Week four of the legislative session was the only week that consisted of five days; the rest are four day weeks. The session is almost halfway done.
Read moreWe started off our week in the House Education Committee with a room full of concerned citizens. Our first bill that we considered was calling for volunteer chaplains in the Public Schools. This was going to be a problem for schools like Colome where I think that the ministers are from out of town. It still passed out of committee 10-5. We had two other bills that used up our committee time. One we sent to the appropriation committee and the other we tabled. On the floor of the House we passed six bills, but not without a lot of debate. After we adjourned the House for the day, the Military and Veterans Affairs Committee met. I presented a bill HB1068 “An Act to allow a student to wear certain military decorations at a school graduation ceremony”. After pro/con discussion the committee voted 12-0 to pass it to the floor of the House.
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Ava Lynn Cline, the daughter ofMichaelandNancyCline, was born on April 18th, 2006. Ava is the sister of Airen, Arianna, Airis, and Ariel Cline. Some of Ava’s favorite things to do are drawing and playing video games.
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Our other AHS Athlete of the Week is Hope Kemnitz, a juniorwrestleratAHS.Hope started wrestling because of a family friend, and after her first all-girls open mat that she went to, she fell in love with the sport. Hope’s wrestling style is folkstyle, and her favorite takedowns are single leg and firemen’s.
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Jamisen Pelton, a junior at AHS, is one of our Pirate Athletes of the Week. When we asked Jamie why he started playing basketball, he responded that his dad used to be a good player, which inspired him to go out for basketball in the 7th grade. Jamie’s role model is also his dad because he has a great job and has played a very important role in Jamie’s life. “He is constantly doingthingsforus,andisjusta greatpersonoverall.”Jamie commented.
Read moreThis week was the start of a lot of long days. We start at 7:45 Monday, Wednesday, Friday in Education. We start at 7:45 on Tuesday and Thursday in Health and Human Services. We have to be done with our meetings by 10:00 so that the next committee meeting can get started in that meet-ing room. Some days we had to carry over to the next meeting day the bills that we didn’t get to. One day we had security officers in our meeting.
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Several Charles Mix Electric members took advantage of three local meetings held in January to provide information on rate changes that will take effect on April 1st. In an effort to reach as many members as possible, Charles Mix Electric held district meetings throughout the county in Platte, Lake Andes, and Wagner.
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