THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“It’s up to us if we want to look at the glass half empty or the glass half full. It’s up to us how we choose to walk through life every day full of hope and optimism or full of negativity and sadness. Only you get to decide, but you do not have to continue down a path you no longer want.”
— Maria Shriver

BASEBALL UPDATE

Minnesota Twins schedule:
— Friday: at Detroit, 5:40 p.m.
— Saturday: at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.
— Sunday: at Detroit, 12:40 p.m.
— Monday: at New York Mets, 6:10 p.m.
— Tuesday: at New York Mets, 6:10 p.m.
— Wednesday: at New York Mets, 12:10 p.m.
— Aug. 2: Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.
— Aug. 3: Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.
— Aug. 4: Chicago White Sox, 1:10 p.m.
— Aug. 5: at Chicago Cubs, 7:05 p.m.
— Aug. 6: at Chicago Cubs, 7:05 p.m.
— Aug. 7: at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m.

Little League baseball: At the state Little League tournament in Rapid City, the Capital City Little League all-stars went scoreless and were eliminated after two games. They lost to Rapid City Youth Baseball, 4-0, and lost to Sioux Falls Little League, 16-0. The Sioux Falls team won the championship and will play in the Midwest Regional at Indianapolis starting next week.

Sioux Falls Canaries (Spencer Sarringar): The Canaries are still in first place in the West Division of the American Association as the teams pause for their all-star break. Sioux Falls holds first place with a 36-27 record, five games ahead of second-place Winnipeg. Here is how Spencer did in the Canaries’ games in the past two weeks:
— W Gary/South Shore 9-1 (3-for-3, 1 walk, ,2 runs).
— L Gary/South Shore 3-1 (did not play).
— L Winnipeg 9-4 (1-for-3, 1 walk).
— W Winnipeg 4-1 (0-for-1, 1 walk).
— W Winnipeg 4-0 (did not play).
— L Cleburne 5-1 (0-for-3, 1 walk).
— L Cleburne 12-2 (did not play).
— L Cleburne 8-0 (1-for-4).
— L Sioux City 9-8 (3-for-4, 1 walk, 2 runs, 1 RBI on solo home run, also double and single).
— L Sioux City 3-2 (0-for-2,1 walk, 1 run).
— L Sioux City 9-6 (0-for-4, 1 walk).
Upcoming games: Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday, home vs. Winnipeg; July 30-31, Aug. 1 @ Fargo-Moorhead; Aug. 2-3-4, @ Winnipeg; Aug. 6-7-8, home vs. Lake Country.

Pierre Post 8: The Post 8 varsity has ended the regular season with a 10-28 record, including 9-16 against South Dakota teams. Scores from the last two weeks:
L Post 22 Expos 7-4
L Post 22 Expos 11-7
L Bismarck 10-5
L Bismarck 8-0
L Harrisburg Maroon 6-2
W Harrisburg Maroon 6-4;
L Sioux Falls West 5-1
L Sioux Falls West 11-8
W Brandon Valley 12-3
L Brandon Valley 10-2
W Renner 3-2
W Yankton 7-2

Legion baseball playoffs: There was a time earlier this summer when it appeared Pierre Post 8 might not even qualify for the postseason playoffs, but several late-season wins lifted Post 8 into the top 15. These will be best two-of-three series with the seven winners joining host Brookings in the state tournament next week. Pierre’s games at Watertown will be Thursday night, Friday afternoon, and if necessary, another game late Friday afternoon.
— #15 Rapid City Post 320 at #1 Harrisburg Gold.
— #14 Huron at #2 Rapid City Post 22.
— #13 Spearfish at #3 Renner Royals.
— #12 Harrisburg Maroon at #4 Sioux Falls East.
— #11 Pierre at #5 Watertown.
— #10 Sioux Falls West at #6 Yankton.
— #9 Brandon Valley at #7 Aberdeen.
— #8 Brookings automatic qualifier as state tourney host team.

Oahe Zap: The season is coming to an end for the Zap this week. Their last home game is tonight (Thursday) vs. Fremont. Then the team goes to Casper for games Friday, Saturday and Sunday to end the season. In the past two weeks the team had a four-game winning streak, then a five-game losing streak in which they were outscored 84-41.

