NFPA offers safe grilling tips and recommendations to prevent fires and injuriesOften considered the unofficial

kick-off to summer, Memorial Day weekend typically includes lots of celebrations and cookouts, often with outdoor grilling as a focal point. As the holiday and summer months near, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) re-minds everyone of basic safety tips and precautions to grill and cele-brate safely.

NFPA data shows that from 2014-2018, fire departments re-sponded to an annual average of 10,600 home fires annually involv-ing grills, hibachis, or barbecues. This includes 4,900 structure fires and 5,700 outside or unclassified

fires. These fires resulted in an an-nual average of 10 civilian deaths, 160 civilian injuries, and $149 mil-lion in direct property damage.

The peak months for grilling fires are July (18 percent of gril-ling fires), June (15 percent), May (13 percent), and August (12 per-cent), though grill fires occur year-round. Leading causes of grill fires include failing to clean the grill, the heat source being located too close to combustible materials, leaving equipment unattended, and leaks or breaks in the grill or fuel source.

“As grilling season approaches, it is important to review basic safety tips to ensure grillers are using equipment properly and safely, especially if the grill hasn’t been used over the winter,” said Lorraine Carli, vice president of Outreach and Advocacy at NFPA. “Establishing a firesafe location for using your grill is also crucial. It should be a safe distance from your home and other items that

can burn.” Carli notes that as people con-

tinue to stay home in response to the pandemic, there may be an in-creased use of grills and other out-door cooking equipment this season, making it critically impor-tant to share these messages with the public.

A yearly average of 19,700 pa-tients went to emergency rooms because of injuries involving grills. Nearly half (9,500 or 48 percent) of the injuries were thermal burns, including both burns from fire and from contact with hot objects; 5,200 thermal burns were caused by such contact or other non-fire events.

Children under five accounted for an average of 2,000 (39 per-cent) of the contact-type burns per year. These burns typically oc-curred when a child bumped into, touched, or fell on the grill, grill part, or hot coals.

Pioneer Review • May 27, 202112 Public Notices

CITY OF PHILIP RESIDENTS PUBLIC REMINDER PROPERTY MAINTENANCE – MOWING & NOXIOUS WEEDS

The City of Philip requests that all residents please consider this as a courtesy notice to all property owners of real property within the City limits of the City of Philip, South Dakota. Property owners of all real property within the City limits are re-quired by City Ordinances #15-401 to mow and maintain lawns; and, control noxious weeds upon said real property. Any grasses and/or weeds growing to a height of 12 inches or more as well as any noxious weeds upon any real property are considered a public nui-sance and are in violation of said ordinance. Noxious weeds include, but are not limited to the following: canadian thistle, goldenrod, ragweed, burdock, cocklebur, sandbur, milkweed, etc. The City Council strongly encourages all property owners of any real property within the City, occupied or non-occupied, to comply with City Ordinances--keep your properties mowed & sprayed to prevent the spread of noxious weeds. Property owners are also notified that City personnel will be trim-ming those trees impacting the public right-of-way this spring. This in-cludes those overhanging the streets, alleys & sidewalks in accordance with City Ordinance.

We thank you in advance for all your cooperation and dedication in maintaining your

properties and improving the appearance of our community.

[Published weeks of May 17 & 24, 2021, at approximate cost of $189.00]

DEPUTY SHERIFF POSITION: The Haakon Co. Sheriff’s Office is now accepting appli-cations for Deputy Sheriff. We offer competitive wages, DOE along with a great benefits package. This includes Health and Life insurance, Vision, Dental and South Da-kota Retirement. Please send resume and applications to:

Haakon Co. Sheriff P.O. Box 249, Philip, S.D. 57567

Or Fax: 605-859-2730 Or email it to: haakonso@gwtc.net This position is opened until filled.

If you have questions, please contact me at 605-859-2741

From your State Farm agent: Jan Hewitt

Philip, SD • (605) 859-2559 Kim Deuter, Licensed Associate

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NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING

PHILIP CITY PLANNING

COMMISSION & PHILIP CITY COUNCIL

ORDINANCE # 2021-05

A TEMPORARY ORDINANCE REGARDING THE ISSUANCE OF LOCAL

MEDICAL CANNABIS ESTABLISHMENT PERMITS

AND/OR LICENSES The Philip City Planning Com-mission and the Philip City Council (also acting as the Planning Commission) will hold a public hearing prior to the regular City Council Meeting on June 7, 2021 at 6:45 p.m. in the Community Room of the Haa-kon County Courthouse lo-cated at 140 S. Howard Ave., Philip, SD. All interested per-sons are encouraged to attend in person and comment on Or-dinance # 2021-05, A tempo-rary ordinance regarding the issuance of local medical can-nabis establishment permits and/or licenses. After the pub-lic hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission may pass a resolution recommending ap-proval of Ordinance # 2021-05, with or without amendment, to the City Council. The City Council may have first reading of Ordinance # 2021-05 by title and set a 2nd reading date. The proposed Ordinance # 2021-05 will be made available for public inspection at the City Administrator’s Office located at 140 S. Howard Ave., 4th Floor of the Haakon County Courthouse in Philip, SD and on-line at www.philipsd.us pur-suant to SDCL Section 11-4 and amendments thereto. Written comments may be filed by emailing the City Admin-istrator at cityadmin@philipsd.us or by mailing them to the City Admin-istrator at P.O. Box 408, Philip, SD on or before noon on June 7, 2021.

