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Seventy-six trombones might have led the big parade in the musical “The Music Man,” but Sergeant Ronnie Spain-Messick will be leading the South Dakota contingency in the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC, this year.

The regular meeting of the Gregory City Council was held at 6:00 p.m., Monday, February 6, 2023, at City Hall. Check out your state park passes at the library The South Dakota State Library has partnered with South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks (GFP) to provide state park passes to participating libraries, and Gregory Public Library is one of those participating.

On February 1, 2023, Governor Kristi Noem signed HB 1011, which cuts unemployment insurance employer contributions by 0.5%, delivering an $18 million tax cut for South Dakota businesses. “South Dakota’s economy is booming, our unemployment rate is the lowest in our history, and our people are choosing to work,” said Governor Noem.

Students made an audition recording that was selected from hundreds of auditions. They are some of the best fourth through sixthgrade singers from across the state. This is also the most students from Gregory selected into Elementary Honor Choir in a single year. This year, the EFHC will be conducted by Ken Berg, director of the Birmingham Boys Choir. The students will practice during the day on Thursday, and present a concert at the Performing Arts Center on the campus of SDSU at 4:45 p.m.

South Dakota State University Extension welcomes Jamie Wolf as the 4-H youth program advisor for Tripp and Gregory counties. Wolf will lead the 4-H programs in Tripp and Gregory counties, and is looking forward to using his education and experiences to help 4-H continue to thrive and grow.

Winner Regional Health recently announced that its Sleep Lab Program recently passed its review by the Center’s for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This is a very intense and rigorous process that not only allows Winner Regional Health to accept Medicaid and Medicare services, but to provide the highest level of care for their patients. This process is required every three years, and this has been their third accreditation over the past nine years. This demonstrates Winner Regional Health’s commitment and ability to meet a high level of performance and highlights its focus on patient care. Being accredited at the national level allows Winner Regional Health to provide services on a local level and in a timely manner, preventing the community from having to drive hours for similar services. Another advan-tage of providing this service on a local level is our ability to provide Home Sleep Studies (HST) for patients who prefer to complete their sleep study in the comfort of their own home.

Twenty-five years ago, as a very excited new social worker, I had the opportunity to work with a collaborative program in Worthington, MN, funded by the corrections program and housed within the elementary and middle schools. We built a teen peer mentoring program based on tools from the Search Institute’s developmental assets survey.

David Adler is president of The Alturas Institute, a non-profit organization created to promote the Constitution, gender equality and civic education. This column is made possible with the support of the South Dakota Humanities Council, South Dakota Newspaper Association and this newspaper.

SD Gov. Kristi Noem, along with the state’s Republican attorney general, said on January 24 that the state will prosecute pharmacists who dispense abortion-inducing pills following a recent Food and Drug Administration rule change that broadens access to the pills.

South Dakotans can check out state park passes from many public and academic libraries across the state through the new Check Out South Dakota State Parks program. The program is made possible through a partnership between South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) and the South Dakota State Library.