LETTER

The Timber Lake Booster Club had a great year supporting our students and athletes. In our first year, we helped sponsor boys and girls basketball camp, football camp, and purchased new weight room equipment for the powerlifting team.

PRESSED BETWEEN THE PAGES: Blessed to Have Them

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” The older I get the more I agree with this statement by Maya Angelou. There are people in this world who simply know how to make others feel special.

Prairie Docs

As a registered nurse (RN) in South Dakota for the past 35 years, I can honestly say that it has been one of the greatest blessings in my life and yet is a profession in dire need of more, especially in our rural areas.

PRESSED BETWEEN THE PAGES: Were they just grains of sand?

It never stopped. The relentless force pushed, rolled, pulled. It deposited and dislodged. In wild storms it crashed into boulders, abandoning and stealing chunks of stone. In calm, gentle breezes, the water swirled and churned.

Why rural healthcare matters in South Dakota

Horizon Health doesn’t just serve rural communities. We belong to them.We’re in the stands at your home football games. Our children ride the same school bus. We know the rewards and challenges of living on the land.

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We Need to Talk!Those four words may strike fear in the heart of the teenager who missed curfew or the spouse who overspent on the family budget. But think of the statement as just that, a statement of fact. Consider the positive aspect: As humans we need social, verbal interaction.

Prairie Docs

During the warm summer months in South Dakota, many of us spend extra time outside walking, working or enjoying community events. The heat and wind can pull moisture from the body faster than we realize.

Home Country: Doing things that make no sense

We sure are strange sometimes. Most of the time, we make sense. We’re “sensible” and we do things for a reason. But there are times when we do things that make no sense at all, and we don’t care.Just take pocketknives, for instance. Most men wouldn’t leave the house without one. I sure wouldn’t.

The Pains of Parenting

(Part of this piece was missing in last week’s issue. This is the complete version.)Everyone is aware at some level of the pains of a mother bringing her children into the world.There is no denying that the searing pain of these events forever link the children to their mother.

PRESSED BETWEEN THE PAGES: Cow Path Adventures

“Hey, DeAnn! Come help me. It’ll be fun!” he said. When I was five, I idolized my older brother. Seldom did he have to work too hard to persuade me to accompany him in his adventures, and this was no exception..Our father was concerned about the growing gopher population in the pasture.