[Published once on May 27, 2021, at ap-proximate cost of $42.80]

THE TOWN OF MIDLAND

SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES

May 17, 2021 The Town Board of the Town of Midland met in special session on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 7:00 PM in the Town Hall with the following members present: Trent

Manecke, Carissa Zysset, Don Cooper and Finance Officer Michelle Meinzer. Also present: Reuben Vollmer Jr. and Randy Nemec The meeting was called to order by Pres-ident Manecke followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Zysset made a motion, second by Cooper to approve agenda. The purpose of this special meeting was to hold a hearing for a temporary on-sale malt beverage license requested by the Midland Fire Department for June 5th, 2021. Cooper made a motion, second by Zysset to approve the license. Motion carried unanimously. Midland Market will again be held in the Town Park on Fridays beginning June 11 through September 3, 2021. Discussed planting tree at Town Park and erecting new structure before All-School reunion in June. Signed letter to Grossenburg Implement for trade-in on lawn mower. Next meeting will be June 8, 2021 at 7:00 pm. Zysset made a motion, second by Cooper to pay the following claims: West Central Electric, Electric Supply ....

...........................................$ 1134.72 A & A Tire & Repair, Tires/filters ..434.59 Mid-American Research Chemical,

Supplies ................................1285.08 Sioux Valley Environmental,

Supplies ..................................645.00 Electrical Engineering & Equipment,

Generator Maintenance ..........700.00 Nemec Construction Co.,

Museum Doors......................2500.00 There being no further business to come before the board, the meeting adjourned. ____________________________ Michelle Meinzer, Finance Officer ____________________________ Trent Manecke, President [Published May 27, 2021, at the total ap-proximate cost of $27.31]

WEST RIVER WATER DEVELOPMENT

DISTRICT

MINUTES April 15, 2021

CALL TO ORDER: The West River Water Development District convened for their regular meeting at the West River Water Development District Project office in Murdo, SD. Chairman Casey Krogman called the meeting to order at 10:16 a.m. (CT). Roll Call was taken and Chairman Krog-

man declared a quorum was present. Di-rectors present were: Casey Krogman, Marion Matt, Veryl Prokop and Brad Smith. Also present: Jake Fitzgerald, Manager; Kati Venard, Secretary; Jessica Hegge, Larson Law PC. ADDITIONS TO AGENDA: None APPROVE AGENDA: Motion by Director Prokop, seconded by Director Matt to ap-prove the agenda. Motion carried unani-mously. APPROVE MINUTES: The minutes of the March 18, 2021, meeting were pre-viously emailed to the Board for their re-view. Motion by Director Smith, seconded by Director Matt to approve the March minutes. Motion carried unani-mously. FINANCIAL REPORT:

A. APPROVAL OF BILLS: Casey Krogman - $55.41, Marion Matt - $55.41, Veryl Prokop - $55.41, Brad Smith - $55.41, West River/Lyman-Jones RWS - $1,000.00, Kadoka Press - $34.21, Lyman County Herald - $135.00, Mellette County News - $34.65, Murdo Coyote - $32.21, Pennington County Courant - $34.21, Pioneer Review - $34.21, United States Treasury - $110.16. Motion by Di-rector Prokop, seconded by Director Matt to approve the District bills. Motion car-ried unanimously. B. DISTRICT FINANCIAL STATUS RE-PORT: The financial status of the District to date was previously sent to the Board. A copy of the March Financial Report is on file at the District office in Murdo. Mo-tion by Director Matt, seconded by Direc-tor Smith to approve the March Financial Report. Motion carried unanimously. REPORTS:

A. MANAGER'S REPORT: Manager Fitzgerald presented his April report to the Board. Motion by Director Matt, sec-onded by Director Smith to approve the Manager’s Report. Motion carried unan-imously

B. OTHER REPORTS: None DIRECTOR VACANCY: Public notices of the vacancy in Director Area 5 were pub-lished in the area newspaper, Lyman County Herald. Completed nominating petitions were to be submitted to the Dis-trict office by March 30, 2021. No peti-tions were received for the vacancy. The position will remain vacant and will be ad-vertised again in conjunction with the next general election ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 10:28 a.m. (CT). ATTEST: ____________________________ Kati Venard, Recording Secretary ____________________________ Casey Krogman, Chairman [Published May 27, 2021, at the total ap-proximate cost of $36.20]

