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    John and Dorothy Curl celebrated 50 years of marriage o­n June 27th with a family luncheon and an afternoon open house at the IOOF Hall in Edgemont.  The couple were married in Edgemont o­n January 25, 1959.   

  

   
   Edgemont Fairgrounds hosts the River Run Series every June.  This is a great place for barrel racers --young, old, semiprofessional or amateurs--to learn and practice.  Above at right is Taylor Grill who is teaching a new horse about barrel racing by following big brother Chance Grill’s horse, who seems to be saying “Can’t you do this by yourself?”          Photo by Sabrina Clark

  

  

  

    Powertech Uranium Corp.  announced a 42% increase in inferred uranium resources at its Dewey-Burdock Project in Custer and Fall River Counties, South Dakota and an 18% increase in inferred uranium resources at its Centennial Project in Weld County, Colorado.
    In the Company's original technical report for the Dewey-Burdock Project, it identified 7.6 million pounds of inferred uranium resources within the project, contained in 1,807,000 tons, averaging 0.21% U308.
    As a result of property acquisitions and continued evaluation of the historic close-spaced drilling undertaken by the Tennessee Valley Authority within the project boundaries, Powertech has revised total inferred resources within the Dewey-Burdock Project upward to 10.8 million pounds, contained in 2,992,836 tons, averaging 0.182% U308.

  

  

  

   About a dozen volunteers turned out o­n Saturday to paint the home of Darwin Kruse and the Ambulance Barn as part of the annual Paint SD Program.
    The state purchases paint for the home of o­ne individual per year in Edgemont and volunteers apply the paint and do the work of sprucing up the home.  This year’s effort, coordinated by NeighborWorks of Edgemont, repainted Kruse’s home o­n the corner of 3rd Ave and E St.  In addition to painting, insulation caps were replaced, weed-whacking was done, and aluminum was taken for recycling.
    Most of the same volunteers stayed o­n for the afternoon to help the ambulance crew spruce up their building.  The Service bought the paint for this project. 
   Saturday wasn’t the o­nly “spruce up” day as Lions Club members and volunteers worked o­n the  park o­n Sunday.  A crew from Star Academy is expected to be here this week to help with city park/ lake cleanup.

  

    Brenda Weber and Scott Graybill will be married o­n September 6th, 2009. Brenda is the daughter of Jim and Marion Weber of Edgemont and Scott is the son of Dennis and Linda Graybill of Rapid City. Brenda is employed with Dr. Boddicker as a Surgical Tech in Rapid City. Weber graduated from Edgemont High School in 2003 and graduated from Western Dakota Tech in 2008. Graybill is employed with the city of Rapid City. He graduated from Stevens High School in 1993, he has an associates degree from Iowa Western. He also was the pitcher of Post 22 and took the team to the World Series and won it in 1993.
   The wedding will take place at the Chapel in the Hills and the reception will take place at the Quality Inn in Rapid City.

  

    Cast members:  Deanne Brown, Terri Hollenbeck, Jessica Schumacher, Bob Stevens, Nancy Smith, Stephanie Clark, and Front, Mark Hollenbeck.
    Local thespians will be performing in “The Villain Took a Chip Shot.” Which opens this Thursday at 8:00pm at the Edgemont Theatre located at the old sale barn.

  

    S Ranch and Sunlight Ranch Team:  Overall Winners From Left:  Blake Rainsdon, Ed Verhelst, KC Verhelst, Brett Marshall.
    Edgemont o­nce again hosted the Cheyenne River Roundup, a sanctioned ranch team rodeo and a ranch horse competition.
    The events were held Saturday and Sunday June 6 & 7 at the Fairgrounds. Saturday morning began with the ranch horse competition, with three classes of competitors.  Buckles were presented to first place winners in each class.
    The Ranch Rodeo consisted of two performances with all teams competing in all five events each day.  The scores from the two days were averaged.
    The competition was limited to ten teams.  o­ne team was unable to make it so there were nine teams competing.  The “home team” was the 43 Ranch which straddles the SD/WY line just west of Edgemont. Other teams attended from Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska.
   o­ne member of each team competed in the Ranch Bronc Riding.  The other four events (Ranch Sorting, Wild Cow Milking, Stray Gathering, and Ranch Branding) required four to five team members.

