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High atop a bluff along busy Cliff Avenue in northern Sioux Falls stands the Pioneer Memorial, a tall quartzite obelisk built to honor the area’s first homesteaders. Visit today and you can see more than a century and a half of progress in every direction. Plumes of steam shoot from the stacks of the Smithfield plant at the base of the hill. Handsome pink quartzite buildings that comprise the state penitentiary sit to the west. Cars whiz past on Cliff and Interstate 229 just a bit farther east.
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There are so many questions. Is it safe? Does pot smoking lead to the use of hard drugs? What is the risk of pot smoking during pregnancy? Does marijuana have medical value in treating disease? Does smoking pot relieve the side effects of cancer treatment?
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TheFriedensbergBibleChurch was established in 1874, making this the 150th year that the church has been spreading the word of God and Jesus’ teachings. What began as a Mennonite Church and named Friedensberg Mennonite Church of Avon finally became an independent bible church in 2010. With a new denomination, came the new name of Friedensberg Bible Church. The last official membership count was 85 members. Most Sundays there are between 30 and 40 people that attend the small, serene country church. Being a part of a small rural church is something that Friedensberg Bible Church goers enjoy the most. It is the family-like atmospherethatkeepspeoplecoming back and continuing to attend through generations of families.
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We had an early start Monday, June 17, as students met in the Sioux Falls airport for what was supposed to be a 5 a.m. flight to Minneapolis on their way to the Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Unfortunately, thunderstorms that struck the area led to a handful of delays out of Sioux Falls. By the time we landed in Minneapolis, our next flight was taking off. This gave seven WCS students an experience of a long lay-over in an airport that they would encounter again before arriving home at the end of the week. WCS students Jhett Breen, McKenzie Fuchs, Aubrey Medricky, Justyn Jaton, Matthew Kokes, Brooklin Nielsen and Kortney Ehrisman spent five days experiencing hands-on learning experiences as they navigated through airports, the nation’s capital city and the largest city in the nation.
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Shona Kocer, daughter of Francis and Karla Kocer attended the Boys and Girls Club of America Midwest Regional Youth of the Year in Chicago, IL on June 27th. The event was held at the theater on the lake on Lake Michigan. The midwest regional consists of 12 other states competing to send their student to the national competition. The winner at the midwest regional level won a $20,000 scholarship and will move on to the national contest that will be held in September. The national winner will receive a brand-new Toyota Corolla and a $50,000 scholarship.
Read moreAs the nation celebrates Independence Day, the Wagner Police Department, the South Dakota Department of Public Safety-Office of Highway Safety, and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reminds all drivers that Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving. In 2022, a person was killed every 39 minutes in a drunk-driving crash on our nation's roads, even though it is illegal to drive while impaired by alcohol.
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Mary Jo Parker and Rebecca Beeson attended the 2024 South Dakota State University (SDSU) Energize Conference held on May 22nd and 23rd in Hot Springs. This was the third year that Mary Jo attended the event and Rebecca’s first year attending. There were approximately 140 people registered for the conference representing communities from across South Dakota. Previous energize conferences have been hosted in DeSmet, Lemmon, Milbank, Fort Pierre and Wessington Springs.
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