2020 CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORT

A WATER QUALITY REPORT FOR

THE WATER USERS OF PHILIP MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM

The City of Philip has supplied eighteen consecutive years of safe drinking water to the public it serves and has been awarded the Secretary’s Award for Drink-ing Water Excellence by the South Da-kota Department of Environment and Natural Resources. This report is a snap-shot of the quality of the water we pro-vided last year. We serve more than 779 customers an average of 112,000 gallons of water per day. Our water is surface water that comes from the Missouri River that we purchase from West River/Lyman-Jones Rural Water. The state has performed an assessment of our source water and they have determined that the relative suscep-tibility for the City of Philip public water supply system is low. For more infor-mation about your water and information on opportunities to participate in public meetings, call (605) 859-2175, and ask for Brian Pearson. The sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals, and can pick up substances re-sulting from the presence of animals or from human activity. Our city council meets on the first Monday of each month at 7:00 PM in the Haakon County courthouse community room. Please feel free to participate in these meetings. Contaminants that may be present in source water before we treat it may in-clude: MICROBIAL contaminates, such as vi-ruses and bacteria, which may come from sewage, septic tank systems, agriculture livestock operations and wildlife. INORGANIC contaminants, such as salts and metals which can be naturally occur-ring, or the result of highway storm water runoff, industrial or domestic wastewater

discharges, oil and gas production, mining, or farming. PESTICIDES and herbicides, which may come from a variety of sources such as agriculture, urban storm water runoff, and residential uses. RADIOACTIVE contaminants, which are naturally occurring or be the result of oil and gas production and mining activities. ORGANIC CHEMICAL contaminants in-cluding synthetic and volatile organic chemicals, which are by products of in-dustrial processes and petroleum produc-tion, and can also come from gas stations, urban storm water runoff, and septic systems. In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, EPA prescribes regulations, which limit the amount of certain contam-inants in water provided by public water systems. FDA regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water, which must provide the same protection for pub-lic health. Drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contami-nants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Immuno-compro-mised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, per-sons who have undergone organ trans-plants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek ad-vice about drinking water from their health care providers. EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of in-fection by Cryptosporidium and other mi-crobial contaminants can be obtained by calling the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hot-line (800-426-4791). If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from

materials and components associated with service lines and home plumbing. The City of Philip public water supply sys-tem is responsible for providing high qual-ity drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can mini-mize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 mi-nutes before using water for drinking or cooking. If you are concerned about lead in your water, you may wish to have your water tested. Information on lead in drinking water, testing methods and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at http://www.epa.gov/safe-water/lead Detected Contaminants The attached table lists all the drinking water contaminants that we detected dur-ing the 2020 calendar year. The pres-ence of these contaminants in the water does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk. Unless other-wise noted, the data presented in this table is from testing done January 1-De-cember 31, 2020. The state requires us to monitor for certain contaminants less that once per year because the concen-trations of these contaminants are not ex-pected to vary significantly from year to year. Some of the data, though represen-tative of the water quality, is more than one year old. Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) The highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to the MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology. Maximum contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety. Treatment Technique (TT) A required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water. Action Level (AL) The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a water system must follow.

Test results for the water from West River/Lyman Jones Regulated Contaminants

Philip Test Results

Philip is served water from the Missouri River which is relatively free from contaminants. For further information, please contact Jake Fitzgerald at WR/LJ Rural Water, PO Box 407, Murdo, SD 57559, call 605-669-2931 or toll free 1-800-851-2349; or Mike Vetter at WR/LJ Rural Water, PO Box 144, Philip, SD 57567, call 605-859-2829 or toll free 1-800-859-6173. [Published May 27 and June 3, 2021 at approximate cost of $218.50]

Substance

Highest Level Detected

Range

Date Last Tested

Highest Level Allowed (MCL)

Ideal Goal (MCLG)

Major Source of Contaminant Substance

Fluoride

0.86

0.42-0.86

1/6/2020

4

4

Erosion of natural deposits; water additive which promotes strong teeth; discharge from fertilizer and aluminum factories

Haloacetic Acids

24.4

9/25/2020

60

0

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Total Trihalomethanes

50.0

9/25/2020

80

0

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Substance

Highest Level

Detected

Test Sites> Action Level

Date Last

Tested

Highest Level Allowed (MCL)

Ideal Goal

(MCLG)

Major Source of

Contaminant Substance

Copper

0.2

0

9/15/2020

AL=1.3

0

Corrosion of household plumbing systems; leaching from wood pre-servatives

Lead

3

0

9/15/2020

AL=15

0

Corrosion of household plumbing; erosion of natural deposits

Haloacetic Acids

4.32

9/14/2020

60

0

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Total Trihalomethanes

47.4

9/14/2020

80

0

By-product of drinking water chlorination

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