bison courier, december 20, 2012

Bison CourierOfficial Newspaper for the City of Bison, Perkins County, and the Bison School District

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Women's Bible study startingthe first full week of January inBison. If you are interested,please contact Dawn McKinstry at244-5934 or Sharon Longwood at564-2175 for more information.

Please join us at the Presbyter-ian Church in Bison for our Sun-

day School Christmas program at7:00 p.m.. Dec. 19.

The Bison Courier will beclosed December 31st and Jan-uary 1st, ad deadline for theJanuary 4th issue is December27th at NOON. No exceptions.

Gossman honored at Public Library Christmas open house

Jan Gossman has been the Librarian at the Bison Public Li-brary for 14+years.

County officials pay attention after recent loss of employees

By Beth HulmOver the past few months,

Perkins County has witnessed theloss of several employees, all ofwhom have moved onto other jobs.At the October meeting of thePerkins County Commission,there were three resignations; inNovember, two more; and lastweek brought the announcementof yet another highway workerwho has left county employ. Thatleaves the county with a skeletoncrew of four workers in that de-partment!

In addition to the loss of high-way worker Joe Green this month,4H/Youth Advisor Ida Schmidt, aone-year employee, also resigned.Schmidt was actually employed bythe State of South Dakota butworked closely with both Perkinsand Harding County youth and, inan agreement with the State, keptan office in each of their court-houses.

Former employee Slade Bur-dine, now in a fulltime positionwith the National Guard in RapidCity, visited last Tuesday’s board-room to “weigh-in on a couple ofthings” – one of which was the payfor Perkins County workers.

Burdine said, “We need to getexperienced, qualified operators.”To do that, he maintains thatwages have to be attractiveenough to keep seasoned employ-ees and to hire people with experi-ence. “We’re losing qualified guys,”he said and it costs “a lot ofmoney” to train every new em-ployee. He believes that it wouldbe worth the extra money to payfor experience.

If there’s a bad winter, Burdineargued that it could mean “prettyserious trouble for getting thecounty opened.”

Big money in the oil fields to thenorth has been cited as part of theproblem. Wayne Henderson,Lodgepole and western PerkinsCounty commissioner, said, “Evenif we bump wages up, we nevercan compete with them up there.”

Highway Superintendent TracyBuer said that with current wages,mandatory overtime and benefits,his men can make a living but itremains difficult to compete withthe higher wages in North Dakota.Still, increasing the pay “would bea very good starting spot,” headded.

Buer has said it before and hesaid it again last week. “Wages arean investment in your county.”

Burdine interjected that in-creasing the wages that the countypays could work both ways. Oilworkers, who tire of the lifestyleup north, might start moving backthis way and go to work for lessmoney than what they currentlyearn if the wages in the countywere more attractive than they arenow.

He said that he enjoyed workingin and for Perkins County but isnow earning almost double whathe did here “with guaranteedbumps.” What it came down to, hesaid, was “the dollar amount.”

Chairman Mike Schweitzer re-marked, “It’s pretty obvious to methat we have a problem.” He saidthat the commission will take a se-rious look before they set wages inJanuary for 2013.

The other thing that Burdinevisited with commissioners aboutwas the board’s decision to leavecounty equipment around thecountryside for area ranchers tooperate. “It hasn’t worked verywell in the past,” he said. Speak-ing from his personal experienceas the county’s mechanic, he of-fered, “The machines just didn’tget serviced like they were sup-posed to.”

His comments led Commis-sioner Willard Ottman to wonderif non-employees are qualified torun the county’s equipment.Ottman’s peer on the board, RustyFoster, said that “anyone” wouldneed training and that it would bethe responsibility of the supervisorto stay on top of necessary mainte-nance.

Brad Besler, commissioner-electwho will take an oath in Januaryfor a four-year term, was on thesidelines last week had anotherquestion about community work-ers. “How do you track theirhours?”

Schweitzer’s comment to thatwas that it would be ideal to havea full work crew but, without one,the county will have to be “inven-tive” for emergency situations.

Director of Equalization RowneaGerbracht introduced her new em-ployee, hired to fill the position re-cently vacated by Jenny Glover.Gerbracht wants to change the jobdescription for Jeanette Kruger

from clerk/appraiser to strictly ap-praiser, which would be a higherstarting pay. She argued that theextra training that Kruger willneed to become certified is muchmore than what is expected of aclerk. She hopes that an increasein wages would also help her re-tain personnel. She has had threepeople in that position in the pastfive years. Like Burdine beforeher, she talked about the cost oftraining new people.

Sheriff Kelly Serr stopped by todiscuss narrow banding of allcounty emergency service radios(for which there is ample grantmoney available); the updating offirearms for the sheriff ’s depart-ment; and his order for a new po-lice vehicle for Deputy KirbyChapman, which is covered in thecounty’s 2013 budget.

Indecision on whether or not togrant Lemmon Senior Citizens atax abatement on their new build-ing was cause to table action untilthe January meeting. With onlyfour of five commissioners presentto vote on the issue, there was tie.Finance Officer Sylvia Chapmancould’ve broken the tie but was un-comfortable doing so. “If we followthe letter of the law,” she said, “weshouldn’t approve it.” Earlier, theseniors were denied tax exemptstatus because they had let neces-sary paperwork expire and werenot eligible. It would be like re-versing a previous decision, Chap-man said. If the same vote hap-pens next month, it would be up tonewcomer Brad Besler to breakthe tie.

Chapman said that new healthinsurance premiums have beenannounced. They will increase by7% over the current year. Earliercommissioners agreed to plug a10% increase into their 2013budget. Chapman said that “Oba-macare” alone is increasing thepolicy by 9% but the county’s agentkept the premium increase belowthat because county employees area fairly healthy group.

Perkins County employees willenjoy a year-end bonus, equivalentto last year’s, and a two-day holi-day on Dec. 24 and 25.

A year-end meeting to close thebooks on 2012 has been scheduledfor Thursday, Dec. 27 at 10 a.m.The next regular meeting will beon January 8.

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• The Bison Courier • Thursday, December 20, 2012

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Returning boys basketball lettermen

Back row : Lane Kopren, Logan Hendrickson, Wil Kolb. Front row: Tyler Plaggemeyer, DanielChapman, Yancy Buer and Michael Kopren.

Christmas in South Dakota is atime of family and of giving. It isalso a time to say thank you.

