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Sheriff Randy Thaler presents John Crisman with a plaque at his retirement party, held on Friday, March 18th. Congratulations.
Read moreThe Wagner American Legion Auxiliary will be sponsoring their Soup and Sandwich Luncheon with a Bake Sale on Thursday, March 31 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Wagner.
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Life expectancy is a measure commonly considered when it comes to the overall health of a population. In this day and age, when most of us think about which medical interventions are most important to increase life expectancy, we probably think about things like treatment of cancer, interventions to treat heart attacks, or surgeries for life threatening illnesses. While those things are all important, their overall impact on a population’s life expectancy pales in comparison to the prevention of infectious disease.
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A dear old friend, Frank Kurtenbach, and Tom Hoffman, both of Brookings, along with myself, traveled down to Tulsa, OK to follow the SDSU Jack Rabbit wrestling squad in the Big XII Conference Wrestling Tournament on March 5th and 6th. Our SDSU grapplers are developing into a Division One powerhouse. Missouri, Oklahoma, Northern Iowa, Oklahoma State, and Iowa State finished ahead of us, but we finished 6th ahead of North Dakota State, Wyoming, West Virginia, the Air Force Academy, Utah, and Northern Colorado. What does this have to do with geese, pheasants, walleyes, or whitetail deer? Read on.
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A huge congratulations goes out to all those on the Bon Homme Youth Wrestling team that qualified for the State Tournament in Sioux Falls on March 25th - 27th and to those that didn't qualify on a great season. Among the 46 qualifiers of this group, 11 of them are from Avon. Those of which include: Tyler Tjeerdsma, Alshamon Gunter, Weston Bierema, Thayne Tjeerdsma, Raegan Brandt, Sydney Johnson, Tucker Tjeerdsma, Colt Wolf, Remington VanDuysen and Cowan Wolf. The coaches from this thriving program had these great comments to say in regards to this amazing season as well as last years.
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“[Jesus] said, ‘A certain man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, “Father, give me my share of your property.” So he divided his livelihood between them. Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living’” (Luke 11:11-13 World English Bible).
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