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THE PRESS & DAKOTAN WEATHER CENTER PAGE 2: THE REGION PRESS & DAKOTAN n MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 ON THIS DATE LOTTERIES KD Laundry Tan While You Wash & Dry at SunKissed Tanning right next door – start your tan for less than $1.00 3rd & Broadway, Yankton • 6:30am-10pm Double Load Washing $ 1.00 Thursday – Dollar Doubles Lew is & Clark M edicalPlaza, 2525 Fox Run Pkw y., Yankton M -F 9AM -5PM , Saturday Clinic 9AM -Noon JeffJohnson,M .D. BrandiPravecek,CNP Sum m erIsGoing By Fast! CALL N O W forSchooland Sports Physicals 260-2100 G et In . G et O u t. G et B etter. 75 YEARS AGO Friday, August 11, 1939 • United States senators on the whole are “regular guys” and not above speaking to elevator opera- tors and such, Joe Dowling, Yank- ton boy who is now employed in Washington, operating an elevator in the senate office building, has discovered. • It’s getting to be monotonous and a habit this reporting of the City softball league. That’s because the same two teams win every night and since there are only six clubs in the loop, this means there is only one game in which there is any doubt as to the outcome. 50 YEARS AGO Tuesday, August 11, 1964 • Coach Don Baker’s Yankton Teeners completed their 1964 sea- son with a 30-4 season and Lloyd Brunick walked off with most of the pitching and batting honors. • Dr. Fred Guindon of Beresford was the champion of the third an- nual Yankton Chamber of Com- merce Golf Play Day at Hillcrest Golf and Country club yesterday. 25 YEARS AGO Friday, August 11, 1989 • Four years ago, Elizabeth Foss of Yankton began a disserta- tion on a pioneer woman in South Dakota for the Germans from Rus- sia society. The dissertation be- came so overwhelming that Foss turned her information-gathering project into a one-woman pioneer show. “Pioneer Woman” will be pre- sented by Foss during Pioneer Day Monday as part of Yankton’s cele- bration of the South Dakota Cen- tennial. Foss will perform the show at Westside Park at 11 a.m. that day. • A motorcycle-tractor accident has left two Yankton people hospi- talized, David Hunhoff, Yankton County sheriff, said. SATURDAY’S RESULTS DAKOTA CASH: 11-21-25-27- 31. Estimated jackpot: $85,000 HOT LOTTO: 16-19-28-31-34, Hot Ball: 9. Estimated jackpot: $10.34 million POWERBALL: 03-12-31-34- 51, Powerball: 24, Power Play: 2 WILD CARD: 04-09-19-26-32, Wild Card: JH. Estimated jackpot: $225,000 2 BY 2: Red Balls: 10-11, White Balls: 2-24 MYDAY: Month: 8, Day: 29, Year: 91 PICK 3: 0-3-5 PICK 5: 06-08-16-23-32. Esti- mated jackpot: $66,000 SUNDAY’S RESULTS 2 BY 2: Red Balls: 5-6, White Balls: 16-26 Steamboating Program At Terr. Capitol Today (Monday) and Tuesday, Aug. 11-12, Missouri Na- tional Recreational River will present “Rollin’ on the River” at the Dakota Territorial Capitol replica in Yankton’s Riverside Park. Historic photos and ranger commentary reveal the risks and rewards of steamboating on the Missouri. A steamboat of- ficer from 1877 will tell stories of life on the river at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The capitol replica will be open this week from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday only due to Riverboat Days. Crest Road To Be Closed This Week Crest Road, the road that crosses the Gavins Point Dam, will be closed from 8 a.m. today (Monday) through 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15. This closure will include nighttime hours. The public is asked to plan on an alternate route of travel during this time. The closure is a result of the inspection, repair and paint- ing of the spillway gates at Gavins Point Dam. There will be pe- riodic closures throughout duration of the construction, which will continue into the fall. People can stay informed about upcoming road closures by checking www.nwo.usace.army.mil/gavinspoint or by call- ing (402) 667-2546. Johnson To Hold Coffee In Yankton SIOUX FALLS — Sen. Tim Johnson will make a stop in Yank- ton Tuesday, Aug. 12, as part of his “Tour of Thanks” across South Dakota. He will be holding a coffee at the Yankton Community Li- brary, 515 Walnut, at 4 p.m. The public in invited to attend. GFP: Practice Safety While Boating The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks re- minds boaters to have a safe and enjoyable summer on the water. To ensure safe boating, operators should monitor their alcoholic beverage intake and have a designated boat opera- tor. SDGFP will be conducting sobriety checks throughout the month of August on lakes, streams and rivers. Community Quiz Bowl Slated Aug. 24 Southeast Job Link is holding the first Community Quiz Bowl. on Sunday, Aug. 24, at 2 p.m. at 1200 West 21st Street in Yankton. The Community Quiz Bowl is designed as a team-building event for area businesses; an enjoyable afternoon of net-work- ing with other community leaders, as well as the current and future community workforce; and as an important fundraiser for our organization. The purpose of this event, and the funds raised through it, are to help support current classroom