Over the past year in SouthDakota, more than 500 people wereeye, tissue and/or organ donors.Each of these donors left their foot-prints in the sands of time, leavingus forever changed and forevergrateful. These precious gifts of do-nation, when the donor did notneed them anymore, helped tomake many miracles happen. Achild in West River can see becauseof a corneal transplant. A womancan return to her career becauseshe received a bone graft duringspinal surgery allowing her to walk.A high school student can onceagain play soccer after a seriousknee injury. An infant can see thefaces of those who love her for thefirst time. A new heart beats stronggiving someone a second chance atlife. In 2012, approximately 2,200South Dakotans' received a cornea,tissue, or organ transplant.

Chances are good that your livesare touched by one or more of thesepeople. Many thousands more willbenefit from the knowledge andtools gained from research dona-tions aimed at curing or treatingcancer, diabetes, and other dis-eases. In addition, lives have beensaved by the new or strengthenedskills learned in Sioux Falls andRapid City by paramedics, nurses,and other emergency respondersthrough donor family authorizedEMS training. Thank you, donorfamilies across South Dakota, forthese very special gifts. When yourhearts were breaking, you reachedout and gave permission, or sup-ported your family member's donordesignation. This kindness helpedstop another heart from breaking.You made a difference; we are allforever touched and grateful.

We hope that as you read this,you will think of the compassion ofthe gifts given and if you have notalready done so, decide to be a

Letter to the Editor - Footprints in theSand December 2012

donor yourself when you do notneed your sight and organs any-more. Be a hero; tell your familyand sign up at the Driver's LicenseBureau to be a donor. You may alsosign up to be a donor at www.do-natelifesd.org. We are proud that55% of South Dakota drivers havealready signed up as designateddonors. This Christmas, please jointhe crowd!

For more information, call theSouth Dakota Lions Eye & TissueBank 605-373-1008. And thank aLions Club member in your com-munity for starting and continuingto sponsor our Lions Eye and Tis-sue Bank!Thank you,

Jens SaakvitneExecutive DirectorSouth Dakota Lions Eye & TissueBank4501 W. 61st St. NorthSioux Falls, SD [email protected]

Cardinals even their season recordThe Bison Cardinals evened theirseason record by following a loss toFaith on Thursday in the seasonopener with a victory at home overthe Wakpala Sioux on Fridayevening. In a fast-moving and highscoring contest the Cards were on topof a 75-71 final score.

Senior Daniel Chapman cameto play and scored the first ninepoints of the game for the Cards. Hisfirst two-pointer was answered byWakpala, but they had no answer forthe next seven that he put up. Chap-man shot and made a two-pointer, athree-pointer and made two technicalfree throws following a book violationby the Sioux. Ty Plaggemeyer pickedup two quick fouls and then Lane Ko-pren was called for two fouls just 13seconds apart halfway through thefirst quarter. Yancy Buer shot frombeyond the arc and increased theCards’ lead. Wil Kolb put an offensiverebound in for two and Chapmanadded another two to his team-high26 points. The Sioux answered both ofthose baskets with threes from Car-lin Mellette, who ended the gamewith almost 50 points. Kopren got inthe book with a two and Kolb endedthe quarter by catching a perfect passfrom Chapman and putting it in thebasket. At the end of one the Cardshad scored 20 to Wakpala’s 15.

Mellette opened the scoring inthe second with a three-pointer forthe visitors which was followed byKolb’s three for the Cards. Kolb andChapman each scored on the next twoBison possessions. Kolb and Buercommitted fouls which gave the Siouxseveral chances to score from thecharity stripe but they could only con-vert three of their six free shots. Hen-drickson scored his first of 12 pointsand then a short time later, steppedbehind the arc and nailed a three-pointer. Wakpala’s Tyrone Cadottesent Hendrickson to the free throwline where he made one of two shotsand Chapman finished out the quar-ter with a final two-pointer. Plagge-meyer, Buer and Hendrickson wereall in foul trouble at the half withthree each. The teams headed for thebreak with Bison up by seven, 35-28.

Wakpala posted the first pointsof the second half with an old-fash-ioned three-point play by Mellettewho was fouled by Chapman on the

shot. Chapman was good on three offour free throws to keep the Cards’lead at seven. The Sioux scored twoquick baskets causing Coach CorbenAlley to call a time out to talk to histeam. Coming out of that talk,Plaggemeyer nailed a three andChapman scored a deuce to increasethe Cards’ lead to eight. That lead in-creased to ten when Chapman andKolb connected on a rainbow pass andKolb took full advantage of the oppor-tunity. Buer followed that with a niceturn-around jumper and all of a sud-den the Cards were up by 12. Scoringwas fast and furious in the finalminute and a half of the third startedby Kolb with a two-pointer, followedby Teddy Iron Cloud’s two, Plagge-meyer’s three, Mellette’s two three-pointers, Chapman’s three and IronCloud’s three. When the buzzer rang,The Cards had a six-point lead at 55-49.

The Cardinals finished with astrong fourth quarter by once againscoring 20 quarter points. Plagge-meyer started it out with a three justfour seconds into the quarter. Mel-lette continued to shoot threes fromanywhere on the floor and the Bisondefense had no answers for him. IronCloud and Mellette each made athree-pointer and tied the game at 61all with 5:55 left in the game. CoachAlley called a time out and, onceagain, coming out of that break,Plaggemeyer once again nailed athree-pointer. Chapman went two forfour on free throws and Hendricksonput in another two-pointer. Plagge-meyer returned to his favorite spot inthe corner and put up one more three-pointer with 3:20 left in the game.Mellette kept the Sioux in the gameby continuing to hit three-pointersand with 57 seconds on the clock, theCards found themselves up only byone at 72-71. Hendrickson hit two keyfree throws which helped keep Bisonfrom losing the lead. Buer earned hisfifth whistle of the evening and Buerfouled out at :39 seconds had to leavethe game. With under five secondsleft, Plaggemeyer had a steal and laidit up for the final two points of thegame.

Stats: Scoring: Chapman, 26;Plaggemener, 17; Kolb, 13, Hendrick-son, 12; Buer, 5,s and Kopren, 2.

The Bison Courier • Thursday,December 20, 2012 •

NNOOTTIICCEE OOFF PPAATTRROONN MMEEEETTIINNGG& SPECIAL MEETING

Alliance Ag CooperativeHettinger, ND

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 8th AnnualMeeting for patrons of Alliance Ag Cooperative ofHettinger, North Dakota will be held Wednesday,January 9, 2013 at 12:00 pm in the American Le-

gion “Tank” located in Regent, ND.

