Opinion

It was 5:20 A.M. the morning of April 21st, and Ed and Michelle, good friends of Mark and LuAnn, were going to pick me up. They had offered a year ago to take me marlin fishing, and it was finally going to happen.

Artists and medical personnel both know the importance of art. The famous nurse Florence Nightingale once said, “Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means to recovery.”

This has been an exhausting year for moms. Last spring, we had no idea we would still be dealing with this pandemic a year later.

Betsy and I just returned from a ten-day visit to our youngest daughter’s home in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (aka Los Cabos). Cabo is on the very tip of the thousand-mile-long Baha Peninsula beneath California.

Don’t take any chances with grizzly bears! Some of us, myself included if Mike Hall and I are lucky enough to draw our Wyoming elk tags, will be hunting this coming fall in Montana or Wyoming, and we need to be aware of grizzly bears.

When I was a kid, my grandparents took me fishing at the Lake Norden spillway, a passage that allows water from Lake Norden to flow underneath Highway 28 and into lakes Mary, John, Albert and points beyond. I don’t recall being excited by the outing. Fishing had never appealed to me.

While we South Dakotans are among the most fortunate people in the world, we often take things for granted without fully realizing just what we have. Such is the case with our turkey hunting. South Dakota is frequently recognized as the top state in the nation to hunt turkeys.

My grandmother was a lively, caring, wonderful woman, who remained very active late in her life. One spring day, after an unusual April blizzard, she stepped out of her apartment on her way to her weekly bridge game.

PROVERBS 13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches."(KJV) There are those in this world who spend their life gaining money, possessions, and land and much much more who others would look at them and say---they are rich.

The SDSU Extension office is pleased to announce that Michael J. Koranda has filled the role of 4-H Youth Program Advisor March 1. Michael will be shared between Bon Homme and Charles Mix Counties and when in Charles Mix, he will office at Courthouse in Lake Andes.