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Timber Lake students celebrated “I Hate Winter Day” with activities led by the TLHS Student Council. Here Student Council President Shaun Maher conducts a musical quiz where contestants were asked to complete the lyrics of a popular song. Seated are some of the contestants (L-R) Nicholas Bad Warrior, Curtis Traversie and Ethan Schaffer.

The “Old Spice Girls” raised $2300 at a March 29 garage sale for William and Justine Kougl, who lost their home to a fire. L-R are Jayne Pfeifle, Faye Kraft, Kris Lawien, Cindy Biegler, and Adele Enright. Many people stopped by to have coffee and drop off a donation.

Six students from Timber Lake Middle School went to the Acalympics on March 26 in White River. The team got a total of 210 points, getting second place to Lyman with 220 points. The six students that went to the event were Bergen Marshall, Allison Gross, Sarah Barnica, Ty Ducheneaux, Sierra Daugaard, and Elsie DuBray.

Tom Van Norman of Eagle Butte has filed to run for the District 28A seat in the S.D. House of Representatives. Van Norman held the post from 2001 to 2008. The incumbent, Dean Schrempp of Lantry, has also filed. The filing sets up a Democratic contest between Van Norman, an attorney in private practice, and Schrempp, a rancher, in the June 3 primary.

The tussle over a seat on the Timber Lake School Board took another turn when Pat Aberle was determined to be ineligible to serve on the board. As the Topic reported last week, Aberle and Heidi Ducheneaux both filed petitions on the final day, March 25. But the next day, Supt. Jarod Larson reported that Aberle’s petition was rejected.

The Timber Lake and Area Museum is looking for artists. The art project was envisioned years ago by the late Jim Nelson, who suggested a series of original paintings to be hung in front of the duct work in the main gallery. Together, the art pieces would tell the history of the area, especially Dewey and Corson counties, and the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock reservations.

Brody Hall, a freshman at Timber Lake High School, is one of the art students painting murals on school walls. This is the school’s mission statement being done on the wall in the elementary school office. Several other murals are being painted in the hallways, classrooms and middle school commons under the direction of art teacher Heather Kraft.

Marcia O’Leary was elected to chair the Timber Lake School Board Monday night after being appointed to the seat that had been vacant since the school board election last June. O’Leary came in third in that election, behind Willard Nash, who was seated in July, and Steve Aberle, who was later declared ineligible because he is also Dewey County States Attorney.

 

Ralph Pederson (LEFT) and Walt Johnson met up at the annual Pederson Broken Heart Ranch bull sale held at the ranch on March 5. The Pedersons reported 94 bulls averaged $4,731; 84 commercial heifers averaged $1,758; five bred heifers averaged $4,200 and five open heifers averaged $3,500. The top bull sold to Northern Lites Red Angus at Opheim, MT for $12,500. The top bred and open heifers sold for $6,000 each to Steve Walters of Huron.