grants, to create new programming opportunities that will increase academic excel- lence for our Adult Education students and our youth pro- gramming participants, and to support the training needs of the area workforce. Each team is comprised of up to five members who collab- orate to answer 60 questions in four categories on a broad range of topics. Highest Ranking teams will move to a series of elimination rounds. The winning team will earn the right to display the Quiz Bowl traveling trophy for the year. To reserve a table(s) for your team or to sponsor a team, or for more information, contact Sheri Duke or Teresa Rentsch at 605-668-3480; or email [email protected]. Quiz Bowl information is also available on the Southeast Job Link website: www.southeastjoblink.org/. Remember these dates: Aug. 15 — Business Sponsorships are due; Aug. 22 — Team Registrations are due; Aug. 24 — The Community Quiz Bowl event. VERMILLION — For the 16th consec- utive year, The Princeton Review says the University of South Dakota is one of the nation’s best institutions for under- graduate education. The education services company features USD in the new 2015 edition of its annual college guide, “The Best 379 Colleges.” Fewer than 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and only four colleges outside the U.S. are profiled in this year’s issue, which is The Prince- ton Review’s flagship college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the col- leges based on the publication’s sur- veys of 130,000 students attending the colleges. USD receives praise for its at- tentive faculty and the Honors Program is described as “the best-kept secret in the country.” While the nursing pro- gram is the most frequently praised, The Princeton Review profile says USD’s “business, biology, premed, law and psychology classes are very solid” and that the “dental hygiene, music, and journalism” programs also stand- out. The Princeton Review’s school pro- files and ranking lists in “The Best 379 Colleges” are posted at PrincetonRe- view.com. USD is the lone South Dakota college or university featured in “The Best 379 Colleges,” which does not rank colleges academically or numerically from 1 to 379 in any category. “Rankings like this one are the direct result of our extraordinary faculty, qual- ity programs and outstanding facili- ties,” said USD President James W. Abbott. “USD is focused on providing our students the best academic and student life experiences possible.” “The Best 379 Colleges: 2015 Edi- tion,” the 23rd issue of The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, was re- leased this week and can also be found at www.princetonreview.com/college- rankings.aspx/. USD Lauded By Publication books, transportation and per- sonal costs. “We really feel strongly about students not getting hit over the head with debt,” Koxer said. “If a student just goes off and takes another set of loans outside of school that we don’t even know about, it is really hard to counsel them about their loan debt and what their repayment plan will be.” During Kocer’s testimony, he recommended school certi- fication for all private loans. By involving the education in- stitutions in the process, it would allow schools to track the students’ borrowing so that the school could help counsel the students on their overall loan debt. “We consider this a good practice as it provides us with more information to assist in preventing students from over- borrowing.” Kocer also recommended that Congress should mandate the creation of a single web portal where students can ac- cess information about all of their student loans in one place. “Students need an accessi- ble ‘one-stop shop’ where they can manage their student loans. Many borrowers have multiple loans with different loan holders that may be in various stages of repayment,” said Kocer during his testi- mony. “Having a central web- site where borrowers could access information about all of their loans would significantly help students as they manage their borrowing and repay- ment.” The National Student Loan Debt System (NSLDS) partially serves this to students be- cause it only includes some federal student loans in it’s system. Expanding this data would largely benifit students by having everything in one place. Looking back on the testi- mony, Kocer said he felt that he delivered some some good information right to the source. “This was an excellent op- portunity to express views not only for Mount Marty but the state of South Dakota,” he said. To view Kocer’s testimony go to http://www.banking.sen- ate.gov/ and click on the hear- ings tab. You can follow Jordynne Hart on Twitter at twitter.com/hartjordynne. Dis- cuss this story at www.yank- ton.net. Kocer From Page 1 or something for everybody to get all emotional about when we should be getting out in front of this and taking a good, hard look,” he said. “We’ve got a great opportunity here to do a 20-year plan and we’re open- ing up the doors so much for everybody to have an input.” Another obstacle the county faces in the creation and