointed out that less<br />
usage equated into less sales, but<br />
with the same operating costs and<br />
with increasing peak requirements.<br />
The cooperative is nine<br />
percent down from the previous<br />
year, even with the hot summer’s<br />
high air conditioner needs.<br />
“We believe this year’s weather<br />
pattern is an anomaly,” said Reed.<br />
After stressing that costs are going<br />
up, he added, “Coal is all of a sudden<br />
the bad guy in the environmental<br />
debate,” even though<br />
almost 57 percent of the area’s<br />
electricity in 20<strong>11</strong> came from coal<br />
operated plants. Hydropower fulfilled<br />
22 percent of the needs,<br />
renewables (wind) nine percent,<br />
nuclear two percent, natural gas<br />
half of a percent, and purchases<br />
from other areas was close to <strong>10</strong><br />
percent.<br />
Reed announced that the customer<br />
billing due date will be on<br />
the 20th of each month, to assist<br />
with the cooperative’s own payment<br />
due dates. And, in 2013 a<br />
three dollar charge increase will<br />
be implemented. Customers who<br />
require less than 500 feet of hookup<br />
will not be charged, but for over<br />
500 feet the cooperative member<br />
will be charged an aid fee. Reed<br />
said that it costs $<strong>12</strong>,000 to build a<br />
1,500 foot hook-up.<br />
One bright point, said Reed,<br />
was that the TransCanada Keystone<br />
XL Pipeline will, by far, be<br />
the cooperative’s main customer.<br />
Trans- Canada has already paid<br />
$9.5 million for the cooperative to<br />
increase its infrastructure.<br />
Reed mentioned that the cooperative’s<br />
two way automated communication<br />
computer program is<br />
helping to control a stable output<br />
of energy. Bar coding will help<br />
with real-time inventory. Cell<br />
phone notifications to members<br />
will also save costs and efforts,<br />
especially since landlines may be<br />
out during a power outage.<br />
Vic Simmons of Rushmore Electric<br />
presented an update for the<br />
state’s electric cooperatives. He<br />
said, in order to keep up with<br />
future demand, more power plants<br />
must be built relatively soon. The<br />
cooperatives of South Dakota,<br />
North Dakota, Montana and<br />
Wyoming have a $2.9 billion construction<br />
program. Costs are going<br />
up, a great percentage being a<br />
direct result of requirements<br />
under the Clean Air Act.<br />
Cooperatives must be able to<br />
provide the generation and transmission<br />
of electricity needed to<br />
meet maximum usage at any given<br />
instance. Demand side management,<br />
also called load control, can<br />
be positively affected by individuals<br />
by running major appliances in<br />
off-peak times.<br />
Customers/members are<br />
encouraged to help with electrical<br />
load bearing by running major<br />
appliances at night or in the times<br />
that are not peak times for electrical<br />
use. The cooperative, by using<br />
a customer-requested connection<br />
system, can temporarily turn off<br />
hot water heaters if variable peak<br />
load times require it.<br />
Murdo WCEC employees Susie Rankin and Jeff Birkeland hand<br />
out informational brochures and visit with cooperative members.<br />
the auditorium has been insufficient<br />
for some time. Ball said he<br />
hopes that they can move on the<br />
project before winter. The school<br />
hopes to have the sound system in<br />
place even before major fall events<br />
held in the auditorium, such as the<br />
school play and basketball games.<br />
Ball said a few quotes have been<br />
discussed, and that finalizing the<br />
purchase should happen soon.<br />
Housing meeting, topic of<br />
new business discussion<br />
by Karlee Barnes<br />
The October City Council meeting<br />
was held Thursday, October 4<br />
instead of the usual first Monday<br />
of the month.<br />
In attendance included council<br />
members: David Geisler, Mike<br />
Jost, Joe Connot, Jay Drayer,<br />
Arnie Waddell and Wayne Esmay.<br />
Also present were Krysti Barnes,<br />
Ray Erikson, Jerry Hatheway and<br />
Karlee Barnes.<br />
The agenda and minutes were<br />
looked over and approved. Geisler<br />
was the only request for a building<br />
permit at this month’s meeting.<br />
The permit was to tear down his<br />
rental house on Second Street and<br />
add an addition to the east side of<br />
his house. Geisler also requested a<br />
building permit for a five unit storage<br />
shed on the west side of the<br />
Super 8 motel, south of the <strong>Pioneer</strong><br />
Auto Museum.<br />
No issues were presented in the<br />
public area. Vouchers were next on<br />
the agenda. The only issue the<br />
board had was a bill for Corky’s<br />
Auto totaling $649. It was quickly<br />
resolved that the bill included two<br />
months’ worth of charges. Esmay<br />
motioned on the vouchers and the<br />
meeting proceeded.<br />
Sheriff John Weber was absent<br />
for the first part of the meeting, as<br />
the Jones County Ambulance<br />
meeting was scheduled for the<br />
same day in preparation for the<br />
arrival of the new ambulance as<br />
well as the annual pancake feed<br />
during pheasant hunting opening<br />
weekend.<br />
Hatheway presented the street<br />
report, opening the conversation<br />
with news that the new dozer had<br />
arrived.<br />
“It’s a pretty nice dozer. It’s a little<br />
different than our old one, so it<br />
will take some getting used to.”<br />
The new dozer did not come<br />
with a service manual. Hatheway<br />
mentioned that he would call a<br />
Caterpillar equipment provider to<br />
see if the city could buy one. He<br />
also mentioned searching online<br />
for a downloadable version.<br />
It was brought to the attention<br />
of the board that the new dump<br />
truck, purchased in the summer<br />
from Watertown, S.D., was also<br />
without a manual.<br />
Mayor Geisler said, “we need to<br />
have a manual for every piece of<br />
equipment we own.”<br />
Hatheway told the board that<br />
his research indicated that it<br />
would be almost $500 for a dump<br />
truck manual from Caterpillar.<br />
The board agreed that if a cheaper<br />
manual could not be found, then it<br />
would be feasible to pay the<br />
amount.<br />
The next topic of discussion during<br />
the street report included the<br />
tearing down of old structures in<br />
town. Geisler told the board that<br />
Hatheway and Jim Newbold did a<br />
great job of tearing down his<br />
rental house and cleaning up the<br />
mess. Hatheway said that was the<br />
third structure they have torn<br />
down recently.<br />
The board gave the okay to start<br />
working on the drainage issues<br />
behind Mike Barnes’s house on<br />
South Main Street. Geisler told<br />
Hatheway to get the material<br />
ordered and Hatheway said he<br />
needs to address the issues of the<br />
sewer and the phone lines.<br />
Ray Erikson presented the<br />
water report next. In September,<br />
Erikson attended the South Dakota<br />
Waste Water Association meeting<br />
and reported he learned that<br />
all copper fittings and brass needed<br />
to comply with the no lead regulations.<br />
This will be enforced<br />
starting in 2014. Erikson said that<br />
there is a very small amount of<br />
lead in brass, anywhere from 5<br />
percent to .25 percent.<br />
The new valve was installed at<br />
the lagoon, with the state’s<br />
approval.<br />
October is Breast Cancer<br />
awareness month<br />
Erikson also has been getting<br />
ready for the cold weather by<br />
draining water lines and irrigation<br />
systems that will not be used during<br />
the winter months. He said the<br />
pool was winterized except for the<br />
draining of the irrigation system.<br />
He also needed to put anti freeze<br />
in the drains.<br />
He has also been blowing out<br />
sprinkler systems around town<br />
with an air compressor.<br />
“‘Tis the season!” said Erikson.<br />
Waddell questioned if Erikson<br />
had been taking care of private<br />
residence’s irrigation systems, and<br />
Erikson confirmed that he had, for<br />
a fee. He charges a $<strong>10</strong>0 per hour,<br />
minimum of one hour.<br />
The finance report was abbreviated,<br />
as finance officer, Krysti<br />
Barnes, had surgery the previous<br />
week and had been unable to<br />
spend much time in the office.<br />
Barnes said that a Safe Route to<br />
School grant was available for<br />
sidewalks between the schools, as<br />
the grade school kids often walk to<br />
the high school, not only every day<br />
for lunch, but also for other various<br />
events. Geisler asked Erikson<br />
to check out the utilities on the<br />
street before possible work on a<br />
new sidewalk will begin.<br />
Next included discussion about<br />
the plans for a new sound system<br />
at the Murdo Auditorium. Reports<br />
from Larry Ball estimated the<br />
costs to be anywhere from $7,500<br />
to $20,000. The $7,500 estimate<br />
was for the sound system only,<br />
installation not included. A call to<br />
the company who provided the<br />
sound system for the Turner Community<br />
Center provided a quote of<br />
$<strong>12</strong>,890. This would include<br />
installation, warranties, training,<br />
wireless features, 18 loud speakers<br />
and hand held microphones.<br />
The board discussed that the<br />
Murdo Chamber of Commerce had<br />
said they would contribute $2,000-<br />
$5,000, the city would contribute<br />
$2,400 and the Turner Youth<br />
Foundation would contribute<br />
$2,000. The board agreed to<br />
increase their contribution if need<br />
be. All agreed that the sound system<br />
currently in place in the auditorium<br />
was not adequate.<br />
The Turner Youth Foundation<br />
had reported that they were satisfied<br />
with the customer support<br />
that they have experienced thus<br />
far with their sound system.<br />
Water deposits were then discussed,<br />
and Connot suggested the<br />
city implementing an automatic<br />
billing method. Barnes will look<br />
into it.<br />
Old business once again included<br />
the Ingalls building. The city<br />
attorney attempted to send the<br />
owners a summons to appear in<br />
court. Several attempts at serving<br />
the papers were avoided by the<br />
owners. Another option will be to<br />
go through the court system to get<br />
the papers served, although it will<br />
take some extra time.<br />
New business was next on the<br />
agenda. Barnes told the board that<br />
several rural Jones County residents<br />
would be willing to pay a fee<br />
to utilize the city dumpsters in<br />
town. An estimated $20 per month<br />
fee was discussed for the 13 people<br />
who had expressed interest.<br />
Jewell Bork had suggested to<br />
Barnes that the city look in to having<br />
a housing meeting to bring<br />
somebody in to discuss housing<br />
projects and investments in housing.<br />
The meeting is projected for<br />
some time after the first of the<br />
year and will include the city,<br />
county and the chamber. Waddell<br />
said that Murdo really needs to<br />
have this meeting. Barnes suggested<br />
a projected January meeting.<br />
Geisler agreed, but reminded<br />
the board that they needed to<br />
schedule the meeting so it did not<br />
interfere with winter sporting<br />
events.
Jones County News<br />
Murdo<br />
<strong>Coyote</strong> • October <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong> • Page 2<br />
East Side News<br />
by Janet Louder • 669-2696<br />
Bill, Ellen and Barry Valburg<br />
made a trip to Valentine, Neb., to<br />
the dentist Thursday.<br />
Word has been received that<br />
Dale Valburg of British Columbia<br />
died October 1 from complications<br />
following heart surgery. Dale<br />
is a former Jones County resident.<br />
Sympathy is extended to his family.<br />
Mike Herr of Bismarck, N.D.,<br />
arrived at the Valburg Ranch Saturday<br />
to visit his daughter and<br />
family.<br />
We extend our sympathy to the<br />
family of Joyce Dykema. Funeral<br />
services were held Friday at the<br />
Murdo UMC with Pastor Hazen<br />
officiating. There was a wonderful<br />
turnout of family and friends to<br />
pay their last respects. Following<br />
the service her daughters passed<br />
out popcorn balls, as Joyce was<br />
well known for the good popcorn<br />
balls she made. Lunch and a time<br />
of fellowship was held in the<br />
church hall. After lunch Joyce was<br />
taken to the Black Hills National<br />
Cemetery to be buried with her<br />
husband, Boyd.<br />
Troy Iversen of Lismore, Minn.,<br />
has been spending time here. On<br />
Thursday wife Jody and boys<br />
Mason and Conner arrived at<br />
Wanda and Gerald Mathews for<br />
the weekend. They returned home<br />
on Sunday.<br />
Mike and Joni Hunt hosted a<br />
birthday party Sunday afternoon<br />
for mom/grandma June Nix's ?<br />
birthday. Helping her celebrate<br />
were hubby Richard; her brother<br />
Russell and Mary Pierce of Yankton;<br />
Jill and Andy Rankin, Riley<br />
and Peyton; Ashley Hunt and<br />
Jimmy Olsen; Eric Nix; Brett and<br />
Lori Nix and boys; Scott Nix and<br />
Lara Joseph; Molly and Mason<br />
Nix. All enjoyed birthday cake and<br />
ice cream. Happy birthday, June!<br />
Sunday evening Richard and<br />
June Nix and Russell and Mary<br />
Pierce took in the PHL bazaar.<br />
Russell is a former Draperite and<br />
retired pastor.<br />
Dorothy and Brad Louder visited<br />
Dwight in Kadoka on Friday.<br />
They also visited Deanna Byrd<br />
and daughter Kristi.<br />
Helen Louder and Virginia<br />
Louder spent last Friday in<br />
Pierre. Virginia kept an appointment<br />
and then they met Sharon<br />
Ferry for lunch.<br />
Wow! What a great turnout<br />
Sunday evening for the PHL<br />
bazaar and supper. A roast beef,<br />
turkey and stuffing supper was<br />
served topped off with pie. I must<br />
say there were two tables of very<br />
good looking pies. There was a<br />
table with rugs, white elephants,<br />
grab bags, lots of interesting articles<br />
and also a table with yummy<br />
baked goods – all calories were<br />
removed. At seven o'clock they<br />
drew for the quilts and decorated<br />
fry pan that were being raffled.<br />
And talk about lucky! Don Heib's<br />
name was drawn out for the big<br />
quilt made by Velma Scott, and<br />
then they drew for the baby quilt<br />
made by Velma and lucky Don's<br />
name was drawn for that. He didn't<br />
luck out in the drawing for the<br />
fry pan painted by Wanda Mathews;<br />
maybe he didn't have a ticket<br />
on that. Glenna Moore was the<br />
lucky one there. Congratulations<br />
to both. There was a lot of tickets<br />
sold and we appreciate all who<br />
bought – just sorry you all couldn't<br />
win. My name was in the boxes<br />
but nobody called my name either.<br />
As I said it was a great turnout.<br />
We had people from Lyman County,<br />
Hughes County, all over Jones<br />
County and they were here from<br />
California, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.<br />
See how far they will<br />
travel for PHL cookin'! We had<br />
good local help and was so nice<br />
when out of towners helped. PHL<br />
member Shelli Terwilliger came<br />
from Rapid City. Brent and Donna<br />
Dowling and family of Pierre and<br />
Jared and Bonnie Dowling and<br />
family really pitched in for the<br />
clean up. We appreciated David<br />
and Robert Styles helping set up<br />
tables and chairs along with PHL<br />
members on Saturday. All in all a<br />
great success and I can guess<br />
there are lots of tired women<br />
today but another bazaar well<br />
done! Lots of comments saying it<br />
was a good supper which is<br />
always nice to hear. Last but not<br />
least, Dwight and Sheila Hurst<br />
dug and furnished the spuds for<br />
the supper – so nice of them and<br />
they were really appreciated.<br />
Ray and Shirley Vik attended<br />
the memorial service in Rapid<br />
City Friday for Methodist minister<br />
Rev. Richard Ward. He was<br />
Draper's minister in the early sixties.<br />
Rev. Ward (80) passed away<br />
September 26 in Aberdeen. He<br />
was buried at Mountain Meadow<br />
Cemetery in the Black Hills.<br />
On Friday afternoon Ray and<br />
Shirley Vik traveled to Ft. Meade<br />
to visit Roger Vik, who is much<br />
improved and hoping to go home<br />
soon.<br />
Last Thursday Eldon and<br />
Esther Magnuson, along with<br />
Chad and Heather Whitney and<br />
boys, were on hand for the junior<br />
high football game in Presho –<br />
Lyman vs. Jones County. Grandson/son<br />
Alec was part of the team.<br />
They later had supper together at<br />
a cafe in Presho.<br />
I talked to Joyce Hammond on<br />
Saturday. She is planning to fly to<br />
Texas on October 16 to be with son<br />
Steve. Steve will be undergoing<br />
cancer surgery on October 19 at a<br />
Dallas hospital. Our prayers are<br />
with him.<br />
Charlie and Susan Hamer of<br />
Kennebec spent Sunday at<br />
Dorothy and Brad Louder's. That<br />
evening the group attended the<br />
PHL bazaar.<br />
Eleanor Miller and Karen<br />
Authier of Pierre visited Margaret<br />
and Greg Rankin Sunday afternoon.<br />
The group had supper<br />
together at the PHL bazaar.<br />
Happy birthday to our (used to<br />
be) neighbor Kia Miller on Monday.<br />
Kia is a student at USD, Vermillion.<br />
Eldon and Esther Magnuson,<br />
Terri Pelle, Chad and Heather<br />
Whitney, Gunnar and Bodie were<br />
on hand Saturday to watch Alec<br />
play football with the Jones County<br />
team at Philip. Chad and Gunnar<br />
rode the bus home; the others<br />
joined Terri for lunch.<br />
Murdo Area Chamber of Commerce’s<br />
Pineapple Recipe Contest<br />
Fix your favorite pineapple recipe and bring it to<br />
the Chamber’s booth to enter it in the contest<br />
Event to be held at the annual<br />
Lions Club’s Fall Fling<br />
Saturday, October 27<br />
Murdo Auditorium<br />
Adults<br />
& Kids<br />
Welcome<br />
Sauce ~ Cookies ~ Pie ~ Bread ~ Bars ~ Etc.<br />
You bring it … we’ll try it!<br />
Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong> – Murdo, SD<br />
P.O. Box 465<br />
Murdo, SD 57559-0465<br />
Phone: (605) 669-2271<br />
FAX: (605) 669-2744<br />
E-mail: mcoyote@gwtc.net<br />
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The Draper Lutheran Church<br />
celebrated their <strong>10</strong>3rd birthday<br />
Saturday evening with church followed<br />
with a barbeque/potluck<br />
supper.<br />
Pam and Gary Gall of Scotland<br />
spent the weekend in Spearfish<br />
with Patti and Wade Dowling and<br />
mom Melva Vik. The Galls spent<br />
Saturday with dad Roger Vik at<br />
Ft. Meade. That evening the<br />
Dowlings hosted a chili supper at<br />
their home. Those enjoying the<br />
evening were: Melva; the Galls;<br />
Grandma Ruth Winters; Melva's<br />
sisters Linda Sumners and Sherri<br />
Ferdinand and friend Don and her<br />
son, Rynald and friend. The Galls<br />
visited Roger on Sunday on their<br />
way home. Melva visited in the<br />
afternoon. Patti spent time with<br />
him on Monday. Sending get well<br />
wishes, Roger.<br />
Delores Volmer and Bev Johnson<br />
from Presho attended the<br />
PHL bazaar Sunday evening.<br />
Delores got in a visit with brother<br />
Eldon and Esther Magnuson.<br />
Bob and Susie Rankin left for<br />
Tulsa on Thursday. While there<br />
Sandy Zibell of Wann met them.<br />
The Rankins flew back into Rapid<br />
on Saturday and met Ray and<br />
Janice Pike for lunch before coming<br />
home. Saturday was Janice's<br />
birthday so guess that's how she<br />
celebrated. Happy birthday, Janice.<br />
Willard and Florence Christian<br />
and son Dennis spent Sunday<br />
with Harvey Christian while Lila<br />
Mae was helping with the bazaar.<br />
She spent Monday with him at the<br />
Golden Living Center in Pierre.<br />
Annette, Emerson and Evan<br />
Knapp of Denver, Colo., spent the<br />
weekend in town at aunt Karen<br />
Miller's. They got to see<br />
nephew/cousin Skyler Miller's<br />
football game with other family<br />
members including Bev Mix from<br />
Lusk, Wyoming.<br />
Donna Kinsley and friend Myrtle<br />
Robbins attended an Assembly<br />
of God women's seminar in Pierre<br />
on Friday and Saturday.<br />
Local News<br />
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please call the office at 605-<br />
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Cross country team attends regions<br />
Jones County Cross Country… Pictured, left to right: Jessie Harrison, Skylar Green, Rachel<br />
Buxcel and Kalli Hespe. The Jones County High School cross country team participated in the<br />
Region cross country meet in Philip on Wednesday, October <strong>10</strong>. At printing time, the results were<br />
not yet available.<br />
Photo by Karlee Barnes<br />
Newspapers are legal documents that protect citizens<br />
by Mike MacLaren<br />
Paying for baseball umpires is<br />
more important than protecting<br />
your property from foreclosure.<br />
That is in essence what elected<br />
officials across the country are<br />
saying as they push for “cost saving”<br />
legislation to allow government<br />
to post notices of legal<br />
actions on government-run websites.<br />
“Baseball umpires? ... You can’t<br />
be serious,” you say.<br />
I am serious; I’m also worried.<br />
You should be too. Here’s why:<br />
Government officials say such<br />
legislation saves money that could<br />
be spent on police and fire fighters.<br />
But there are government programs<br />
that cost more than publishing<br />
these notices, such as<br />
umpires for city baseball leagues.<br />
It’s a fact: the City of Niles (MI)<br />
spends more each year for baseball<br />
umpires than for publishing legal<br />
notices in the local newspaper.<br />
But there’s a larger issue at<br />
stake. These public notices are<br />
legal documents. News-on-paper<br />
notices give citizens an independent,<br />
authentic and verifiable<br />
record of what their government<br />
has done. If questions arise<br />
regarding ordinances, actions or<br />
any other municipal decision,<br />
courts will not accept a copy —<br />
they want the original document<br />
as proof. This news-on-paper publication<br />
requirement was put in<br />
place to protect public and municipal<br />
officials so that there’s no question<br />
that a document had been<br />
doctored.<br />
Requiring legal notices to be<br />
published in a venue independent<br />
of government is a form of insurance<br />
for taxpayers. How can you<br />
get “beyond the shadow of doubt”<br />
proof of the contents of a legal document<br />
from a website that can be<br />
altered with a click of a mouse, or<br />
hacked? Heck, even the Pentagon’s<br />
computers have been hacked.<br />
When was the last time you visited<br />
your local government website?<br />
Is it something you do weekly?<br />
By contrast, according to American<br />
Opinion Research: Newspapers<br />
are the number one source for<br />
local/community news; seventy<br />
percent of Michigan adults read a<br />
print newspaper on an average<br />
Sunday; eighty-seven percent of<br />
Michigan adults (6.7 million) read<br />
a Michigan newspaper during an<br />
average seven-day period; ninetyfive<br />
percent of 18-29 year-olds read<br />
a newspaper each week in Michigan.<br />
Newspapers deliver an ongoing<br />
information stream, so that if one<br />
person misses a property-rezoning<br />
announcement, others can alert<br />
them that a nearby wooded lot<br />
could become an adult video store.<br />
Let me be clear: Under the guise of<br />
saving money, such “pull public<br />
notices out of a newspapers and<br />
post them on a government web<br />
site” legislation will make it easier<br />
for municipalities to have special<br />
meetings, make assessments and<br />
other important decisions with<br />
nearly no knowledge or input from<br />
the community. Yes, newspapers<br />
charge to publish these notices.<br />
More often than not, they are done<br />
at cost. But without these notices,<br />
more than a few community newspapers<br />
face the specter of shutting<br />
down. So on top of posting these<br />
public notices where the public<br />
won’t notice, there may be no local<br />
paper to report on the results of<br />
the actions.<br />
And let me be clear about something<br />
else: government officials<br />
across the country have thankless<br />
jobs. Most of the ones I’ve worked<br />
with are industrious and wellintentioned<br />
people. I sincerely<br />
doubt that they realized how this<br />
legislation could cause a crack in<br />
the cornerstone of communities<br />
across the country. But the truth is<br />
that these bills will hurt you and<br />
every other citizen across this<br />
nation.<br />
So, government officials: Thank<br />
you for all the thankless work you<br />
do. It is a lot.<br />
And thank you for reconsidering<br />
your support of this legislation.<br />
Because the taxpayers you work<br />
for deserve better.<br />
Caring and Sharing raises money<br />
for Jones County cancer victims<br />
Walking for cancer victims… Walkers spent the crisp fall Sunday, October 7 afternoon walking<br />
laps around the track in support of Jones County residents who have been affected by cancer.<br />
The Jones County Caring and Sharing cancer support group sponsored the second annual Caring<br />
and Sharing walk, in which approximately 25 people participated.<br />
Photos by Karlee Barnes<br />
Collecting beads… Supporters<br />
who participated by<br />
walking each bought a necklace<br />
for $5.00 and each time<br />
they completed a lap around<br />
the track, they stopped to add<br />
a bead to their necklace. Ella<br />
Fuhrer, Margie Peters, Pastor<br />
Ray Greenseth and Amber<br />
Sylva are pictured at left picking<br />
out beads from the colorful<br />
assortment. Along with the<br />
funds raised from the necklaces,<br />
total donations for the<br />
cause added up to $2,<strong>10</strong>0. All<br />
funds raised during the event<br />
will benefit Jones County residents.<br />
Anyone who was unable<br />
to participate in the walk, but<br />
would still like to donate can<br />
contact Pastor Rick Hazen,<br />
Pastor Ray Greenseth or Ella<br />
Fuhrer, Caring and Sharing<br />
treasurer.
Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong><br />
Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong> • October <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong> • Page 3<br />
Your newspaper will be there for you<br />
by Ron Dzwonkowski<br />
Your newspaper will be there<br />
for you.<br />
A simple statement, but let’s<br />
break it down a bit.<br />
Your newspaper … That’s right,<br />
all yours, assembled just for you,<br />
tailored to where you live, emphasizing<br />
the things that affect you,<br />
keeping track of the people and<br />
players in your community. Your<br />
newspaper is put together by people<br />
in a newsroom that was built<br />
for you, where people work to supply<br />
information that matters to<br />
you, from the details of that crash<br />
you passed by on Tuesday to biographies<br />
of the candidates for your<br />
school board to notices of what’s on<br />
sale at your local supermarket.<br />
…Will be there for you. Be<br />
where? On your porch, in your<br />
mail, at your convenience store<br />
and, yeah, sometimes in your<br />
bushes. But also at your township<br />
hall, inside your local police<br />
department, attending your city<br />
council meeting, watching your<br />
elections. It will be where you<br />
can’t, paying attention, keeping<br />
watch, asking questions, making<br />
the record public.<br />
And you can take it wherever<br />
Would you recognize?…<br />
Ed and Margaret Roghair in<br />
front of the teacherage for the<br />
school in Okaton in 1941.<br />
“A cheerful heart is good medicine,<br />
but a crushed spirit dries<br />
up the bones.”<br />
Proverbs 17:22<br />
A psychologist at Harvard University<br />
discovered that watching<br />
uplifting movies helps raise the<br />
body's production of antibodies.<br />
IN contrast, watching films with<br />
lots of violence and evil causes<br />
the number of antibodies to drop.<br />
Since antibodies help fight off<br />
infection, it seems important<br />
that we focus on what's good, as<br />
opposed to what's evil.<br />
In his book of wisdom, Solomon<br />
reminds us that “a cheerful<br />
heart is good medicine, but a<br />
you’re going without worrying<br />
about battery life or Wi-Fi connections.<br />
Some say newspapers are<br />
dying, that people get their news<br />
today from the Internet, TV and<br />
radio. But where do the Internet,<br />
TV and radio get their news? From<br />
the newsrooms of America’s newspapers,<br />
large and small, which<br />
still encompass the nation’s<br />
largest newsgathering force.<br />
Other information providers may<br />
add opinion, pictures or sound, but<br />
most of the time, the facts begin in<br />
the newsrooms of newspapers,<br />
where journalists are there for<br />
you, cultivating sources, combing<br />
through records, asking tough<br />
questions.<br />
A few generations back, TV and<br />
radio were supposed to be the<br />
death of newspapers. Instead, they<br />
were catalysts for newspapers to<br />
dig further, to offer context, analysis,<br />
perspective and storytelling<br />
that the electronic media couldn’t<br />
deliver. TV and radio didn’t kill<br />
newspapers; they made them<br />
deeper, smarter and more thoughtful.<br />
For about a generation now, the<br />
Internet has supposedly been driving<br />
newspapers into extinction.<br />
Mount Rushmore Memories<br />
receives NAI award<br />
Mount Rushmore Memories,<br />
published by the Mount Rushmore<br />
Bookstores at Mount Rushmore<br />
National Memorial, won First<br />
Place in the Long Book category in<br />
the 20<strong>12</strong> National Association of<br />
Interpretation (NAI) Association<br />
Competition. NAI is an organization<br />
dedicated to advancing the<br />
profession of heritage interpretation,<br />
currently serving about 5,000<br />
members in the United States,<br />
Canada, and over thirty other<br />
nations. Individual members<br />
include those who work at parks,<br />
museums, nature centers, zoos,<br />
botanical gardens, aquariums, historical<br />
and cultural sites, commercial<br />
tour companies, and theme<br />
parks.<br />
Mount Rushmore Memories<br />
recently won an Independent Publisher<br />
Book Award in the Mid-West<br />
Regional Nonfiction category, an<br />
Association of Partners for Public<br />
Lands Media and Partnership<br />
Award in the General Interest<br />
Publications book category and<br />
was a finalist in the 20<strong>11</strong> Fore-<br />
by Pastor Ray Greenseth, Messiah/St. Paul Lutheran Churches<br />
Pray<br />
crushed spirit dries up the bones.”<br />
It's not easy to always be cheerful<br />
in a world where sin runs rampant.<br />
We see what sin does in our<br />
live s and in the lives of others.<br />
We ask with St. Paul: “Who will<br />
rescue me from this body of<br />
death/” But we exclaim with<br />
thanksgiving as did Paul,<br />
“Thanks be to God --- through<br />
Jesus Christ our Lord...the law of<br />
the Spirit of life set me free from<br />
the law of sin and death.”<br />
(Romans 7:24-25, 8:2)<br />
What kinds of things do you<br />
watch on TV or at the movie theater?<br />
Things that cheer you or<br />
that crush you? St. Paul summarizes<br />
the truth of Solomon in<br />
Nope. It’s just given their newsrooms<br />
another platform to deliver<br />
journalism that now includes<br />
videos, interactive graphics and<br />
access to informational archives<br />
built for years by … Guess which<br />
medium?<br />
Unlike websites and bloggers,<br />
newspapers are fixtures in their<br />
communities. Most of them were<br />
around long before personal computers<br />
and smart-phone apps,<br />
chronicling life, dissecting trends<br />
and exposing things that needed<br />
some air. And unlike less-established<br />
media, their newsrooms<br />
operate with standards and ethics<br />
intended to assure the credibility<br />
of the information they deliver.<br />
They don’t just make the record;<br />
they protect it, too. It’s a responsibility,<br />
a trust, a duty.<br />
And while newspapers and<br />
their newsrooms have always broken<br />
stories, the Internet has now<br />
enabled them to cover breaking<br />
news, too, with reporting that goes<br />
directly up on-line — just as soon<br />
as it meets those newsroom standards.<br />
So the evolution continues.<br />
But the mission remains the<br />
same: To be there. For you.<br />
Because it’s your newspaper.<br />
Word's Book of the Year Awards<br />
program in the Regional category.<br />
Mount Rushmore Memories is a<br />
collection of <strong>12</strong>0 memories about<br />
Mount Rushmore National<br />
Memorial edited by Jean L.S.<br />
Patrick of Mitchell, S.D., and Society<br />
Communications Director Debbie<br />
M. Ketel and designed by<br />
Amanda Summers Design of Arizona.<br />
The book retails for $14.99<br />
and is available at the Mount<br />
Rushmore Bookstores at the park,<br />
online, by calling 1-605-574-3142<br />
or at other bookstores in the area.<br />
As a committee of the Mount<br />
Rushmore Society, the mission of<br />
the Mount Rushmore Bookstores<br />
is to support and assist the<br />
National Park Service with educational,<br />
historical and interpretive<br />
activities at Mount Rushmore. As<br />
a 501 ( c ) 3 nonprofit organization,<br />
this committee raises funds for the<br />
park through the operation of<br />
three bookstores at the memorial,<br />
an audio tour outlet, membership<br />
program and publishing department.<br />
A Prescription for Good Health<br />
another way: “Finally, brothers<br />
(and sisters) whatever is true,<br />
whatever is noble, whatever is<br />
right, whatever is pure, what<br />
ever is lovely, whatever is<br />
admirable --- if anything is<br />
excellent or praiseworthy ---<br />
think about such things. Whatever<br />
you learned or received or<br />
heard from me, or seen in me ---<br />
put it into practice. And the God<br />
of peace will be with you.”<br />
(Philippians 4:8-9)<br />
We pray; Dear Lord Heavenly<br />
Father, through faith in Jesus<br />
Christ, we have every reason for<br />
a cheerful heart. Thank You.<br />
Amen.<br />
Joyce F. Dykema<br />
Joyce Finck Dykema was born<br />
to Waldo and Clara (Jordan) Finck<br />
on February <strong>12</strong>, 1933 in Okaton,<br />
South Dakota.<br />
Joyce married Herman “Boyd”<br />
Dykema on November 27, 1953,<br />
and to this union three daughters<br />
were born, Sherry, Cindy and<br />
Lora.<br />
Joyce loved life and was known<br />
for her fun personality. Joyce especially<br />
loved to tease the kids and<br />
they loved to tease her back. Those<br />
same kids, and you know who you<br />
are, would scare her knowing how<br />
jumpy she was. Adults and kids<br />
alike made a special stop at Joyce’s<br />
Margaret Roghair<br />
Margaret Alice (Peggy) Roghair<br />
was born to Frank Henry and<br />
Crystal Swearingen Bowder October<br />
14, 1916 in Timber Lake. She<br />
was the third of seven children.<br />
She died in Coos Bay, Ore., September<br />
20, 20<strong>12</strong>.<br />
With a two-year certificate from<br />
Northern State Teacher’s College,<br />
she began teaching primary school<br />
in Okaton in 1940. There she met<br />
Obituaries<br />
house at Halloween, with lights<br />
and siren (and you know who you<br />
are) for her popcorn balls. Joyce<br />
also made the best bread and<br />
chocolate fudge and she often<br />
shared her baked goods with family<br />
and friends. Crocheting was a<br />
pastime for Joyce and she enjoyed<br />
sharing her handiwork.<br />
Joyce loved going to bowling<br />
tournaments except for the times<br />
her partners angered her and<br />
embarrassed her (and you know<br />
who you are).<br />
Joyce had many talents and she<br />
used these in several of the jobs<br />
she performed throughout the<br />
years. She especially like working<br />
at Dean’s Market where she could<br />
be found by the sound of her whistle.<br />
She always said there was no<br />
song she just liked to whistle.<br />
Joyce has done everything from<br />
driving combines at harvest, driving<br />
semi-trucks long haul, to milking<br />
cows, ironing, baking doughnuts,<br />
and loved painting apartments.<br />
You would often find Joyce<br />
whistling, whether she was at<br />
work or at play. This reflected<br />
Joyce’s love for life. Joyce will be<br />
missed by her family and many<br />
friends.<br />
Fire marshal’s office to<br />
reinstate training grants<br />
Ed Roghair the oldest brother of<br />
two of her elementary students,<br />
Ted and Bob. On June 8, 1941, Ed<br />
and Margaret they were married.<br />
Margaret was a farm wife and had<br />
four children.<br />
In 1957, the family moved to<br />
McMinnville, Oregon. Margaret<br />
was a substitute teacher and<br />
church secretary. She worked in<br />
the Linfield College Library and<br />
completed her B.S. degree there.<br />
She was a writer, editor and experimental<br />
cook, publishing articles<br />
and recipes. In McMinnville, she<br />
was active in the First Presbyterian<br />
Church, and the Yamhill County<br />
Fair and Historical Society. She<br />
and Ed are honored in the new<br />
Yamhill County Historical Society<br />
Museum where the volunteer<br />
break room is named after them.<br />
Following her husband’s death in<br />
2006, Margaret moved to the Baycrest<br />
Village care facility in Coos<br />
Bay.<br />
Margaret is survived by one sister,<br />
Frances Storm of Aberdeen;<br />
and sisters- and brothers-in-law<br />
The South Dakota Fire Marshal’s<br />
Office is reinstating the<br />
Firefighter Essentials Grant Program,<br />
which will help fund 13<br />
training programs across the<br />
state.<br />
Fire Marshal Paul Merriman<br />
said the program was eliminated<br />
for lack of funds in 20<strong>10</strong>. To reinstate<br />
the program, a portion of the<br />
revenue from the Fire Safe Cigarette<br />
fund is being set aside. The<br />
money will help defray expenses<br />
such as books, manuals and<br />
instructor fees that fire departments<br />
will incur when they host a<br />
Firefighter Essentials class. The<br />
Fire Marshal’s Office is committing<br />
$750 to each of 13 classes.<br />
“It is vital for our firefighters to<br />
remain current in training and<br />
education,’’ Merriman said. “We’re<br />
pleased to be able to reinstate<br />
some funding for these classes.’’<br />
The funding is from fees paid by<br />
cigarette manufacturers to the fire<br />
safety standard act fund, created<br />
by the 2009 Legislature. The fund<br />
provides revenue to administer the<br />
fire-safe cigarette law, as well as to<br />
support fire safety and education<br />
programs.<br />
Fire Departments interested in<br />
receiving a training grant are<br />
asked to contact the State Fire<br />
Marshal’s Office at (605) 773-3562.<br />
Survivors include three daughters<br />
Sherry Philips and her husband<br />
Bill of Murdo, Lora Gibbs<br />
and her husband Brett of<br />
Audobon, Iowa, and Cindy Jost<br />
and her husband Mike of Murdo;<br />
four grandchildren, Brooke and<br />
Susie Jost, and Georgie and Billy<br />
Gibbs; one brother Kenny Finck of<br />
Newell; five sisters Irene Brink of<br />
Murdo, Alice Stroppel and her<br />
husband George of Midland, Betty<br />
Block and her husband Dick of<br />
Midland, Ironis Poppe of Pierre,<br />
and Norma Oldenberg and her<br />
husband Jim of Philip; and a host<br />
of other relatives and friends.<br />
Joyce was preceded in death by<br />
her husband Herman on May 13,<br />
2006; two brothers Robert Finck<br />
and Emil Finck, and one sister<br />
Bonna Lindquist.<br />
Visitation was held one hour<br />
preceding the services on Friday at<br />
the church.<br />
Funeral services were held on<br />
Friday, October 5, at the<br />
Methodist Church in Murdo, with<br />
Pastor Rick Hazen officiating.<br />
Graveside services were held on<br />
Friday at the Black Hills National<br />
Cemetery near Sturgis.<br />
A memorial has been established.<br />
Marjorie Bowder of Salem, OR;<br />
Harriett Noteboom of Kadoka;<br />
Gertrude (John E.) Vander Schaaf<br />
of Orange City, IA; Theodore<br />
Roghair of Crestwood, KY and<br />
Robert (Bessie) Roghair of Okaton.<br />
She is survived by her children,<br />
James E. (Elizabeth) of Santa Fe,<br />
NM; Gene (Lucinda) of Grass Valley,<br />
CA; Crystal Shoji (Gene) of<br />
Coos Bay, OR; and Wallace (Jeri)<br />
of Portland, OR; grandchildren<br />
Nicholas, David, Jonathan and<br />
Taylor Roghair and Chris Shoji;<br />
and numerous nieces and nephews<br />
and their offspring.<br />
Memorial Services and interment<br />
will be held at McMinnville,<br />
Oregon, (where Ed is buried) during<br />
Thanksgiving weekend. In lieu<br />
of flowers contributions may be<br />
sent to the First Presbyterian<br />
Church, 390 NE 2nd St., McMinnville,<br />
OR 97<strong>12</strong>8 or the Yamhill<br />
County Historical Museum, Box<br />
484, Lafayette, OR 97<strong>12</strong>7.<br />
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Catholic Church of St. Martin<br />
502 E. Second St., Murdo, S.D. • Father Gary Oreshoski<br />
Saturday Mass: 6 p.m.<br />
St. Anthony’s Catholic Church<br />
Draper, S.D. • Father Gary Oreshoski<br />
Sunday Mass: 8:30 a.m.<br />
Draper United Methodist Church<br />
Pastor Rick Hazen<br />
Sunday Worship: <strong>11</strong> a.m.<br />
Murdo United Methodist Church<br />
Pastor Rick Hazen • Corner of E. 2nd and Jefferson Ave.<br />
Sunday Worship: 9:30 a.m. and Fellowship Time • Sunday School: <strong>10</strong>:30 a.m.<br />
United Methodist Women: 1st Wednesday at 2 p.m. • ALL WELCOME!<br />
Okaton Evangelical Free Church<br />
Okaton I–90 Exit 183 • Pastor Gary McCubbin • 605–837–2233 (Kadoka)<br />
Sunday Worship: 9 a.m. (CT) • Sunday School: <strong>10</strong>:30 a.m. (CT)<br />
Messiah Lutheran Church<br />
308 Cedar, Murdo, S.D. • Pastor Ray Greenseth<br />
Sunday Worship: 9 a.m. • Sunday School: <strong>10</strong> a.m. • Bible Study: Tuesday 7 a.m.<br />
Thursday 9:30 a.m. • Midweek: Wednesday 3:15 p.m.<br />
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church<br />
Draper, S.D. • Pastor Ray Greenseth<br />
Sunday Worship: <strong>11</strong> a.m. • Bible Study: Wednesday 9 a.m.<br />
Community Bible Church<br />
4<strong>10</strong> Washington, Murdo, S.D. • Pastor Alvin Gwin • 669–2600<br />
Sunday Worship: <strong>11</strong> a.m. and 7 p.m. • Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.<br />
Wed. Night Bible Study: 7 p.m.<br />
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by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam<br />
God sees every believer in Christ as already in heaven. See what the Bible says about this:<br />
“BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, FOR HIS GREAT LOVE WHEREWITH HE LOVED US,<br />
“EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS, HATH QUICKENED US TOGETHER WITH CHRIST (BY GRACE YE ARE SAVED),<br />
“AND HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER AND MADE US SIT TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS:<br />
“THAT IN THE AGES TO COME HE MIGHT SHOW THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH<br />
CHRIST JESUS” (Eph. 2:4-7).<br />
Most sincere believers, poorly taught in the Word, are concerned about getting to heaven, but as far as God is concerned they are already there. They<br />
have been “made accepted in the Beloved” (Eph. 1:6). God has given them a position “in Christ.”<br />
We are well aware that most of God’s people know little about this experientially, but God says that as far as He is concerned, they are already in heaven,<br />
and this is what matters. As Christ took our place on Calvary’s cross, God now sees us in Christ, at His own right hand, the place of favor and honor.<br />
This is why the Apostle Paul says to believers in Christ:<br />
“IF YE THEN BE RISEN WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST SITTETH ON THE RIGHT HAND<br />
OF GOD.<br />
“SET YOUR AFFECTION ON THINGS ABOVE, NOT ON THINGS ON THE EARTH.<br />
“FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD” (Col. 3:1-3).<br />
And all this by the free grace of God:<br />
“WHO HATH SAVED US, AND CALLED US WITH AN HOLY CALLING, NOT ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS<br />
OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE, WHICH WAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN” (II Tim. 1:9).<br />
Our hearts go out to those of our readers who have not yet received this “gift of the grace of God.” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt<br />
be saved” (Acts 16:31).<br />
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Pocket Gophers vs. Moles and<br />
Their Control<br />
Pocket gophers and moles have<br />
similarities, and distinct differences.<br />
Both animals spend the<br />
majority of their time below<br />
ground, and cause homeowners<br />
headaches with their burrowing<br />
activity. Pocket gophers also cause<br />
problems for farmers and ranchers,<br />
particularly in hayfields,<br />
where the dirt mounds they create<br />
interferes with hay harvest.<br />
Determining which pest is<br />
involved is important in implementing<br />
a control method, and the<br />
best way to do so is by the signs<br />
that can be seen above ground.<br />
Often, the only visible sign of pocket<br />
gophers is the mounds they construct<br />
as they return below ground<br />
after their occasional visits into<br />
the open air. Pocket gopher<br />
mounds are generally fan or kidney-shaped,<br />
as opposed to the<br />
smaller, usually round mounds<br />
made by moles. Pocket gopher burrows<br />
are typically deep enough to<br />
remain largely undetected from<br />
the soil surface, whereas at least<br />
some of the burrows moles create<br />
show up as undulating, raised runways.<br />
Pocket gophers are rodents, and<br />
therefore plant feeders, not only<br />
causing damage and being a nuisance<br />
because of their mound<br />
building habits, but cause some<br />
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direct loss by feeding on the roots<br />
of plants, somewhat on aboveground<br />
vegetation, and pulling<br />
vegetation into their tunnels from<br />
below. They are also known to<br />
damage plastic water lines and<br />
electrical cables by chewing on<br />
them.<br />
Moles on the other hand, are<br />
not rodents, but insectivores.<br />
Their diet consists mainly of the<br />
insects, grubs, and worms they<br />
find in the soil. Moles are thought<br />
to damage roots and tubers by<br />
feeding on them, but rodents usually<br />
are to blame. Although moles<br />
remove damaging insects from<br />
lawns and gardens, their burrowing<br />
habits are not viewed favorably.<br />
Due to the mole’s exclusive diet<br />
of insects, toxic grain baits are seldom<br />
effective, although two poisons<br />
are federally registered for<br />
use on them. Pocket gophers however,<br />
being herbivores, can be controlled<br />
with poison baits. The baits<br />
can be applied in burrows by hand<br />
on a small scale, or with a mechanical<br />
burrow builder if dealing with<br />
a field scale infestation.<br />
Fumigants are possible methods<br />
of controlling both pocket<br />
gophers and moles, but they have<br />
been known to close off burrows so<br />
the fumigant cannot get to them.<br />
The fumigant may also move too<br />
slowly through the burrow system<br />
to be effective. Carbon monoxide<br />
from automobile exhaust can be<br />
effective due to its greater volume<br />
and pressure. Fumigating can also<br />
be quite time-consuming and labor<br />
intensive.<br />
Due to their somewhat solitary<br />
nature, and the fact that one pocket<br />
gopher or one mole can construct<br />
an extensive burrow system,<br />
trapping is considered very<br />
successful for both pests. For pocket<br />
gophers, trapping is best for<br />
small areas and animals not controlled<br />
with a poisoning control<br />
program. Because of somewhat<br />
different habits and size, different<br />
traps are intended for each pest.<br />
Both gopher traps and mole traps<br />
can be purchased at many hardware<br />
stores.<br />
There are also cultural and<br />
other methods of minimizing damage<br />
from both pocket gophers and<br />
moles. More information on preventing<br />
and stopping damage from<br />
pocket gophers, moles and other<br />
wildlife can be obtained from the<br />
“Internet Center for Wildlife Damage<br />
Management”: http://icwdm.<br />
org/ or contacting your Regional<br />
Extension Center.<br />
Calendar<br />
<strong>10</strong>/16-18/20<strong>12</strong> – SDSU Extension<br />
Annual Conference, Brookings, SD<br />
<strong>11</strong>/27-28/20<strong>12</strong> – Ag Horizons Conference,<br />
Pierre, SD<br />
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4-H is one of the largest youth<br />
development programs in America<br />
with more than 6.5 million youth,<br />
ages five-19. It is the only development<br />
program with direct access<br />
to technological advances from<br />
university research. 4-H is operated<br />
and supported by a shared leadership<br />
of public and private partners<br />
including National 4-H Headquarters,<br />
USDA within the Cooperative<br />
State Research, Education<br />
and Extension Service; 3,500<br />
Cooperative Extension educators<br />
(called program advisors in SD)<br />
associated with <strong>10</strong>6 land-grant<br />
universities; National 4-H Council;<br />
4-H associations and foundations;<br />
and trained youth and adult<br />
volunteers.<br />
This is how SDSU, South Dakota’s<br />
only land grant university<br />
benefits the 4-H program.<br />
Youth learn leadership, citizenship<br />
and life skills through more<br />
than 1,000 projects with topics<br />
varied as public speaking, photography,<br />
community service, rocketry,<br />
livestock and graphic design.<br />
“Learn by doing” is the fundamental<br />
4-H ideal. Youth are encouraged<br />
to experiment, innovate and<br />
think independently.<br />
4-H programs are offered<br />
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• For Religious Freedom – excluding mandated abortion<br />
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through community clubs, schoolbased,<br />
after- school and camp<br />
settings, and U.S. military installations<br />
worldwide. Studies show<br />
that 4-H members do better in<br />
school, are more motivated to help<br />
others, feel safe to try new things,<br />
achieve a sense of self-esteem, and<br />
develop lasting friendships.<br />
More than 60 million young<br />
people across American have been<br />
4-H members since 4-H began in<br />
1902. Famous alumni include Al<br />
Gore, Faith Hill and David Letterman.<br />
Also, 14 governors, 33 university<br />
presidents, 31 CEOs and<br />
four astronauts are 4-H alumni.<br />
Here is what Jacob Birkeland,<br />
area 4-H member, has to say<br />
about 4-H.<br />
Jacob Birkeland is <strong>11</strong> and this is<br />
his third year in 4-H. His favorite<br />
4-H experience is being in Shooting<br />
Sports and competing at the<br />
State 4-H Shoot in Ft. Pierre. His<br />
two favorite project areas are<br />
Shooting Sports and Wood Science.<br />
Jacob says his dad was in 4-H and<br />
his favorite part of 4-H was going<br />
to club meetings and doing activities<br />
and projects with friends.<br />
Jacob says that 4-H is benefiting<br />
his community because his<br />
club does community service projects<br />
like the City Park/5th Street<br />
Cleanup Project and they have<br />
also planted trees by the North<br />
Dam and City Park. He states “we<br />
try to do something to give back to<br />
our community.” To encourage<br />
other families to get involved in 4-<br />
H, Jacob’s advice is “4-H is fun and<br />
you can learn a lot. You just need<br />
to get involved in 4-H.”<br />
To find out more about the fun<br />
and learning experiences in 4-H,<br />
visit or call your local 4-H Youth<br />
Program Advisor at the 4-H office<br />
in the Jones Co. courthouse at<br />
605.669.7<strong>10</strong>1 or visit with a current<br />
4-H leader or club member.<br />
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“Dead skunk in the middle of<br />
the road. You got yer dead skunk<br />
in the middle of the road.<br />
Stinkin’ to high Heaven!” So go<br />
the lyrics of a song written and<br />
performed by Loudon Wainwright.<br />
It is especially appropriate right<br />
now since skunks appear to have<br />
had a banner year. Not only are<br />
they dead in the middle of the<br />
road but also on the shoulder and<br />
even on some city streets. I don’t<br />
know how many carcasses I’ve<br />
seen, but there have been a lot.<br />
This is not hard to believe since<br />
skunks often have multiple offspring.<br />
They are similar to cats<br />
as far as reproduction goes, and<br />
you know having four kittens in a<br />
