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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).
Read moreJim and Shirley Yonkers and Nathan, Reina and Sloan Weber of Sioux Falls were visitors on Saturday night in the home of Jay and Sally Weber. Nathan, Reina and Sloan were visitors on Sunday in the home of their grandparents and great-grandparents, Jim and Shirley.
Read moreFeeding South Dakota food distribution will be held Friday, March 25 at the Scotland Community Church at 8:45 a.m.; the Tyndall Fire Hall at 10:30 a.m. and at the Avon Fire Hall at 12 noon. This will continue to be a “drive-thru” distribution until further notice.
Read moreWork is being completed for the second annual “605 Unity Jam”, which will be held at Wagner Lake on Sunday, June 12. The event will begin at noon and conclude around 9:30 in the evening. The Unity Jam Planning Team has been meeting to help create this special project. The project was a big success for a first time event last summer and will feature cultural heritage programing, music, dance, food and art.
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The following qualified for the State AAU tournament held in Sioux Falls March 25-27: Lacen Dion, Frank Krcil, Jaxton Hill, Hunter Wiechmann, Mason Turner, Elijah Sully, and Colin Brown Bear, Thomas Krcil, John Krcil, Lane Koupal, Kolt Koupal, Grayson Knebel. Jacob Fousek pictured to the left.
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