The meeting will have the following guests - LarryHolst of Land O’Lakes, Brian Pederson of Hennen &Associates, Rich Ruemmele of CHS Capital, elec-

tion of two board members, manager’s report, opendiscussion and much more.

The special meeting will be to approve the following amendments…

• Boundaries for Election of Directors•Change in how NDFU Educational Funds are calculated

Lunch will be served at 11:30.BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

David Witte, Secretary

Returning girls basketball lettermen

Stephanie Kolb, Sidney Arneson, Lenae McKinstry, Kim Peck, Shelly Peck.

HettingerTheater

Rise of theGuardians

PG97 minutesDec21 - 23featuring digital surround sound

Nightly • 7:30 p.m.Sunday Matinee 2:00 p.m.

3-D Glasses $2.00

Nutrition Site MenuThursday, December 20Sausage gravy over biscuittossed salad w/dressing

squashjello w/strawberries

Friday, December 21Ham & potato omelet

green beanscinnamon roll

plums

Monday, December 24Closed NO MEALS

Tuesday, December 25Closed NO MEALS

Wednesday, December 26Chicken & dressing

baked squashharvest beetsfruit cocktail

Al and Tiss Treib attended acomputer class in Lemmon hostedby WRCTC Monday evening. Theythen went out to supper before re-turning home.

Dorena Wiechmann, Kari Hoffand Esther Johnson came to helpTiss Treib Tuesday morning. AlTreib made everyone lunch. In theafternoon, Dorena, Kari, Estherand Tiss traveled to Hettingerwhere they ran errands. Theywent for ice cream before return-ing Tiss to her home in theevening.

Al and Tiss Treib traveled toBismarck Wednesday morningand returned home in the after-noon.

Al Treib headed back to Bis-marck Thursday morning and be-cause of icy roads returned home.Al Treib, Lucas and Stanford Allentraveled to Minot, ND Friday lateafternoon and returned to Het-tinger Saturday morning.

Stanford Allen accompanied AlTreib home Saturday to spend theweekend at the ranch.John and Shirley Johnson went tochurch Sunday.

Annie Mutschler of Lemmon,Mandy, Hope, Ella, Greta and EricAnderson were Saturday morningvisitors of Tim and JoAnne Seim.

Dorothy and Lynn Frey at-tended the Christmas program,brunch and Ladies Aide gift ex-

change at Church in Bison Sun-day.

Monday, Jim and Patsy Millerattended the sale in Faith.

Jim and Patsy Miller took cakeand ice cream up and held a birth-day party for Violet Miller at West-ern Horizon’s Care Center in Het-tinger Wednesday afternoon.

Jim and Patsy Miller playedcards at the Senior Center in Het-tinger Friday afternoon.

Jim and Patsy Miller, Matt andChristi Miller attended theShriners Christmas Party in Lem-mon Friday evening.

Jim and Patsy Miller spent Sat-urday with Matt and ChristiMiller making Christmas cookies.

Jim and Patsy Miller attendedSanta Claus Day for Eastern Starin Bison Sunday afternoon.

Jim and Patsy Miller were Sun-day evening guests of Brooke andPastor Margie Hershey.

Tuesday Thelma Sandgren wentand spent some time with HelenMeink and exchanged magazines.Thelma Sandgren went to Het-tinger Friday. Played cards andvisited at the Nursing home.

Georgia Sandgren came homeSaturday to put up the Christmaslights at Thelma Sandgren’s.

Georgia Sandgren was a Satur-day afternoon guest of DoreenChapman in Bison.

Ken Krisle visited Thelma

Sandgren Saturday afternoon.Sunday after church Thelma

Sandgren was a luncheon guest ofNate and Susie Skjoldal. Theythen went to Lemmon to the Pres-byterian Church Hymn Sing.

Shirley Harris took ThelmaSandgren to Bible Study at thehome of Lester and Sharon Long-wood Sunday evening.

Albert Keller returned homeTuesday evening from work.

Thursday, Albert, Bridget andLil Albert Keller traveled to Lem-mon to do some shopping and havea nice steak supper for Bridget'sbirthday.

Friday, Albert, Bridget and LilAlbert Keller traveled to Bismarckfor a baby appointment.

Saturday, Albert and Bridgetand Lil Albert Keller were dinnerguests of Dawn and Duane Harris'and Albert helped preg test andpour cattle.

Sunday, the Albert Keller familyattended church services.

Nolan and Linda Seim and fam-ily traveled to Rapid City Thurs-day.Nolan and Linda Seim and familytraveled to Bison Sunday for pic-tures with Santa. Santa and thehelpers all did a great job.

Shirley Harris, Joyce Fossumand Martina Ham had dinner to-gether Wednesday.

Rosebud News ............. Tiss Treib


Dr. Jason M. HafnerDr. David J. Prosser

OPTOMETRISTFaith Clinic

1st & 3rd Wed. of the month

Buffalo Clinic2nd & 4th Wed. of the month

1-800-648-0760

SDSU Extension will host Pri-vate Pesticide Applicator Certifica-tion training beginning Jan. 4.

Anyone planning to apply anypesticides to an agriculture com-modity potentially worth $ 1,000 ormore, need to receive certificationas a private pesticide applicator, ex-plains Buyung Hadi, SDSU Exten-sion Pesticide Education andUrban Entomology Coordinator.

"It does not matter what pesti-cide you apply whether it is herbi-cide, insecticide or fungicide youneed to be certified as a Private Ap-plicator," Hadi said.

There are three options to getcertified. A person many attend athree-hour recertification class atany certification site listed below.Alternatively, they may stop by thelocal Regional Extension Centerand pick-up the materials to com-plete the open-book, home-studyexam, or the person may take thePrivate Applicator exam on-line atthe Department of Agriculture'swebsite, http://apps.sd.gov/doa/pwt/.

Although it is the law to becomecertified, Hadi says there are otherbenefits to becoming certified.

"Certification gives you the toolsto apply pesticides properly, safely

and profitably. The certification isgood for five years and allows appli-cators to buy and apply general andrestricted use pesticides," he said.

During the training, SDSU Ex-tension personnel will cover theSouth Dakota rules and regulationsabout applying pesticides. Depend-ing on the location, we will also dis-cuss local pest management issues,be it insect pests, weeds or diseases.

There is no charge for attendingthe private applicator class or tak-ing the open-book home-studyexam to become certified or recerti-fied as a private pesticide applica-tor.