batch is fairly common. Sometimes<br />
there are more that that.<br />
Therefore, if you have ten female<br />
skunks around, they could multiply<br />
themselves to forty by fall. I<br />
think that’s what happened this<br />
year. There must have been<br />
many large batches and few stillborns.<br />
This, too, is the season you are<br />
most apt to see the results of the<br />
year’s production since they are<br />
all drifting around looking for<br />
cozy winter quarters. Culverts<br />
under roads are quite popular.<br />
Buildings are too. Just the other<br />
day, Wally asked if I’d like to help<br />
him move three dead skunks from<br />
under his house. I said that, alas,<br />
I had a very busy schedule for<br />
both the morning and afternoon<br />
and couldn’t possibly provide<br />
assistance. What a pity I couldn’t<br />
help.<br />
Over the years, I’ve dispatched a<br />
whole lot of skunks. They particularly<br />
adore the cat food I usually<br />
have sitting out in dishes in the<br />
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barn. What’s more, the cats just<br />
accept them as kin without making<br />
a fuss. Let a coon come in the<br />
barn and eat cat food, and the cats<br />
get nervous. You can tell right<br />
away that something is wrong<br />
when you walk in the barn and<br />
the cats are all sitting on high<br />
places looking nervously around.<br />
This is a signal to grab your gun,<br />
walk carefully, and check the<br />
rafters for ringed tails. Cats give<br />
no warning about skunks, though,<br />
so you’d just better keep your wits<br />
about you in the barn, especially<br />
after dark. I’ve never been actually<br />
sprayed by a striped kitty, but<br />
it has been a near thing many<br />
times. Early spring and fall are<br />
the times one should be especially<br />
careful.<br />
It’s not bad enough that these<br />
striped beasts have potent stink<br />
glands, but, what is worse, they<br />
are the most common carrier of<br />
rabies in this area. As far as I<br />
know, we have never had rabies<br />
on the place, but that doesn’t<br />
mean it couldn’t happen. Any<br />
critter including cats that acts<br />
strangely needs to be closely<br />
watched. The only thing worse<br />
than a rabid skunk, as far as I’m<br />
concerned, would be a rabid bat.<br />
You could probably outrun a<br />
skunk, but bats would be quite a<br />
bit trickier to avoid. We sometimes<br />
get bats in the barn too, and<br />
I really hate that. I go in and out<br />
just as quickly as possible when<br />
they are there. According to recent<br />
statistics, not many bats actually<br />
have rabies, but I don’t trust them<br />
anyway, the nasty things. If they<br />
were loveable creatures, they<br />
wouldn’t be commonly displayed<br />
in conjunction with the scariest<br />
Breakfast Fundraiser<br />
Saturday & Sunday, October 20 & 21<br />
Pheasant Opener<br />
7 a.m. to <strong>11</strong> a.m. ~ Ambulance Shed<br />
(end of Main Street, Murdo)<br />
Stop by and see the new ambulance and enjoy breakfast!<br />
Free-will donation with $5 minimum<br />
The money raised will be put toward the new ambulance<br />
time of year, namely Halloween.<br />
It is also almost impossible to<br />
chase a skunk out of a building<br />
before shooting it. They won’t go<br />
even if there are lots of doors, and<br />
they’re all open. For one thing,<br />
you have to stay a goodly distance<br />
away so you can’t really force the<br />
issue. Long ago I gave up trying to<br />
get them outside and now just<br />
shoot them where they stand.<br />
Then I quickly exit the building<br />
and wait at least a day before<br />
going back, picking up the smelly<br />
beast with a pitchfork, and disposing<br />
of it a considerable distance<br />
away down a draw.<br />
The only redeeming feature<br />
about skunks might be that they<br />
are fairly pretty. They usually<br />
have glossy black hair punctuated<br />
by a big white stripe or two. Their<br />
beauty, though, could be compared<br />
to that of creeping jenny which<br />
also is somewhat pretty. Neither<br />
one can be fully appreciated when<br />
you know what problems they can<br />
cause.<br />
My favorite story in this regard,<br />
however, might be the one from<br />
schooldays in town. It was spring<br />
and a lilac was blooming outside<br />
the window. Mom said, “Open the<br />
window so you can smell the<br />
lilacs.” I did open the window but<br />
just as a skunk walked by. I told<br />
Mom, “I don’t think I care much<br />
for the smell of lilacs.” She came<br />
to my room right away to check<br />
this out, smelled the skunk, and<br />
got a terrible fit of the giggles.<br />
So in conclusion, “It’s dead. It’s<br />
in the middle. Dead skunk in the<br />
middle of the road. It’s dead. It’s<br />
in the middle, and stinkin’ to high,<br />
high Heaven.”<br />
Western Jr. Livestock Show celebrates 75 years<br />
In the last 45 years Jackie<br />
Maude hasn't missed a single<br />
Western Jr. Livestock show.<br />
She first attended the event as<br />
a 13-year-old 4-H member showing<br />
cattle. A few years later, she<br />
met her husband, Marion in the<br />
show ring. When their 4-H careers<br />
came to an end, the couple joined<br />
the ranks of volunteers to have<br />
organized Western Jr. Livestock<br />
Show for the last 75 years.<br />
October <strong>10</strong> to 13 Maude and her<br />
family will again turn out to help<br />
run the event which takes place in<br />
at the Central States Fair<br />
Grounds in Rapid City.<br />
“It’s a great show and has<br />
become a tradition for our family,”<br />
said Maude, who ranches near<br />
Hermosa, S.D., with her husband<br />
and son, Charles and daughter,<br />
Elizabeth.<br />
Maude has been busy getting<br />
ready for the event since early<br />
May. She serves as secretary/manager<br />
of the Western Jr. Livestock<br />
Show. In this role, she collects<br />
entries, lines up judges, facilities<br />
and helps organize the more than<br />
50 volunteers who put on the<br />
event.<br />
Peter Nielson, SDSU Extension<br />
4-H Youth Program Director says<br />
it is volunteers like Maude that<br />
make the Western Jr. Livestock<br />
Show the premier event and a cornerstone<br />
in western South Dakota<br />
National<br />
Fire<br />
Prevention<br />
week:<br />
October<br />
7-13<br />
4-H tradition.<br />
“The Western Jr. Livestock<br />
Show blends the best of what volunteer<br />
management is within 4-<br />
H,” Nielson said. “It is because of<br />
the efforts of volunteers and<br />
Extension professionals that this<br />
show celebrates such a rich history<br />
and bright future.”<br />
During the four-day livestock<br />
show, more than 220 4-H members<br />
will compete in several showmanship<br />
and market and breeding<br />
shows for beef, sheep, swine and<br />
goats. They can also compete in<br />
livestock or meat judging contests.<br />
The 4-H members attending represent<br />
44 counties in South Dakota,<br />
Wyoming and Nebraska.<br />
Like many who participate in<br />
Western Jr., Maude says her family<br />
has developed many lifelong<br />
friends through their involvement.<br />
“Each year we look forward to<br />
seeing old friends and making new<br />
Fire prevention week focuses<br />
on planning safe escapes<br />
National Fire Prevention Week<br />
is a good time for families to sit<br />
down and plan at least two ways to<br />
safely escape a burning structure,<br />
State Fire Marshal Paul Merriman<br />
says.<br />
National Fire Prevention Week<br />
is October 7-13, 20<strong>12</strong>. This year’s<br />
theme is “Have 2 Ways Out.’’ Merriman<br />
says the theme is a<br />
reminder that a good fire safety<br />
plan includes more than one exit<br />
strategy from a burning home.<br />
“Fire can be unpredictable, and<br />
it moves more quickly than most<br />
people realize,’’ Merriman said.<br />
“Having an escape plan with at<br />
least two ways out is essential to<br />
protect your family in the event of<br />
a fire in your home. And the escape<br />
plan should be reviewed from time<br />
to time. Fire Prevention Week is a<br />
good time to do that.’’<br />
Statistics from the National<br />
Fire Protection Association say<br />
that in 20<strong>10</strong>, firefighters in the<br />
United States responded to nearly<br />
370,000 home structure fires.<br />
ones,” she said. “For many families,<br />
Western Jr. is their yearly<br />
vacation. I always tell people when<br />
they register for the first time that<br />
this is a friendly show.”<br />
This year there will be several<br />
reunion events to celebrate the<br />
show's 75 years. A hog roast will be<br />
held October <strong>11</strong> in the evening.<br />
Also there will be an Alumni<br />
Showmanship Contest and an ice<br />
cream social with a short program<br />
to celebrate the Golden Diamond<br />
Anniversary of both the Western<br />
Jr. Livestock Show and Western 4-<br />
H Family and Consumer Science<br />
Show on Friday evening. Former<br />
and current participants, sponsors<br />
and volunteers past and present<br />
are all invited to attend the celebration<br />
over the weekend. Alumni<br />
are encouraged to bring in previous<br />
exhibits, photos and memories<br />
to share and display over the<br />
weekend.<br />
Those fires caused 13,350 civilian<br />
injuries and 2,640 civilian deaths,<br />
as well as $6.9 billion in direct<br />
damage.<br />
Merriman recommends a number<br />
of precautionary actions for<br />
families to take. They are as follows.<br />
Make a map of their home,<br />
marking each door or window that<br />
could be used as an exit from each<br />
room. Agree on a meeting place<br />
outside the home where family<br />
members can make contact after<br />
escaping from the house. Practice<br />
the plan at least twice a year, with<br />
everyone in the home involved in<br />
the practice. Make sure to have<br />
smoke alarms in the home and<br />
make sure the batteries are fresh.<br />
“Firefighters in South Dakota<br />
do a great job. Fire Prevention<br />
Week is a time to recognize that,’’<br />
Merriman said. “It’s also a good<br />
time to remember that each of us<br />
is responsible for our own safety<br />
and the safety of our loved ones in<br />
the event of a fire.’’<br />
• Omelets • Pancakes<br />
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• Link Sausages
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A new treatment for Multiple<br />
Sclerosis<br />
The lady was a 35-year old<br />
mother of three in the prime of her<br />
life and “perfectly healthy”. She<br />
had noticed over the past several<br />
days that her vision in her right<br />
eye was blurred and there seemed<br />
to be flashing lights in her right<br />
eye. She also noticed that the eye<br />
was somewhat sore and when she<br />
did her morning run, it became<br />
substantially more painful. She<br />
came to the clinic because of these<br />
symptoms. She was correctly diagnosed<br />
as having multiple sclerosis.<br />
She was started on a substantial<br />
dose of cortisone given intravenously<br />
and over a week’s time<br />
the condition improved and the<br />
symptoms resolved completely.<br />
She read about multiple sclerosis<br />
and came back with multiple<br />
questions and substantial anxiety<br />
about the prognosis of this diagnosis.<br />
She had read that 90 percent<br />
of patients that have multiple sclerosis<br />
will follow a so called “relapsing-remitting”<br />
course. The symptoms<br />
may recur at any given time<br />
after this first episode. It might<br />
not be for a year. It might not be<br />
for 4 years. The results of the<br />
relapse may leave some residual<br />
neurological deficit or it may completely<br />
remit as it did on this first<br />
episode. The over all course of<br />
multiple sclerosis is usually long<br />
The Clinical View<br />
• Dr. P.E. Hoffsten •<br />
amounting to 20 years or more.<br />
But the hallmark of multiple sclerosis<br />
is its unpredictability in<br />
regard to how fast it will progress<br />
and how severe the neurological<br />
deficits will become. Obviously,<br />
this makes any treatment program<br />
that is offered very difficult<br />
to evaluate. It will require a large<br />
number of people followed for<br />
many years before one could make<br />
a meaningful comment regarding<br />
the effect that a treatment really<br />
made a difference.<br />
To this time, an acute episode<br />
such as the lady above had is best<br />
treated with cortisone as was<br />
done. But over many years time,<br />
the medical profession has<br />
searched for methods to prevent<br />
relapses that contribute to progression<br />
of the disease. Now it<br />
seems that perhaps there is a new<br />
quite unique and substantially<br />
more effective medication available<br />
to prevent relapses.<br />
This new product is called<br />
dimethyl fumarate. It is abbreviated<br />
as BG-<strong>12</strong>. There were 2 back to<br />
back articles that appeared in the<br />
New England Journal of Medicine<br />
for September 20th of 20<strong>12</strong>. Both<br />
articles showed that there was a<br />
substantial decrease in the incidence<br />
of relapses, that there were<br />
fewer abnormalities seen on the<br />
MRI scans of these people’s brains,<br />
and there was less neurologic loss<br />
following the relapse. These are<br />
very favorable results. Fortunately,<br />
this product (BG-<strong>12</strong>) has been<br />
used for more than 30 years to<br />
treat psoriasis. As a matter of fact,<br />
it was incidentally found to be<br />
effective for multiple sclerosis by<br />
treating several patients that had<br />
both psoriasis and multiple sclerosis.<br />
It was noticed that when the<br />
psoriasis was treated with BG-<strong>12</strong>,<br />
their multiple sclerosis seemed to<br />
go into remission. The two large<br />
scale articles in the New England<br />
Journal of Medicine occurred 20<br />
years later after a long collection<br />
of cases and follow up of many<br />
years time. This is another<br />
serendipitous observation by<br />
healthcare professionals caring for<br />
one disease and then a second disease<br />
seems to get better with<br />
response to the given medication.<br />
This product is not available to<br />
treat multiple sclerosis as<br />
approved by the FAA yet. But it is<br />
available to treat psoriasis. Some<br />
physicians are starting to use it for<br />
multiple sclerosis in light of its<br />
marked effectiveness and very low<br />
side effect profile. This is a calculated<br />
risk however and whether or<br />
not the long term effectiveness of<br />
BG-<strong>12</strong> for multiple sclerosis will be<br />
upheld over 20 years is going to<br />
take another 20 years. Be that as<br />
it may, the situation appears very<br />
favorable at this time.<br />
Jones County FSA News<br />
• David Klingberg •<br />
JONES COUNTY IS<br />
APPROVED FOR EMERGENCY<br />
CONSERVATION PROGRAM<br />
(ECP) – SIGNUP ENDS <strong>10</strong>/24/<strong>12</strong><br />
USDA Farm Service Agency's<br />
(FSA) Emergency Conservation<br />
Program (ECP) provides emergency<br />
funding and technical assistance<br />
for farmers and ranchers to<br />
rehabilitate farmland damaged by<br />
natural disasters and for carrying<br />
out emergency water conservation<br />
measures in periods of severe<br />
drought. Funding for ECP is<br />
appropriated by Congress which<br />
has not been approved at this<br />
time. ECP program participants<br />
receive cost-share assistance of up<br />
to 75 percent of the cost to implement<br />
approved emergency conservation<br />
practices, as determined by<br />
county FSA committees.<br />
As mentioned above, there is no<br />
funding for the ECP practices at<br />
this time. Filing an application is<br />
still the first step to get cost share<br />
for pipeline projects or reimbursed<br />
for water hauling completed this<br />
summer. Contact the Jones County<br />
FSA Office for additional infor-<br />
mation at 605-669-2404 Ext. 2.<br />
CRP REMOVAL OF BALES<br />
EXTENDED TO<br />
NOVEMBER 15, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
Due to continuing drought conditions,<br />
fire dangers, harvesting<br />
pressures, lack of hay movers, etc,<br />
an extension has been granted to<br />
remove bales from CRP acreages<br />
to November 15, 20<strong>12</strong>.<br />
20<strong>12</strong> NAP NOTICE OF LOSS<br />
AND PRODUCTION<br />
When a crop is affected by a<br />
natural disaster, producers must<br />
notify the FSA office where their<br />
farm records are maintained and<br />
complete Part B, (the Notice of<br />
Loss portion) of Form CCC-576,<br />
Notice of Loss and Application for<br />
Payment. This must be completed<br />
within 15 calendar days of the<br />
natural disaster occurrence or the<br />
date the damage to the crop or<br />
loss of production became apparent.<br />
To receive NAP benefits, producers<br />
must complete Form CCC-<br />
576, Notice of Loss and Applica-<br />
tion for Payment, Parts D, E, and<br />
F as applicable, and certify in Part<br />
G, no later than the immediately<br />
subsequent crop year acreage<br />
reporting date for the crop. The<br />
CCC-576 requires acceptable<br />
appraisal information. Producers<br />
must provide evidence of production<br />
and note whether the crop<br />
was marketable, unmarketable,<br />
salvaged or used differently than<br />
intended.<br />
Producers must annually provide<br />
(if not appraised) the quantity<br />
of all harvested production of the<br />
crop in which the producer held an<br />
interest during the crop year. We<br />
will be sending out the “NAP<br />
Yields” form which lists your acres<br />
and a spot for you to record your<br />
production. The deadline for<br />
reporting this production is not<br />
until July 15, 2013, but report the<br />
production now while the records<br />
are handy and newly calculated.<br />
DATES TO REMEMBER/DEAD-<br />
LINES:<br />
Oct. 24: ECP Sign up deadline<br />
Nov. 15: 2013 acreage reporting<br />
date for all perennial forage and<br />
winter wheat<br />
Nov. 15: Deadline for CRP bales to<br />
be removed from CRP<br />
Feel free to call the office if you<br />
ever have questions on any of our<br />
programs 605-669-2404 Ext. 2.<br />
South Dakota Lottery celebrates 25 years<br />
While the South Dakota Lottery<br />
officially turned 25 years old on<br />
September 30, 20<strong>12</strong>, lottery officials<br />
commemorated the event<br />
with Governor Dennis Daugaard<br />
by posing for a photo on the State<br />
Capitol steps on September 28,<br />
20<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Current members of the state<br />
Lottery Commission along with<br />
Lottery executive director Norm<br />
Lingle and Department of Revenue<br />
Secretary Andy Gerlach presented<br />
the Governor with a commemorative<br />
check for $2.13 billion,<br />
the amount raised by the Lottery<br />
for the State of South Dakota<br />
since it began selling tickets in<br />
1987.<br />
Revenue raised through the<br />
sale of scratch tickets, lotto tickets<br />
and video lottery play helps fund<br />
education, lowers property taxes,<br />
and develops natural resources.<br />
For more information on the<br />
South Dakota Lottery’s 25th<br />
Anniversary, visit the Lottery website<br />
at www.lottery.sd.gov or their<br />
Facebook page.<br />
Pictured in the photo are: (Front Row) Andy Gerlach, Secretary, Department<br />
of Revenue; Governor Dennis Daugaard; Bob Hartford, Chairman,<br />
Lottery Commission; Norm Lingle, Executive Director, South Dakota<br />
Lottery. (Back Row) Kory Menken, Lottery Commission; Doyle Estes,<br />
Vice Chairman, Lottery Commission; Brent Dykstra, Lottery Commission;<br />
Jim Peterson, Lottery Commission; Roger Novotny, Lottery Commission;<br />
and Dick Werner, Lottery Commission.<br />
Here’s your change!… Leronda Bryan counts change back<br />
to Hannah Brost as Hannah’s grandmother, Linda Brost looks on.<br />
Photos by Karlee Barnes<br />
Visiting with friends…<br />
local ladies catch up on visiting<br />
at the Draper Bazaar.<br />
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Full house… The 20<strong>12</strong> Draper Bazaar was a success as people traveled far and wide to sample<br />
the meal that the Draper Auxiliary provides for the bazaar, as well as to visit with friends and family.<br />
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Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong> • October <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong> • Page 6<br />
Close game… The <strong>Coyote</strong><br />
defense works together to push a<br />
Wall Eagle ball carrier out of<br />
bounds in the first quarter of the<br />
October 5 game. The <strong>Coyote</strong>s put<br />
up a good fight, but lost the game<br />
after a late fourth quarter touchdown<br />
and two-point conversion<br />
by the Eagles. The ending score<br />
was 36-38, Wall. The <strong>Coyote</strong>s are<br />
in action again October <strong>12</strong> at<br />
home for parents night, where<br />
they will take on Lower Brule.<br />
Photo by Karlee Barnes<br />
What is good sportsmanship?<br />
Good sportsmanship occurs<br />
when teammates, opponents,<br />
coaches and officials treat each<br />
other with respect. Kids learn the<br />
basics of sportsmanship from the<br />
adults in their lives, especially<br />
their parents and their coaches.<br />
Kids who see adults behaving in<br />
a sportsmanlike way gradually<br />
come to understand that the real<br />
winners in sports are those who<br />
know how to persevere and to<br />
behave with dignity – whether<br />
they win or lose a game.<br />
Parents can help their kids<br />
understand that good sportsmanship<br />
includes both small gestures<br />
and heroic efforts. It starts with<br />
something as simple as shaking<br />
hands with opponents before a<br />
game and includes acknowledging<br />
good plays made by others and<br />
accepting bad calls gracefully. Displaying<br />
good sportsmanship is not<br />
always easy. It can be tough to congratulate<br />
the opposing team after<br />
losing a close or important game.<br />
But the kids who learn how to do it<br />
will benefit in many ways.<br />
Kids who bully or taunt others<br />
on the playing field are not likely<br />
to change their behavior when in<br />
the classroom or in social situations.<br />
In the same way, a child who<br />
practices good sportsmanship is<br />
likely to carry the respect and<br />
appreciation of other people into<br />
every other aspect of life.<br />
Good sports are winners. Ask<br />
first or second graders who won a<br />
game, and they may answer, “I<br />
think it was a tie.” It is likely the<br />
question is not of any real interest<br />
at that age. Kids may be more<br />
eager to talk about the hits they<br />
got or the catches they almost<br />
made. But as they move into older<br />
and more competitive leagues,<br />
kids become more focused on winning.<br />
They often forget to have<br />
fun. Without constant reminders<br />
and good examples, they may also<br />
forget what behavior is appropriate<br />
before, during and after a<br />
sporting event.<br />
Kids who have coaches who care<br />
only about being in first place and<br />
say that anything goes as long as<br />
they win, pick up the message that<br />
it is okay to be ruthless on the<br />
field. If parents constantly pressure<br />
them to play better or secondguess<br />
their every move, kids get<br />
the message that they are only as<br />
good as their last good play – and<br />
they will try anything to make<br />
one.<br />
Adults who emphasize good<br />
sportsmanship, however, see winning<br />
as just one of several goals<br />
they would like their kids to<br />
achieve. They help young athletes<br />
take pride in their accomplishments<br />
and in their improving<br />
skills, so that the kids see themselves<br />
as winners, even if the<br />
scoreboard does not show the numbers<br />
going in their favor.<br />
The best coaches and parents<br />
encourage their kids to play fair, to<br />
have fun and to concentrate on<br />
helping the team while polishing<br />
their own skills.<br />
Fostering good sportsmanship.<br />
Remember the saying “Actions<br />
speak louder than words?” That is<br />
especially true when it comes to<br />
teaching your kids the basics of<br />
good sportsmanship. Your behavior<br />
during practices and games<br />
will influence them more than any<br />
pep talk or lecture you give them.<br />
Here are some suggestions on how<br />
to build sportsmanship in your<br />
kids:<br />
•Unless you are coaching your<br />
child’s team, you need to remember<br />
that you are the parent. Shout<br />
words of encouragement, not<br />
directions, from the sidelines<br />
(there is a difference).<br />
•If you are your kid's coach,<br />
don’t expect too much out of your<br />
own child. Don’t be harder on him<br />
or her than on anyone else on the<br />
team, but don’t play favorites<br />
either.<br />
•Keep your comments positive.<br />
Do not bad-mouth coaches, players<br />
or game officials. If you have a<br />
serious concern about the way that<br />
games or practices are being conducted,<br />
or if you are upset about<br />
other parents’ behavior, discuss it<br />
privately with the coach or with a<br />
league official.<br />
•After a competition, it is<br />
important not to dwell on who won<br />
or lost. Instead, try asking, “How<br />
did you feel you did during the<br />
game?” If your child feels weak at<br />
a particular skill, like throwing or<br />
catching, offer to work on it together<br />
before the next game.<br />
•Applaud good plays no matter<br />
who makes them.<br />
•Set a good example with your<br />
courteous behavior toward the<br />
parents of kids on the other team.<br />
Congratulate them when their<br />
kids win.<br />
•Remember that it is your kids,<br />
not you, who are playing. Don’t<br />
push them into a sport because it<br />
is what you enjoyed. As kids get<br />
older, let them choose what sports<br />
they want to play and decide the<br />
level of commitment they want to<br />
make.<br />
•Keep your perspective. It is<br />
just a game. Even if the team loses<br />
every game of the season, it is<br />
unlikely to ruin your child's life or<br />
chances of success.<br />
•Look for examples of good<br />
sportsmanship in professional athletes<br />
and point them out to your<br />
kids. Talk about the bad examples,<br />
too, and why they upset you.<br />
•Finally, do not forget to have<br />
fun. Even if your child isn’t the<br />
star, enjoy the game while you are<br />
thinking of all the benefits your<br />
child is gaining – new skills, new<br />
friends, and attitudes that can<br />
help all through life.<br />
<strong>Review</strong>ed by Steve Sanders,<br />
PhD.
