RESULTS Tuesday Mixed League 12/15/23 Tee Riffic Creations 246-90; Angry Birds 219-117; Old Pioneer 210½-125½; Carlock Babes, 167½- 168½; The Outsiders 127-209; Wild Bunch, 113½-222½; Six Balls 100½-91½; Rez Dawgs 95-241; HTG: Tee Riffic Creations, 653; HTS: Old Pioneer, 1754; HIG: Bryan Nelson, 233; Jennifer Soesbe, 176; HIS: Steven Peterson, 566; Jennifer Soesbe, 433. Thursday Mens League 12/07/23 Blue Ballers, 58½-31½; Nagel Body Shop, 56-34; Stukel Eagle Ranch, 50½-39½; Home Town Automotive, 47-43; Northern Plains, 46-44; CATS, 36-54; Rod’s Sport Shop, 34-56; Gregory Lanes, 32-58; HTG: Nagel Body Shop, 803; HTS: Nagel Body Shop, 2371; HIG: Dusty McKenzie, 254; HIS: Dusty McKenzi, 669.

This holiday season, LifeServe Blood Center is urging families in South Dakota to come together and create a new and meaningful tradition: donating blood as a family to save lives in their communities. LifeServe Blood Center is the lifeline for more than 160 hospitals primarily in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Hospitals in your community have chosen LifeServe as their sole provider of blood and blood products, meaning that when you donate blood with Life-Serve, you can save lives in your neighborhood. As a communitybased blood center, LifeServe only hosts blood drives in communities where that blood will go back into the area hospitals.

Steve Hayes, Dan DeSmet and Murray Thompson were elected to the Board of Directors at the October 3rd meeting of Fidelity Corporation, the sole shareholder of First Fidelity Bank. Steve Hayes currently serves as Senior Vice President and Branch Manager in Presho.

I recently presented my budget to the South Dakota State Legislature. It’s a budget that prioritizes people, not programs.

Commentary by Bill Bullard, CEO, R-CALF USA Go back just five years, to 2019. Remember what fed cattle prices were back then? The 5-Area steer price was $115 per cwt, which was the lowest annual steer price in eight years. Remember also, that in 2019 the volume in the fed cattle cash market had fallen to the lowest level in history, to less than 21%. And back then, during the first nine months of 2019, beef imports were 2.3 billion pounds.

From the very beginning, the rural school in South Dakota during the first half of the 1900’s served as a community center for the local area. The earliest schools were, in fact, the product of local community effort. It was the people who decided where to locate the school, how to build it, and selected a board of local citizens to manage it.