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OverDrive is active at the Lake Andes Library. What is Overdrive? It is a free service provided to patrons of the Lake Andes Public Library, which provides them with access to books, magazines and audio books. Overdrive has 25,000 items which can be downloaded to your kindle, i-phone, laptop, etc. The first time you use the service you will need to do so at the library, where you can get the website address and your individual user credentials. You do not need internet in order to read the selection from your device. Check out is for a 2 or 3 week period depending on what you are checking out. The selections may be renewed, and if not renewed will automatically be deleted from your device. You will need internet service in order to download selections.
Read moreMARK 8:13-15 “And he left them, and entered into the ship again and departed to the other side. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. And he charged then , saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod.”(KJV)
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Rocky Blare, reporting from the Senate in Pierre. This week I was fortunate enough to have three bills pass from committee and will be considered on the floor. Representative Finck and I are sponsoring HB 1084 which increases the allowable height for vehicles carrying baled feed up to 15 feet and it passed unanimously. The bill is headed to the Senate, if it passes the Senate and signed by the governor it will go into effect immediately.
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The U.S. Senate has only confronted a presidential impeachment trial three times in American history. The first was President Andrew Johnson’s trial in 1868, which reflected the lingering divisions of the Civil War. The second was President Bill Clinton’s trial more than 130 years later in 1999. At that time, I was serving South Dakota as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. I assumed and hoped that would be the last time I would be involved with the very rarely used impeachment provision in the U.S. Constitution. Regrettably, it was not.
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The Senate recently voted to acquit the president of the two Articles of Impeachment sent to us by the House of Representatives, falling 19 and 20 votes short of the 67 needed to remove him from office. I voted against the articles of impeachment, in keeping with the constitutional intent our framers expected.
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Wagner Bon Homme Varsity Scored a 123.70 at Region Meet on February 7. This is their season best! They started off on the floor by capturing the entire audience. These girls OWNED the floor! Of all seven teams, Wagner Bon Homme earned the highest team score on the floor. They earned 34.075; in 2nd place was Parkston Ethan Hansen with a 33.55, Chamberlain with a 33.425 and Hot Springs rounded out the top 4 with a 33.15. Keeping the girls with high energy and them staying tight throughout their entire routine proved to keep their scores competitive. Alcista Dion and Alexys Rueb both placed in the top 6 while Jenna Duffek was the Floor runner up this evening! Way to go girls! The girls also earned their season best team score on the bars! They were still 4th in in team standings on this event; but each gymnast raised her individual bar score by almost a full point and some; even more. We will continue to work their connections and holding the correct body shape throughout each skill they perform. On the vault, the Wagner Bon Homme girls were 2nd, earning a team score of 33.675 we fell only to Parkston Ethan Hansen by 6 tenths of a point. Alexys Rueb, Jenna Duffek, and Alcista Dion all placed in the top 13 with Alcista Dion winning the Vault! She is the 2020 Region 2A Vault Champion! The beam, however, is where they REALLY slipped. We had to count 5 team falls on beam. Each fall is half a point. We lost 2.5 points on beam due to falls. They fell to 5th place on beam. Had they been able to stay on the beam; they would have been pushed up to 3rd. Needless to say; we will be working extra hard on beam and continuing to work hard on bars this week as we help them prepare for the state tournament this upcoming weekend. Please help me in congratulating these YOUNG girls thus far this season. Having a varsity team comprised of two 7th graders that have never been in gymnastics before; two 8th graders, 2 freshman, 1 sophomore, and 1 Junior has been such a blessing and such a learning experience for us all. These girls have so much ability. We are excited to see how they come out at state.
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