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SIOUX FALLS — Memorial Dayweekend is approaching, which canonly mean one thing: The countdownto summer is on.

According to AAA’s first travelforecast of the summer, 110,750South Dakotans are projected totravel over Memorial Day, represent-ing an increase of .4 percent — or450 more travelers — compared tolast year.

“Several key factors are drivingthe expectation for more holidaytravelers this year,” said MarilynBuskohl, spokeswoman for AAASouth Dakota. “As the economy con-tinues to improve, disposable in-come, consumer confidence and the

employment outlook are trending up.This is welcome news for travelersas well as the travel industry.”

Three trends from AAA’s 2014 Me-morial Day forecast among SouthDakotans include:

• Road trips remain strong:Nearly 105,100 South Dakotans — or94 percent of holiday travelers —plan to drive to their destination.This represents an increase of .1 per-cent from last year. South Dakotanswill pay $3.535 per gallon to fill upbefore heading out of town this Me-morial Day, compared to $3.658 lastyear.

• Air travel experiences lift:About 4,930 South Dakotans plan to

fly to their Memorial Day destina-tion. This represents an increase of.2 percent from last year.

• Travel expenses rise modestly:South Dakotans will encounterslightly higher prices this MemorialDay weekend. Airfares are 6 percenthigher, mid-range hotels are up 2percent and car rentals are costing 1percent more compared to last year.

Nationwide, 36.1 million Ameri-cans will be traveling over the longholiday weekend, an increase of 1.5percent percent over Memorial Day2013.

AAA offers a variety of mobiletravel resources including AAA Mo-bile, a free app for Smartphone

users. The app uses GPS navigationto help travelers map a route, locatenearby discounts, summon roadsideassistance, find current gas pricesand more. Travelers can learn moreabout this resource at AAA.com/mo-bile.

Research for Memorial Day travelprojections are derived from IHSGlobal Insight, which conducts spe-cial research for AAA. The MemorialDay holiday travel period is definedas trips that include travel of 50miles or more during the five-day pe-riod from Thursday, May 22, to Mon-day, May 26. AAA has been reportingon holiday travel trends for morethan two decades.

Craig and Sarah Anthony, along with theirhorses Cody and Hickory, came to sharetheir equine knowledge with the BeadleSchool kindergarten students recently.Sarah told us lots of amazing facts abouthorses; while Craig demonstrated his far-rier skills by showing the kindergartenershow to change a horse shoe. We reallyenjoyed the opportunity to learn so muchabout horses! Pictured: Sarah and CraigAnthony, their 3 Beadle Bugs, and Hick-ory. The kindergarten students have hadvisits all week long because they havebeen learning about pets during PetWeek in Kindergarten. (Submitted Photo)

AAA

Summer Travel Looks Busy

HorsingAround

The American LegionAuxiliary Roy AndersonUnit No. 12 of Yankton pre-sented awards to winnersof the 2014 AmericanismEssay and Poetry Contest.Students in grades 3-6,from all schools in Yanktonwere asked to participate.

The title for the essaycontest was: “How Can IShow Pride in Being anAmerican?”

Malena Diede, Ameri-canism Chairperson, gavethe following Essay win-ners’ awards:

GRADE THREE • First Place — Morgan Milk;

Teacher, R. Brooks: WebsterSchool

• Second Place — JeoffreyMiller; Teacher, R. Brooks: Web-ster School

• Third Place — CourtneeBrandon; Teacher, R. Brooks:Webster School

GRADE FOUR • First Place — Anessa Nel-

son; Teacher, P. Weydert: Bea-dle School

• Second Place — CourtneyAnderson; Teacher, P. Weydert:Beadle School

• Third Place — LaurenTereshinski; Teacher, P.Weydert:Beadle School

GRADE FIVE • First place — Korbin Yag-

gie; Teacher, B. Giegle: SacredHeart School

• Second Place — EmilyRafferty; Teacher, B.Geigle: Sa-cred Heart School 

• Third Place — AlexisWiersma; Teacher, K. Stevens:MVC School

GRADE SIX • First Place — Payton Wolf-

gram; Teacher, E.Harriman: Sa-cred Heart School

• Second Place — RyanEichacher; Teacher, L. Olnes:Sacred Heart School 

• Third Place — LukeBarnes; Teacher, K. Stevens:MVC School

Payton Wolfgram won 1stplace in the District Contest. Wewish her the best at the StateContest this summer.