Public Notices Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong> • October <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong> • Page 7<br />
20<strong>12</strong> Constitutional<br />
Amendments<br />
The following amendments to the State<br />
Constitution are submitted to the voters<br />
by the Legislature. The amendments will<br />
not become effective unless approved by<br />
majority vote.<br />
Constitutional<br />
Amendment M<br />
Title: An Amendment to the South Dakota<br />
Constitution regarding certain provisions<br />
relating to corporations.<br />
Attorney General Explanation: The<br />
Constitution currently contains certain<br />
restrictions on the Legislature’s authority<br />
to enact laws regarding corporations.<br />
For example, corporate directors must<br />
be elected by cumulative voting, in which<br />
a shareholder may choose to cast all<br />
votes for a single candidate or spread<br />
the votes among two or more candidates.<br />
Corporate stock or bonds may<br />
only be issued for money, labor or property<br />
received by the corporation. Corporate<br />
stock or debt may not be increased<br />
without prior notice to and consent of<br />
current stockholders.<br />
Constitutional Amendment M removes<br />
these restrictions, and allows the Legislature<br />
to: (1) authorize alternative methods<br />
of voting in elections for corporate<br />
directors; (2) expand the types of contributions<br />
a corporation may receive for the<br />
issuance of stock or bonds; and (3)<br />
establish procedures governing the<br />
increase of corporate stock or debt.<br />
A vote “Yes” will remove the constitutional<br />
restrictions.<br />
A vote “No” will leave the Constitution as<br />
it is.<br />
Full Text of Constitutional Amendment<br />
M:<br />
That Article XVII, section 1 of the Constitution<br />
of the State of South Dakota, be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
§ 1. No corporation shall be created or<br />
have its charter extended, changed or<br />
amended by special laws, except those<br />
for charitable, educational, penal or<br />
reformatory purposes, which are to be<br />
and remain under the patronage and<br />
control of the state; but the Legislature<br />
shall provide, by general laws, for the<br />
organization of all corporations hereafter<br />
to be created. The Legislature shall have<br />
the authority to enact laws governing the<br />
operation and dissolution of corporations.<br />
That Article XVII, section 5 of the Constitution<br />
of the State of South Dakota, be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
§ 5. In all elections for directors or managers<br />
of a corporation, each member or<br />
shareholder may cast the whole number<br />
of his votes for one candidate, or distribute<br />
them upon two or more candidates,<br />
as he may prefer votes in the manner<br />
consistent with laws enacted by the Legislature.<br />
That Article XVII, section 8 of the Constitution<br />
of the State of South Dakota, be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
§ 8. No corporation shall issue stocks<br />
or bonds except for money, labor done,<br />
or money or property actually received,<br />
or for the reasonable value of other contribution<br />
to the corporation; and all fictitious<br />
increase of stock or indebtedness<br />
shall be void. The stock and indebtedness<br />
of corporations shall not be<br />
increased except in pursuance of general<br />
law, nor without the consent of the persons<br />
holding the larger amount in value<br />
of the stock first obtained, at a meeting to<br />
be held after sixty days notice given in<br />
pursuance of law the manner consistent<br />
with laws enacted by the Legislature.<br />
Constitutional<br />
Amendment N<br />
Title: An Amendment to the South Dakota<br />
Constitution repealing certain reimbursement<br />
restrictions for travel by legislators<br />
to and from a legislative session.<br />
Attorney General Explanation: The<br />
Constitution fixes the mileage reimbursement<br />
rate for legislators at five cents per<br />
mile for their travel to and from a legislative<br />
session.<br />
Constitutional Amendment N repeals this<br />
constitutional limitation and allows legislator<br />
travel reimbursement to be set by<br />
the Legislature.<br />
A vote “Yes” will eliminate the fixed travel<br />
reimbursement rate.<br />
A vote “No” will leave the Constitution as<br />
it is.<br />
Full Text of Constitutional Amendment<br />
N:<br />
That Article III, section 6 of the Constitution<br />
of the State of South Dakota, be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
§ 6. The terms of office of the members<br />
of the Legislature shall be two years;<br />
they legislators shall receive for their<br />
services the salary fixed by law under the<br />
provisions of § 2 of article XXI of this<br />
Constitution, and five cents for every<br />
mile of necessary travel in going to and<br />
returning from the place of meeting of the<br />
Legislature on the most usual route.<br />
No person may serve more than four<br />
consecutive terms or a total of eight consecutive<br />
years in the senate and more<br />
than four consecutive terms or a total of<br />
eight consecutive years in the house of<br />
representatives. However, this restriction<br />
does not apply to partial terms to which a<br />
legislator may be appointed.<br />
A regular session of the Legislature shall<br />
be held each year and shall not exceed<br />
forty legislative days, excluding Sundays,<br />
holidays and legislative recess,<br />
except in cases of impeachment, and<br />
members of the Legislature shall receive<br />
no other pay or perquisites except salary<br />
and mileage.<br />
Constitutional<br />
Amendment O<br />
Title: An Amendment to the South Dakota<br />
Constitution changing the method for<br />
distributions from the cement plant trust<br />
fund.<br />
Attorney General Explanation: In<br />
2001, the $238 million in proceeds from<br />
the sale of the state cement plant were<br />
placed in a constitutionally created trust<br />
fund. Currently, the Constitution requires<br />
a yearly transfer of $<strong>12</strong> million from the<br />
cement plant trust fund to the state general<br />
fund. In addition, under certain circumstances<br />
the Legislature must authorize<br />
distributions of cement plant trust<br />
fund earnings for the support of education.<br />
Amendment O replaces the existing<br />
method for cement trust fund distributions.<br />
The amendment would require a<br />
yearly transfer of 4% of the market value<br />
of the cement plant trust fund to the state<br />
general fund for the support of education.<br />
A vote “Yes” is for changing the method<br />
for distributions from the cement plant<br />
trust fund.<br />
A vote “No” will leave the Constitution as<br />
it is.<br />
Full Text of Constitutional Amendment<br />
O:<br />
That Article XIII, section 20 of the Constitution<br />
of the State of South Dakota, be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
§ 20. The net proceeds derived from<br />
the sale of state cement enterprises shall<br />
be deposited by the South Dakota<br />
Cement Commission in a trust fund hereby<br />
created to benefit the citizens of<br />
South Dakota. The South Dakota Investment<br />
Council or its successor shall<br />
invest the trust fund in stocks, bonds,<br />
mutual funds, and other financial instruments<br />
as provided by law. Each fiscal<br />
year beginning in fiscal year 2001, a<br />
transfer of twelve million dollars shall be<br />
made from the trust fund to the state<br />
general fund as provided by law.<br />
That Article XIII, section 21 of the Constitution<br />
of the State of South Dakota, be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
§ 21. Except as provided in Article XIII,<br />
section 20 of the Constitution of the State<br />
of South Dakota, the original principal of<br />
the trust fund shall forever remain inviolate.<br />
However, the The Legislature shall,<br />
by appropriation, make distributions from<br />
the difference between the twelve million<br />
dollar annual general fund transfer and<br />
five percent of the market value of the<br />
trust fund for the support of education,<br />
but not for the replacement of state aid to<br />
general education or special education, if<br />
the increase in the market value of the<br />
trust fund in that fiscal year was sufficient<br />
to maintain the original principal of the<br />
trust fund after such distributions. Beginning<br />
with fiscal year 2006, the market<br />
value of the trust fund shall be determined<br />
by adding the market value of the<br />
trust fund at the end of the sixteen most<br />
recent calendar quarters, and dividing<br />
that sum by sixteen transfer from the<br />
trust fund to the state general fund four<br />
percent of the lesser of the average market<br />
value of the trust fund determined by<br />
adding the market value of the trust fund<br />
at the end of the sixteen most recent calendar<br />
quarters as of December thirtyfirst<br />
of that year and dividing that sum by<br />
sixteen, or the market value of the trust<br />
fund at the end of that calendar year for<br />
the support of education in South Dakota.<br />
The transfer shall be made prior to<br />
June thirtieth of the subsequent calendar<br />
year.<br />
Constitutional<br />
Amendment P<br />
Title: An Amendment to the South Dakota<br />
Constitution adding balanced budget<br />
requirements.<br />
Attorney General Explanation: While<br />
the constitution currently restricts the<br />
State from incurring debt, it does not<br />
expressly require the State to have a balanced<br />
budget. Amendment P requires<br />
the Governor to propose a balanced<br />
budget. In addition, Amendment P prohibits<br />
legislative appropriations from<br />
exceeding anticipated revenues and<br />
existing available funds. The amendment<br />
is not intended to affect other constitutional<br />
provisions<br />
A vote “Yes” will include balanced budget<br />
requirements in the Constitution.<br />
A vote “No” will leave the Constitution as<br />
it is.<br />
Full Text of Constitutional Amendment<br />
P:<br />
That Article XII of the Constitution of the<br />
State of South Dakota, be amended by<br />
adding a NEW SECTION to read as follows:<br />
§ 7. The Governor shall propose a budget<br />
in which expenditures or appropriations<br />
may not exceed anticipated revenue<br />
and existing funds available for<br />
expenditure or appropriation. Appropriations<br />
by the Legislature may not exceed<br />
anticipated revenue and existing funds<br />
available for expenditure or appropriation.<br />
Nothing in this section is intended to<br />
limit, restrict, expand, modify, or otherwise<br />
affect any other provision of this<br />
Constitution, including Article XIII.<br />
20<strong>12</strong> Initiated Measure<br />
The following initiated measure was proposed<br />
by petition for submission to the<br />
voters. This initiated measure will not<br />
become effective unless approved by<br />
majority vote.<br />
Initiated Measure 15<br />
Title: An initiated measure to increase<br />
state general sales and use taxes for<br />
additional K-<strong>12</strong> public education and<br />
Medicaid funding<br />
Attorney General Explanation: The initiated<br />
measure increases the state general<br />
sales and use tax rate from 4% to<br />
5%. The additional tax revenue will be<br />
split evenly between K-<strong>12</strong> public education<br />
and Medicaid. The education funds<br />
will be provided to school districts based<br />
on enrollment, to be spent on improving<br />
education as school boards determine.<br />
The Medicaid funds will be spent only on<br />
payments to Medicaid providers and<br />
related state expenses.<br />
The additional funds cannot replace or<br />
reduce state funding levels set for fiscal<br />
year 20<strong>12</strong> relating to existing Medicaid<br />
and K-<strong>12</strong> public education programs,<br />
including state aid to education. Currently,<br />
state aid is to be adjusted annually by<br />
3% or the rate of inflation, whichever is<br />
less. Under the measure, this annual<br />
adjustment cannot exceed the growth<br />
rate in state general fund revenues. Any<br />
resulting shortfall in state aid will be<br />
made up in subsequent years.<br />
A vote “Yes” is for the proposed law.<br />
A vote “No” is against the proposed law.<br />
Full Text of Initiated Measure 15:<br />
1. Commencing January 1, 2013, twenty<br />
percent of the monies collected pursuant<br />
to the South Dakota sales and use taxes<br />
imposed by SDCL chapters <strong>10</strong>-45 and<br />
<strong>10</strong>-46 shall be placed in a special fund<br />
known as the Moving South Dakota Forward<br />
fund. The monies in the Moving<br />
South Dakota Forward fund shall be allocated<br />
into the following two subfunds<br />
within the Moving South Dakota Forward<br />
fund (1) fifty percent shall be allocated to<br />
the Moving K-<strong>12</strong> Education Forward subfund;<br />
and (2) fifty percent shall be allocated<br />
to the Moving Healthcare Forward<br />
subfund.<br />
2. Monies allocated in Section 1 of this<br />
initiated measure shall be disbursed as<br />
follows:<br />
(1) Monies in the Moving K-<strong>12</strong> Education<br />
Forward sub-fund are continuously<br />
appropriated to the public school districts<br />
of South Dakota, to be distributed pro<br />
rata based upon each school district’s<br />
relative share of fall enrollment as<br />
defined in SDCL chapter 13-13, compared<br />
to the fall enrollment of all school<br />
districts. Funds deposited in the Moving<br />
K-<strong>12</strong> Education Forward subfund in the<br />
preceding calendar quarter shall be distributed,<br />
provided above, to the public<br />
school districts of South Dakota by the<br />
first business day of February, May,<br />
August, and November of each year,<br />
commencing May 1, 2013. Funds<br />
received by a school district form the<br />
Moving K-<strong>12</strong> Education Forward subfund<br />
shall be used at the sole discretion of the<br />
public school district’s governing board<br />
for the purpose of improving public education;<br />
(2) Eighty percent of the monies in the<br />
Moving Healthcare Forward subfund<br />
shall be spent only for the purpose of<br />
funding payments to providers to the<br />
South Dakota Medicaid program, which<br />
are incurred due to increases in expenses<br />
related to the reimbursement rates<br />
paid to service providers per unit of service<br />
in excess of such reimbursement<br />
rates in effect as of July 1, 20<strong>11</strong>; and<br />
(3) Twenty percent of the monies in the<br />
Moving Health Care Forward subfund<br />
shall be spent only for the purpose of<br />
funding expenses related to payments to<br />
providers to the South Dakota Medicaid<br />
Program, which are incurred due to<br />
increases in the case load volume experienced<br />
by the South Dakota Medicaid<br />
program from the case levels as of July<br />
1, 20<strong>11</strong>.<br />
3. No monies deposited in the Moving K-<br />
<strong>12</strong> Education Forward subfund may be<br />
spent in any way, either directly or indirectly,<br />
to reduce, supplant, or replace<br />
appropriations for any state K-<strong>12</strong> education<br />
program in existence for state fiscal<br />
year 20<strong>12</strong>, including specifically the state<br />
aid to education and special education<br />
programs established in SDCL chapters<br />
13-13 and 13-37. The per student allocation<br />
in SDCL chapter 13-13 and the per<br />
student allocation for each specified disability<br />
in SDCL chapter 13-37 shalll be<br />
adjusted by the annual application of<br />
their respective index factors, as set forth<br />
in SDCL subdivisions 13-13-<strong>10</strong>.1(3) and<br />
13-37-35.1(6), as in effect on July 1,<br />
20<strong>11</strong>. However, the index factor adjustment<br />
shall, in no case, exceed the actual<br />
percentage growth in state general<br />
fund revenues for the most recently completed<br />
fiscal year. If the percentage<br />
growth in state general fund revenues is<br />
less than the index factor sin any year,<br />
the difference shall be made up in the<br />
immediately following years to the extent<br />
the percentage growth in state general<br />
fund revenues exceeds the index factors.<br />
4. No monies deposited in the Moving<br />
Health Care Forward subfund may be<br />
spent in any way, either directly or indirectly,<br />
to reduce, supplant, or replace<br />
state appropriations for any state Medicaid<br />
program in existence for state fiscal<br />
year 20<strong>12</strong>.<br />
5. Effective January 1, 2013, any sales<br />
or use tax imposed at a rate of four percent<br />
by the provisions of SDCL chapters<br />
<strong>10</strong>-45 or <strong>10</strong>-46 are hereby increased by<br />
one percent each to a total rate of five<br />
percent each.<br />
20<strong>12</strong> Referred Laws<br />
The following laws were adopted by the<br />
Legislature and referred to the voters by<br />
petition. These laws will not become<br />
effective unless approved by majority<br />
vote.<br />
Referred Law 14<br />
Title: An Act to establish the Large Project<br />
Development Fund.<br />
Attorney General Explanation: The<br />
referred law establishes the “Large Project<br />
Development Fund.” Beginning January<br />
1, 2013, 22% of contractors’ excise<br />
tax revenues would be transferred from<br />
the state general fund to the Large Project<br />
Development Fund.<br />
The South Dakota Board of Economic<br />
Development would use Large Project<br />
Development Fund monies to provide<br />
grants for the construction of large economic<br />
development projects within the<br />
state. To be eligible, a project must have<br />
a cost exceeding $5 million. Examples<br />
of eligible projects include laboratories<br />
and facilities for testing, manufacturing,<br />
power generation, power transmission,<br />
agricultural processing, and wind energy.<br />
Examples of ineligible projects include<br />
retail establishments; residential housing;<br />
and facilities for lodging, health care<br />
services and the raising or feeding of<br />
livestock.<br />
A vote “Yes” is for the establishment of<br />
the Large Project Development Fund.<br />
A vote “No” is against the referred law.<br />
Full Text of Referred Law 14:<br />
Section 1. That § 1-16G-1.2 be amended<br />
to read as follows:<br />
1-16G-1.2. The Board of Economic<br />
Development may take title by foreclosure<br />
to any property given as security if<br />
the acquisition is necessary to protect<br />
any economic development grant or loan<br />
or any large project development grant<br />
made under pursuant to the provisions of<br />
this chapter, and may sell, transfer, or<br />
convey any such property to any responsible<br />
buyer. Any sale of property hereunder<br />
pursuant to the provisions of this<br />
chapter shall be performed in a commercially<br />
reasonable manner. If the sale,<br />
transfer, or conveyance cannot be effected<br />
with reasonable promptness, the<br />
board may, in order to prevent financial<br />
loss and sustain employment, lease the<br />
property to a responsible tenant or tenants.<br />
All sale proceeds or lease payments<br />
received by the board pursuant to this<br />
section shall be deposited in the fund<br />
from which the original grant or loan was<br />
made.<br />
Section 2. That § 1-16G-8 be amended<br />
to read as follows:<br />
1-16G-8. The Board of Economic Development<br />
shall promulgate rules pursuant<br />
to chapter 1-26 concerning the following:<br />
(1) The existing barriers to economic<br />
growth and development in the state;<br />
(2) Developing investment in research<br />
and development in high technology<br />
industries;<br />
(3) The submission of business plans<br />
prior to the approval of economic development<br />
grants or loans or large project<br />
development grants. Business plans<br />
shall include the products or services to<br />
be offered by the applicant, job descriptions<br />
with attendant salary or wage information<br />
by job category, educational<br />
requirements by job category, methods<br />
of accounting, financing other than that<br />
provided by the economic development<br />
grant or loan or a large project development<br />
grant, and marketing, sales, merchandising,<br />
and other disciplines proposed<br />
to be used for business growth<br />
and expansion;<br />
(4) The cooperation between agencies<br />
of state government and applicant businesses<br />
for nonfinancial services including<br />
loan packaging, marketing assistance,<br />
research assistance, and assistance<br />
with finding solutions for complying<br />
with environmental, energy, health, safety,<br />
and other federal, state, and local<br />
laws and regulations;<br />
(5) Regular performance monitoring and<br />
reporting systems for participating businesses<br />
to assure compliance with their<br />
business plans and, terms of repayment<br />
of an economic development loan and<br />
compliance with terms of an economic<br />
development grant or a large project<br />
development grant;<br />
(6) Establish eligibility criteria for grants<br />
and loans;<br />
(7) Establish application procedures for<br />
grants and loans, including a requirement<br />
that grant and loan applications be<br />
signed under penalty of perjury;<br />
(8) Establish criteria to determine which<br />
applicants will receive grants or loans;<br />
(9) Govern the use of proceeds of<br />
grants and loans;<br />
(<strong>10</strong>) Establish criteria for the terms and<br />
conditions upon which loans shall be<br />
made, including matching requirements,<br />
interest rates, repayment terms, and the<br />
terms of security given to secure such<br />
loans; and<br />
(<strong>11</strong>) Establish criteria for the terms and<br />
conditions upon which grants shall be<br />
made, including permitted uses, performance<br />
criteria, and matching requirements;<br />
and<br />
(<strong>12</strong>) Establish criteria for the terms and<br />
conditions upon which grants shall be<br />
repaid for noncompliance with the terms<br />
and conditions upon which the grant was<br />
made.<br />
Section 3. That § 1-16G-16.1 be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
1-16G-16.1. The Board of Economic<br />
Development may use the revolving economic<br />
development and initiative fund for<br />
the purpose of paying taxes and liens<br />
and for the procuring of legal services<br />
and other services necessary to protect,<br />
recover, maintain, and liquidate the<br />
assets of the revolving economic development<br />
and initiative fund and the large<br />
project development fund. Such costs<br />
may be incurred and paid up to ten percent<br />
of the loan or grant balance with a<br />
majority vote of the board of economic<br />
development. Costs in excess of ten percent<br />
shall be approved by a two-thirds<br />
vote of the board. Such services are not<br />
subject to state bid laws so long as such<br />
services are procured in a commercially<br />
acceptable manner.<br />
Section 4. That chapter 1-16G be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
Terms used in this Act Mean:<br />
(1) "Large project," a project with a total<br />
project cost exceeding five million dollars;<br />
and<br />
(2) "Project cost," the amount paid in<br />
money, credits, property, or other<br />
money's worth for a project.<br />
Section 5. That chapter 1-16G be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
For the purposes of this Act, the term,<br />
project, means a new building or structure<br />
or the expansion of an existing building<br />
or structure, the construction of which<br />
is subject to the contractor's excise tax<br />
imposed by chapters <strong>10</strong>-46A or <strong>10</strong>-46B.<br />
A project includes laboratory and testing<br />
facilities, manufacturing facilities, power<br />
generation facilities, power transmission<br />
facilities, agricultural processing facilities,<br />
and wind energy facilities. A project<br />
does not include any building or structure:<br />
(1) Used predominantly for the sale of<br />
products at retail, other than the sale of<br />
electricity at retail, to individual consumers;<br />
(2) Used predominantly for residential<br />
housing or transient lodging;<br />
(3) Used predominantly to provide<br />
health care services;<br />
(4) Constructed for raising or feeding of<br />
livestock; or<br />
(5) That is not subject to ad valorem real<br />
property taxation or equivalent taxes<br />
measured by gross receipts.<br />
Section 6. That chapter 1-16G be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
There is established in the state treasury<br />
a fund to be known as the large project<br />
development fund for the purpose of<br />
making grants for large project development.<br />
Section 7. That chapter 1-16G be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
The Board of Economic Development<br />
may make grants from the large project<br />
development fund for the purpose of promoting<br />
large project development in<br />
South Dakota.<br />
Section 8. That chapter 1-16G be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
All money in the fund is hereby appropriated<br />
for the purpose of making grants as<br />
provided in this Act. Any repayment of<br />
grants from the large project development<br />
fund and any interest thereon shall<br />
be receipted into the large project development<br />
fund.<br />
Section 9. That chapter 1-16G be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
The Board of Economic Development<br />
may accept and expend for the purposes<br />
of sections 6 and 7 of this Act, inclusive,<br />
any funds obtained from federal sources,<br />
gifts, contributions, or any source if such<br />
acceptance and expenditure is approved<br />
in accordance with § 4-8B-<strong>10</strong>.<br />
Section <strong>10</strong>. That chapter 1-16G be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
There is hereby continuously appropriated<br />
to the large project development fund<br />
the amount of twenty-two percent of all<br />
deposits into the general fund of the contractors'<br />
excise tax imposed by chapter<br />
<strong>10</strong>-46A and the alternate contractors'<br />
excise tax imposed by chapter <strong>10</strong>-46B.<br />
Transfers from the general fund to the<br />
large project development fund pursuant<br />
to this provision shall be made on a<br />
monthly basis by the Bureau of Finance<br />