FOOTBALL UPDATE

Because White River High School can not field a team for this fall, the Stanley County schedule has undergone a change. Here is the revised SCHS schedule:
— Aug. 23: home vs. Hill City.
— Aug. 30: at Parkston.
— Sept. 6: at Leola/Frederick.
— Sept. 13: at Redfield.
— Sept. 20: home vs. Gregory.
— Sept. 27: home vs. Wall.
— Oct. 4: home vs. Kimball/White Lake.
— Oct. 18: home vs. Potter County.

ZESTO SHERBET SCHEDULE

Thursday: coffee.
Friday-Sunday: cherry.
Monday-Tuesday: lime.
Wednesday-Thursday: coconut.

COUNTDOWN

1 day: Olympics, Paris (July 26-Aug. 11).
2 days: Oahe Blues Festival (July 27).
8 days: Sioux Empire Fair, Sioux Falls (Aug. 2-10).
8 days: Sturgis motorcycle rally (Aug. 2-11).
14 days: Sully County Fair, Onida (Aug. 8-11).
14 days: State Senior Games, Pierre (Aug. 8-11).
17 days: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” at Black Hills Playhouse (Aug. 11-17).
22 days: Central States Fair, Rapid City (Aug. 16-24).
22 days: Pierre soccer openers (Aug. 16).
22 days: Pierre girls tennis opener (Aug. 16)
23 days: BluntFest (Aug. 17).
25 days: Pierre boys golf opener (Aug. 19).
25 days: First day of school, Riggs High (Aug. 19).
25 days: First day of school, Stanley County (Aug. 19).
25 days: Democratic National Convention, Chicago (Aug. 19-22).
26 days: First day of school, Agar-Blunt-Onida (Aug. 20).
27 days: First day of school, Pierre elementary/middle school (Aug. 21).
33 days: Pierre volleyball opener (Aug. 27).
34 days: State Fair, Huron (Aug. 28-Sept. 2).
36 days: Pierre cross country opener (Aug. 30).
36 days: Pierre football opener (Aug. 30).
37 days: Pierre cheer-dance opener (Aug. 31).
37 days: Soccer Women’s World Cup (Aug. 31-Sept. 23).

WORDS OF WISDOM

“Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
— Adlai Stevenson, U.S. senator and presidential candidate in the 1950s