Dates and locations are as fol-lows:

Dewey; [email protected] South Main St., Timber Lake2/5/2013; 1:00 pm MST

Perkins;[email protected], Lemmon Regional Ex-tension Center; 1/14/2013, 12.30pm MST

Meade: [email protected],19617 Ball Field Road, Union Cen-ter, Union Center, 2/19/2013, 1:00pm MST

Perkins: [email protected],Bentley Bldg, 400 West Carr St.,Bison, 2/26/2013, 1:00 pm MST

Private pesticide applicator certification training for 2013begin January 4

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Lady Cardinals host Wakpala SiouxThe Lady Cardinals played the

opening game of a GBB/BBB dou-ble header on Friday eveningwhen they hosted the WakpalaLady Sioux. The Cards continue tolook for a reliable scorer and inthis game put up a total of 24 ontheir side of the board. The LadySioux ended with 69 points. It wasthe Cards’ third loss in the firstthree games of the young season.Wakpala opened the game with abasket five seconds after control-ling the tip. They went on to addfour more points before Bison’sKiana Brockel found the bottom ofthe net to get the Cards on thescoreboard halfway through thefirst quarter. The Sioux had a cou-ple of opportunities at the line butdidn’t score again until afterShelly Peck got in the book with atwo-pointer. In the final minute ofthe period, the visitors scored two

baskets and a three at the buzzerfrom just inside the half-court line.At the first break the Cards weredown 4-13.

The Lady Sioux scored 13 pointsin a row to start the second quar-ter. Finally, with 2:48 left untilhalftime, Stephanie Kolb landed atwo and Kim Peck finished out theCards’ first half scoring with oneof two free throws giving theCards 7 points to Wakpala’s 33 atthe half.

The second half started out slowfor both sides with turnovers andprocedural errors from bothteams. Sydney Arneson shot agood three getting the Cardinals’score into double digits. Wakpalacontinued to create match-upproblems for the Cards and wereable to score a lot of points on fastbreaks and lay-ups. Peck went tothe line with 2:30 left in the quar-

ter and made the first of two freethrows. She missed the second butwas able to rebound the ball andput it back in for another twopoints. At the end of three quar-ters, the Cards were down 15-49.

Cardinal reserves provided sixof the Cards’ nine points in thefinal quarter. Kimberly Peck hadthe first points for Bison with atwo-pointer a minute and a halfinto the period. Madison Hulmnailed a three-pointer and her sis-ter, Marranda, went one of twofrom the charity stripe for the Car-dinals. Bison’s other three pointscame from a free throw by Arnesonand a two-pointer from S. Peck.

The Cardinals will host thePhilip Lady Scotties on Thursday,December 20 beginning at 6:00p.m.

Obituaries

Mass of Christian Burial wasTuesday, December 18, 2012 at10:30 a.m. at the Blessed Sacra-ment Catholic Church in Bison.Fr. Tony Grossenburg officiated.Burial was at 3:00 p.m. at theBlack Hills National Cemeterynear Sturgis Tuesday afternoon.

Patricia Pearl O’Rourke wasborn June 14, 1924, during a wind-storm on the family homesteadnear Meadow, South Dakota. Patwas the seventh child born to W. J.“Shorty” and Rosa (Staudenraus)O’Rourke. Her aunt, who hadhelped with the birth, jokingly

suggested she be named CycloneSally. Pat attended rural Rainbowschool through the 8th grade, andgraduated from Bison High Schoolin 1943.

Following graduation Patworked for the Perkins County Ab-stract Company and the AAA of-fice. Pat married Ted Kolb on Fri-day September 13th, 1948 inPresho, South Dakota. Pat andTed made their home in Bison, SD,where Pat worked for many yearsin the Perkins County Courthouse.The Kolb’s family grew with thebirth of two sons, Randy in 1952,and Shane in 1960. In the late1950’s, Pat and Ted started ranch-ing on the O’Rourke homesteadnear Meadow. Pat continued towork at various offices in Bison,but was primarily a stay at homemother and ranch wife. Pat tookan active role in her children’s ac-tivities, which led to a lifelongcommitment to community serv-ice. Through 4-H, rodeo, and herdevotion to the Catholic Church,Pat influenced and touched thelives of many over the years. Withover 40 years of service as a 4-Hleader, Pat was honored in 2002 tobe one of the first 100 inducteesinto the South Dakota 4-H Hall ofFame.

Pat passed away on December

13, 2012 at the West River Re-gional Medical Center in Het-tinger, North Dakota.

She is survived by two sons,Randy (Kathy) Kolb Blaine, Min-nesota and Shane (Angie) Kolb,Meadow, SD; granddaughter, JulieKolb, Blaine, MN; grandsons,Chris (Marnie) Telkamp Centen-nial, Colorado, Jeff Kolb, Blaine,MN and Justin and Wil Kolb,Meadow, SD; great grandson,Brock Telkamp, Centennial, CO;her brother C.L. O’Rourke, BelleFourche, SD; her sisters, IsabelO’Rourke, Tacoma, WA, and Rose(George) Seiler, McIntosh, SD;Brothers -in-law, Albert (Bernice)Kolb, Spokane, WA, Herb (Jessie)Kolb, Lemmon, SD, Walter(Janette) Kolb, Spearfish, SD; sis-ters-in-law, Alama O’Rourke,Bison, SD, and Edna Martin,Spearfish, SD; as well as manynieces and nephews.

Pat was preceded in death byher husband Ted; her parents,W.J. and Rosa O’Rourke; andbrothers, William, Lawrence,Robert, Daniel, and SilasO’Rourke.

Visitation was Monday, Decem-ber 17 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.at the Blessed Sacrament CatholicChurch followed by a Rosary/Vigilservice at 7:00 p.m.

Patricia "Pat" Kolb

PPaassttoorrss PPeerrssppeeccttiivveePastor Phil Hahn

Grace Baptist ChurchWhat Makes Christmas, Christmas?

This time of year is a special time for us as we celebrate thebirth of Jesus. It's easy to get caught up in the busyness of

the season, the family gatherings, the parties, the preparations, etc. and to forget about the real reason for the season. So here are some reminders about the sights

and sounds of Christmas.

When you see the Christmas lights this year,remember..."The true Light that gives light to every maywas coming into the world." (John 1:9) When you see the

gifts under the tree, remember...God's gift to us - "The Father sent His Son to be the Savior of the world."

