Opinion

DEATHS Myrna Raye Schrader, 83 years, March 19, 2022, Marion, SD. Joan Kaye Davis, 72 years, March 19, 2022, Chamberlain, SD.

April marks Month of the Military Child, an annual celebration where communities across the country lift up the sons and daughters of our military heroes. During this time, we remember that the men and women in uniform are not the only ones who sacrifice for our country – their families sacrifice time together. Sometimes they even sacrifice the life of their loved ones.

The early colonial settlers on the East Coast learned about the significant agricultural products that would be available to them in their new home from Spanish, French, and English explorers. The long established Spanish settlements of the West Indies, Florida, and Mexico also contributed to their understanding of the conditions they would face. It is significant that these new settlements were established in areas where there was an established dominant native culture. To them we owe a lot!

Dear Editor, Who is responsible for flag maintenance at city hall? The flag was dirty and torn in shreds. Why did someone have to pass on to get a new flag put up? Two months ago I was at Gregory County Courthouse - flag there was in shreds.

Funeral services to be held for Beverly Lou Burnham Funeral services for Beverly Lou Burnham, age 94, of Winner, SD, will be held on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. at the Winner United Methodist Church in Winner, SD.

DEATHS Tom Graden Graesser, 100 years, February 27, 2022, Winner, SD. Mary Evelyn Stevicks, 95 years, February 28, 2022, Gregory, SD.

South Dakota is in the middle of a healthcare boom. While the strain of the pandemic has challenged this industry across the country, our state has remained resilient.

Funeral services to be held for Myrna Schrader Funeral services for Myrna Schrader, age 83, of Marion, SD, formerly of Gregory, SD, will be held on Friday, March 25, at 2:00 p.m. at Kotrba-Smith Funeral Home in Gregory, SD.

While doing research on the history of horse roundups in America, I came across an amazing event which took place during the last days of World War II. It involved the rescue of the Lipizzaner stallions which were directly in the path of the advancing Russian army. They would have slaughtered the last remaining survivors of that historic breed had they not been rescued. The Red Army was on a collision course with the remaining brigades of the SS, an elite and fanatical Nazi unit in Czechoslovakia.

Bonjour! I did six years of French in school; I can read it but not speak it because Canada is officially bilingual and all packaging must be. The only Ukrainian I know is bilingual “di borjas” (I don’t know what it means) which is what you say before downing a shot of vodka. De borjas!!! to the brave and determined Ukrainians who are resisting the paranoid megalomaniac invasion of their country in his attempt to go backwards into the future by re-establishing the Soviet Union of 30 years ago. That Soviet Union disintegrated starting with the “Solidarity” movement in Poland. Remember Pres. Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall - which reunited Germany.