implementation of a 20- year plan is a nearly-40 year old county resolution barring Yankton County from taking on any new roads. This was done in part because of the growing number of subdivisions in the county. Since then, many more new subdivisions have popped up, especially in the Lewis & Clark Lake area, where road maintenance and construction is the responsibility of the resi- dents living along them. County Commission chair- man Bruce Jensen said the 1976 resolution isn’t con- ducive to the growth of the county. “(It) needs to change be- cause a lot has happened in 30, 40 years,” Jensen said. “It’s too restrictive. I’m not con- demning (the previous Com- mission), they did what they thought was right. But every- thing changes.” The resolution arose dur- ing last week’s commission meeting when residents along 310th St. sought to have the county come in and lay down gravel on the road. The county turned the proposal down due to the 1976 resolution, since 310th St. is not a county road. While Jensen expects the commission to go through the process to strike the resolu- tion down, he pointed out there will still be standards by which the county takes on new roads. “We’ll be selective — we’re not just going to build roads all over,” he said. “We’ll pick the criteria of where we should put roads (based on) the traffic, safety and how many people live there.” Garrity said there’s a num- ber of projects the 20-year plan will look at, including in- terconnecting bike trails that link the county’s communities; priority lanes for trucks get- ting in and out of Lesterville, Utica, Mission Hill and Volin; and how to get pedestrians safely across Highway 52 and a railroad crossing in Utica. The next public meeting is scheduled to take place some- time in either late September or early October A firm date will be released later. You can follow Rob Nielsen on Twitter at twitter.com/Rob- NielsenPandD/. Discuss this story at www.yankton.net/. Roads From Page 1 The Yankton County Vet- erans Service Office will be closed to the public the week of Aug. 25-29. Michael McDonald, the county veter- ans service officer, will be attending a national accred- itation training school for veterans service officers in Pierre that week. McDonald will be back in the office on Tuesday, Sept. 2. McDonald would like to remind the veteran public that his office is located on the second floor of the Yank- ton County Government Cen- ter. He can be reached by phone at 605-260-4420. The county veterans service office is funded by the county on a half-time basis, so McDon- ald’s office hours are: 1-5 p.m. Mondays, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays. County Veterans Service Office Closed Aug. 25-29
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T H E P R E S S & D A K O T A N W E A T H E R C E N T E R
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G et In . G et O u t. G et B etter.
75 YEARS AGOFriday, August 11, 1939
• United States senators on thewhole are “regular guys” and notabove speaking to elevator opera-tors and such, Joe Dowling, Yank-ton boy who is now employed inWashington, operating an elevatorin the senate office building, hasdiscovered.
• It’s getting to be monotonousand a habit this reporting of the Citysoftball league. That’s because thesame two teams win every nightand since there are only six clubs inthe loop, this means there is onlyone game in which there is anydoubt as to the outcome.
50 YEARS AGOTuesday, August 11, 1964• Coach Don Baker’s Yankton
Teeners completed their 1964 sea-son with a 30-4 season and LloydBrunick walked off with most of thepitching and batting honors.
• Dr. Fred Guindon of Beresfordwas the champion of the third an-nual Yankton Chamber of Com-merce Golf Play Day at HillcrestGolf and Country club yesterday.
25 YEARS AGOFriday, August 11, 1989
• Four years ago, ElizabethFoss of Yankton began a disserta-tion on a pioneer woman in SouthDakota for the Germans from Rus-sia society. The dissertation be-came so overwhelming that Fossturned her information-gatheringproject into a one-woman pioneershow. “Pioneer Woman” will be pre-sented by Foss during Pioneer DayMonday as part of Yankton’s cele-bration of the South Dakota Cen-tennial. Foss will perform the showat Westside Park at 11 a.m. thatday.
• A motorcycle-tractor accidenthas left two Yankton people hospi-talized, David Hunhoff, YanktonCounty sheriff, said.
SATURDAY’S RESULTSDAKOTA CASH: 11-21-25-27-
31. Estimated jackpot: $85,000HOT LOTTO: 16-19-28-31-34,
Hot Ball: 9. Estimated jackpot:$10.34 million
POWERBALL: 03-12-31-34-51, Powerball: 24, Power Play: 2
WILD CARD: 04-09-19-26-32,Wild Card: JH. Estimated jackpot:$225,000
2 BY 2: Red Balls: 10-11, WhiteBalls: 2-24
MYDAY: Month: 8, Day: 29,Year: 91
PICK 3: 0-3-5PICK 5: 06-08-16-23-32. Esti-
mated jackpot: $66,000
SUNDAY’S RESULTS2 BY 2: Red Balls: 5-6, White
Balls: 16-26
Steamboating Program At Terr. CapitolToday (Monday) and Tuesday, Aug. 11-12, Missouri Na-
tional Recreational River will present “Rollin’ on the River” atthe Dakota Territorial Capitol replica in Yankton’s RiversidePark.