and Management.<br />
Section <strong>11</strong>. The provisions of section<br />
<strong>10</strong> of this Act are effective on January 1,<br />
2013.<br />
Referred Law 16<br />
Title: An education reform act to establish<br />
a teacher scholarship program; create<br />
a program for math and science<br />
teacher bonuses; create a program for<br />
teacher merit bonuses; mandate a uniform<br />
teacher and principal evaluation<br />
system; and eliminate state requirements<br />
for teacher tenure.<br />
Attorney General Explanation:<br />
Referred Law 16 is an education reform<br />
act with five key components. First, it<br />
establishes a scholarship program for<br />
eligible college students who commit to<br />
teach in South Dakota in critical need<br />
subject areas.<br />
Second, the referred law creates a program<br />
to provide state-funded annual<br />
bonuses for eligible math and science<br />
teachers.<br />
Third, the referred law develops a separate<br />
“Top Teachers” bonus program.<br />
This program provides annual statefunded<br />
merit bonuses for up to 20% of<br />
each school district’s full-time certified<br />
teachers, as awarded by the local school<br />
boards. Alternatively, a school board<br />
may enact its own program for teacher<br />
bonuses, using these state-provided<br />
funds. A school board may opt out of<br />
these merit bonus programs altogether,<br />
resulting in re-allocation of its merit<br />
bonus funds to other participating school<br />
districts.<br />
Fourth, the referred law mandates a uniform<br />
statewide system for evaluating<br />
teachers and principals, including a rating<br />
system.<br />
Fifth, the referred law eliminates state<br />
requirements for continuing contracts<br />
(“tenure”) for teachers who do not<br />
achieve tenure by July 1, 2016. School<br />
boards may, in their discretion, choose to<br />
offer continuing contracts to non-tenured<br />
teachers.<br />
A vote “Yes” is to enact the education<br />
reform act.<br />
A vote “No” is against the referred law.<br />
Full Text of Referred Law 16:<br />
Section 1. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
Beginning in the 2013-2014 academic<br />
year, there is hereby established the<br />
South Dakota critical teaching needs<br />
scholarship program. The purpose of the<br />
program is to encourage South Dakota's<br />
high school graduates to obtain their<br />
postsecondary education in South Dakota<br />
for teaching, to remain in the state<br />
upon completion of their education, and<br />
to contribute to the state and its citizens<br />
by working in a critical need teaching<br />
area.<br />
Section 2. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
The South Dakota critical teaching<br />
needs scholarship program shall be<br />
administered by the Critical Teaching<br />
Needs Scholarship Board which is hereby<br />
established. The board shall consist<br />
of five members appointed by the Governor<br />
for a term of five years, except that<br />
the initial appointments shall be for periods<br />
of one, two, three, four, and five<br />
years. A majority of the board shall be<br />
present either personally or by teleconference<br />
to constitute a quorum.<br />
The Department of Education shall provide<br />
necessary support services to the<br />
board.<br />
Section 3. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
From the total pool of applicants, the<br />
Critical Teaching Needs Scholarship<br />
Board shall award no more than one<br />
hundred critical teaching needs scholarships<br />
for each academic year. The board<br />
shall award scholarships based on the<br />
requirements of sections 5 and 6 of this<br />
Act, the filling of critical teaching needs<br />
areas, and other academic and personal<br />
characteristics of each applicant as<br />
determined by the board. Notwithstanding<br />
the provisions of this section, if the<br />
board rescinds a scholarship that has<br />
been awarded, the board may award the<br />
amount of the rescinded scholarship to<br />
an alternate.<br />
Section 4. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
All accredited South Dakota public and<br />
nonpublic postsecondary institutions<br />
which offer a baccalaureate degree in<br />
elementary or secondary education are<br />
eligible to participate in the scholarship<br />
program. Each institution may choose<br />
whether to participate in the program and<br />
may limit the number of scholarship<br />
recipients the institution will accept in<br />
each academic year.<br />
Section 5. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
In order to be eligible for a critical teaching<br />
needs scholarship, a student shall:<br />
(1) Agree, in writing, to stay in South<br />
Dakota and work in a critical teaching<br />
needs area for five years after graduation<br />
from a participating postsecondary<br />
institution;<br />
(2) Agree, through a promissory note,<br />
that failure to abide by the provisions of<br />
subdivision (1) will result in the scholarship<br />
being converted into an interest<br />
bearing loan;<br />
(3) Attend a participating South Dakota<br />
postsecondary institution as an undergraduate<br />
junior or senior and be accepted<br />
in an elementary or secondary education<br />
program at the institution that will<br />
prepare the student to work in a critical<br />
need teaching area; and<br />
(4) Be a United States citizen or lawful<br />
permanent resident.<br />
For purposes of subdivision (3), a junior<br />
is a student who has earned sixty credit<br />
hours prior to the beginning of the third<br />
year of instruction, and a senior is a student<br />
who has earned ninety credit hours<br />
prior to the fourth year of instruction.<br />
A student is eligible to participate in the<br />
South Dakota critical teaching needs<br />
scholarship program for the equivalent of<br />
two academic years (four consecutive<br />
spring and fall terms) or until the attainment<br />
of a baccalaureate degree in elementary<br />
or secondary education in a critical<br />
teaching needs area, whichever<br />
comes first. However, the Critical Teaching<br />
Needs Scholarship Board may grant<br />
exceptions to the continuous enrollment<br />
requirements for good cause.<br />
Scholarships are not provided for summer<br />
session students enrolled in traditional<br />
four year programs.<br />
Section 6. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
In addition to the eligibility criteria identified<br />
in section 5 of this Act, the Critical<br />
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Teaching Needs Scholarship Board may<br />
require applicants to submit a written<br />
essay or other information by which to<br />
judge the academic and personal qualifications<br />
of the applicant.<br />
Section 7. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
The amount of the annual scholarship<br />
shall equal the tuition and generally<br />
applicable fees for thirty credit hours at a<br />
South Dakota public postsecondary institution<br />
as of July 1, 2013. The scholarship<br />
amount paid to a recipient attending<br />
a participating nonpublic postsecondary<br />
institution shall equal the amount paid to<br />
a recipient attending a public postsecondary<br />
institution.<br />
One-half of the annual scholarship shall<br />
be paid to public postsecondary institutions<br />
on behalf of eligible students there<br />
enrolled or directly to eligible students<br />
enrolled at nonpublic postsecondary<br />
institutions at the beginning of the fall<br />
semester, and the other half shall be paid<br />
at the beginning of the spring semester.<br />
If, in any year, the total funds available to<br />
fund the critical teaching needs scholarships<br />
are insufficient to permit each eligible<br />
recipient to receive the full amount<br />
provided in this section, the available<br />
moneys shall be prorated and distributed<br />
to each recipient in proportion to the entitlement<br />
contemplated by this section.<br />
The total amount of the scholarship may<br />
not exceed the amount stipulated in this<br />
section.<br />
Section 8. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
In order to maintain eligibility for the critical<br />
teaching needs scholarship program,<br />
a student shall:<br />
(1) Maintain a cumulative 2.8 grade<br />
point average on a 4.0 scale. The student<br />
shall complete consecutive spring<br />
and fall terms in order to remain eligible<br />
for continuation of the scholarship program<br />
from term to term;<br />
(2) Make satisfactory academic<br />
progress towards a degree by earning<br />
thirty credit hours per year;<br />
(3) Attend and graduate from a participating<br />
South Dakota postsecondary<br />
institution with an elementary or secondary<br />
education degree which qualifies the<br />
student to teach in a critical teaching<br />
needs area in South Dakota; and<br />
(4) Upon graduation, stay in South<br />
Dakota and teach in a critical teaching<br />
needs area for five years.<br />
If factors beyond the control of a student<br />
who has been awarded a critical teaching<br />
needs scholarship prevent the student<br />
from meeting any of the requirements<br />
in subdivisions (1) to (3), the Critical<br />
Teaching Needs Scholarship Board<br />
may temporarily waive the requirements<br />
of those subdivisions. The board may<br />
rescind a scholarship award if the student<br />
does not maintain eligibility as prescribed<br />
in those subdivisions.<br />
Failure to fulfill the requirements of subdivision<br />
(4) shall result in the critical<br />
teaching needs scholarship being converted<br />
into an interest bearing loan. The<br />
board shall set the rate of interest, as<br />
allowed by law. The five years of employment<br />
referenced in subdivision (4) shall<br />
be fulfilled consecutively unless the<br />
board waives this requirement for good<br />
cause, and the five years of employment<br />
may be fulfilled at more than one school<br />
district in South Dakota.<br />
Section 9. That chapter 13-55 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
The Department of Education may<br />
receive gifts, donations, grants, or<br />
endowments for the purposes of sections<br />
1 to 8, inclusive, of this Act.<br />
Section <strong>10</strong>. The Board of Education<br />
may promulgate rules pursuant to chapter<br />
1-26 to define areas of critical teaching<br />
need for the purposes of sections 1<br />
to 8, inclusive, of this Act, to establish<br />
application requirements for the critical<br />
teaching needs scholarship, and to further<br />
accomplish the purposes of sections<br />
1 to 8, inclusive, of this Act.<br />
Section <strong>11</strong>. Beginning in the 2014-2015<br />
school year, there is hereby created the<br />
math and science teacher incentive program<br />
within the Department of Education<br />
to provide funds to public school districts<br />
for the purpose of providing rewards to<br />
attract certified teachers who teach in<br />
math and science subject areas in middle<br />
school and high school or who are<br />
certified with a math or science specialist<br />
endorsement which they are utilizing for<br />
any grade, kindergarten through twelve.<br />
By January 31, 2014, the South Dakota<br />
Board of Education shall promulgate<br />
rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 establishing<br />
which courses qualify as math and<br />
science courses for purposes of the program.<br />
For purposes of this Act, math and<br />
science courses are those courses<br />
established by the Board of Education<br />
pursuant to this section. For purposes of<br />
this Act, middle school is a school consisting<br />
of any combination of two or more<br />
consecutive grades, five to eight, inclusive,<br />
and high school is a school consisting<br />
of any combination of three or more<br />
consecutive grades, including ninth<br />
grade to twelfth grade, inclusive.<br />
Section <strong>12</strong>. Participation in the math<br />
and science teacher incentive program is<br />
voluntary for teachers, and incentive<br />
rewards are to supplement but not<br />
replace what a teacher receives under a<br />
contract between the teacher and the<br />
school district or a collective bargaining<br />
agreement between a district and the<br />
district's teachers. No collective bargaining<br />
agreement between a district and the<br />
district's teachers may limit the ability of<br />
a teacher to qualify for or receive an<br />
incentive reward. Nothing in sections <strong>11</strong><br />
to 16, inclusive, of this Act is intended to<br />
create a contractual right or property<br />
right in the math and science teacher<br />
incentive program.<br />
Section 13. The Department of Education<br />
shall provide application forms for<br />
teachers wishing to participate in the<br />
math and science teacher incentive program.<br />
A teacher wishing to participate in<br />
the program shall complete and sign the<br />
form and provide the form to the business<br />
office of the school district by the<br />
close of business on October first to be<br />
eligible for the program for that school<br />
year. A teacher wishing to participate<br />
shall submit a new application for each<br />
school year. Completed applications are<br />
a public record pursuant to chapter 1-27,<br />
but personal information in the applications<br />
may be redacted as allowed by that<br />
chapter.<br />
Section 14. To be eligible for the math<br />
and science teacher incentive program,<br />
a teacher shall fulfill the following<br />
requirements:<br />
(1) Comply with section 13 of this Act;<br />
(2) Receive a distinguished rating or<br />
proficient rating, as referenced in section<br />
38 of this Act, on the teacher's most<br />
recent evaluation;<br />
(3) Teach math or science courses in<br />
middle school or high school for at least<br />
fifty percent of a full-time equivalent position's<br />
assignments submitted in the<br />
annual teacher data collection pursuant<br />
to § 13-3-51, and any rules promulgated<br />
pursuant thereto, and be currently certified<br />
with a middle school or high school<br />
endorsement to teach each course, or<br />
utilize a math or science specialist<br />
endorsement for any grade, kindergarten<br />
through twelve; and<br />
(4) Be in full-time status for the entire<br />
school year.<br />
Nothing in subdivision (3) shall entitle<br />
any teacher to receive more than the<br />
amount stipulated in section 16 of this<br />
Act.<br />
Section 15. By September first of each<br />
year, the school board of each district<br />
shall submit to the Department of Education<br />
a copy of the application of each<br />
teacher eligible for the math and science<br />
teacher incentive program for the previous<br />
school year pursuant to the requirements<br />
of this Act. The Department of<br />
Education may require additional information<br />
from the district as necessary to<br />
verify each teacher's eligibility for the<br />
reward. The department may refuse to<br />
issue a reward for any teacher for whom<br />
the information required by this section is<br />
not provided by the deadline.<br />
Section 16. The amount of the reward<br />
under the math and science teacher<br />
incentive program is two thousand eight<br />
hundred fifty dollars per eligible teacher<br />
to be distributed as described in this section.<br />
No later than October first of each<br />
year, at the same time that foundation<br />
program state aid is distributed to school<br />
districts pursuant to §§ 13-13-<strong>10</strong>.1 to<br />
13-13-41, inclusive, the secretary of the<br />
Department of Education shall distribute<br />
funds for the math and science teacher<br />
incentive program for teachers that qualify<br />
pursuant to this Act. These funds shall<br />
be distributed in lump sum payments.<br />
Subject to the requirements of this Act,<br />
the department shall pay to the school<br />
district two thousand eight hundred fifty<br />
dollars per eligible teacher in that district.<br />
Within thirty days of receipt from the<br />
department, the school district shall distribute<br />
the funds as follows:<br />
(1) Two thousand five hundred dollars<br />
shall be paid to each eligible teacher in<br />
the district; and<br />
(2) Three hundred fifty dollars may be<br />
retained by the district to pay the district's<br />
share of applicable federal taxes,<br />
the district's share of contribution to the<br />
South Dakota Retirement System, and<br />
administrative costs.<br />
Section 17. Beginning in the 2014-2015<br />
school year, there is hereby created the<br />
top teachers reward program within the<br />
Department of Education to provide<br />
funds to public school districts for the<br />
purpose of providing top teacher rewards<br />
for certified teachers.<br />
Section 18. Participation in the top<br />
teachers reward program is voluntary for<br />
teachers, and such rewards shall supplement<br />
but not replace what a teacher<br />
receives under a contract between the<br />
teacher and the school district or a collective<br />
bargaining agreement between a<br />
district and the district's teachers. No collective<br />
bargaining agreement between a<br />
district and the district's teachers may<br />
limit the ability of a teacher to qualify for<br />
or receive a top teacher reward. Nothing<br />
in sections 17 to 25, inclusive, of this Act<br />
is intended to create a contractual right<br />
or property right in the top teachers<br />
reward program.<br />
Section 19. In each school year, up to<br />
twenty percent of each school district's<br />
full-time equivalent certified teaching<br />
positions, as measured by the district's<br />
annual teacher data collection pursuant<br />
to § 13-3-51 and any rules promulgated<br />
pursuant to that section, shall be eligible<br />
to receive a top teacher reward, subject<br />
to the requirements of this Act. The<br />
Department of Education shall multiply<br />
the number of full-time equivalent certified<br />
teaching positions in the district by<br />
twenty percent. If this calculation results<br />
in a fraction, the maximum number of eligible<br />
positions may not exceed the next<br />
lowest whole number. If there are fewer<br />
than five full-time equivalent certified<br />
teaching positions in a school district, the<br />
maximum number of eligible positions<br />
shall be one.<br />
Section 20. No later than May first of<br />
each year, at the same time that foundation<br />
program state aid is distributed to a<br />
school district pursuant to §§ 13-13-<strong>10</strong>.1<br />
to 13-13-41, inclusive, the secretary of<br />
the Department of Education shall inform<br />
each school district of the number of eligible<br />
positions in that district for the current<br />
school year, based on the calculation<br />
in section 19 of this Act, and distribute<br />
to each school district five thousand<br />
seven hundred dollars per eligible position.<br />
These funds shall be distributed in<br />
lump sum payments. The school district<br />
shall retain these funds until distribution<br />
pursuant to section 21 of this Act.<br />
Section 21. No later than September<br />
first of each year, the school district shall<br />
distribute the funds received pursuant to<br />
section 20 of this Act as follows:<br />
(1) Five thousand dollars shall be paid<br />
to each teacher selected for a top<br />
teacher reward pursuant to section 24 of<br />
this Act for the previous school year; and<br />
(2) Seven hundred dollars may be<br />
retained by the district to pay the district's<br />
share of applicable federal taxes,<br />
the district's share of contribution to the<br />
South Dakota Retirement System, and<br />
administrative costs.<br />
Any funds received pursuant to section<br />
20 of this Act which are not distributed<br />
according to this section shall be<br />
returned to the Department of Education<br />
within thirty days.<br />
Section 22. The Department of Education<br />
shall provide application forms for<br />
teachers wishing to participate in the top<br />
teachers reward program. A teacher<br />
wishing to participate in the program<br />
shall complete and sign the form and<br />
provide the form to the business office of<br />
the school district by the close of business<br />
on October first to be eligible for the<br />
program for that school year. A teacher<br />
wishing to participate shall submit a new<br />
application for each school year. Completed<br />
applications are a public record<br />
pursuant to chapter 1-27, but personal<br />
information in the applications may be<br />
redacted pursuant to that chapter.<br />
Section 23. A participating teacher shall<br />
be full-time and receive a distinguished<br />
rating, as referenced in section 38 of this<br />
Act, on the teacher's most recent evaluation<br />
to be eligible for a top teacher<br />
reward. In addition, a distinguished<br />
teacher's selection for the reward may be<br />
based on consideration of the following<br />
factors as determined by the school<br />
board:<br />
1) Mentoring of less experienced teachers;<br />
(2) Curriculum development;<br />
(3) Assessment development;<br />
(4) Data analysis;<br />
(5) Service to the local district, state, or<br />
national committees or task forces;<br />
(6) Leadership in a professional learning<br />
community;<br />
(7) National board certification;<br />
(8) Other leadership activities or recognitions;<br />
and<br />
(9) Other additional criteria as determined<br />
by the school board.<br />
Section 24. No later than August first of<br />
each year, the school board of each<br />
school district shall determine which participating<br />
teachers, if any, are selected to<br />
receive top teacher rewards for the previous<br />
school year according to the criteria<br />
in section 23 of this Act. The number<br />
of teachers selected may not exceed the<br />
number of eligible positions referenced<br />
in sections 19 and 20 of this Act.<br />
Section 25. Department of Education<br />
may require each school district to provide<br />
any information necessary to verify<br />
the district's compliance with sections 20<br />
to 24, inclusive, of this Act. Upon a finding<br />
of noncompliance, the department<br />
may require the district to return any<br />
funds distributed contrary to the requirements<br />
of this Act.<br />
Section 26. Notwithstanding any other<br />
provisions of this Act, public school districts<br />
may opt out of the top teacher<br />
reward program by providing written<br />
notice to the Department of Education.<br />
The notice shall be approved by a majority<br />
of the school board and signed by the<br />
school board president. The department<br />
shall provide forms for this purpose.<br />
Beginning in 2014, the notice shall be<br />
postmarked no earlier than January first,<br />
and no later than January thirty-first, of<br />
each year in order to be effective for the<br />
next school year. The district shall provide<br />
a separate form for each school<br />
year for which the district desires to opt<br />
out. If a school district fails to follow the<br />
requirements of this section, the attempt<br />
to opt out is void, and the district shall<br />
comply with the requirements of the top<br />
teacher reward program.<br />
If a district opts out pursuant to this section,<br />
the teachers employed in the district<br />
are not eligible to participate in the top<br />
teacher reward program. The district<br />
shall provide written notice to each certified<br />
teacher of the teacher's ineligibility<br />
for the program before executing a<br />
teaching contract with the teacher for the<br />
school year for which the opt out is effective.<br />
School districts may not opt out of the<br />
math and science teacher incentive program<br />
established pursuant to this Act.<br />
Section 27. If a school district opts out<br />
pursuant to section 26 of this Act, all<br />
funds which the district would have been<br />
eligible to receive for the top teacher program<br />
pursuant to this Act shall be redistributed<br />
as follows:<br />
(1) To obtain the redistribution amount,<br />
the Department of Education shall calculate<br />
the number of positions that would<br />
have been eligible for the top teacher<br />
reward program in each opt out district<br />
pursuant to section 19 of this Act, and<br />
multiply that calculation by five thousand<br />
seven hundred dollars;<br />
(2) No later than May first of each year,<br />
at the same time that foundation program<br />
state aid is distributed to a school<br />
district pursuant to §§ 13-13-<strong>10</strong>.1 to 13-<br />
13-41, inclusive, the department shall<br />
allocate the redistribution amount, on a<br />
pro rata basis, to each public school district<br />
that did not opt out of the top teacher<br />
reward program or is participating in a<br />
local teacher reward program pursuant<br />
to sections 28 to 35, inclusive, of this Act.<br />
Each district's pro rata share of the redistribution<br />
amount shall be based on the<br />
number of full-time equivalent certified<br />
teacher positions in the district, as measured<br />
by the district's annual teacher data<br />
collection pursuant to § 13-3-51 and any<br />
rules promulgated pursuant to that section;<br />
and<br />
(3) No later than September first of each<br />
year, the redistribution amount received<br />
by each district pursuant to subdivision<br />
(2) shall be distributed equally among all<br />
teachers receiving top teacher rewards<br />
in the district pursuant to sections 17 to<br />
25, inclusive, of this Act, or among all<br />
teachers receiving local teacher rewards<br />
pursuant to sections 28 to 35, inclusive,<br />
of this Act, but each district may withhold<br />
an amount necessary to pay the district's<br />
share of applicable federal taxes, the district's<br />
share of contributions to the South<br />
Dakota Retirement System, and administrative<br />
costs. Any funds not distributed<br />
according to this subdivision shall be<br />
returned to the Department of Education<br />
within thirty days.<br />
Section 28. Notwithstanding any other<br />
provision of this Act, a public school district<br />
may create a local teacher reward<br />
plan to act as a substitute for the top<br />
teacher reward program beginning in the<br />
2014-2015 school year. If the local<br />
teacher reward plan is developed in<br />
compliance with sections 28 to 35, inclusive,<br />
of this Act, the district may utilize<br />
the local teacher reward plan to provide<br />