———The title for the poetry Con-

test was: “Veterans Leave Foot-prints on our Hearts.” MalenaDiede gave awards to the follow-ing winners :

GRADE FIVE:• First Place — Kylie

Bochman; Teacher, R. Hunhoff:Beadle School

• Second Place — JustenChristensen; Teacher, H. Savey:Webster School

• Third Place — Hailey John-son; Teacher, R. Hunhoff: Bea-dle School

Congratulations to KylieBockman, who won 3rd place atthe District Contest in Wagner.

GRADE SIX:• First Place — Morgan

Heine; Teacher, E.Harriman: Sa-cred Heart School

• Second Place — MaryFanta; Teacher, E.Harriman: Sa-cred Heart School

• Third Place — JustinPayer; Teacher, L. Olnes: Sa-cred Heart School

Legion Aux.Essay, Poetry

WinnersAnnounced

Yankton High School recently partic-ipated in the USD Merten Haase MathCompetition. YHS came in secondplace among large schools.

The following students participatedin the contest.

Calculus — Alex Dangler, DevinClark, Molly King, Hunter Koch, RyanOlson, Abby Schulte, JJ Hejna, DerekBrenner, Juan Skorey, TaylorRothenberger

Pre-calculus — Malan Moody, SamBisgard, Madison Dangler, Erica Wester-man. Paul Fanta, David Barnes, BenCameron, Madeleine Logue, Jon Barkl,Zach Lattea

Algebra II — Manny Valadez, ColbyBenson, Emilee LaBarge, Brett Pardy,Hannah Williams, Jacob Smith, DanielleGillis, Cody Perakslis, Sam Gusso, Ash-ley Lacey

Geometry — Kristen Rezac, Sophie

McKee, Ben Rust, Oliver Kotalik, NateStephenson, Rachel Rucker, Hunter Lip-pert, Kelsey Westerman, Katie Hauer,Hunter Cameron

Algebra I — Austin Ahlers, JackSasek, Devan Hohbach, Mathew Trezzo,Zach Borstad, Joe Zoeller, MarySchmidt, Javier Lopez, Alex Palecek,Haley McDonald

SUBMITTED PHOTOThis is a photo of the Yankton High School math team that recently placed second in the statewide SD Merten Haase Math Competition.Not pictured are the eighth grade participants

YHS Math Team Places Second

Yankton Medical Clinic, P.C. is pleased to an-nounce the 18th Annual Yankton Medical Clinic,P.C. Scholarship Program award winners.

Four $1,000 scholarships were available forapplication to high school seniors located in theYankton Medical Clinic service area who havean interest in pursuing a major in a medicalfield. One $1,000 scholarship award was avail-able to a student currently enrolled in a labora-tory, radiology, respiratory therapy or nursingprogram, with preference given to those with anintention to return to work within a 50-mile ra-dius of Yankton. In addition, a $5,000 scholar-ship award was available to a third-year medicalstudent of Sanford School of Medicine of TheUniversity of South Dakota, with preferencegiven to those entering a primary care field (In-ternal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics,OB/GYN) with an intention to return to practicemedicine within a 50-mile radius of Yankton.Total scholarship dollars amount to $10,000 forarea students.

Yankton Medical Clinic, PC created thescholarship program to promote higher educa-tion and to provide resources for area youth toseek higher education in the medical field.

The scholarship selection committee re-viewed applications from a large and outstand-

ing list of students. The chosen award winnersdistinguished themselves by their academic ac-complishments and their school, church, andcivic activities.

One of the six scholarships is being given inhonor of the late Dr. Theodore H. Sattler. Dr. Sat-tler was one of the original physicians of Yank-ton Clinic, which later merged with the MedicalClinic to form Yankton Medical Clinic, P.C. Dr.Sattler retired from the Yankton Medical Clinic,P.C. in 1992.

