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Memorial services to be held for Shirley Layh Funeral services for Shirley Layh, age 91, of Gregory, SD, will be held on Saturday, October 30 at 10:30 a.m. at St.

The new projector has arrived, and Hipp Theatre will open this weekend. Friday and Saturday, October 29 and 30, the theater will show The Addams Family 2 as a free movie, a sort of treat, not trick, to celebrate Halloween.

Laps of Love will host a soup and sandwich fundraiser on Sunday, November 7, from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., at Gregory Memorial Auditorium.

Four Gregory students will have the opportunity to be part of All-State Chorus in Rapid City on October 29-30. Katherine Stevicks, Jordan Spann, Christian Spann, and Eli Barreto were selected to be part of the nearly 1,000 person choir.

Amy Berg is the proprietor of a new business in town, Beau Casse’, The Sculpted Body. At Beau Casse’, which means “beautifully broken,” Berg uses Cryo 21 equipment to offer treatment for pain and inflammation, toning and tightening, cryolipolysis (fat termination), and cryo-rejuvenating facials.

The regular meeting of the Gregory County Board of Commissioners was held at 9:00 1.m., Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at the Gregory County courthouse in Burke. Travelers get approval Travel requests were reviewed and approved for John Jensen and DeWayne Bennett to attend the County Weed and Pest District meeting in Pierre on October 27 and for Brad Ellwanger’s trip to Sioux Falls on October 20-21 for the Local Roads Conference.

Although Halloween will finally arrive on Sunday, trick or treating opportunities began on Tuesday evening with Avera Rosebud Country Care Center’s Door-to-Door Adventure and the Chamber of Commerce’s Trunk or Treat. Silver Threads has saved their treating fun for the actual date of Halloween, Sunday evening from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

On October 12, 2021, USDA pegged 2021 sunflower production at 1.90 billion pounds, down 36 percent from the revised 2020 production of 2.98 billion pounds. USDA added 480,000 pounds to 2020 nonoil sunflower production and left oil type production unchanged from last year. Area planted, at 1.28 million acres, is down seven percent from the June estimate and down 27 percent from last year. US sunflower growers are expected to harvest 1.22 million acres, down 27 percent from last year. The overall average yield for all sunflower types is forecast, at 1,554 pounds per acre. This is 236 pounds lower than last year’s yield, if realized.

Clark Gies, left, Chairman of the Gregory County Historical Society, presented a check to Mike Glover, right, Burke Finance Officer, to help with purchasing a projector for the Burke Civic Center..

Almost two months ago, Pat Cerny became the first to draw the ace of spades in the Gregory/Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s Chase the Ace promotion and win $5,085, or half the total jackpot to that point.