(I John 4:14) When you see the nativity scene, remember..."She will give birth to a son and you are to giveHim the name, Jesus, because He will save His people fromtheir sins." (Matthew 1:21) When you hear the Christmascarols being sung, remember...the angel's message - "Gloryto God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whomHis favor rests." (Luke 2:14) When you hear the Christmasstory being read, remember..."The Word became flesh and

made His dwelling among us." (John 1:14) When youcelebrate His birthday, remember..."Today in the town of

David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord."(Luke 2:11)

Truly this is what makes Christmas, Christmas! Rejoiceand thank God for the "good news of great joy!"


Grace Baptist Church • Pastor Phil HahnSunday School 9:30 a.m. • Worship Service - 10:30a.m.

Wednesday Prayer Mtg. - 6:30 p.m.Church of Christ

18 mi. south of Prairie City - Worship Service - 10:00 a.m.Prairie Fellowship Parish ELCA • Pastor Margie Hershey

Indian Creek - 8:00 a.m. • American - 9:30 a.m. • Rosebud - 11:00 a.m.Christ Lutheran Church WELS •

Pastor Gerhardt JuergensSunday Bible Class - 8:00 a.m., Worship Service - 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday Bible Class - 7:00 p.m.Coal Springs Community Church

Pastors Nels & Angie EasterbySouth Jct. of Highways 73 & 20

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m., Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.Seventh Day Adventist Church • Pastor Donavon Kack

Sabbath School - 2:00 p.m., Worship Service - 3:00 p.m.Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church • Fr. Tony Grossenburg

Saturday Mass: Morristown - 4:45 p.m. Lemmon - 7:15 p.m., Sunday Mass: Lemmon - 8:15 a.m., Bison - 11:00 a.m.

Holland Center Christian Reformed ChurchPastor Brad Burkhalter • Lodgepole

Worship Service - 8:00 a.m.First Presbyterian Church • Pastor Florence Hoff, CRE

Sunday School 9:30 a.m. • Worship Service -10:30 a.m. Slim Buttes Lutheran • Pastor Henry Mohagen

Reva • Sunday School 9:45, Worship Service - 11:00 a.m., WMF 2ndWednesday at 1:00 p.m.

Beckman Wesleyan Church • Pastor Brad BurkhalterPrairie City

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m., Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Vesper Service - 6:00 p.m., Wed. Evenings - 7:30 p.m.

Jessie Tibbs Keckler, 68, ofEagle Butte, South Dakota passedaway on November 29, 2012 atPierre, South Dakota.

Jessie Tibbs was born in Pierre,SD on Nov. 10, 1944, one of fivechildren of Esther "Boyd" Tibbsand Ancel Tibbs. She attended

rural schools until eighth gradewhen she moved in with hergrandmother and attended Stan-ley County High School, where shegraduated. She attended BlackHills State University where shereceived her degree in education.

She married her husband of 46years, Jerry Keckler, on August18, 1966 in Pierre, SD.

Jessie then began her 39-yearteaching career with the CEBSchool System. Upon her diagno-sis of pancreatic cancer she retiredin 2010 to spend time with herfamily.

Jessie was a founding boardmember of the Casey Tibbs Foun-dation and her greatest accom-plishment was seeing the doorsopen to the South Dakota RodeoCenter.

Jessie attended the EmanuelLutheran Church in Eagle Butteand was a member of the UnitedChurch of Christ of Eagle Butte.There she taught Sunday School

Jessie Tibbs Kecklerand Vacation Bible School formany years and was the youthgroup advisor for twenty years.

Jessie's greatest joy was spend-ing time with her grandchildren.They were the twinkle in her eye.

Jessie was preceded in death byher mother, Esther, and father,Ancel, and brothers-in-law JerryCollins and Jack Keckler.

She is survived by her husband,Jerry Keckler; daughters Jeri Ann(Tommy Dale) Vines of EagleButte and Mikki (James) Rea,Woodward, OK; granddaughtersMiranda, Rae Lynn, and Tatum;brothers Wayne "Fio" (Lori) Tibbs,Mission Ridge, and Larry (Barb)Tibbs, Pierre, SD; sisters Jill(Keith) Strunk, Minnetonka, MNand Dayle Angyal, Pierre; sisters-in-law Patti Keckler and JoyceCollins, Eagle Butte; and severalnieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial isestablished.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping

for that which has been your delight.


Understanding theWay a Woman Thinks

Women have a reputation forforgetting where they left theirpurse or where they set down theircar keys or cell phone. And accord-ing to men, women also have areputation for bringing up stufffrom the past.

To understand why this hap-pens, think of the common junkdrawer. What’s in a woman’s mindis similar to the things that are ina junk drawer—lots of miscel-lanea, anything that needs fixed,and general clutter that gets shuf-fled around in a drawer. It’s a des-ignated spot where stuff is storedthat isn’t necessarily ready to bethrown out yet or you don’t knowwhat else to do with it. Regardlessof what gets thrown in a junkdrawer, it’s usually saved for along period of time. Practicallyeverything in a junk drawer has apurpose and might come in handy,but for some of those things you’re

just not sure what. A woman’s mind is like a catch-

all for things that need to be dealtwith at some point and informa-tion she doesn’t necessarily needto incorporate right away butcould come in handy later. Hermental junk drawer is where a lotof things she picks up in conversa-tions and experiences are storedfor future reference or getting backto later.

Junk drawers typically hold alot of little stuff so it’s oftentimeshard to find a specific item. Oncesomething gets tossed into awoman’s mental junk drawer itgets mixed in with all the other lit-tle things shuffling around in hermind. This is why a woman strug-gles at times with rememberingwhere she put down her personalitems. When dealing with severalother things in her mental junkdrawer something is bound to beforgotten and it’s usually a purse,keys, or cell phone because they’renot stuck in her head like thoughtsare.

As can be found in your averagejunk drawer, so too in everywoman’s mind there will always besomething in there that bafflesyou. Something you’re not surewhy it’s been saved or what you’re

supposed to do with it but areafraid to disregard it because youhope it will make sense later.

Women’s favorite mental junkdrawer items are things that needfixed or worked on. We’ll call them“issues”; a relationship problemthat a woman feels didn’t get re-solved so she puts it in her mentaljunk drawer to fix another time.When a woman stumbles uponthis kind of stuff she tries to dis-cuss it with her husband but itusually just confuses him and shegets mad. He feels sandbagged be-cause it’s usually something thathappened in the past—because heput it there, forgot about it, or dis-regarded it and moved on. Awoman never discards any rela-tionship issue until she feels it’sbeen resolved. If she gets frus-trated trying to fix it or the issuegets dropped, it goes back into hermental junk drawer for safekeep-ing until another day. Anytimesomething triggers the issue, shedigs it back out again and tries towork on it some more until she’sconfident it’s been “fixed.”