  

  

    V. Rick Davids, age 60, of Edgemont, SD formerly of Mitchell, died Friday, June 05, 2009 in Hot Springs, SD.  Funeral services were 10:00 AM Tuesday, June 9 at the Will Funeral Chapel with burial in the Kimball  Cemetery.  Visitation was from 5-7 PM Monday, June 8, at the Will Funeral Chapel in Mitchell.
    Rick was born o­n July 3, 1948.  His parents were Clair “Bill” and Joy (Vaughn) Davids.  He attended grade school in Artesian and graduated from Fedora High School in 1966.  Rick worked many different jobs for several years before starting work with the Milwaukee and Burlington Northern Railroads in 1969 until retirement 5 years ago.  He married Judy Jones o­n June 5, 1971 in Mitchell and were married for 38 years.  In 1976 the couple moved to Edgemont, SD where they resided until his death.
    Rick was also the South Dakota Legislative Director for the railroad union for 26 years.  He was instrumental in developing the Retirement Bill for many years.  After retirement Rick enjoyed much Fedora hunting and fishing including his cabin in Canada.
    He is survived by his wife Judy, Edgemont, SD; a daughter Genny Roberts, Miles City, MT; and son John (Megan) Davids, Mitchell, SD and 5 grandsons: Riley, Skylar, Truitt “Bill”, Dante, and Zane.  Also 2 brothers; Shane Davids, Fedora, SD and Trace (Kathy) Davids, Crooks,SD; and 1 niece Shanna Davids.
   He was preceded in death by his parents.

  

    Sabrina Clark has joined the Tribune staff for the summer. She is participating in the Summer Youth Stimulus Program which provides federal money to pay youth ages 15-24 to work in businesses that are related to their chosen career field.
    Sabrina is the daughter of William Jr. and Stephanie Clark and granddaughter of William Sr. and Laura Clark, all of Edgemont. She graduated from EHS this year. Sabrina plans a career in photojournalism and will be attending college in Powell, Wyoming this fall.
Supervisor Cindy Turner says “we did not think we would be able to hire a summer intern this year due to budget constraints, but with the South Dakota Employment Training Program we were pleased to offer Sabrina this opportunity.”

  

   Last week, over two dozen kids enjoyed their afternoons in the park at Vacation Bible School.  This year’s theme was Camp E.D.G.E. – Experience & Discover God Everywhere.  The kids took part in hearing the Bible story, learning songs, making crafts, and playing games.  They ended the afternoons enjoying cookies and juice donated by the local churches.  All of these activities led to a potluck o­n Friday night.      
   The parents and community members enjoyed a performance of the songs which were learned during the week.  With the help of many volunteers, it was a great success.

  

  

  

    Senator John Thune last week joined his Senate colleagues in passing legislation (S. 614) honoring the more than 1,000 women who served as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal.
    The last surviving South Dakota WASP is Ola Mildred Rexroat of Edgemont, who is believed to be the o­nly female Native American to serve in World War II. Ms. Rexroat is o­ne of six South Dakotans to serve in the WASPs 

  

by Anne Cassens
   Every phone line in the state is required to charge a “911 Fee” of 75 cents per month.  This is effectively a tax that is supposed to assist the county in paying for Dispatch and emergency service  notification when the 911 emergency number is called.
    There are federal standards and deadlines for when counties have to have certain levels of technology in use for 911 services.
Unfortunately, your cell phone line may or may not be getting the 75 cents per month to the correct county.
    Fall River residents have repeatedly checked their cell phone bills and for Verizon customers, some have seen their money is helping to pay for Custer’s 911 system. 
   Worse yet, as an Alltel customer, I have not been able to find out WHERE my money is going.
   Emergency 911 systems are expensive.  Fall River County has already spent many thousand dollars o­n a dispatch mapping system, will spend several thousand more o­n a data base to tie the mapping to dispatch, and somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 for a new system that will be required by the end of 2010.  And all this will not be compatible with text messaging, it is unclear whether cell phones will even be able to electronically give their locations to the system.
   If there were just 3300 cell phones in the county (one third of the population), and the 75 cents per line doesn’t go to the proper place, that would be nearly $30,000 per year that the county will not recover in expenses.
   Your county commissioners are looking at this problem.  Please check your phone bill and let us know more.

  

   Chris Brown and Hilary Hefner were married o­n Thursday April 9th, 2009 in Charleston, SC. Chris is the son of Mark and Deanne Brown of Edgemont. Hilary is the daughter of Dennis and Judith Hefner. Grandmothers are Nancy Cadwell and Vernis Brown of Edgemont.
   Chris is a 2008 graduate of Edgemont High School.
   Both Christopher and Hilary are in the Naval Nuclear Training Program in South Carolina.

  

    Twenty years ago, Paul Nelsen, Edgemont High School Athletic Director, started an award called the “Outstanding Booster Club Supporter.”  The first year, the award was presented to another Nelson, an “son” kind of Nelson, Jack Nelson.
    It seems fitting that this year the award was presented to Paul and Kathi Nelsen.
There has been a lot of water under the bridge, so to speak, in those 20 years.
But I’m getting ahead of myself in telling you their story.  Let’s go back, way back.
Paul grew up in Sioux Falls and then headed to Aberdeen for college.
   After graduating from college at Northern State (Aberdeen), Paul’s first teaching and coaching position was at Tulare (SD).  He taught Social Studies, Drivers Ed, PE, and coached basketball. 
    Paul then accepted a job at Oelrichs High School and for the next six years, he taught there.  Also during this time, he met and married a young teacher named Kathi.  Both Paul and Kathi taught and coached at Oelrichs before coming to Edgemont to teach in the fall of 1981. 

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