Opinion

Greer Post #11 American Legion met Dec. 19, 2019 with 15 members present and 1 guest. The meeting was called to order by President Juanita Stone. The opening prayer was read by Margie Stone and all recited the Pledge of Allegiance and the Auxiliary Preamble. The minutes were read and approved.

Dear Editor: Was notified that their are new painters in the town of Wagner. No business person needs you paint the sides of our business. Do you kids have parents and did they give you the money to buy the paint or did you steal it from another business?

Rog's Rod & Nimrod It was late summer 1960. I boarded the Chicago & Northwestern “Dakota 400” in downtown Chicago and rode the rails to what was then SDSC in Brookings, SD. I was about to experience a massive dose of culture shock. My Chicagoan mindset was totally foreign to South Dakota.

weekly hospice meetings, the discussion turned to the burden of finding an opening in a facility for one of our patients. Mr.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod There’s an interesting, if not somewhat angry, editorial in the November 2019 issue of Petersen’s Hunting magazine called “Taking the Piss Out of It.” It really doesn’t affect me personally.

In 1906, two brothers, Nikolai and Matthew Gjelsvik, arrived at Ellis Island from Norway. The only English they knew were the words apple pie and coffee, which they learned on the boat on the way over.

The holiday season is a special time of year. We get to rejoice in God’s gift to mankind while spending time with our family and friends, enjoying traditions of holidays past and the moments and memories created with those we love.

PSALM 27:14 "Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." (KJV) Patience is a virtue saith the Lord. Everybody today is in such a big hurry. They want to get everything done yesterday and do not want to wait for anything.

My patient was in severe pain, suffering from an obstruction in his gastrointestinal tract as a result of spreading cancer. I knew that morphine, one of the opioids, would provide immediate and merciful relief, and it did.

When I received my fall edition of the Dakota Territory Gun Collectors Association newsletter, I learned that Mitchell, SD had lost its gun show. That show had been scheduled for March 14-15, 2020.