the district with the flexibility to use the<br />
funds that would otherwise be provided<br />
to the district through the top teachers<br />
reward program.<br />
Participation in the local teacher reward<br />
plan is voluntary. Rewards shall supplement<br />
but not replace what a teacher<br />
receives under a contract between the<br />
teacher and the school district or a collective<br />
bargaining agreement between a<br />
district and the district's teachers. No collective<br />
bargaining agreement between a<br />
district and the district's teachers may<br />
limit the ability of a teacher to qualify for<br />
or receive a local teacher reward. Nothing<br />
in sections 28 to 35, inclusive, of this<br />
Act, is intended to create a contractual<br />
right or property right in local teacher<br />
rewards.<br />
Teachers in the district may not participate<br />
in the top teacher reward program<br />
for any school year for which the district<br />
has adopted a local teacher reward plan.<br />
The district shall provide written notice to<br />
each certified teacher of the teacher's<br />
ineligibility for the top teacher reward<br />
program and provide a copy of the district's<br />
local teacher reward plan to each<br />
certified teacher before executing a<br />
teaching contract with the teacher for the<br />
school year for which the local teacher<br />
reward plan is effective.<br />
Section 29. The local teacher reward<br />
plan shall reward certified teachers in the<br />
district based upon one or more of the<br />
following criteria:<br />
(1) Demonstrating an impact on student<br />
achievement;<br />
(2) Demonstrating teacher leadership;<br />
or<br />
(3) Market based needs of the school<br />
district based upon critical teaching area<br />
needs of the school district.<br />
Section 30. There is hereby established<br />
the Local Teacher Reward Plan Advisory<br />
Council. The council shall provide input<br />
in developing one or more model local<br />
teacher reward plan applications based<br />
upon the criteria in section 29 of this Act.<br />
The work group shall be appointed by<br />
the secretary of education and consist of<br />
the following members:<br />
(1) A combination of six principals and<br />
superintendents: two from an elementary<br />
school, two from a middle school, and<br />
two from a high school;<br />
(2) Six teachers: two from an elementary<br />
school, two from a middle school,<br />
and two from a high school; and<br />
(3) Three school board members: one<br />
from a small school district, one from a<br />
medium-sized school district, and one<br />
from a large school district.<br />
Section 31. The Board of Education<br />
shall promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter<br />
1-26, establishing the application<br />
form for the local teacher reward plan,<br />
further guidelines for district applications<br />
based on the criteria in section 29 of this<br />
Act, a system to monitor whether each<br />
participating school district is complying<br />
with the local teacher reward plan, and<br />
penalties for noncompliance.<br />
Section 32. There is hereby established<br />
the Local Teacher Reward Plan Oversight<br />
Board. The board shall consist of<br />
the following members:<br />
(1) One member of the Senate appointed<br />
by the president pro tempore of the<br />
Senate;<br />
(2) One member of the House of Representatives<br />
appointed by the speaker of<br />
the House of Representatives;<br />
(3) Two representatives of the business<br />
community appointed by the Governor;<br />
(4) One representative of an educational<br />
association appointed by the Governor;<br />
(5) One current or former teacher<br />
appointed by the Governor; and<br />
(6) The secretary of the Department of<br />
Education.<br />
Section 33. A school district shall submit<br />
the local teacher reward plan application<br />
to the Department of Education no<br />
later than January thirty-first of each<br />
year, beginning in 2014, to be eligible to<br />
apply the local teacher reward plan to the<br />
upcoming school year.<br />
By March fifteenth of each year, the<br />
Local Teacher Reward Plan Oversight<br />
Board shall review all applications to<br />
determine compliance with this Act, and<br />
any rules promulgated thereto. The<br />
board may request additional information<br />
from the district as part of the review of<br />
the application. By April first of each year,<br />
the board shall inform each district<br />
whether the district's local teacher<br />
reward plan has been approved for the<br />
upcoming school year. If the application<br />
is denied, the district may adopt a model<br />
plan established pursuant to section 30<br />
of this Act or opt out pursuant to sections<br />
26 and 27 of this Act.<br />
Section 34. If a district's local teacher<br />
reward plan is approved, the Department<br />
of Education shall calculate the number<br />
of positions in the district that would have<br />
been eligible for the top teacher reward<br />
program pursuant to section 19 of this<br />
Act and multiply that calculation by five<br />
thousand seven hundred dollars. No<br />
later than May first of each year, at the<br />
same time that foundation program state<br />
aid is distributed to the district pursuant<br />
to §§ 13-13-<strong>10</strong>.1 to 13-13-41, inclusive,<br />
the secretary of the Department of Education<br />
shall distribute this amount to the<br />
district in a lump sum payment.<br />
Section 35. No later than September<br />
first of each year, the district shall distribute<br />
the funds received pursuant to section<br />
34 of this Act to each certified<br />
teacher selected for a reward under the<br />
local teacher reward program for the previous<br />
school year, but the district may<br />
withhold an amount necessary to pay the<br />
district's share of applicable federal<br />
taxes, the district's share of contributions<br />
to the South Dakota Retirement System,<br />
and administrative costs. Any funds not<br />
distributed according to this section shall<br />
be returned to the Department of Education<br />
within thirty days.<br />
Section 36. A teacher may apply for<br />
both the math and science teacher<br />
incentive program and the top teachers<br />
reward program established pursuant to<br />
this Act or both the math and science<br />
teacher incentive program and the local<br />
teacher reward plan established pursuant<br />
to this Act.<br />
Section 37. That § 13-42-34 be amended<br />
to read as follows:<br />
13-42-34. Any public school district<br />
seeking state accreditation shall evaluate<br />
the performance of each certified<br />
teacher in years one through to three,<br />
inclusive, not less than annually, and<br />
each certified teacher in the fourth contract<br />
year or beyond, not less than every<br />
other year.<br />
Each For the 20<strong>12</strong>-2013 school year and<br />
the 2013-2014 school year, each school<br />
district shall may adopt procedures for<br />
evaluating the performance of certified<br />
teachers employed by the school district<br />
that:<br />
(1) Are based on the minimum professional<br />
performance standards established<br />
by the Board of Education pursuant<br />
to § 13-42-33;<br />
(2) Require multiple measures;<br />
(3) Serve as the basis for programs to<br />
increase professional growth and development<br />
of certified teachers; and<br />
(4) Include a plan of assistance for any<br />
certified teacher, who is in the fourth or<br />
subsequent year of teaching, and whose<br />
performance does not meet the school<br />
district's performance standards.<br />
Section 38. That § 13-42-34 be amended<br />
to read as follows:<br />
13-42-34. Any public school district<br />
seeking state accreditation shall evaluate<br />
the performance of each certified<br />
teacher in years one through three not<br />
less than annually, and each certified<br />
teacher in the fourth contract year or<br />
beyond, not less than every other year.<br />
Beginning in the 2014-2015 school year,<br />
each certified teacher shall be evaluated<br />
on an annual basis.<br />
Each school district shall adopt the<br />
model evaluation instrument required by<br />
section 40 of this Act and procedures for<br />
evaluating the performance of certified<br />
teachers employed by the school district<br />
that:<br />
(1) Are based on the minimum professional<br />
performance standards established<br />
by the Board of Education pursuant<br />
to § 13-42-33;<br />
(2) Require multiple measures of performance<br />
as follows:<br />
(a) Fifty percent of the evaluation of a<br />
teacher shall be based on quantitative<br />
measures of student growth, based on a<br />
single year or multiple years of data. This<br />
quantitative data shall be based on<br />
reports of student performance on state<br />
validated assessments established pursuant<br />
to § 13-3-55. For those teachers<br />
in grades and subjects for which there is<br />
no state-validated assessment for the<br />
quantitative portion of the evaluation,<br />
teachers shall demonstrate success in<br />
improving student achievement using<br />
objective measures, which can include<br />
portfolio assessments, end-of-course<br />
exams, or other district approved<br />
assessments which demonstrate student<br />
growth; and<br />
(b) Fifty percent of the evaluation of a<br />
teacher shall be based on qualitative,<br />
observable, evidence-based characteristics<br />
of good teaching and classroom<br />
practices as further defined in the model<br />
evaluation instrument referenced in section<br />
40 of this Act. Districts may collect<br />
additional evidence using any of the following<br />
if not required by the model evaluation<br />
instrument:<br />
(i) Classroom drop-ins;<br />
(ii) Parent surveys;<br />
(iii) Student surveys;<br />
(iv) Portfolios; or<br />
(v) Peer review;<br />
(3) Serve as the basis for programs to<br />
increase professional growth and development<br />
of certified teachers; and<br />
(4) Include a plan of assistance for any<br />
certified teacher, who is in the fourth or<br />
subsequent year of teaching, and whose<br />
performance does not meet the school<br />
district's performance standards; and<br />
(5) Are based on the following four-tier<br />
rating system:<br />
(a) Distinguished;<br />
(b) Proficient;<br />
(c) Basic; and<br />
(d) Unsatisfactory.<br />
Section 39. The provisions of section<br />
38 of this Act are effective July 1, 2014.<br />
Section 40. That § 13-42-35 be amended<br />
to read as follows:<br />
13-42-35. A work group appointed by<br />
the secretary of education shall provide<br />
input in developing the standards for<br />
defining the four-tier rating system<br />
required by section 38 of this Act and<br />
shall develop in developing a model<br />
evaluation instrument that may shall be<br />
used by school districts for the 2014-<br />
2015 school year and subsequent school<br />
years. The work group shall consist of<br />
the following members:<br />
(1) Six teachers: two from an elementary<br />
school, two from a middle school,<br />
and two from a high school;<br />
(2) Three principals: one from an elementary<br />
school, one from a middle<br />
school, and one from a high school;<br />
(3) Two superintendents;<br />
(4) Two school board members;<br />
(5) Four parents who have students in<br />
various levels of the K-<strong>12</strong> system:<br />
(6) One representative of the South<br />
Dakota Education Association;<br />
(7) One representative of the School<br />
Administrators of South Dakota; and<br />
(8) One representative of the Associated<br />
School Boards of South Dakota.<br />
Section 41. That chapter 13-42 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
Pursuant to chapter 1-26, the South<br />
Dakota Board of Education shall promulgate<br />
rules establishing standards for<br />
defining the four-tier rating system<br />
required by section 38 of this Act and<br />
adopting the model evaluation instrument<br />
referenced in section 40 of this Act.<br />
Section 42. That chapter 3-18 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
Beginning with the 2014-2015 school<br />
year, the procedures for evaluation and<br />
the model evaluation instrument referenced<br />
in sections 38 to 41, inclusive, of<br />
this Act may not be the subject of any<br />
collective bargaining agreement<br />
between a district and the district's<br />
teachers.<br />
Section 43. The Board of Education<br />
shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter<br />
1-26 to establish minimum professional<br />
performance standards for certified<br />
principals in South Dakota public<br />
schools, and to establish best practices<br />
for the evaluation of the performance of<br />
certified principals that shall be used by<br />
individual school districts. The South<br />
Dakota Board of Education shall promulgate<br />
rules pursuant to chapter 1-26<br />
establishing standards for defining the<br />
four-tier rating system required by section<br />
44 of this Act and adopting the<br />
model evaluation instrument referenced<br />
in section 45 of this Act.<br />
Section 44. Beginning in the 2014-2015<br />
school year, any public school district<br />
seeking state accreditation shall evaluate<br />
the performance of each certified<br />
principal not less than every other year.<br />
Each school district shall adopt the<br />
model evaluation instrument required by<br />
section 45 of this Act and procedures for<br />
evaluating the performance of certified<br />
principals employed by the school district<br />
that:<br />
(1) Are based on the minimum professional<br />
performance standards established<br />
by the Board of Education pursuant<br />
to section 43 of this Act;<br />
(2) Require multiple measures of performance;<br />
(3) Serve as the basis for programs to<br />
increase professional growth and development<br />
of certified principals;<br />
(4) Include a plan of assistance for any<br />
certified principal whose performance<br />
does not meet the school district's performance<br />
standards; and<br />
(5) Are based on the following four-tier<br />
rating system:<br />
(a) Distinguished;<br />
(b) Proficient;<br />
(c) Basic; and<br />
(d) Unsatisfactory.<br />
Section 45. A work group appointed by<br />
the secretary of education shall provide<br />
input in developing the standards referenced<br />
in section 43 of this Act, the fourtier<br />
rating system required by section 44<br />
of this Act, and in developing a model<br />
instrument for principal evaluation that<br />
shall be used by school districts for the<br />
2014-2015 school year and each school<br />
year thereafter. The work group shall<br />
consist of the following members:<br />
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(1) Six principals: two from an elementary<br />
school, two from a middle school,<br />
and two from a high school;<br />
(2) Three teachers: one from an elementary<br />
school, one from a middle<br />
school, and one from a high school;<br />
(3) Two superintendents;<br />
(4) Two school board members;<br />
(5) Four parents who have students in<br />
various levels of the K-<strong>12</strong> system;<br />
(6) One representative of the South<br />
Dakota Education Association;<br />
(7) One representative of the School<br />
Administrators of South Dakota; and<br />
(8) One representative of the Associated<br />
School Boards of South Dakota.<br />
Section 46. All persons conducting<br />
teacher or principal evaluations required<br />
by sections 38 to 45, inclusive, of this Act<br />
shall participate in training conducted by<br />
the Department of Education before conducting<br />
the evaluations.<br />
Section 47. That chapter 13-43 be<br />
amended by adding thereto a NEW<br />
SECTION to read as follows:<br />
For purposes of this chapter, the term,<br />
tenured teacher, means a teacher who is<br />
in or beyond the fourth consecutive term<br />
of employment as a teacher with the<br />
school district prior to July 1, 2016. If,<br />
prior to July 1, 2016, the school district<br />
and the teacher have entered into a contract<br />
pursuant to §§ 13-43-4 and 13-43-<br />
5 for the teacher's fourth consecutive<br />
term of employment with the district or a<br />
subsequent consecutive term of employment<br />
with the district, then that teacher is<br />
a tenured teacher for purposes of this<br />
chapter. The term, nontenured teacher,<br />
means a teacher who is not yet in or<br />
beyond the fourth consecutive term of<br />
employment as a teacher with the school<br />
district prior to July 1, 2016. Any teacher<br />
who is not in or beyond the fourth consecutive<br />
term of employment with the<br />
school district prior to July 1, 2016, need<br />
not acquire continuing contract status<br />
under this chapter. Nothing in this section<br />
or section 53 of this Act prohibits a<br />
school district from choosing to provide<br />
continuing contract to a nontenured<br />
teacher beyond what is provided for in<br />
this chapter.<br />
Section 48. That § 13-43-6 be amended<br />
to read as follows:<br />
13-43-6. The contract shall specify the<br />
date at or about which the school shall<br />
begin, the term of employment, the<br />
wages per month, and the time of payment<br />
thereof; such of wages. The contract<br />
shall be signed in duplicate and one<br />
copy filed in the office of the business<br />
manager and the other retained by the<br />
teacher. Such The contract may be<br />
issued covering any period of years, not<br />
to exceed three employment up to one<br />
year, over which a teacher holds a certificate<br />
which will shall remain valid without<br />
renewal.<br />
Section 49. That § 13-43-6.1 be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
13-43-6.1. A tenured or nontenured<br />
teacher may be terminated, by the<br />
school board, at any time for just cause,<br />
including breach of contract, poor performance,<br />
incompetency, gross immorality,<br />
unprofessional conduct, insubordination,<br />
neglect of duty, or the violation of<br />
any policy or regulation of the school district.<br />
A school district may nonrenew a<br />
teacher who is in or beyond the fourth<br />
consecutive term of employment as a<br />
teacher with the school district pursuant<br />
to § 13-43-6.3 for just cause, including<br />
breach of contract, poor performance,<br />
incompetency, gross immorality, unprofessional<br />
conduct, insubordination, neglect<br />
of duty, or the violation of any policy<br />
or regulation of the school district.<br />
Section 50. That § 13-43-6.2 be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
13-43-6.2. If nonrenewal of a tenured<br />
teacher is contemplated under § 13-43-<br />
6.1 § 13-43-6.3, the superintendent or<br />
chief executive officer shall give written<br />
notice of an intention to recommend nonrenewal<br />
to the teacher and the school<br />
board; a written statement of the reasons<br />
for the recommendation; access to the<br />
employment records of the teacher; the<br />
opportunity to the teacher for a hearing<br />
before the school board to present reasons<br />
in person or in writing why the nonrenewal<br />
should not occur; and the opportunity<br />
to be represented. The teacher<br />
shall request the hearing as provided in<br />
§ 13-43-6.9. The school board shall<br />
conduct the hearing not sooner than<br />
fourteen days, nor later than forty-five<br />
days, after receipt of the teacher's<br />
request for hearing. The parties may<br />
waive the time limitations provided for in<br />
this section.<br />
Section 51. That § 13-43-6.3 be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
13-43-6.3. Until a teacher is in or<br />
beyond the fourth consecutive term of<br />
employment as a teacher with the school<br />
district, a A school board may or may not<br />
renew the teacher's contract of a nontenured<br />
teacher. The superintendent or<br />
chief executive officer shall give written<br />
notice of nonrenewal by April fifteenth<br />
but is not required to give further process<br />
or a reason for nonrenewal.<br />
After a teacher is in or beyond the fourth<br />
consecutive term of employment as a<br />
teacher with the school district, §§ 13-<br />
43-6.1 and 13-43-6.2 apply to any nonrenewal<br />
of the teacher's contract. A school<br />
board may refuse to renew the teacher's<br />
contract of a tenured teacher for just<br />
cause, including breach of contract, poor<br />
performance, a rating of unsatisfactory<br />
on two consecutive evaluations pursuant<br />
to section 38 of this Act, incompetency,<br />
gross immorality, unprofessional conduct,<br />
insubordination, neglect of duty, or<br />
the violation of any policy or regulation of<br />
the school district. On or before April fifteenth,<br />
the superintendent or chief executive<br />
officer shall notify the tenured<br />
teacher and the school board in writing of<br />
the recommendation to not renew the<br />
teacher's contract.<br />
Acceptance by the a tenured or nontenured<br />
teacher of an offer from the district<br />
to enter into a new contract with the<br />
teacher shall be in the manner specified<br />
in the offer. Failure of the teacher to<br />
accept the offer in the manner specified<br />
constitutes the termination of the existing<br />
contract between the teacher and the<br />
district at the end of its term.<br />
Section 52. That § 13-43-6.4 be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
13-43-6.4. Notwithstanding §§ 13-43-<br />
6.1 to §§ 13-43-6.2 and 13-43-6.3, inclusive,<br />
if a teacher's contract is not<br />
renewed due to a reduction in staff, only<br />
written notice is required, which shall be<br />
provided by the school board to the<br />
teacher by April fifteenth.<br />
Section 53. That § 13-43-6.6 be<br />
amended to read as follows:<br />
13-43-6.6. Although a collective bargaining<br />
agreement between a district<br />
and its teachers may set forth specific<br />
additional grounds for termination or set<br />
forth provisions as to the procedure or<br />
notice, no agreement may limit the district's<br />
right to terminate or refuse to<br />
renew the contract of a tenured or nontenured<br />
teacher for the grounds set forth<br />
in §§ 13-43-6.1 to 13-43-6.3, inclusive.<br />
No agreement may limit the protection<br />
afforded to a teacher under § 13-43-6.5.<br />
Section 54. For purposes of this Act,<br />
the term, school year, means the regular<br />
school term as referenced in § 13-26-2.<br />
Section 55. That § 13-3-73 be<br />
repealed.<br />
13-3-73. There is hereby created the<br />
teacher compensation assistance program<br />
within the Department of Education<br />
to provide funds to school districts for the<br />
purpose of assisting school districts with<br />
teacher compensation. School districts<br />
are eligible to receive funds from the<br />
teacher compensation assistance program<br />
based on their fall enrollment numbers.<br />
The department shall provide fourfifths<br />
of the funds for the teacher compensation<br />
assistance program to each<br />
participating school district. The Board of<br />
Education shall promulgate rules, pursuant<br />
to chapter 1-26, to create an oversight<br />
board appointed by the secretary of<br />
education for approval of applications as<br />
well as guidelines for district applications<br />
based on district instructional goals, market<br />
compensation or other specific district<br />
requirements as approved by the<br />
department. Participation in the program<br />
is discretionary. District applications shall<br />
be approved by the local board of education.<br />
The applications shall be reviewed<br />
by the teacher compensation assistance<br />
program oversight board and shall be<br />
recommended to the Board of Education<br />
for final approval.<br />
The Legislature shall review the teacher<br />
compensation assistance program in<br />
20<strong>12</strong> to determine its effectiveness and<br />
to determine whether to continue the<br />
program.<br />
Section 56. That § 13-3-74 be<br />
repealed.<br />
13-3-74. The Teacher Compensation<br />
Assistance Program Oversight Board<br />
shall annually monitor the progress of<br />
participating school districts with their<br />
teacher compensation assistance plans,<br />
and submit its findings to the Board of<br />
Education.<br />
Section 57. That § 13-3-74.1 be<br />
repealed.<br />
13-3-74.1. There is hereby established<br />
the Teacher Compensation Assistance<br />
Program Advisory Council. The council<br />
shall be under the supervision of the<br />
Department of Education. The speaker<br />
of the House of Representative shall<br />
appoint three members of the House of<br />
Representatives to the council, including<br />
at least one member from each political<br />
party, and the president pro tempore of<br />
the Senate shall appoint three members<br />
of the Senate to the council, including at<br />
least one member from each political<br />
party. The Governor shall appoint the<br />
remaining members of the council,<br />
including at least one teacher, one<br />
school administrator, and one representative<br />
of a statewide education organization.<br />
Section 58. That § 13-3-74.2 be<br />
repealed.<br />
13-3-74.2. The council shall examine<br />
how teacher quality and teacher salaries<br />
in the state can be enhanced, and how<br />
the funds appropriated in fiscal year<br />
20<strong>10</strong> and in subsequent fiscal years by<br />
the state for the teacher compensation<br />
assistance program established in § 13-<br />
3-73 can best be utilized to assist in that<br />
effort. The council shall consider a variety<br />
of issues surrounding teachers<br />
including market compensation, a tiered<br />
licensure system, a system for evaluating<br />
teachers, mentoring and induction<br />
programs for teachers, and continuing<br />
contracts for teachers.<br />
Section 59. That § 13-3-74.3 be<br />
repealed.<br />
13-3-74.3. The council shall complete<br />
its work and the secretary of education<br />
shall provide its recommendations to the<br />
Governor and to the Executive Board of<br />
the Legislative Research Council no later<br />
than November 15, 2008.<br />
Section 60. That § 13-3-75 be<br />
repealed.<br />
13-3-75. The South Dakota Board of<br />
Education shall promulgate rules pursuant<br />
to chapter 1-26 establishing the<br />
application process; application timelines;<br />
the guidelines for district applications<br />
based on school district instructional<br />
goals or market compensation; and a<br />
system to monitor the progress of participating<br />
school districts with their compensation<br />
