Jeff Birkeland’s pandemic experience: January 23 is ‘get out of jail day’

  • Jeff with his wife LeAnn and their sons, Jacob, 19, LEFT, a sophomore at BHSU and Matthew, 16, a sophomore at Jones County High School.
    Jeff with his wife LeAnn and their sons, Jacob, 19, LEFT, a sophomore at BHSU and Matthew, 16, a sophomore at Jones County High School.
Jeff Birkeland left Timber Lake after graduating from high school in 1988. After 4 years of college at Northern State University in Aberdeen, he worked at Spink Electric in Redfield for two years and has been at West Central Electric Co-op in Murdo for 27 years, the past two years as manager. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has worked in his office until recently, when he contracted COVID,…

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