The 2014 Dr. Theodore H. Sattler/YanktonMedical Clinic, P.C. winner is Abby Schulte fromYankton Senior High School, Yankton.

A second scholarship is being given in honorof Dr. Jay W. Hubner. Dr. Hubner began his prac-tice with Yankton Medical Clinic, P.C. in 1973,and retired in 2006. His father, the late Dr. R.F.Hubner was one of the original physicians of theMedical Clinic, which later merged with theYankton Clinic to form Yankton Medical Clinic,P.C.

The 2014 Dr. Jay W. Hubner/Yankton MedicalClinic, P.C. winner is Matthew Preszler fromMenno High School, Menno.

A third scholarship is being given in honorof Dr. Michael R. McVay. Dr. McVay began hispractice with Yankton Clinic in 1978, and retired

in 2009. He began his practice as a cardiologistafter completing a fellowship in 1981. His father,the late Dr. Chester McVay, was one of the origi-nal physicians of Yankton Clinic, which latermerged with the Yankton Clinic to form YanktonMedical Clinic, P.C.

The 2014 Dr. Michael R. McVay/Yankton Med-ical Clinic, P.C. winner is Shelby Van Driel fromScotland High School, Scotland.

The fourth scholarship is being given inhonor of Dr. John C. Sternquist. Dr. Sternquistbegan his surgical medical practice with Yank-ton Medical Clinic, P.C. in 1980, and retired in2009.

The 2014 Dr. John C. Sternquist/YanktonMedical Clinic, P.C. winner is Jacob Morrill from,Creighton Community Schools, Creighton, Neb.

The 2014 Yankton Medical Clinic, P.C. Med-ical Professional Scholarship recipient is BaileyKuchta, a Mount Marty College nursing studentfrom Wynot, Neb.

The 2014 Yankton Medical Clinic, P.C. Med-ical Student Scholarship recipient is AbigailLichter of Yankton.

The Yankton Medical Clinic wishes theaward winners and all of the applicants greatsuccess and good wishes in their futureendeavors.

Questions regarding the Yankton MedicalClinic Scholarship Program should be directedto your local high school guidance counselor orthe Marketing Department at the Clinic.

SUBMITTED PHOTOYankton Medical Clinic, P.C. Internal Medicinephysician, Dr. Tyler Hanson, presenting third yearUniversity of South Dakota Sanford School ofMedicine medical student, Abigail Lichter, withthe 2014 Yankton Medical Clinic, P.C. MedicalStudent Scholarship.

YMC Announces Scholarship Winners

SD Alpha OmegaAlpha Chapter

Inducts 12New MembersVERMILLION — The South

Dakota chapter of the AlphaOmega Alpha inducted ninestudents, one faculty member,one alumnus and one residentat an induction banquet inSioux Falls on Thursday, May 8.It was the 37th new member in-stallation of the University ofSouth Dakota Sanford Schoolof Medicine South Dakota’schapter. Alpha Omega Alpha isthe only national honor med-ical society in the world.

Six students from the Classof 2014 were elected last fall:Adam Bledsoe of Aberdeen,Derek Gearman of Lennox,Kayla Haines of Mitchell, LauraHill of Madison, Kayla Noren-berg of Hurley and ErinWilliams of Sioux Falls. Threestudents from the Class of 2015were elected as juniors thisspring: David Brennan of Col-strip, Mont., Brian Juber ofWorthington, Minn., andWilliam Sheaffer of St. Paul,Minn.

Alpha Omega Alpha is or-ganized for educational pur-poses and aims to promotescholarship and research inmedical schools through theencouragement of a high stan-dard of character and conductamong medical students andgraduates. The USD chapterwas granted its charter in 1978.Members of Alpha OmegaAlpha at USD must rank in thetop 25 percent of their graduat-ing class with no more thanone-sixth of potential gradu-ates elected for membership.Scholastic excellence is not theonly criterion for election; in-tegrity, capacity for leadership,compassion and fairness indealing with colleagues areconsidered to be of equalsignificance.

In addition to the students,the chapter elected one facultymember, Dr. Keith Hansen; onealumnus, Dr. Eric Larson; andone resident, Dr. MichelleSchimelpfenig.