So if you don’t want to have tokeep dealing with the same junk,then don’t let it get put back intothe junk drawer.

Guest ColumnistAmy Kirk is a ranch wife from Custer, South Dakota.

May the spirit ofChristmas be with you throughout the

New Year


Young Lady Cardinals finish season strongThe 7/8th grade girls’ basketball

season came to a close Saturday,December 15, 2012 with the Lem-mon Junior High Girls’ BasketballTournament.

Bison played the Faith Long-horns first and, despite a goodstart, turnovers ended up gettingthe best of the Young Cards andFaith won the game: 50-23. Scor-ing for the Cards were Jenna Kariand Sydney Senn each with 8, Ju-lianna Kari with 5 and GraceeVeal with 2.

Bison came head-to-head withthe Harding County Ranchers fortheir final game. It was a well-

played game by both teams, andthe Bison Cardinals came awaywith the win to earn a 3rd placefinish in the Tournament. Again,Jenna Kari and Sydney Sennwere the high scorers for Bison,each with 4 and Julianna Kariand Gracee Veal each added 2 fora final score: Bison-12 and Hard-ing County-9.

The team consisting of SydneySenn, Julianna Kari, Jenna Kari,Hope Crabtree, Gracee Veal, Jes-sica Stockert, Nicole Hafner andRebecca Spangler were coachedby Steve Senn, assisted by KathyHafner.

Jenna Kari, Hope Crabtree, Jessica Stockert, Sydney Senn, Coach Steve Senn, Julianna Kari,Gracee Veal.


A very blessed thankyou to all of my Bisonfriends for my visit in

October, all of yourwonderful smiles, hugs,visits and friendship

from so many.

Special thanks toWRCTC and Grand

Electric for their continued good job andhelpfulness to so many.

In appreciation andthanks to

Teddi Carlson for letting me stay withher. All of the other

friends we shared mealsand visits with. I

treasure my manymemories of all of youand your kindness to

me.

May God bless you andyour families during

this Christmas Season.Seasons blessings, Betty Ann Tufty

The Gift of Christmas is a

precious reminderthat we

are loved!


Joly Rancher 4-H - food pantry donation tree

In keeping with the Jolly Ranchers 4H Clubs’ tradition startedin 2008, they again ask for your help to restock the shelves ofthe Food Pantry. Donations of canned and/or non-perishablescan be left at the drop box next to the Jolly Ranchers Christ-mas Tree at the Courthouse. Donations will be gladly accepteduntil January 2, 2013. Thank you.

Fred and Bev Schopp took inseveral basketball games in Lem-mon this past week.

Brent Thiel and Abby wereThursday lunch guests of Fred andBev Schopp.

Art and Marilyn Christman at-

tended Christmas Concert atSpencer Memorial PresbyterianChurch Sunday afternoon.

Carolyn Petik was an afternoonvisitor at Irene Young's. In theevening she attended the girl’sbasketball game.

On Thursday evening severalmembers of the Grand Valley GalsClub gathered at Carolyn Petik'sfor their Christmas Party.

Jerry Petik attended a meetingin Lemmon on Wednesday morn-

Meadow News .................By Tiss Treib

ing.Carolyn Petik was a Saturday

afternoon visitor at Kim Petik's.Bill Hirchert of Piedmont was a

Saturday supper guest at Petik's.Jerry and Carolyn were among

dinner guests at Irene Young's onSunday. In the afternoon they at-tended the Christmas Concert atSpencer Memorial Church andalso visited with several people atthe nursing home.


Letters to Santafrom Miss Hedstrom’s

first grade class

Christmas is a magical time of the year. A time whenfamilies come together to celebrate the holiday season.Childhood memories of family outings in search of thatspecial tree last our whole lives. When you share that

Christmas Tradition with your loved ones, it too will become a treasured memory that lasts a lifetime!


Cards travel to Faith ------------

Daniel Chapman scored 10 points, he is pictured in the upperleft photo. Logan Hendrickson and Yancy Buer (23) had 6points each they are pictured above. Final score 73 - 26.


Santa and hishelpers are

getting ready todeliver gifts tothe children of

the world.

Christ Evangelical preschooldecorated this tree

Students used old hymnal pages and pine cones among otherthings to decorate this tree.


Music students present Christmas concert

Bailey Storm, Jessica Stocker, Braden Kopren, Roni Voller,Jaylie Beckman.

Kindergarten students: Talon Lundberg, Jada Peck, Jozi Schuchard, Colbin Veal, Jacelyn Wat-son-Veal, Rylee Veal.


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Bison Town BoardMonday, December 10, 20125:30 Bison Bar6:00 p.m. City Hall

5:30 p.m. Four trustees and the financeofficer gathered at Bison MunicipalBar for Blane Chapman’s demonstra-tion of the new security cameras, re-cently installed by Chapman’s Elec-tronic Shop.

CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL:Chairman Juell Chapman called theregular monthly meeting of the BisonTown Board to order on Monday, Dec.10, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall.Trustees Luke Clements, Matt Butsav-age and Mike Lockert were present;David Kopren was absent. Otherspresent: Employees Heath McKinstryand Beth Hulm; and Gladys Jackson,press.

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCEWAS RECITED BY ALL.

ALL ACTION IN THE FOLLOWINGMINUTES CARRIED BY UNANI-MOUS VOTE UNLESS OTHERWISESTATED.

MINUTES: 104-2012 – Clementsmoved, seconded by Butsavage to ap-prove the minutes of the regular Nov. 5, 2012 meeting as corrected. Car-ried. 105-2012 – Lockert moved, sec-onded by Clements to approve the Nov.27 special meeting minutes as pre-sented. Carried.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT: 106-2012 – Chapman moved, seconded byClements to transfer $5,262.68 from604 Sewer to 603 Special Projects tocover a shortfall for engineering andother incidentals. Carried. 107-2012 –Clements moved, seconded by Chap-man to transfer $6,000 from 601 liquorfund to 612 Solid Waste to cover short-falls. Carried. 108-2012 – Clementsmoved, seconded by Butsavage to ap-prove the Financial Report with thosechanges. Carried. The complete Finan-cial Statement is on file at City Hall.

