Commentary

How to prevent sudden death

My first experience with cardiopulmonary resuscitation was during the summer of 1969. I was an orderly in a Minneapolis intensive care unit (ICU) when my patient stopped breathing. I called for help and provided mouth-to-mouth breathing until the team arrived.

LETTER TO EDITOR

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Jon Flatland for the best photo I have ever seen of a bull riding event at a rodeo (Front page, May 30, 2024 Timber Lake Topic).My late husband Bud Wishard rode rough stock in the Timber Lake rodeos and other local towns around there in 1947 through 1949.
Little Pasture on the Prairie

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Little Pasture on the Prairie

A friend of mine recently took a whirlwind trip to Ireland. While walking through a park in Dublin, she met an Irish wolfhound named Seamus and fell immediately and deeply in love. Upon her return, she began researching the breed, and has not stopped thinking about them since.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

On June 1st, we hosted a big community event – the arrival of a small herd of bison to a ranch at the outskirts of our little town of Bison, SD – by gathering together to sing, dance, and practice some oldfashioned neighboring in the front yard of our new house.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Last night, I couldn’t sleep. The wind was howling with a voice it usually reserves for winter and lashing rain so forcefully against the windows I kept thinking it must be hail. All my tomato starts were lined up beside the house covered with a blanket.

Stray Thoughts: Under the Dog Tags

I don’t know who you lost. You don’t know who I have lost.But in these small communities we have all lost someone.A great grandfather in a World War. A grandfather in the Pacific or in Korea.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

I can’t remember when I first heard about the Livestock Conservancy. It was probably back when I fell in love with Shetland sheep and was researching the breed. The Livestock Conservancy’s stated mission is: “To protect America’s endangered livestock and poultry breeds from extinction.”

Telegraph, Telephone, Telemedicine

Technology has come a long way in the past 200 years. The telegraph was invented in 1837 and made rapid long range communication possible. Messages could be sent around the world through a series of connected wires. The telegraph had medical applications in the Civil War.