PARKER’S PERSONAL NOTES

• FOOTBALL CONTEST NEWS: Those of you who for years have participated in our fall football contest here in the Midweek Update and any of you who want to join us this season should know that our first contest will be for games the week of Aug. 23-24. For that one week only, most of the 10 contest games will be high school games. The list of games will appear every Sunday night on my Facebook page (Parker Knox), but if you don’t do Facebook and want me to e-mail the list of games to you each week, just let me know at parkerhome16@hotmail.com and give me your e-mail address. There won’t be any more Midweek Update by that time, so you will either have to find the games on my Facebook page or have them e-mailed to you.
• KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: Always the best special during the holiday season, the Kennedy Center Honors show will be seen on CBS-TV between Christmas and New Year’s. Last week we learned who will be honored this year—The Grateful Dead; film director Francis Ford Coppola; legendary singer Bonnie Raitt; jazz trumpeter/pianist Arturo Sandoval, and The Apollo Theater.
• THE END OF OUR RUN: Up at the top of this Update it reads “Vol. 20.” That means 20 years’ worth of these Midweek Updates but only since I left Pierre in the spring of 2004. The Update was going long before that, so I know it’s been at least 27 years. When the Class of 1996 graduated from Riggs High, I started typing a sheet of hometown news items, sports scores, etc., and mailing it to about a dozen of them. That started it all. I remember the late Patsy Kringel up at the State Library showing me what an e-mail account was, and it was she who created my first one. After that the Update became a thing I did online. Of course I had no such thing as a computer or laptop at home, so I had to type the Update at the State Library during their one-hour-limit chances at a computer. There were years when, after the mailing list had grown to a couple hundred, I typed in each reader’s e-mail address each week until one night, when I was working late down at the Capital Journal, Mike Clegg and Murray Thompson stopped by to explain that it was possible to create a group of e-mail addresses and send the Update to all of them at once with one push of a button. Whee! In later years Terry Hipple had a program at the Capital Journal that sent out the Update each week. When the Hipple family sold the Journal, the new owners had no inclination to keep on sending out the Update for me, so I figured it was the end. But the people up at BPro in Pierre took over the responsibility (gaining nothing financially in the process). In more recent years we owe our existence to Jon Sailer, who used to be in Pierre but now is in the northern Hills, for finding a spot for the Update on his www.everythingsouthdakota.com website. So we were able to continue a few more years. But no more. The next Midweek Update two weeks from now on Thursday, Aug. 8, will be the last one. I don’t know how many issues there have been. We have skipped some weeks, and in some summers we have gone to an every-other-week policy. But even with 40 issues a year instead of 52, 27 years would make well over a thousand issues. Wow! That’s a lot of typing! But I think the time has come to stop. There was a time I know where the number of readers receiving the Update through their e-mail was over 2,300. I have no idea how many people still look for it and then read it each week. I sincerely thank you for doing so all these years. It has been fun keeping former and present Pierre area folks connected, knowing what’s been going on in each other’s lives, and more. Thanks especially to you who have contributed news items. That helped a lot. I’m sure you will find a way to learn how our local athletes in far-away colleges are doing, who has graduated or been promoted or had a baby or passed away or gone on a trip or whatever. We will do it for you one more time two weeks from now. And again, thank you for being one of our readers. I hope the Update has been a way to stay in touch with home for you folks who, like me, no longer live in Pierre or that area.
• President Biden’s address to the nation last night reminds me of a pair of other significant presidential addresses to the nation, both of which many of you are too young to even know about.
  First there was President Lyndon Johnson’s speech in late March 1968 in which he declared he would not “seek nor accept” the Democratic nomination for a re-election run. He had taken the presidency on the day of President Kennedy’s death in 1963, and then Johnson endured the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement during his presidency. Less than a month after Johnson’s speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and two months later the same thing happened to Sen. Robert Kennedy. It was a troubling time for this country. The other presidential speech I vividly recall came on an August night in 1974. Two weeks from now on Aug. 8 it will be the 50th anniversary of that Nixon speech. My wife and I were taking a couple days off in the Black Hills during a summer in which we shared running of the Wagon Wheel Drive-In in Onida. It was in the main-floor lobby of the State Game Lodge in Custer State Park where we and tourists from other parts of the country gathered around a TV set to watch Nixon announce he would resign from the presidency at noon the following day. Nixon had had a rough two years since the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations, so it was time for him to go. He got off easy because his successor, President Ford, pardoned Nixon “for the good of the nation” as soon as he took office.
• CALENDAR ITEM: Christmas is only five months from today!

BIRTHDAYS/ANNIVERSARIES

Thursday, July 25:
Julie (Kusler) Samuelson, Tanna Zabel, Brad Lowery, Chuck Hanson, Kenzie Clark, Jon Rapp, Elizabeth Knutson, Lincoln Wilson, Cole Prunty, Angie Johnson, Heidi (Larson) Shives, Zachary Bruzelius, Benjamin Jacobson, Kim Stoeser, Diane (Curtis) Nuttall, Ranae Hoffman, Michaela Bear, Clara Watson, Cienna Tipton.
—14th anniversary, Anthony/Tiana Johnson.
— 9th anniversary, Rhener/Nicole (Loosbrock) Gordon.
— 9th anniversary, Chip/Kendall King.
— 9th anniversary, Tye/Sabrina Johnson.
— Anniversary, Travis/Sarah Hendrix.

Friday, July 26:
Elliana Jorgenson, Brynle Jo Hlavacek, Danielle McGee-Campbell, Lindsey Riter-Rapp, Brayden Maskovich, Bob Sutton, Tony Mangan, Conrad Adam, Kathy Riedy, Morgan (McLain) Willard, Meghan (Drewes) Hall, Rio Reeves, Annie Lueders, Laycie Williams.
— 21st anniversary, James/Crystal Dvorak.
— 10th anniversary, Jared/Alex (Voeltz) Little.
— 11th anniversary, Tyler/Tevan (Wenbourne) Newman.
— 10th anniversary, Evan/Angie Protexter.

