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For the last few years, the National Guard has provided senior banners for area schools to hang in their gym. Tuesday, September 21, the Avon class of 2022 took pictures for their banners. Seniors were encouraged to feature their favorite school activities or hobbies. Some of the activities included volleyball, football, basketball, and/or drama. Each Avon senior banner includes a picture of a student with their name on the bottom.
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Following a year of COVID affected events, musicians from around the state are anticipating All-State Choir in Rapid City. For Autumn Schultz’s ninth consecutive year of directing the Avon Choir, four students have been selected for that honor!
Read moreEverybody loves to get what they want! The head cook, Angie Ferwerda, and the other cooks at Avon High School make that happen. They allow the seniors every year to pick a meal for one day of the school year. Along with that, they also learn about the nutritional guidelines the cooks have to consider for every meal they serve.
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Motivation can sometimes push students to work beyond their norm. The Summer Reading Program offered (for the fourth year in a row) the incentive of a Sioux Falls trip to Barnes & Noble if they read eight books and filled out a sheet for the Summer Reading Program. They also had to fill out graphic organizers and do projects for each book.
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On September 22, the third grade class put their science skills to the test. They did an experiment on animal adaptations. The lesson for this experiment was about how plants have specific abilities to adapt to what is around them. Animals also have different body parts to aid in this adaptation.
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The Dwight D. Wood American Legion Post 132 of Springfield hosted members of other Veterans Service Organizations (VSO’s) from Bon Homme County at the Tracy Hornstra farm as part of the Post 132 regular meeting Tuesday evening, September 28. Legion members and their spouses from all five towns in Bon Homme County attended the meeting as well as members of the American Legion Auxiliary. A nice meal was provided by Post 132 for all in attendance.
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No one is really sure who released the first pheasants in South Dakota, but the city of Redfield certainly has to be given credit for the first successful release. That was in 1908. A Sturgis newspaper account notes that around 1900 the first birds were put out in Meade County, and nothing further was written about that particular release.
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Imagine yourself in a blizzard so thick and cold and blinding that you could not see your hands right in front of you. Such blizzards were common 150 years ago on the upper great plains. Without much for houses and trees, the wind blew the snow with such force that the little ice crystals were more like little knives making it hard to keep one’s eyes open even if there was something to see. Thus, to get safely from the house to the barn, farmers often hung a rope between the two, to not get lost. It was literally a lifeline. Otherwise, one wrong turn and perhaps nothing would stop you from wandering across the frozen prairie.
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