assistance plans and to<br />
ensure that each participating school district<br />
is complying with the plan as submitted<br />
to the board.<br />
Section 61. That § 13-3-83.1 be<br />
repealed.<br />
13-3-83.1. Once all the school districts<br />
with approved applications have<br />
received their funding pursuant to § 13-<br />
3-73, the Department of Education may<br />
set aside from any funds remaining, a<br />
sum not to exceed one hundred thousand<br />
dollars from the teacher compensation<br />
assistance program appropriation<br />
for the purpose of providing grants to<br />
educational cooperatives and multi-district<br />
centers that employ teachers for<br />
public schools. The South Dakota Board<br />
of Education may promulgate rules, pursuant<br />
to chapter 1-26, to establish the<br />
granting process.<br />
Section 62. The following groups shall,<br />
no later than January 15, 2013, provide a<br />
progress report to the Legislature outlining<br />
the work accomplished:<br />
(1) The Critical Teaching Needs Scholarship<br />
Board, established in section 2 of<br />
this Act;<br />
(2) The Local Teacher Reward Plan<br />
Advisory Council established in section<br />
30 of this Act;<br />
(3) The Local Teacher Reward Plan<br />
Oversight Board established in section<br />
32 of this Act;<br />
(4) The teacher evaluation work group<br />
appointed pursuant to section 40 of this<br />
Act; and<br />
(5) The principal evaluation work group<br />
appointed pursuant to section 45 of this<br />
Act.<br />
Section 63. Sections 47 to 53, inclusive,<br />
of this Act are effective on July 1,<br />
2016.<br />
Section 64. There is hereby established<br />
the South Dakota Education Reform<br />
Advisory Council. The council shall<br />
advise upon the implementation of this<br />
Act, and shall examine further education<br />
reform issues including:<br />
(1) The advantages and disadvantages<br />
of initiatives designed to provide for<br />
increased compensation for teachers;<br />
(2) Future teaching areas of critical<br />
need, and solutions to recruit, retain, and<br />
train teachers in these critical need<br />
areas; and<br />
(3) Other ideas to improve student<br />
achievement.<br />
The council shall report its initial findings<br />
to the Legislature and the Governor no<br />
later than December 1, 20<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Section 65. The South Dakota Education<br />
Reform Advisory Council established<br />
in section 64 of this Act shall consist<br />
of the following members:<br />
(1) Three members of the Senate,<br />
including at least one member of each<br />
political party, appointed by the president<br />
pro tempore of the Senate;<br />
(2) Three members of the House of<br />
Representatives, including a member of<br />
each political party, appointed by the<br />
speaker of the House;<br />
(3) The secretary of the Department of<br />
Education, who will serve as chair;<br />
(4) Three superintendents, jointly<br />
appointed by the president pro tempore<br />
of the Senate and the speaker of the<br />
House;<br />
(5) Three principals, one each from an<br />
elementary school, a middle school, and<br />
a high school, jointly appointed by the<br />
president pro tempore of the Senate and<br />
the speaker of the House;<br />
(6) Five teachers, jointly appointed by<br />
the president pro tempore of the Senate<br />
and the speaker of the House;<br />
(7) Three school board members, jointly<br />
appointed by the president pro tempore<br />
of the Senate and the speaker of the<br />
House;<br />
(8) One member of the Board of<br />
Regents, selected by the board;<br />
(9) One representative of the postsecondary<br />
technical institutes, selected by<br />
the presidents of the respective institutions;<br />
(<strong>10</strong>) One representative selected by the<br />
School Administrators of South Dakota;<br />
(<strong>11</strong>) One representative selected by the<br />
South Dakota Education Association;<br />
and<br />
(<strong>12</strong>) One representative selected by the<br />
Associated School Boards of South<br />
Dakota.<br />
Published October <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong>, at the total<br />
approximate cost of $760.63.<br />
Proceedings of the<br />
Jones County<br />
Commissioners<br />
Regular Session<br />
October 2, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
The Board of Commissioners met for a<br />
regular meeting with Monte Anker, Helen<br />
Louder and Pressler Seymour present.<br />
Chairman Louder called the meeting to<br />
order.<br />
Minutes from the previous meeting were<br />
read, signed and approved by the Board.<br />
All motions are unanimous unless otherwise<br />
stated.<br />
CLAIMS APPROVED: Salaries of regular<br />
employees and officials, $13,263.58;<br />
Debra J. Byrd, Deputy Treasurer,<br />
$887.97; Travis Hendricks, Weed Board<br />
Supervisor, $141.52; Joyce Hurst,<br />
Deputy Register of Deeds, Deputy Director<br />
of Equalization, $1,877.36; Richard<br />
Sylva, Jr., Deputy Sheriff, $1,065.04; Jill<br />
Venard, 4-H office staff, $827.49; Kerri<br />
Venard, Deputy Auditor/Road Secretary,<br />
$1,893.44; American Family Life Assurance,<br />
cancer & intensive care insurance,<br />
$364.41; Boston Mutual Life Insurance,<br />
life insurance, $168.64; Dakotacare,<br />
group health insurance, $<strong>12</strong>,632.92;<br />
Electronic Federal Tax Payment System,<br />
social security & withholding, $7,992.24;<br />
SD Retirement, retirement, $4,285.95;<br />
AT&T Mobility, cell phone bill, $176.07;<br />
Best Western of Huron, State Fair lodging,<br />
$147.00; Brimark Inn, convention<br />
lodging, $300.00; City of Murdo, water<br />
bill, $308.74; Corky’s Auto Supply, supplies,<br />
$37.13; Election Systems & Software,<br />
General Election ballots and coding,<br />
$235.04; Farmer’s Union Oil Company,<br />
gas, $491.19; Golden West<br />
Telecommunications, phone bill,<br />
$5<strong>11</strong>.99; Heartland Waste, 2 month’s<br />
garbage removal, $<strong>10</strong>0.00; Inman’s<br />
Water Technologies, R.O. rent, $21.30;<br />
Lexis Nexis (Matthew Bender), SDCL<br />
court rules, $64.99; McLeod’s Printing &<br />
Office Supply, tax notices, $82.70; Murdo<br />
<strong>Coyote</strong>, publications, $143.09; Murdo<br />
Family Foods, supplies, $9.16; National<br />
Association of Counties (NACO), dues,<br />
$400.00; Noble Ink & Toner, ink cartridge,<br />
$32.99; Office Products Center,<br />
office supplies, $18.98; Postmaster,<br />
stamps, $1<strong>10</strong>.00; Rough Country Spraying,<br />
equipment rental and mileage,<br />
$278.07; Rural Health Care, subsidy,<br />
$500.00; Schmidt, Schroyer, Moreno,<br />
Lee & Bachand, P.C., QMHP evaluation,<br />
$<strong>11</strong>.35; Kerri Venard, postage reimbursement,<br />
$7.59; Terri Volmer, mileage,<br />
meal reimbursement, $227.04; Carrie<br />
Weller, Jones County’s share of August<br />
expenses, $132.24 and September<br />
expenses, $161.23; West Central Electric,<br />
electricity, $807.43.<br />
ROAD & BRIDGE: All Pro Towing &<br />
Repair, LLC, batteries, $409.90; AT&T,<br />
cell phone bill, $136.01; City of Murdo,<br />
water bill, $16.<strong>12</strong>; Corky’s Auto Supply,<br />
supplies, $206.<strong>11</strong>; Farmer’s Union Oil<br />
Company, tire repair, gas, diesel,<br />
$<strong>12</strong>,513.<strong>12</strong>; General Equipment & Supplies,<br />
Inc., parts, $7<strong>10</strong>.59; Golden West<br />
Telecommunications, phone bill, $32.56;<br />
Grossenburg Implement, parts, $528.41;<br />
Hullinger Brothers – Murdo Amoco, gas,<br />
$463.34; Keith’s Repair, supplies,<br />
$14.00; Morris, Inc., square tubing,<br />
$<strong>11</strong>.26; Murdo Family Foods, supplies,<br />
$<strong>10</strong>.49; Powerplan, repair loader,<br />
$1,003.62; Bruce Royer, parts, $<strong>10</strong>8.<strong>10</strong>;<br />
Sheehan Mack, parts, $<strong>10</strong>7.29; West<br />
Central Electric, electricity, $<strong>11</strong>7.08;<br />
W.W. Tire, tires & tubes, $583.26; Ronnie<br />
Lebeda, labor, $2,378.91; John Feddersen,<br />
seasonal, $<strong>11</strong>4.13; Melvin Feddersen,<br />
part-time labor, $1,879.25; Milton<br />
Feddersen, part-time labor,<br />
$1,022.97; Chester McKenzie, labor,<br />
$1,573.76; Levi Newsam, labor,<br />
$2,498.97.<br />
CARE OF THE POOR: Cheryl Iversen,<br />
WIC Secretary, $83.63.<br />
9<strong>11</strong> FUND: Centurylink, monthly charge,<br />
$84.16.<br />
SALARY & MILEAGE: Monte Anker,<br />
$396.27, mileage, $8.88; Helen Louder,<br />
$372.19, mileage, $14.80; Pressler Seymour,<br />
$396.27, mileage, $162.80.<br />
FEES COLLECTED FOR THE COUN-<br />
TY: Clerk of Courts, $286.60; Register of<br />
Deeds, $1,266.19; Sheriff, $171.60.<br />
Auditor’s account with the treasurer is as<br />
follows: Cash, $500.00; Checking & Savings,<br />
$478,<strong>12</strong>0.18; CDs, $1,294,791.65;<br />
TOTALING: $1,773,4<strong>11</strong>.83.<br />
Terri Volmer’s building permit report for<br />
September- 3.<br />
Members of the Jones County Sportsman’s<br />
Club, Mike McKernan, Lawrence<br />
Roghair and Greg Miller, met with the<br />
Board to ask if Jones County would sell<br />
some land in the area of the old ambulance<br />
shed rather than a 99-year lease.<br />
The club will have that area surveyed<br />
and then discuss it further with the<br />
Board.<br />
Rob Fines, consultant for Northern Tier<br />
Consulting, LLC, and Nicole Prince,<br />
The<br />
Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong><br />
can now be<br />
viewed<br />
online!<br />
www.ravellettepublications.com<br />
State Hazard Mitigation Officer, met with<br />
the Board to discuss the development of<br />
a Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan to result in<br />
a FEMA-approval Plan that will meet the<br />
requirements of 44 CFR Part 201. As a<br />
result of this discussion, it was moved by<br />
Seymour and seconded by Louder to<br />
approve and for the Chairman to sign the<br />
contract with Northern Tier Consulting,<br />
LLC, to develop a new PDM plan for<br />
Jones County. The plan helps Jones<br />
County and it’s residents with FEMA disasters<br />
(flood-fire-tornadoes, etc).<br />
Upon a request from TransCanada for<br />
zoning changes in use for two pipe yards<br />
and one contractor yard, it was moved by<br />
Anker and seconded by Louder to make<br />
temporary zoning changes from Agricultural<br />
to Commercial for these purposes.<br />
All three sites will return to original use<br />
when the pipeline construction is complete.<br />
Legal descriptions and site locations<br />
are on file at the Auditor’s office.<br />
At the request of Golden West Telecommunications,<br />
it was moved by Anker and<br />
seconded by Louder to approve and for<br />
the Chairman to sign a right-of-way permit<br />
for Golden West to lay a cable for a<br />
cell tower in Westover Township.<br />
It was moved by Seymour and seconded<br />
by Anker to enter into executive session<br />
to discuss personnel. Executive session<br />
lasted for ten minutes.<br />
It was moved and carried to adjourn.<br />
ATTEST:<br />
John Brunskill,<br />
County Auditor<br />
Helen Louder,<br />
Chairman<br />
Monte Anker,<br />
Member<br />
Pressler S. Seymour,<br />
Member<br />
Published October <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong>, at the total<br />
approximate cost of $62.06.<br />
Notice of Deadline<br />
for Voter Registration<br />
Voter registration for the General Election<br />
to be held on November 6, 20<strong>12</strong>, will<br />
close on October 22, 20<strong>12</strong>. Failure to<br />
register by this date will cause forfeiture<br />
of voting rights for this election. If you are<br />
in doubt about whether you are registered,<br />
check the Voter Information Portal<br />
at www.sdsos.gov or call the county<br />
auditor at 605-669-7<strong>10</strong>0.<br />
Registration may be completed during<br />
regular business hours at the county<br />
auditor’s office, municipal finance office,<br />
secretary of state’s office and those locations<br />
which provide driver’s licenses,<br />
SNAP, TANF, WIC, military recruitment,<br />
and assistance to the disabled as provided<br />
by the Department of Human Services.<br />
You may contact the county auditor<br />
to request a mail-in registration form<br />
or access a mail-in form at<br />
www.sdsos.gov.<br />
Voters with disabilities may contact the<br />
county auditor for information and special<br />
assistance in voter registrations,<br />
absentee voting or polling place accessibility.<br />
John Brunskill,<br />
County Auditor<br />
Published October 4 & <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong>, at the<br />
total approximate cost of $25.34.<br />
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by Donna Adrian<br />
Garlic lovers get ready; garlic<br />
needs to be in the ground at least<br />
one month before ground freezes,<br />
so now through mid-October is the<br />
ideal time to plant. Start by planting<br />
the cloves from the large bulbs.<br />
The larger the clove, the larger the<br />
size of the mature bulb at harvest.<br />
Do not divide the bulb until just<br />
before planting. Some people have<br />
had good luck planting the bulbs<br />
from the grocery store, but it is<br />
recommended to buy your bulbs<br />
from a supplier. Garlic needs fullsun<br />
site with loose soil rich in<br />
organic matter. Add compost to the<br />
bed, plant the cloves, pointy side<br />
up, three to five inches apart at a<br />
depth of two to three inches. Add a<br />
layer of mulch. Plant five inches<br />
apart in all directions is you plant<br />
them in a bed.<br />
In the vegetable garden, be sure<br />
to remove old plants, do a final<br />
weeding and mulch the bed with<br />
straw, grass clippings, or chopped<br />
leaves. These mulches can be<br />
turned into the soil, by the worms<br />
and microorganisms in the soil by<br />
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next spring to help fertilize next<br />
year’s crops.<br />
The perennials need one last<br />
weeding, give them a good layer of<br />
mulch. After the ground is frozen,<br />
mulch around the crowns of your<br />
plants to reduce the chance of frost<br />
heaving and winter kill.<br />
Mow the lawn one last time.<br />
This is one of the easiest solutions<br />
for leaves, it involves no raking.<br />
There is no reason to rake all the<br />
leaves off the lawn. Simply run the<br />
mower at a high setting it will<br />
break up the leaves. The leaves<br />
break down over winter, providing<br />
your soil with nutrients and shading<br />
the soil. Do this once a week<br />
until the leaves have quit falling<br />
and leave your rake in the garden<br />
shed. Mowing and leaving the<br />
grass and leaves lay is equal to one<br />
fertilizing applied to the lawn. You<br />
can spread compost over the lawn<br />
to get it off to a good start next<br />
spring; this is the easiest solution,<br />
as it involves no raking. I stick<br />
with my motto, less weeds, less<br />
water and less work regardless<br />
whether its vegetable garden,<br />
flower beds or lawns.<br />
Delegation requests meeting with Veterans<br />
Affairs Secretary Shinseki in Hot Springs<br />
Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD),<br />
Senator John Thune (R-SD) and<br />
Representative Kristi Noem (R-<br />
SD) today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary<br />
of Veterans Affairs Eric<br />
Shinseki to request a meeting in<br />
Hot Springs regarding the proposed<br />
changes to the Black Hills<br />
Health Care System (BHHCS).<br />
The delegation was joined by Senator<br />
Mike Enzi (R-WY), Senator<br />
John Barrasso (R-WY), Senator<br />
Mike Johanns (R-NE), Representative<br />
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)<br />
and Representative Adrian Smith<br />
(R-NE).<br />
The Senators and Representatives<br />
expressed “frustration and<br />
disappointment” in how proposed<br />
changes to the BHHCS have progressed.<br />
The BHHCS gave its<br />
word that the process would be<br />
open, transparent, and inclusive.<br />
However, a September <strong>10</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
meeting between BHHCS officials<br />
and the Save the VA Committee<br />
broke down when the BHHCS said<br />
it was not in a position to negotiate<br />
on its proposal. Since that time,<br />
many stakeholders have lost trust<br />
in the process and fear that the<br />
actions of the BHHCS over the<br />
past ten months were all for show.<br />
The Senators and Representatives<br />
wrote: “We remain committed<br />
to ensuring that our veterans<br />
receive the highest quality of care<br />
and believe that their voices and<br />
concerns need to be a part of any<br />
proposed changes. G i v e n<br />
the recent developments as to how<br />
this process is moving forward, we<br />
are requesting a meeting with you,<br />
the tri-state congressional delegation<br />
and members of the Save the<br />
VA Committee in Hot Springs, SD.<br />
We believe that it is important you<br />
hear directly from the members of<br />
the community, our veterans, and<br />
other stakeholders directly affected.”<br />
The full text of the letter is<br />
below:<br />
October 2, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
The Honorable Eric Shinseki<br />
Secretary of Veterans Affairs<br />
Department of Veterans Affairs<br />
8<strong>10</strong> Vermont Avenue, NW<br />
Washington, D.C. 20420<br />
Dear Secretary Shinseki:<br />
We write to express frustration<br />
and disappointment in how proposed<br />
changes to the Black Hills<br />
Health Care System (BHHCS)<br />
have progressed. We were hopeful<br />
that the BHHCS would keep its<br />
word about making this process<br />
open, transparent, and inclusive,<br />
as you assured us would be the<br />
case in your letter dated May 18,<br />
20<strong>12</strong>. We were assured that public<br />
comment and feedback would<br />
be seriously considered and, as<br />
appropriate, be incorporated into<br />
any final proposal. It has come to<br />
our attention that at a September<br />
<strong>10</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong> meeting between the<br />
BHHCS Veterans Administration<br />
(VA) and the Save the VA Committee<br />
(the Committee), the meeting<br />
broke down when the BHHCS said<br />
it was not in a position to negotiate<br />
on its proposal. Whether this was<br />
a misstatement or fact, trust has<br />
been lost, relationships damaged,<br />
and many fear that the actions of<br />
the BHHCS over the past ten<br />
months were all for show.<br />
When the BHHCS made the<br />
proposal public last December,<br />
stakeholders were led to believe<br />
that this was not a final proposal<br />
and input from the public would be<br />
given full and fair consideration.<br />
The Committee never intended its<br />
counterproposal to be an all-ornothing<br />
alternative to the BHHCS<br />
proposal. They were led to<br />
believe, as were we, that the<br />
process moving forward would be<br />
collaborative. Recently, BHHCS<br />
sent its original proposal and all<br />
other proposals received to the VA<br />
Central Office (VACO) for review.<br />
We remain committed to ensuring<br />
that our veterans receive the<br />
highest quality of care and believe<br />
that their voices and concerns<br />
need to be a part of any proposed<br />
changes. Several Veteran Service<br />
Organizations, tribal governments<br />
and the State of South Dakota<br />
have issued resolutions expressing<br />
serious concerns with the BHHCS<br />
proposal as written and concerns<br />
have also been raised by some veterans<br />
and organizations in<br />
Nebraska and Wyoming. Concerns<br />
such as the extent to which<br />
major components of the BHHCS<br />
plan have been vetted with private<br />
health care providers and facilities,<br />
how the BHHCS proposal can<br />
effectively provide care to veterans<br />
in areas already declared “medically<br />
underserved” or with Critical<br />
Access Hospital designation,<br />
and concerns expressed by Native<br />
veterans relative to the Indian<br />
Health Service need to be considered.<br />
We are worried that these<br />
concerns may not have been<br />
addressed in the BHHCS proposal<br />
submitted to the VACO. These<br />
concerns are addressed in the<br />
Committee’s counterproposal.<br />
Given the recent developments<br />
as to how this process is moving<br />
forward, we are requesting a meeting<br />
with you, the tri-state congressional<br />
delegation and members of<br />
the Save the VA Committee in Hot<br />
Springs, SD. We believe that it is<br />
important you hear directly from<br />
the members of the community,<br />
our veterans, and other stakeholders<br />
directly affected. We ask that<br />
this meeting take place as soon as<br />
possible and any action on this<br />
proposal be delayed until a meeting<br />
can take place. Finally, we ask<br />
for transparency as to how proposals<br />
are evaluated and what criteria<br />
are used to make any final<br />
decision.<br />
We appreciate your attention to<br />
this issue and your timely<br />
response.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Tim Johnson, United States<br />
Senator<br />
John Thune, United States<br />
Senator<br />
Kristi Noem, Member of Congress<br />
Mike Enzi, United States Senator<br />
John Barrasso, United States<br />
Senator<br />
Cynthia Lummis, Member of<br />
Congress<br />
Mike Johanns, United States<br />
Senator<br />
Adrian Smith, Member of<br />
Congress<br />
Farm and business groups oppose<br />
$180 million state tax increase<br />
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A grassroots coalition representing<br />
family farmers and small<br />
businesses is asking voters to<br />
reject what is believed to be the<br />
largest tax increase in the state's<br />
history.<br />
On November 6, South Dakota<br />
voters will decide whether they<br />
are willing to pay $180 million in<br />
new revenue every year to school<br />
boards and Medicaid providers,<br />
such as hospitals and clinics. The<br />
money would come from a 25 percent<br />
increase in the state sales tax.<br />
The funding would be in addition<br />
to what the two groups already<br />
receive from state taxpayers.<br />
Opponents say voters should<br />
put their foot down and vote<br />
against the new tax.<br />
“Initiated Measure 15 is an<br />
enormous tax increase that would<br />
give $90 million in new revenue to<br />
K-<strong>12</strong> school boards, and $90 million<br />
in new revenue to Medicaid<br />
providers, every year, forever,”<br />
says No on 15 co-chair Michael<br />
Held of the South Dakota Farm<br />
Bureau. “Just over the next<br />
decade, that's a whopping $1.8 billion<br />
in new money for those two<br />
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groups. Not one cent of the new<br />
tax money would go to infrastructure,<br />
public safety, or higher education.”<br />
Giving more money to schools<br />
and Medicaid providers might<br />
sound good, but the plan has some<br />
major problems, warned No on 15<br />
co-chair Shawn Lyons of the South<br />
Dakota Retailers Association.<br />
“If you read this vaguely-worded<br />
proposal, there is nothing that<br />
says specifically how the money is<br />
to be spent,” Lyons noted. “It doesn't<br />
have to be used to raise teacher<br />
salaries or reduce class sizes, and<br />
it doesn't have to be used to reduce<br />
medical costs. They could stick it<br />
all in reserves if they want to.”<br />
The lack of oversight should be<br />
another red flag for voters, Lyons<br />
noted.<br />
“They have left out any provision<br />
for legislative oversight,” he<br />
said. “That is lousy tax policy. We<br />
have a good citizen legislature<br />
which is vigilant about protecting<br />
taxpayers in the budgeting<br />
process. But if Initiated Measure<br />
15 went through, these two groups<br />
would get a full 20 percent of the<br />
state sales tax dollars without<br />
having to account to the Legislature<br />
for how they're spending it.”<br />
While K-<strong>12</strong> education and Medicaid<br />
providers had their state<br />
funds trimmed last year, members<br />
of the No on 15 Committee point<br />
out that every other part of the<br />
state budget faced similar cuts in<br />
response to poor economic conditions.<br />
Since then, the Governor<br />
and Legislature have restored $18<br />
million of the cuts, and the state<br />
finished the budget year with $48<br />
million in unexpected revenue and<br />
savings.<br />
“Everyone had to tighten their<br />
belts,” Held stated. “So why should<br />
these two groups step in line<br />
ahead of everyone else and get<br />
more state tax dollars back than<br />
was cut from them?”<br />
Lyons also questioned the timing<br />
of the proposal.<br />
“Last year, many of our state's<br />
farms, homeowners and businesses<br />
were hit with huge losses from<br />
flooding. This year, the pendulum<br />
swung the opposite direction, and<br />
people are struggling as a result of<br />
drought. Do we really expect those<br />
people to dig even deeper into<br />
their pockets and fork over 25 percent<br />
more in state sales tax on<br />
nearly everything they buy when<br />
they're not even sure how that<br />
money is going to be spent?”<br />
The No on 15 group says they<br />
don't have the same financial<br />
resources as the people behind the<br />
proposed tax hike.<br />
“We understand that the people<br />
who want this tax increase have<br />
planned an expensive, aggressive<br />
advertising campaign,” Held said.<br />
“Our grassroots coalition represents<br />
the little guys, and we don't<br />
have that kind of money to throw<br />
around. All we have is a firm belief<br />
that the average person in South<br />
Dakota doesn't want higher<br />
taxes.”<br />
Along with the South Dakota<br />
Farm Bureau and South Dakota<br />
Retailers Association, other groups<br />
which are voicing opposition to the<br />
proposed tax increase are the<br />
South Dakota Farmers Union,<br />
National Federation of Independent<br />
Business, South Dakota<br />
Trucking Association, South Dakota<br />
Beer Distributors, South Dakota<br />
Innkeepers Association, South<br />
Dakota Agri-Business Association,<br />
South Dakota Petroleum and<br />
Propane Marketers Association,<br />
Music and Vending Association of<br />
South Dakota, South Dakota Manufactured<br />
Housing Association,<br />
Licensed Beverage Dealers of<br />
South Dakota, South Dakota Association<br />
of Cooperatives, the South<br />
Dakota Grain & Feed Association,<br />
and the South Dakota Coalition<br />
for Responsible Taxation.