Saturday, July 27:
Casey Placek, Brandon Coyle, Austin Darrington, Marsha Kucker, Ross Jones, Lucas Zimmerman, Krista Weyrich, Russell Jennewein, Margot Johnson, Kalen Miller, Kate Stahl, Amanda Hodgin, Jered Stars, Trey Montana, Jay Miller, Austin Blair, Kristi (Kunsman) Lloyd.
— 22nd anniversary, Michael/Melissa (Hitchcock) Maxwell.
— 21st anniversary, Chad/Pam Kringel.
— 11th anniversary, Tanner/Jamie (Dykstra) Fitzke.

Sunday, July 28:
Mary DeVany, Dave Dulas, Melissa (Luers) Hansen, Joni Boub, Stuart Jones, Kessler Decker, Taylor Becker, Kendra Kuiper, Ellis McKittrick, Karsten Withers, Feleica Pullman, Allison Zuercher, Alex Allison, Nick Neuhauser, Tiffany (Winkler) Carr.
— 17th anniversary, Jesse/Rachel (Hermanson) Knutson.

Monday, July 29:
Joshua Dykstra, Alyssa Bump, August Mortenson, Megan Farris, Mariah Fuchs, Miranda Panzer, Jace Anderson, Aaron Hoelscher, Sheila Clark, Carson Knudson, Jeff Garrett, Twila (Larason) Reding, Cole Kayser, Libby Thorne.

Tuesday, July 30:
Beau Holsteen, Lainey Nuttall, Karla Blemaster, Pat (Caldwell) Miller, Keith Garrigan, Dan Barringer, Barbara (Thomas) Kinder, Meara Hauck, Kent Skrondahl, Mark Zabel, Linda (Kern) Anderson, David Koenig.
— 8th anniversary, Mitch/Theresa (Gabriel) Kleinsasser.
— 8th anniversary, Shane/Jessica (Parsons) Big Eagle.
— 19th anniversary, Tim/Kristi (Kunsman) Lloyd.
— 19th anniversary, Matt/Daisha (Seyfer) Finke.
— 13th anniversary, Matt/Amanda (Kusser) Mitchell.
— 14th anniversary, J.D./Megan (Rapp) Deal.
— We fondly remember firefighter Dave Ruhl, who died in the line of duty on this day 9 years ago.

Wednesday, July 31:
Rhett Miller, Makenna Nystrom, Cameron Scott, Laficia Leftsich, Jeanine Maskovich, Julia (Guhin) Yach, Sarah (Zinter) Detwiler, Jeremy Ripperger, Gabriella Herbert, Adalynn Gustafson, Linda Geraets, Pat Parlin.
— 14th anniversary, Trent/Brandi Barth.
— 19th anniversary, Luke/Jennifer Steece.
— 14th anniversary, Kyle/Kayla (Prince) Kusek.
— 53rd anniversary, Dennis/Judy (Metzinger) Pullman.
— 3rd anniversary, Jack/Lessa (Johnson) Carpenter.
— 3rd anniversary, Chad/Ann Grunewaldt.
— We fondly remember Kier Murphy on his birthday.

Thursday, Aug. 1:
Craig Eichstadt, Charlotte Hofer, Brooke Bjorneberg, Camden Vogel, Dustin Bonnett, Ryan Merriam, Otis Rosenau, Loni Shoup, Kevin Hall, Galen Stolp.
— 3rd anniversary, Seth/Kim (Hipple) Hastings.
— 9th anniversary, Hunter/Cait Johnson.
— 20th anniversary, Eric/Danielle (Scott) High Bear.
— 21st anniversary, Jay/Ann (Schroyer) Schwartz.
— 9th anniversary, Sam/Morgan (McLain) Willard.
— 15th anniversary, Blake/Randi (McQuistion) Norman.