Historic photos and ranger commentary reveal the risksand rewards of steamboating on the Missouri. A steamboat of-ficer from 1877 will tell stories of life on the river at 11 a.m.and 1 p.m.
The capitol replica will be open this week from 10 a.m.-4p.m. Monday and Tuesday only due to Riverboat Days.
Crest Road To Be Closed This WeekCrest Road, the road that crosses the Gavins Point Dam,
will be closed from 8 a.m. today (Monday) through 3:30 p.m.Friday, Aug. 15. This closure will include nighttime hours. Thepublic is asked to plan on an alternate route of travel duringthis time.
The closure is a result of the inspection, repair and paint-ing of the spillway gates at Gavins Point Dam. There will be pe-riodic closures throughout duration of the construction,which will continue into the fall.
People can stay informed about upcoming road closuresby checking www.nwo.usace.army.mil/gavinspoint or by call-ing (402) 667-2546.
Johnson To Hold Coffee In Yankton SIOUX FALLS — Sen. Tim Johnson will make a stop in Yank-
ton Tuesday, Aug. 12, as part of his “Tour of Thanks” acrossSouth Dakota.
He will be holding a coffee at the Yankton Community Li-brary, 515 Walnut, at 4 p.m. The public in invited to attend.
GFP: Practice Safety While BoatingThe South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks re-
minds boaters to have a safe and enjoyable summer on thewater. To ensure safe boating, operators should monitor theiralcoholic beverage intake and have a designated boat opera-tor.
SDGFP will be conducting sobriety checks throughout themonth of August on lakes, streams and rivers.
Community Quiz Bowl Slated Aug. 24Southeast Job Link is holding the first Community Quiz
Bowl. on Sunday, Aug. 24, at 2 p.m. at 1200 West 21st Street inYankton.
The Community Quiz Bowl is designed as a team-buildingevent for area businesses; an enjoyable afternoon of net-work-ing with other community leaders, as well as the current andfuture community workforce; and as an important fundraiserfor our organization.
The purpose of this event, and the funds raised through it,are to help support current classroom grants, to create newprogramming opportunities that will increase academic excel-lence for our Adult Education students and our youth pro-gramming participants, and to support the training needs ofthe area workforce.
Each team is comprised of up to five members who collab-orate to answer 60 questions in four categories on a broadrange of topics. Highest Ranking teams will move to a series ofelimination rounds. The winning team will earn the right todisplay the Quiz Bowl traveling trophy for the year.
To reserve a table(s) for your team or to sponsor a team,or for more information, contact Sheri Duke or Teresa Rentschat 605-668-3480; or email [email protected]. QuizBowl information is also available on the Southeast Job Linkwebsite: www.southeastjoblink.org/.
Remember these dates: Aug. 15 — Business Sponsorshipsare due; Aug. 22 — Team Registrations are due; Aug. 24 — TheCommunity Quiz Bowl event.
VERMILLION — For the 16th consec-utive year, The Princeton Review saysthe University of South Dakota is one ofthe nation’s best institutions for under-graduate education. The educationservices company features USD in thenew 2015 edition of its annual collegeguide, “The Best 379 Colleges.”
Fewer than 15 percent of America’s2,500 four-year colleges and only fourcolleges outside the U.S. are profiled inthis year’s issue, which is The Prince-ton Review’s flagship college guide. Itincludes detailed profiles of the col-leges based on the publication’s sur-veys of 130,000 students attending the
colleges. USD receives praise for its at-tentive faculty and the Honors Programis described as “the best-kept secret inthe country.” While the nursing pro-gram is the most frequently praised,The Princeton Review profile saysUSD’s “business, biology, premed, lawand psychology classes are very solid”and that the “dental hygiene, music,and journalism” programs also stand-out.
The Princeton Review’s school pro-files and ranking lists in “The Best 379Colleges” are posted at PrincetonRe-view.com. USD is the lone South Dakotacollege or university featured in “The
Best 379 Colleges,” which does not rankcolleges academically or numericallyfrom 1 to 379 in any category.
“Rankings like this one are the directresult of our extraordinary faculty, qual-ity programs and outstanding facili-ties,” said USD President James W.Abbott. “USD is focused on providingour students the best academic andstudent life experiences possible.”
