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The Avon School District will welcome a new K- 5th grade special education teacher for the 2024-2025 school year, Ashley Cihak. Ashley has been teaching for the past 14 years. Her entire teaching career until this year has been with the Wagner Community School District. Six of her last 14 years were in Elementary Special Education, with the last eight years teaching second grade.
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Years ago, I lost a dear friend of mine to suicide, and it was fundamentally life changing for me. After that incident, I remember thinking, “I should have done something. I should have said something.” I replayed every interaction I had with them over and over again.
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True food allergic reactions cause anaphylaxis. Eating even a tiny bit of the allergenic food causes the patient to quickly develop symptoms that can include shortness of breath, hives, vomiting, diarrhea, throat swelling, passing out, and at times it can be fatal. The patient makes IgE allergy antibody to the food. The cause of the reactions can be determinedbythehistoryandconfirmedbyallergy skin or blood testing.
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In October of 1990 through May 1992, a study which was initiated by local request was conducted on Charles-Mix County Lake. The purpose of this study was to determine the water quality problems, identify pollution sources and develop lake specific restoration alternatives. One of the key components of the water quality of Lake Andes is stagnant water. The study results showed that the lake was found to have very high concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus, creating a hypereutrophic lake. Having these nutrients in such high concentrations can cause algae blooms, summer kill and winterkill events and plays a role in other nutrients and elements exceeding the state regulatory standards. Algae blooms can become a problem when they grow out of control and produce toxic or harmful effects on fish, birds, etc. Summer kill happens with warm water and long hours of daylight maximize the growth conditions for photosynthesis of algae; winter kill is when the oxygen levels get too low causing fish to perish.
Read moreSiblings, Mike Miller and Cindy Mengenhauser, who purchased Moe’s Place held their Grand Opening Celebration at their new business, Inside Scoop.
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The 2024 Lake Andes Public Library Incentive trip is in the books. On Thursday, August 1st at 8:30 am, a bus rented from BJ School bus left the library with 18 children and 7 chaperones headed to Yankton. Our first stop was the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery, where we toured the Aquarium and then enjoyed a presentation by Sam Stukel, a Fish Hatchery employee. The tour of the trout feeding station was a favorite as we got to feed the fish.
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After Fire Chief, Rod Bergin, applied for a grant from the Gary Sinise Foundation, the foundation awarded the Lake Andes Volunteer Fire Department a grant for $65,114.03 in March of 2023. The Lake Andes Fire Department used the grant money to purchase a new brush fire rig in order for the department to have a more reliable unit to better serve the fire district. The pickup came from Iverson Chrysler of Michell and the truck modifications were done by Meyerinks Farm Service and B & L Communications both of Platte.
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