STATUS REPORT: Trustees re-viewed McKinstry’s written status re-port with him. The complete report ison file at City Hall. Upcoming projectsinclude re-lining sewer line from eastof the water tower for approximately400 ft. The complete report is on file atCity Hall.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS Vote on proceeding with StormSewer project: Trustees discussedcosts and the current plans and speci-fications; also the location of the hold-ing pond in the plan and the responsi-bility of fixing sidewalks on MainStreet. They talked about applying fora Community Access Grant in thespring and/or doing the project inphases vs. all in 2013. Lockert notedthat the new engineering estimatelacked an amount for contingency. Hewill do further research. A vote onwhether or not to proceed with thestorm sewer project was postponeduntil the year-end meeting. 109-2012 –Clements moved, seconded by Butsav-age to hold the year-end meeting at6:00 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 28 at CityHall. Carried.Airport Cardtrol: Trustees were inreceipt of validation paperwork to signfor KLJ Engineering regarding the in-stallation of a Cardtrol system at BisonMunicipal Airport. The equipmentwould be purchased using federal air-port entitlement funds. The town’slocal 5% share of the $139,500 projectwould $7,750. Trustees wish to down-grade the size of the fuel tank beforesigning the forms. Chapman will visit

with the engineers before furtherboard discussion at the Dec. 28 meet-ing.

NEW BUSINESSSDML Workers’ Comp saw grant:At McKinstry’s urging, trustees deniedthe opportunity to apply for a 50% cost-share grant for the purchase of a util-ity chain saw for cutting pipe in atrench. McKinstry said there would belittle use for the tool purchase, whichwouldn’t justify the cost to the munici-pality.Library request: 110-2012 - Butsav-age moved to approve Bison Public Li-brary’s use of the Town’s Federal IDnumber to apply for a credit card to beused by library personnel with thestipulation that misuse of said cardwould be cause to terminate the li-brary’s use of the ID number. Secondedby Chapman. Carried. PCRWS: Chapman, Butsavage andMcKinstry will serve as a committee toattend the rural water meeting onThursday night, Dec. 13 to discuss sev-eral areas of mutual concern.Year-end Bonuses for Employees: McK-instry asked trustees to consider ayear-end bonus for employees butasked that it not be tied in with cost ofliving wage increases in January.Trustees will consider bonuses at theDec. 28 meeting.

EMPLOYEE JOB DESCRIPTIONS:Trustees discussed several minorchanges to employee job descriptionsand requested job descriptions forpart-time bartenders and the rubblesite supervisor. Hulm will researchwhat other towns do and present theinformation at the Jan. 7 meeting.

EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK: 111-2012– Clements moved, seconded by Lock-ert to approve and adopt the secondreading of \ employee handbook policychanges. Carried.

CORRESPONDENCE: Hulm willpost information about the SouthDakota Retirement System municipalofficial opening on their board of direc-tors, which is a four-year term begin-ning July 1, 2013.

OPEN FORUM: There was conversa-tion regarding an easement, if andwhen the storm sewer is built. Lockertgave a report on the Fall Airport Sem-inar that he recently attended in Man-dan, ND, which was put on by the Bis-marck Airport District Office of theFAA; Hulm reported on the Dec. 5Election Workshop, which she at-tended in Rapid City. It was presentedby Secretary of State Jason Gant.

CLAIMS: The following claims werepresented and approved for payment.November payroll by dept –Fin.Admin., $638.70; Streets, $892.70; Air-port, $20.49; Parks & Rec., $24.37; Li-brary, $516.16; Econ. Development,$37.24; Liquor, $4,798.06; Water,$1,074.90; Sewer, $420.54; SolidWaste, $2,062.40. Total FICA,$1,966.44; Health Ins, $500; SDRS,

$645.54; Supp. Retirement, $35; 701Foods, supp., $159.50; A&B Business,supplies, $82.51; Bison Bar, prof. fees,$300; Bison Courier, publishing,$202.09; Bison Grain Co., supp,$375.37; Boom Concrete, prof. fees,$26,564.29; Chapman’s Electronics,bldg, $5,798.90; City of Ft. Pierre, Prof.fees, $434.85; Coca Cola, supp.,$234.45; Dakota Feed, supp., $196.85;DPFCU, supp./equip, $874.55; Dept. ofRev., sales tax, $1,848.14; Frito, supp.,$42.64; Grand Electric, utilities/prof.fees/bldg, $2,617; Hausauer,repairs/maint, $415; HD Supply, re-pairs/maint., $607.92; HettingerCandy, supp., $1,103.78; Hulm, E.,travel/supp, $122.38; Inland Potable,prof. fees, $2,975; Jerome Bev., beer,$1,791.35; Johnson Bros., on/offsale/misc supp, $2,735.12; KBM Eng.,prof fees, $331.14; Kelli Nelson, misc.supp., $78; NW Bev., beer, $4,833.45;NWSDRLA, prof. fees, $2,211.27;Penors, supp., $35.02,; Pepsi, supp.,$387.20; PCRWS, water, $3,174.60; Re-public, on/off sale, $2,064.99; S&S,supp., $1,889.15; SD DENR, fees, $50;SD Fed. Property, supp., $300; Servall,prof. fees, $75.07; WRCTC, util.,$264.68.

EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR PER-SONNEL PURSUANT TO SDCL 1-25-2(1): 112-2012 – Butsavage moved,seconded by Clements to go into execu-tive session at 9:50 p.m. to discuss per-sonnel matters. Carried. Chapman de-clared the meeting back in open ses-sion at 10:23 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT: Chairman Chap-man adjourned the meeting at 10:25p.m.

NEXT MEETINGS: A special year-end meeting will be at6:00 p.m. on Dec. 28; the next regularmeeting is Monday, January 7 at 6:00p.m.

ATTEST:APPROVED:

Elizabeth Hulm, Finance OfficerJuell Chapman, ChairmanTown of Bison

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Grand River Roundup By Betty Olson

This week started on a happynote with the Slim ButtesLutheran ladies Christmas teaparty last Sunday. Linda Mohagenbrought her large collection of teacups, tea pots, and a variety ofteas for us to sample. All the ladiesbring a plate of goodies and weplay games, share Christmas sto-ries, eat all we can hold, and gohome well satisfied, both insideand out.

