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One of this week’s featured WCS seniors is Bain Kuhlman. He is the son of Jeff and Rhonda Kuhlman. During his high school years at Wagner Community School, Bain has been involved in several extra-curricular activities including chorus (four years), FFA (three years) and football (four years).
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One of this week’s featured WCS seniors is Sabrina Kreber. Sabrina is the daughter of Michael and Amy Blaha. During her years at Wagner Community School, Sabrina has been in several extra-curricular activities including cheer (two years), track (seven years) and volleyball (seven years).
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Wagner Community School qualified eight wrestlers to the AAU State Wrestling Tournament that was held March 15th -17th in Rapid City at The Monument. Out of the eight qualifying wrestlers, five of the wrestlers brought home medals. The eight wrestlers that qualified for the state tournament were Klay Kokesh (tots 57), Jacob Holzbauer (Bantam 57), Lane Koupal (Midgets 63), Rachel Holzbauer (girls Midgets 77), John Krcil (Novice 64), Tom Krcil (Novice 63), Mason Turner (Novice 117), and Frank Krcil (Schoolboy 90). A big thank you to the dedicated coaches who volunteered their time to teach the WCS youth wrestlers this season. These coaches were Alex Kocer and Austin Genzlinger. Before the wrestlers left for the AAU State Tournament in Rapid City, WCS had the wrestlers do a walk through the hallways so that the staff and students could wish them all good luck. The five wrestlers that placed were Klay Kokesh, state champion; Frank Krcil, 2nd place; Tom Krcil, 3rd place; Rachel Holzbauer, 5th place; and John Krcil, 6th place. Klay Kokesh came home with a state championship title in the Tot’s 57 lb weight class.
Read moreAmerican Legion Greer Post #11 held its monthly meeting on March 21, 2024 with 29 members in attendance. We had two guests, Kevin Morello who is running for State Commander and his riding partner, Marv Tisdall, who is the District 1 Vice Commander. Kevin spoke about some of his goals if elected as the new State Commander. His comments and goals were well received. Commander Clayton Rados thanked them for their attendance and looks forward to meeting them again at the state meeting in June.
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On Wednesday, March 20th, the Wagner Rotary Club found themselves in a different location. Our meeting was held at the Two Spurs Restaurant to accommodate six students, Juniors, and Seniors, from the Wagner Community School and their parents. Every year in the Spring the Rotary Club recognizes these top scholars in their classes with an invitation to one of our meetings, a meal, and a presentation by their High School Superintendent.
Read moreA couple of days ago my wife Brenda and I had a meeting in Aberdeen so we traveled north on highway 281 towards our destination. The landscape along this way is pretty flat with not much to see except lots of farm land. After 98 miles of driving time we came to the town of Wolsey. We joked about how many people in South Dakota probably have no idea where Wolsey even is. We joked about it for awhile and then we saw it had a population of about 459 people. I commented on what was probably not happening in Wolsey on a typical day, when all of a sudden we saw 9-10 fairly new houses on the edge of town. We were surprised with what we saw and then we felt like we needed to stop and ask some people how this happened, but we had not extra time to stop. We clearly changed our joking and started talking rather serious about what they were doing to promote housing growth that we were not. Since this was not the case, we drove on and talked some more about what kind of people must live there and what kind of leadership they must have to help make this growth happen. We tried to think about the last time we saw a new house go up in the city limits of Wagner and why it is so hard to come up with the answer. Do you know the answer to this basic question? If you do, you have a better memory than we did. We wondered what was standing in our way when we know it has been talked about a lot, but no action ever takes place. What kind of leaders need to be leading to help change this story? What ever the answer is it seems to elude us year after year. When will this change and what will it take to change the road we seem to be on?
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