Friday, Aug. 2:
Matthew Hardwick, Parker Linn, Rachel (Lundeen) Bailey.
— 21st anniversary, Matthew/Kayla (Crawford) Fisher.
— We fondly remember police officers Nick Armstrong and Ryan McCandless, who were shot in the line of duty 13 years ago today.

Saturday, Aug. 3:
Faun Van Bockel, Robyn Thorpe, Brad Urbach, Eric Titze, Scott Bailey, Karen (Strickland) Jones.
— 39th anniversary, Guy/Kim DiBenedetto.
— 22nd anniversary, Rob/Jan Kittay.
— 22nd anniversary, David/Jennifer (Lomheim) Sieveking.
— 22nd anniversary, Richard/Lynn (McQuistion) Siedschlaw.
— 50th anniversary, Chuck/Kathy Anderson.

Sunday, Aug. 4:
Mike Powell, Laurel Holcomb, Jessica Olson, Sadie Lund, Kayla Trebesch, Karen Palmer, Kellen Casanova, Kimberly (Bartels) Malone.
— 12th anniversary, Luke/Kirsten Edwards.

Monday, Aug. 5:
Gabe Vogt, Sara (Schneider) Odden, Jameson Merrill, Lukas Erlenbusch, Tanner Steele, Jerry Jarvis, Derik Wright, Rachel Guthmiller.
— 52nd anniversary, Bob/Carolyn Riter.
— 7th anniversary, Brian/Tara (Hyde) White.
— 7th anniversary, Travis/Nicole Rinehart.
— 18th anniversary, Ross/Anna (Van Duzer) Yost.
— 19th anniversary, Hunter/Stephanie Roberts.
— 57th anniversary, Milt/Dawn Morris.
— 52nd anniversary, Jerry/Myra Duba.

Tuesday, Aug. 6:
Patti (Mercer) Jordre, Tenley Fitzke, Janet (Schuh) Fulk, Nick Bengs, Boston Bryant, Samantha Flynn, Justin Williams, Lynette McCarty, Matthew Booth, Chris Brinkman, Kipp Stahl, Greg Byrum, Michelle Dvorak, Ryan Yackley, Lincoln Schoenhard, David Perry, Lois Byrum.
— 8th anniversary, Scott/Bailey (Armstrong) Wagner.
— 19th anniversary, Travis/Becky Lindekugel.
— 47th anniversary, John/Mary (Junkman) Hoover,.
— 58th anniversary, Jim/Judy Ulmen.
— 2nd anniversary, Kyle/Mistie (O’Daniel) McKeever.
— 13th anniversary, Jacob/Chezarae Shoup.
— 19th anniversary, Mike/Corinna (Bevers) Christopher.
— Anniversary, Rod/Terry Fisher.

Wednesday, Aug. 7:
Rylan Ludemann, Reese Fisher, Sylvia Jo Imsland, Sam Fjelstad, Judi West, Jane Naylor, Jeremy Hamm, Suzanne Stahl, Tate Rinehart, Bob Tobin, Chev Hackett, Rick Swanson, Leighton Hoover.
— 48th anniversary, Myron/Deb Bryant.
— 20th anniversary, Roby/Krista Bass.
— 41st anniversary, Geoff/Beth (Pospisil) Simon.
— 20th anniversary, Benjamin/Shannon (Dykstra) Herbert.
— 20th anniversary, Josh/Jessica (Wilson) Bosma.
— Anniversary, John/Jan Artz.
— 48th anniversary, Myron/Anita Rau.
— 14th anniversary, Garrett/Kelsey (Bartel) Glynn.
— 14th anniversary, Chad/Winter (Nicholas) Hendrickson.
— 14th anniversary, Wayne/Melissa (Stewart) Crawford.
— 14th anniversary, Lucas/Mary (Holm) Keahey.
— 15th anniversary, Justin/Stacey Briese.
— 15th anniversary, John/Laura (Dutton) Williams.