Bill Vroman had skin cancer re-moved from his nose Tuesday. Thedoctors had to do a lot of cutting toget it all and then they grafted apiece of skin from in front of hisear to the end of his nose. He hasa lot of stitches on the side of hisface where they took the skin to

graft and the end of his nose has aneatly stitched little red circle.Kind of reminded me of that rein-deer we sing about this time ofyear! We’re glad the surgery wentwell and the bright red colorshould disappear soon.

The Harding County historybook committee met in BuffaloWednesday afternoon to readthrough and make necessary cor-rections after Mary Buchholzbrought the proofs home from theprinter in Aberdeen for final exam-ination. Several of us wentthrough both volumes with verycarefully, looking for mistakes andtypos. It took us all day, but someof the delay was caused becausewe’d get bogged down reading thefascinating stories sent in aboutfamilies and people from this area.The two volumes won’t be done intime for Christmas, but theyshould arrive early in 2013. Thishas been a long process and we areso looking forward to getting itdone.

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If you haven’t already ordered a set,there is still time! You can send a checkfor $80.00 to: Harding County HistoryBuffs, % Northwest Regional Library,P.O. Box 26, Buffalo, SD 57720 if youplan to pick them up in Buffalo. If you

want the two volumes shipped to you,add another $10.00 for shipping. Iguarantee that they are worth everypenny. I can hardly wait until I getmine!

A note to the committee ñ be sure tosave all your bubble wrap and packingpeanuts to use for shipping the books.

Ethan Andress was here to Bangsvaccinate for us on Thursday. He’dbeen at Valloff ’s that morning and washeaded to Jim Wilkinson’s after he fin-ished here. Taz was here to help thatmorning and then went snowmobilingout at Cook City with his cousin WadeEngel over the weekend.

I lost a long-time friend this Thurs-day. Pat (O’Rourke) Kolb, 88, of Bisonpassed away on at the West River Re-gional Medical Center in Hettinger.Pat and her husband Ted were goodfriends of my parents when we lived inBison. Pat taught my sister and me totap dance when we were pretty smalland even now, at my advanced age, Ican’t keep my feet still when I hear theold songs ‘Bimbo’ or ;Frosty the Snow-man;. Pat;s funeral will be Tuesday inBison with burial next to Ted at theBlack Hills National Cemetery that af-ternoon. Rest in peace old friend, we;regonna miss you.

By know you’ve all heard about thecrazy person who broke into that ele-mentary school in Newtown, Connecti-cut and shot to death 20 little firstgraders and six female teachers. Withthe exception of Utah and a county inTexas, our schools in this country are‘gun free zones’ and those poor teach-ers had no way to protect themselvesand the children. All those ‘gun freezones’ like Columbine and Aurora, Col-orado have become killing fields for theslaughter of innocents. I am so infuri-ated by this that I’m mulling over waysto legislatively prevent this senselesskilling of our children from ever hap-pening again. Nothing can save themall, but you never hear of anyone shoot-ing up a gun shop or a hunting range,do you?

There was an interesting story outat Casper, Wyoming on Tuesday whena guy walked into a nail salon andtried to sell the owner some diamonds.When she said she wasn’t interested,he pulled out a gun. A woman customerreached into her purse and grabbedher concealed weapon. Fearing for hislife, the big coward ran out of the salonas soon as he saw that she was armed

and ready to defend herself and theother customers. If those poor teachersin Connecticut could have done thesame thing, many of those little chil-dren might still be alive.

Several legislators from across thestate met with the directors of theSouth Dakota Stockgrowers in RapidCity Friday to discuss the up-cominglegislative session and some of the is-sues concerning the agriculture com-munity. We discussed the ADC pro-gram, prairie dog control, and thebrand inspection program

Beckman Memorial Church inPrairie City held their Christmas pro-gram Sunday evening and the SlimButtes Lutheran Christmas programwill be next Sunday at 11:00 with a potluck dinner following. It’s easy to getcaught up in the hustle and bustle ofChristmas, but let’s not forget thatChristmas is essentially a birthdayparty for a baby boy born all thosemany years ago to a very young motherin Bethlehem. That little baby wassent to bring love, hope, and salvationto the world. It would be wonderful if,at least for a little while, we could putaside our differences and focus on whatis really important in life instead oftrying so hard to be politically correct.

Did you hear about the woman whowent to the Post Office to buy stampsfor her Christmas cards?

She asked the clerk, "May I have 50Christmas stamps?"

The clerk asked, "What denomina-tion?"

The woman sighed deeply andreplied, "Heaven help us. Has it cometo this? Give me 6 Catholic, 12 Presby-terian, 10 Lutheran, and 22 Baptist."

Have a very Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year!

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Thank YouThank you to whoever put up the ever-green cross at the end of our driveway.God bless you for remembering andcaring.

Harold & Lillian FlatmoeBrian, Gloria & girls

We want to thank all of you who re-sponded to the recent tragedy in ourfamily with kind words, phone calls,cards and hugs which we so desper-ately needed. Everything you did wasdeeply appreciated by all of us. Thankyou again and have a Merry Christ-mas.

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We want to take this way to express our gratitude to each and everyone who made Karen’s benefit in Wall, December 1st, such a fun and

entertaining evening.Thank you to the Red Hat Ladies and the auctioneers for food and fun, and

everyone for attending, showing their support and concern.Karen will be in surgery December 12th to have the knee put in.

What a great place to live and work. A big thank you to everyone for all youhave done to make these 2-1/2 months a step in getting well.

Thank you!Karen & Harold Delbridge

Naughty or Nice? Driving impaired is not worth

the risk of being on SANTA’SNaughty List!

The consequences of drinkingand driving are serious and real.Not only do you risk killing your-self or someone else, but thetrauma and financial costs of acrash or an arrest for driving whileimpaired can help you decideWHAT you are GETTING forChristmas for years to come!

Violators often face jail time, the

loss of their driver’s license, higherinsurance rates and dozens ofother expenses from attorney feesto fines to loss of wages.REMEMBER!

Drinking and driving won’t landyou on SANTA’s NICE list!Plan ahead for your holiday cele-brations.

1. If you drink, don’t drive.2. Designate a sober driver be-

fore the fun begins.3. If you’re hosting a party,

make sure you have non-alcoholicbeverages available.

4. If you see a drunk driver onthe road, call 9-1-1 to make a re-port.

5. REMEMBER! Every trip!Every Time! Buckle Up!Let’s keep this holiday season safeand sober for everyone on ourroadways.

bison courier, december 20, 2012

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