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Local newspapers connect<br />
us with our communities<br />
by U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers<br />
We can get our national news on<br />
cable television, catch the weather<br />
on local broadcast stations, listen to<br />
talk radio on the AM or FM dial and<br />
follow our favorite blogs on the<br />
Internet, but where do we turn for<br />
local information that directly<br />
impacts our daily lives? More often<br />
than not it is community newspapers.<br />
Technology has transformed how<br />
we gather information in the 21st<br />
Century. Newscycles run 24/7,<br />
tablets and laptops are becoming<br />
smaller and smart phones keep getting<br />
smarter.<br />
As a result most traditional large<br />
newspapers are struggling to stay<br />
alive – they are more and more frequently<br />
printing only two to three<br />
times a week, personnel and content<br />
are shrinking like never before, and<br />
more information is shifted to online<br />
editions.<br />
Yet local community newspapers<br />
are thriving because they have persistently<br />
weathered the storm year<br />
in and year out to remain a fixture in<br />
our everyday lives. As our societies<br />
become more complex and diverse<br />
with growing numbers of ways to<br />
obtain information, the role of local<br />
newspapers in informing our communities<br />
becomes even more significant.<br />
We count on them to regularly<br />
check in with the courts and police<br />
stations. They print announcements<br />
on births, deaths, engagements,<br />
marriages, anniversaries, church<br />
news, job openings, school information<br />
and service club endeavors.<br />
They publish notices of local<br />
municipal meetings. They print tax<br />
South Dakota pastures now<br />
insurable with rainfall index<br />
Pasture, rangeland and forage<br />
(PRF) insurance is available for<br />
2013 in South Dakota based on a<br />
Rainfall Index (RI). Haying and<br />
grazing needs can be covered against<br />
moisture shortages using PRF-RI,<br />
says Matthew Diersen, SDSU<br />
Extension Risk & Business Management<br />
Specialist.<br />
“While producers would prefer to<br />
be paid if they did not have forage,<br />
PRF-RI relies on a close historical<br />
relationship between rainfall timing<br />
and forage production amounts,”<br />
Diersen said.<br />
He explains that producers can<br />
guard against low precipitation during<br />
insured intervals for localized<br />
grids specific to haying or grazing<br />
needs. Rainfall is grid-level and not<br />
farm- or ranch-level when measured.<br />
November 15, 20<strong>12</strong>, is the deadline<br />
to purchase or change coverage<br />
for the 2013 calendar year.<br />
Diersen explains that the PRF-RI<br />
coverage available in South Dakota<br />
mirrors pasture rents (per acre) for<br />
grazing.<br />
“The coverage is constant at<br />
$204.23 per acre for haying. In the<br />
event that precipitation is low during<br />
an insured interval, producers<br />
could use indemnity payments to<br />
replace income or to purchase<br />
replacement feed,” he said. “Unfortunately<br />
the coverage does not<br />
increase should prices move higher<br />
during the insured year.”<br />
Encouraging indicators at the<br />
state level suggest that PRF-RI<br />
would work well to manage forage<br />
production risk. In years with belowaverage<br />
rainfall in South Dakota the<br />
hay yield was also often below-average.<br />
In particular, notable drought<br />
years in South Dakota (1976, 1988,<br />
2002 and 2006) had sharply lower<br />
rainfall totals and hay yields.<br />
According to the Census of Agriculture<br />
there were 23 million acres<br />
in permanent pasture and rangeland<br />
increases, millage initiatives, notices<br />
of changes in laws and property<br />
rezoning – all issues that most<br />
directly affect our pocketbooks by<br />
determining how our hard-earned<br />
tax dollars are spent at the local<br />
level and how are local officials are<br />
representing us.<br />
They help run the local economic<br />
engine and provide a marketplace<br />
for the community. They offer local<br />
small businesses with an effective<br />
and affordable means of connecting<br />
with local consumers. They print<br />
sales at the supermarket, coupons<br />
for discounts at local stores, real<br />
estate listings, and classifieds for<br />
everything from a used car to a<br />
neighbor’s garage sale.<br />
It’s also personal. Communities<br />
feel a sense of ownership in their<br />
local newspaper, and the people that<br />
report the news are often our friends<br />
and neighbors down the street.<br />
News aggregating websites such<br />
as Drudge Report and the major<br />
news blogs are great at offering up<br />
major national and international<br />
news and analysis, but they simply<br />
do not provide the information on<br />
issues that impact us at the local<br />
level. It is especially true for the elderly<br />
and those with low incomes who<br />
often have less access to computers<br />
and transportation.<br />
They normally only publish once<br />
a week, but community newspapers<br />
remain the one constant source of<br />
local information. In good times and<br />
in bad, they stay focused on us as a<br />
community.<br />
Now more than ever, community<br />
newspapers are an important binding<br />
thread of our cities and towns.<br />
across South Dakota in 2007. PRF<br />
has been available in South Dakota<br />
since the 2007 crop year using a vegetation<br />
index, but only 540,000 acres<br />
were insured with PRF in 20<strong>12</strong>.<br />
“As detailed in the crop insurance<br />
provisions, catastrophic coverage is<br />
not available for PRF. Thus, producers<br />
may also purchase Noninsured<br />
Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)<br />
coverage for the pasture, rangeland,<br />
and non-alfalfa hayland,” Diersen<br />
said.<br />
He says it is up to producers to<br />
decide whether the insurance is necessary<br />
and valuable.<br />
“The high subsidy rate likely<br />
gives the coverage value, but there<br />
are no absolute guarantees that precipitation<br />
shortages will always line<br />
up with forage needs,” he said.<br />
Premiums for PRF-RI vary by<br />
county, type, coverage level, practice/interval,<br />
and grid location. Producers<br />
have to pick a coverage level<br />
from 70 to 90 percent of the grid<br />
base. A default to consider would be<br />
the 70 percent level as it has the<br />
highest subsidy rate. Producers also<br />
have to pick a productivity level<br />
from 60 percent to 150 percent of the<br />
county base. This allows for intracounty<br />
variability in soil type, grade,<br />
and forage type.<br />
Diersen explains that there are<br />
many ways to allocate coverage.<br />
“Not all acres need to be insured.<br />
Selected acres are allocated across<br />
<strong>11</strong> two-month intervals. Intervals<br />
cannot overlap a given month. At<br />
most 70 percent and no fewer than<br />
<strong>10</strong> percent of acres can be in a single<br />
interval,” he said. “Ideally, a producer<br />
will know key months that a lack<br />
of precipitation would result in less<br />
forage production.”<br />
For more information, visit<br />
www.igrow.org. Interested insurable<br />
parties can also contact a crop insurance<br />
agent or go on-line to the RMA<br />
website www.rma.usda. gov.<br />
Rutz appointed head of state<br />
Emergency Medical Services<br />
Marilyn Rutz of Belle Fourche<br />
has been appointed Director of the<br />
State Office of Emergency Medical<br />
Services, replacing Danny Hayes,<br />
who retired.<br />
Public Safety Secretary Trevor<br />
Jones announced the appointment<br />
on Friday. Rutz has been serving<br />
in the position since late September.<br />
“Marilyn has the education,<br />
training and experience to be a<br />
great fit in the EMS office,’’ Jones<br />
said. “She is committed to the public<br />
safety of South Dakota citizens<br />
and will be a strong advocate for<br />
programs that continue to improve<br />
the quality of the training and<br />
equipment of the men and woman<br />
who provide emergency medical<br />
services.’’<br />
Rutz has been an emergency<br />
medical technician since 1999 and<br />
a Paramedic since 2002. She<br />
worked for the Butte County<br />
Buy chance on 80 acres<br />
to support S.D. soldiers<br />
Five hundred ticket holders will<br />
be in a drawing to win approximately<br />
80 acres of prime hunting<br />
ground in east-central South<br />
Dakota this month in a raffle to<br />
benefit soldiers of the <strong>11</strong>4th Fighter<br />
Wing Security Force<br />
Squadronof the South Dakota Air<br />
National Guard.<br />
The drawing is part of a<br />
fundraising opportunity to send<br />
the members of this guard unit<br />
and their families on a deep-sea<br />
fishing adventure in Alaska when<br />
they return from their most recent<br />
deployment in support of Operation<br />
Enduring Freedom.<br />
The raffle and trip are part of a<br />
donation from Preventive Health<br />
Strategies to “help restore the<br />
bond between soldiers and families<br />
after their long absence.”<br />
“For returning veterans to successfully<br />
adjust to their home lives<br />
Breast cancer awareness month<br />
by Rep. Kristi Noem<br />
Like all South Dakota moms, I<br />
have loved watching my children<br />
grow and cannot wait to see the<br />
careers they go into, the spouses<br />
they choose and the children they<br />
will have. I want to be around for<br />
all of life’s little milestones, and<br />
breast cancer awareness is a big<br />
part of that. Breast cancer is one of<br />
the leading causes of cancer death<br />
among women, and research<br />
shows that one in eight women<br />
will be diagnosed with breast cancer<br />
at some time during her life.<br />
The good news is there have<br />
been advances in research, technology<br />
and early detection over the<br />
years that have helped decrease<br />
the number of breast cancer related<br />
deaths. But there is much more<br />
work to be done. October is breast<br />
cancer awareness month and it’s a<br />
great opportunity to help spread<br />
the word.<br />
I was in Sioux Falls recently to<br />
Ambulance Service, Lead-Deadwood<br />
Regional Hospital Ambulance,<br />
Lead-Deadwood Regional<br />
Medical Clinic and Mountain<br />
Plains Health Consortium before<br />
joining the State EMS office in<br />
June of 20<strong>10</strong> as an Emergency<br />
Medical Specialist. She is married<br />
with two adult children.<br />
“One of my primary goals is to<br />
support and strengthen ambulance<br />
services and EMTs in South<br />
Dakota,’’ Rutz said. “I look forward<br />
to the challenges ahead. I recognize<br />
that a large majority of<br />
responders are volunteers, and I<br />
welcome comments and suggestions<br />
on ways the Office of Emergency<br />
Medical Services can help<br />
those dedicated men and women<br />
do their jobs.’’<br />
Hayes retired in June. Emergency<br />
Medical Services is an<br />
agency within the Department of<br />
Public Safety.<br />
after a deployment, the whole family<br />
needs time to readjust,” said<br />
Dr. Annette Bosworth of Preventive<br />
Health Strategies in Sioux<br />
Falls.<br />
“Our returning vets need time,<br />
in a restorative environment, to<br />
reconnect with their families - to<br />
make the family unit whole again<br />
after it has been disrupted by the<br />
drama and difficulty of deployment.”<br />
To support the soldiers of the<br />
<strong>11</strong>4th and purchase one or more<br />
raffle tickets, contact Preventive<br />
Health Strategies at 605-368-<br />
1741.<br />
All proceeds from the land raffle<br />
will go to support the Alaskan fishing<br />
adventure.<br />
For more information, to see<br />
photos of the land or to purchase<br />
tickets online, go to the event website<br />
at www.imgivingawaythefarm.com.<br />
participate in the South Dakota<br />
Susan G. Komen Race for the<br />
Cure. In all, over 6,000 participants,<br />
spectators and supporters<br />
came out for the race. It’s always<br />
good when funds stay close to<br />
home, and I was happy to learn<br />
that seventy-five percent of funds<br />
raised in South Dakota stay in<br />
South Dakota, while the other 25<br />
percent go toward national<br />
research.<br />
I encourage all South Dakotans<br />
to recognize this month and put an<br />
extra effort into spreading the<br />
word about breast cancer. If possible,<br />
consider participating in or<br />
volunteering for a Komen event, or<br />
help spread the word through<br />
social media or simply by talking<br />
with family, friends and colleagues.<br />
If you want to know more about<br />
how you can get involved in South<br />
Dakota, visit: http://www.komensouthdakota.org/.<br />
Thune on pheasant season<br />
by Senator John Thune<br />
The annual hunting population<br />
boom will soon be upon us as<br />
friends, family, and visitors make<br />
their way to the fields in search of<br />
our state bird, the Chinese ringnecked<br />
pheasant. In parts of South<br />
Dakota, more people will return<br />
for the pheasant opener than holidays<br />
and it can be hard to get a<br />
seat on an airplane filled with<br />
camouflage bird-seekers. As we dig<br />
out our orange hunting gear and<br />
clean our shotguns, we prepare for<br />
one of the great traditions of our<br />
state.<br />
As a member of the U.S. Senate<br />
Agriculture Committee, I have an<br />
opportunity to shape and support<br />
conservation programs that boost<br />
wildlife habitat and benefit our<br />
hunting traditions in South Dakota.<br />
During debate of the Senate<br />
Farm Bill, I worked to consolidate<br />
23 conservation programs into 13,<br />
while reauthorizing the Conservation<br />
Reserve Program (CRP), a<br />
program of great benefit to our<br />
state’s pheasant population.<br />
Pheasant hunting generates<br />
approximately $200 million in revenues<br />
for South Dakota. Whether<br />
it is the licenses, gas, and gear<br />
that they buy, or the nights spent<br />
in lodges and hotels throughout<br />
the state, it is clear that hunting<br />
in South Dakota is also big business.<br />
But as a kid growing up in<br />
Murdo, we didn’t think of hunting<br />
as a business. For me and many<br />
other kids across the state, hunting<br />
is a way to learn responsibility<br />
and spend time outdoors. This<br />
year will be no different as sons<br />
and daughters across South Dakota<br />
walk the fields, shotguns in<br />
hand, looking to bag their limit.<br />
Hunting season in South Dakota<br />
is my favorite time of year and I<br />
can think of no place I would<br />
rather be than in a field with family<br />
and friends by my side. I wish<br />
all hunters a safe and successful<br />
hunting season.<br />
Call the Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong> to<br />
place your ad here 669-2271
<strong>Coyote</strong> Classifieds<br />
Murdo<br />
Deadline is Tuesdays at <strong>10</strong> a.m.<br />
Call: 669-2271<br />
<strong>Coyote</strong> • October <strong>11</strong>, 20<strong>12</strong> • Page <strong>12</strong><br />
AUCTION<br />
LAND AUCTION: 230+/- Acres<br />
Gregory County, Cropland and<br />
Grassland, <strong>12</strong> miles northwest of<br />
Burke, SD, October 26, 20<strong>12</strong>. Call<br />
Dakota Properties, Todd Schuetzle,<br />
Auctioneer, 605-280-3<strong>11</strong>5,<br />
www.DakotaProperties.com.<br />
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY<br />
NOW IS THE chance to buy a<br />
well established and successful<br />
business in the State Capitol of<br />
S.D. The Longbranch is for SALE<br />
(serious inquires only). Call Russell<br />
Spaid 605-280-<strong>10</strong>67.<br />
BUYING GOLD/SILVER<br />
CONVERT YOUR GOLD, silver,<br />
platinum into cash. Top price<br />
paid, 24 hr turn around for mail<br />
in. SD owned business. Visit<br />
www.midwestgold-silver.com for<br />
instructions or call 605-260-4653.<br />
EMPLOYMENT<br />
CHRYSLER CERTIFIED<br />
TECHNICIAN needed for<br />
Chadron Chrysler Dodge Jeep<br />
Ram in Chadron, Nebraska.<br />
$30.00/hour, relocation plan, benefits,<br />
training, 5-day work week,<br />
great work environment. Jeremy:<br />
308-432-9004; jkennedy@hotmail.com.<br />
DEPUTY SHERIFF’S POSI-<br />
TION: Haakon County. Competitive<br />
wages/excellent benefits.<br />
Send state applications or<br />
resumé: Haakon County Sheriff,<br />
Box 249, Philip, S.D. 57567. Information:<br />
605-859-2741.<br />
FULL-TIME PARKS MAINTE-<br />
NANCE: City of Canton, S.D.<br />
CDL & commercial pesticide<br />
applicator license required within<br />
6 months. Deadline: October 17.<br />
www.cityofcantonsd.com or 605-<br />
987-2881. EOE.<br />
MANAGER NEEDED for progressive<br />
credit union. Excellent<br />
benefits and salary. Resumes only<br />
submitted to Box 69, Gregory, S.D.<br />
57533. EEOC.<br />
DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMIS-<br />
SION is taking applications for<br />
full-time Douglas County Highway<br />
Superintendent. Must have<br />
valid Class A Driver’s License.<br />
Experience in road/bridge construction/maintenance<br />
preferred.<br />
For application contact: Douglas<br />
County Auditor (605) 724-2423.<br />
WANTED: EXPERIENCE<br />
APPRENTICE or journeyman<br />
electrician. Excellent wages and<br />
benefits. LEC Inc, Gettysburg.<br />
Call 800-568-4324 or send resume<br />
to kevin@loganelectric.biz.<br />
LOTS / ACREAGE / LAND<br />
LAKEFRONT BANK LOAN<br />
Liquidation $29,900 lake property,<br />
<strong>10</strong>0’ clear water shore; Glacial<br />
Lakes region NE S.D. Thousand<br />
Lakes Realty of Minnesota. 866-<br />
346-7006, www.<strong>10</strong>00LakesMN.<br />
com.<br />
NOTICES<br />
ADVERTISE IN NEWSPA-<br />
PERS statewide for only $150.00.<br />
Put the South Dakota Statewide<br />
Classifieds Network to work for<br />
you today! (25 words for $150.<br />
Each additional word $5.) Call<br />
this newspaper or 800-658-3697<br />
for details.<br />
OTR & DRIVER<br />
OPPORTUNITY<br />
$1500.00 SIGN-ON BONUS!<br />
EXP. OTR Drivers, TBI, 33¢/34¢,<br />
$375 mo., health ins., credit, 03¢<br />
safety bonus, Call Joe for details,<br />
800.456.<strong>10</strong>24, joe@tbitruck.com.<br />
Business & Professional Directory<br />
New Life Home, Inc.<br />
669-2131<br />
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING<br />
CLASSIFIED RATE: $5.00 minimum for up to 20 words.<strong>10</strong>¢ per word after<br />
initial 20. Each name and initial must be counted as one word.<br />
CARD OF THANKS: Poems, Tributes, Etc. $5.00 minimum for up to 20<br />
words.<strong>10</strong>¢ per word after initial 20. Each name and initial must be counted<br />
as one word.<br />
NOTE: $2.00 added charge for bookkeeping and billing on all charges.<br />
DISPLAY AD RATE: $5.00 per column inch.<br />
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE: All real estate, advertised in this newspaper is<br />
subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, which makes it illegal to<br />
advertise “any preference, or discrimination on race, color, religion, sex, or<br />
national origin, or any intention to make any such preference, limitation, or<br />
discrimination.”<br />
This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate<br />
which is a violation of the law. Our readers are informed that all dwellings<br />
advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.<br />
To place your ad here contact the<br />
Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong> today at 669-2271<br />
Rent This Space<br />
$4.25 a week/<br />
minimum 3 mos.<br />
Residential Living Center<br />
24–Hour Care<br />
Home–Like Atmosphere<br />
203 W. Hwy. 16, Presho, S.D. • 605-895-2602<br />
605-669-2<strong>12</strong>1 Clinic J.S. McNeely<br />
605-669-2553 Home<br />
RN, CFNP<br />
dba Jones County Clinic<br />
609 Garfield Ave., Murdo, SD 57559<br />
Murdo Housing<br />
& Redevelopment<br />
Low–Income Housing<br />
1 & 2 bedroom apartments<br />
Income–based rent<br />
Includes light, heat, water and garbage pickup<br />
605-669-2681<br />
Family Dentistry<br />
James C. Szana, DDS<br />
Murdo Health Center<br />
Wednesday & Thursday<br />
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.<br />
(605) 869-2150<br />
Equal<br />
Housing<br />
Opportunity<br />
Truck Drivers Needed<br />
Altendorf Transport is<br />
hiring OTR drivers for<br />
hopper bottoms, reefers<br />
and RGN (oversized loads)<br />
• Must have Class A CDL<br />
• Must have medical card<br />
• Pass drug test<br />
Call Larry Freier at<br />
701-520-3203<br />
No need to relocate<br />
Ranchland Drug<br />
259-3<strong>10</strong>2<br />
Located in White River, S.D.<br />
• Nightly Deliveries to Murdo<br />
• Senior Citizen’s Discount<br />
Valburg<br />
AERIAL & AG SERVICE<br />
•Aerial & Ground Application<br />
• Chemical & Fertilizer Sales<br />
• GPS Equipped<br />
Murdo, Martin & White River<br />
Dan: 605-259-3134<br />
Charlie: 605-452-33<strong>11</strong><br />
Rent This Space<br />
$4.25 a week/<br />
minimum 3 mos.<br />
Family owned<br />
and operated –<br />
Our family serving<br />
your family<br />
Daryl & Scott Isburg,<br />
Funeral Directors<br />
Address Change?<br />
If you’re moving or have a change of address,<br />
please let us know as soon as possible to ensure<br />
timely delivery of your Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong>!<br />
Call: 605-669-2271<br />
Fax: 605-669-2744<br />
HEIMAN CONSTRUCTION<br />
and Seamless Gutters<br />
Allen Heiman – Owner<br />
P.O. Box 433<br />
Presho, S.D. 57568-0433<br />
Phone: (605) 895-9644<br />
Cell: (605) 730-5634<br />
CALL US FOR ALL YOUR HOME REPAIRS<br />
Variety of Colors<br />
Free Estimates<br />
Hildebrand Steel & Concrete<br />
Contact us for ALL types of concrete work!<br />
Kadoka<br />
Rich Hildebrand<br />
Cell 605.431.2226<br />
Murdo<br />
Jerry Hildebrand<br />
Cell: 605.488.0291<br />
Concrete Redi–Mix<br />
Venard Inc<br />
Tires & Service ~ 605-669-2077<br />
Exit 191 ~ Murdo SD<br />
Your Full Service Lumber and Hardware Store<br />
<strong>10</strong>5 E. 2nd Street • PO Box <strong>10</strong>8 • Murdo, SD 57559<br />
Phone: (605) 669-2201 • Fax: (605) 669-2450<br />
Dennis and Kevin Moore<br />
Office: 605-837-2621<br />
Toll Free: 1-877-867-4185<br />
ALL PRO TOWING<br />
24-Hour Service<br />
Light to Heavy Duty Towing<br />
Repairs Domestic Cars & Trucks<br />
Phone: (605) 669-2075<br />
Murdo, S.D.<br />
Darren Boyle Sales<br />
New & Used Farm Equipment<br />
REA Seeds<br />
Cell: 605-222-0317 • Pierre, S.D.<br />
E-mail: darrenboylesales@pie.midco.net<br />
Website: www.darrenboylesales.com<br />
Help Wanted<br />
LOCAL CORRESPONDENT<br />
NEEDED: If you are interested in<br />
writing the local news for the<br />
Murdo <strong>Coyote</strong>, please call the<br />
office at 669-2271.<br />
CAREGIVER/AIDE: Part time<br />
position available in the Murdo<br />
area assisting elderly and disabled<br />
individuals in the comfort of their<br />
own homes. Will assist with basic<br />
cleaning, laundry, meal prep, personal<br />
cares and other tasks which<br />
allow independence. Flexible<br />
schedules and great supplemental<br />
income. Please contact the office<br />
(605) 224-2273 or 1-800-899-2578.<br />
Be sure to check out our web site<br />
at homecareservicessd.com.<br />
M39-4tc<br />
Notice<br />
ROUGH COUNTRY SPRAY-<br />
ING: Specializing in controlling<br />
Canada thistle on rangeland. ATV<br />
application. Also prairie dogs. Call<br />
Bill at 605-669-2298. M21-24tp<br />
For Sale<br />
BLACK LEGEND SERIES<br />
BUMPER. Fits 20<strong>10</strong>-20<strong>12</strong> Dodge<br />
Ram pickup. Was only on pickup<br />
for two weeks. No damage; like<br />
new condition. $1,700. Call<br />
Patrick Barnes at 605-530-0051 or<br />
Karlee Barnes at 605-295-0047.<br />
M41-tfc<br />
POTENTIAL HUNTING<br />
LODGE or hospitality location.<br />
4800 sq ft former bar/restaurant<br />
with full kitchen, restrooms,<br />
tables. Plenty of parking. Located<br />
next to the Vivian Coffee Cup.<br />
Triple net lease. Call 605-690-5408<br />
for more information. M40-4tp<br />
Thank You<br />
Words cannot express enough<br />
our thanks to those who went out<br />
of their way to battle the flames<br />
that so easily could have consumed<br />
the homes and properties of<br />
so many of us. I am convinced that<br />
our own home, hay and properties<br />
are still standing because of the<br />
effort of the men who worked so<br />
hard to bring the fire under control.<br />
Our eyes are opened, yes, to<br />
the realization that they really are<br />
just “things” and when it comes<br />
down to it, not all that important<br />
in the whole scheme of things, but<br />
how thankful we are to still have<br />
the comforts that those “things”<br />
bring and the relief of not having<br />
the stress and worry of rebuilding<br />
and reacquiring those things we<br />
need. Thank you to each one<br />
involved, we are grateful.<br />
The Roghairs<br />
Brad and Shawna<br />
Darian, Annalee, Mesa<br />
Jubilee and Riata<br />
We want to thank Dr. Kip Kinsley<br />
and Sam Seymour for their<br />
help in getting our cattle worked<br />
last week. Additional thanks to<br />
Jean Kinsley for providing food for<br />
the meal.<br />
Herman and Jewell Bork<br />
The family of Joyce Dykema<br />
would like to thank everyone who<br />
expressed their sympathy through<br />
cards, letters, prayers and phone<br />
calls. We appreciated hearing your<br />
memories of our mother.<br />
The Dykema girls<br />
and their families<br />
Murdo Nutrition<br />
Program Menu<br />
October 15<br />
Fish Portions<br />
Scalloped Potatoes<br />
Peas<br />
Fruit Muffin<br />
Mandarin Oranges & Banana Slices<br />
October 16<br />
Salisbury Steak in Gravy<br />
Boiled Potatoes & Gravy<br />
Green Beans<br />
Bread<br />
Pears<br />
October 17<br />
New England Boiled Dinner<br />
w/ Ham & Vegetables<br />
Dinner Roll<br />
Fruit Cocktail Cake<br />
October 18<br />
Roast Turkey<br />
Mashed Potatoes & Gravy<br />
Broccoli<br />
Cranberries<br />
Bread<br />
Chocolate Pudding<br />
October 19<br />
Sloppy Joe on a Bun<br />
Oven Potatoes<br />
Coleslaw<br />
Peaches