“The Best 379 Colleges: 2015 Edi-tion,” the 23rd issue of The PrincetonReview’s annual college guide, was re-leased this week and can also be foundat www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx/.
USD Lauded By Publication
books, transportation and per-sonal costs.
“We really feel stronglyabout students not getting hitover the head with debt,”Koxer said. “If a student justgoes off and takes another setof loans outside of school thatwe don’t even know about, itis really hard to counsel themabout their loan debt and whattheir repayment plan will be.”
During Kocer’s testimony,he recommended school certi-fication for all private loans.By involving the education in-stitutions in the process, itwould allow schools to trackthe students’ borrowing sothat the school could helpcounsel the students on theiroverall loan debt.
“We consider this a goodpractice as it provides us withmore information to assist inpreventing students from over-borrowing.”
Kocer also recommendedthat Congress should mandatethe creation of a single webportal where students can ac-cess information about all oftheir student loans in oneplace.
“Students need an accessi-ble ‘one-stop shop’ where they
can manage their studentloans. Many borrowers havemultiple loans with differentloan holders that may be invarious stages of repayment,”said Kocer during his testi-mony. “Having a central web-site where borrowers couldaccess information about all oftheir loans would significantlyhelp students as they managetheir borrowing and repay-ment.”
The National Student LoanDebt System (NSLDS) partiallyserves this to students be-cause it only includes somefederal student loans in it’ssystem. Expanding this datawould largely benifit studentsby having everything in oneplace.
Looking back on the testi-mony, Kocer said he felt thathe delivered some some goodinformation right to thesource.
“This was an excellent op-portunity to express views notonly for Mount Marty but thestate of South Dakota,” hesaid.
To view Kocer’s testimonygo to http://www.banking.sen-ate.gov/ and click on the hear-ings tab.
You can follow JordynneHart on Twitter attwitter.com/hartjordynne. Dis-cuss this story at www.yank-ton.net.
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or something for everybody toget all emotional about whenwe should be getting out infront of this and taking a good,hard look,” he said. “We’ve gota great opportunity here to doa 20-year plan and we’re open-ing up the doors so much foreverybody to have an input.”
Another obstacle thecounty faces in the creationand implementation of a 20-year plan is a nearly-40 yearold county resolution barringYankton County from taking onany new roads. This was donein part because of the growingnumber of subdivisions in thecounty. Since then, many morenew subdivisions have poppedup, especially in the Lewis &Clark Lake area, where roadmaintenance and constructionis the responsibility of the resi-dents living along them.
County Commission chair-man Bruce Jensen said the1976 resolution isn’t con-ducive to the growth of thecounty.
“(It) needs to change be-cause a lot has happened in30, 40 years,” Jensen said. “It’stoo restrictive. I’m not con-demning (the previous Com-mission), they did what theythought was right. But every-thing changes.”
The resolution arose dur-ing last week’s commissionmeeting when residents along310th St. sought to have thecounty come in and lay downgravel on the road. The countyturned the proposal down dueto the 1976 resolution, since310th St. is not a county road.
While Jensen expects thecommission to go through theprocess to strike the resolu-tion down, he pointed outthere will still be standards bywhich the county takes onnew roads.
“We’ll be selective — we’renot just going to build roadsall over,” he said. “We’ll pickthe criteria of where weshould put roads (based on)the traffic, safety and howmany people live there.”
Garrity said there’s a num-ber of projects the 20-yearplan will look at, including in-terconnecting bike trails thatlink the county’s communities;priority lanes for trucks get-ting in and out of Lesterville,Utica, Mission Hill and Volin;and how to get pedestrianssafely across Highway 52 and arailroad crossing in Utica.
The next public meeting isscheduled to take place some-time in either late Septemberor early October A firm datewill be released later.
You can follow Rob Nielsenon Twitter at twitter.com/Rob-NielsenPandD/. Discuss thisstory at www.yankton.net/.
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The Yankton County Vet-erans Service Office will beclosed to the public theweek of Aug. 25-29. MichaelMcDonald, the county veter-ans service officer, will beattending a national accred-itation training school forveterans service officers inPierre that week.
McDonald will be back inthe office on Tuesday, Sept.2.
McDonald would like toremind the veteran publicthat his office is located onthe second floor of the Yank-ton County Government Cen-ter. He can be reached byphone at 605-260-4420. Thecounty veterans service officeis funded by the county on ahalf-time basis, so McDon-ald’s office hours are: 1-5 p.m.Mondays, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
County Veterans ServiceOffice Closed Aug. 25-29
