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The Lady Pirates (17-9) traveled to Menno on Friday night where they added another win on their record. Courtney Sees led the charge at the net with 11 kills, 10 digs and two ace serves. Tiffany Pelton followed with 10 kills, three blocks, seven digs and two ace serves. McKenna Kocmich put up 23 set assists, 11 digs, three ace serves and one block. Sam Brodeen tallied seven kills, 12 digs and one ace serve and set assist. Reece Loewe added 5 kills, one block and one dig. Reese Powers had three set assists, two digs and one block. Both Katie Gretschmann and Makayla Kopp contributed with digs and ace serves for the Lady Pirates.
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Ed Lemmon and Scotty Philip were the first South Dakota cowboys inducted into Oklahoma City’s National Cowboy Hall of Fame. That Lemmon was a colorful and industrious figure who personally knew most every famous or infamous figure of the west can be quickly ascertained by reading both his Belle Fourche Bee newspaper columns as compiled in Phyllis Schmidt’s book, The West as I Lived It, or Nellie Snyder Yost’s Boss Cowman. All of Lemmon’s memoirs are entertaining, and some may enter the realm of “tall tales.” His October 27, 1933 account, “Wild Game in 1880 Dakota” bears this out. I’ll quote Lemmon’s wild game account word for word.
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Jessica Kocer, parents Karla and Fran and Cassidy Wilson, parents Cody and Jennifer. Photo by Barb Pechous
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President Bryan Slaba brought the Wagner Rotary membership to order on October 13th. There was a full house, with many guests: Jeff Nohr, Program Speaker, Chris Nohr, Jeff’s wife, Paulette (Stogsdill) Ford, Jolene Link, and Ron Koupal.
Read moreOn October 8th 121 Vietnam veterans from South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota traveled to Sioux Falls to join the 8th Midwest Honor Flight to Washington DC. The event started with a banquet at the Sioux Falls convention center for the veterans, family member, guardians, board and flight crew of the Midwest Honor Flight. In the early morning October 9th we all boarded American Ailines Flight to Washington DC to tour Arlington National Cemetary, Marines War Memorial, Washington Monument, World War II Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Memorial. On the return trip to Sioux Falls we were welcomed home by over 1,000 people at the Sioux Falls Convention Center arena. Local Vietnam Veterans that attended this were Daniel Rezac, Dante; Bill Lampman, Pickstown; Norman Huizenga, Platte; Gary Beeson, Wagner and Dennis Cihak, Avon. Many thanks to all that have donated to the Midwest Honor Flight fund, to Aaron Van Beek, board president, board members, crew and Guardians. It was a great honor to be a part of this. For more information, pictures and stories can be found on www.midwesthonorflight.org.
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