Thursday, Aug. 8:
Roger Johnson, Molly Kreycik, Mike Herman, Drew White, Korina Deal, Jayce Tetzlaff, Kristen Job, Dylan Disburg, Dantae Dvorak, Sam Holden, Daniel Timmons, Declan Pope, Patrick Genzler, Brady Mullett, Marla Willard.
— 9th anniversary, Ryan/Cassie Blake.
— 9th anniversary, Ali/Rachel (LeBeau) Hachem.
— 26th anniversary, Jonathan/Andrea (Viken) Urbach.
— 26th anniversary, Nathan/Jill (Storsteen) Weber.
— 15th anniversary, Max/Lisa Huber.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“The thing that age does is give you a little bit of wisdom if you listen.”
— President Biden

NEWS OF PEOPLE AND EVENTS

Boyd Roseland, 95, died at Avera Maryhouse long-term care. A celebration of life will be held at Feigum Funeral Home tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m., preceded by the family greeting friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Boyd grew up near Seneca, attended high school there and graduated from Gettysburg High School in 1946. He earned a teaching certificate at Northern State Teachers College. Boyd served with the U.S. Army during the Korean War, stationed at Big Delta, Alaska. He spent 22 years as a payroll accountant at the Department of Transportation and 12 years as the first benefits administrator for the South Dakota Retirement System. He retired in 1986 but then was asked to serve as an independent pre-retirement benefits counselor until retiring again in 2014. He married Deloris Bryant in 1951, and they had two sons. She passed away in 2015. Boyd is survived by his sons, Marlin (Ardys) Roseland and Tom Roseland; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren, and two sisters-in-law. Among those who preceded him in death were his wife, daughter-in-law Hillary Roseland, 10 siblings and other relatives.,

Dan Lusk retired after 29 years of service in state government. He most recently has been deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety.

Matt Blake, who is a candidate for the Iowa state senate in District 22 in the November election, has been endorsed by the Iowa Unity Coalition.

Galen Balster, 74, of Decatur, Ga., died in March. A celebration of his life will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at Feigum Funeral Home. He graduated from Chamberlain High School in 1968 and from SDSU in 1972. He worked for the state Department of Transportation as a secondary roads engineer. In 1994 he joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Aberdeen in the transportation division. In 2005 he went to work in Washington, D.C., for the Federal Highway Administration. He and Julie Maxon were married in 1978 and raised two children. Galen is survived by his wife, Julie; his daughter, Erin (Joel Glogowski; his son, Justin (Kalyani) Balster; four sisters and many nephews and nieces.

Congratulations to Jackson and Katie Schumacher, who revealed on Facebook this week that their son Sully will be gaining a sibling in December.

Gavin Colson, Sully Buttes High School athlete, shot a hole-in-one July 14 on the No. 8 par-3 hole at the Golf Club at Red Rock in Rapid City. It is a 170-yard hole, and Gavin used a 7-iron to get his ace. He was there on a practice round before playing in a tournament the following day.

Jackson Bosma, whose mother is Pierre native Jessica (Wilson) Bosma, played on the U12 boys soccer team from Cambridge-Isanti that won the Minnesota Soccer Youth Association state championship two weeks ago. Jessica was an assistant coach for the team. The team went unbeaten in league play and stayed unbeaten through the state tournament, scoring 132 goals along the way. Jackson scored four goals in the state tournament as a forward and midfielder, but also allowed no goals as goalkeeper. He didn’t allow any goals all season during the time he played goalkeeper.

Esther (Bourk) Singleton, who graduated from Riggs High School with the Class of 1969, died June 17. A celebration of life was held June 29, and a graveside burial will be held at the cemetery in Blunt at a later date. Esther was the youngest of eight children who grew up on a ranch near Canning. She had a 30-year career in the insurance industry across South Dakota. She served as 1993-94 president of the Black Hills chapter of the Association of Life Underwriters. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1997. She is survived by brothers Don, Nick and John “Hime” Bourk; several nephews and nieces; her daughter, Danelle (Ron) Conrad, and two grandchildren. Among those who preceded her in death were her parents, John and Mary Bourk, and siblings Rose, Daisy, Joann and Lee.

Andrew Kightlinger, who was in Pierre earlier this month for his Riggs High School Class of 2004 20-year reunion, hurried to Waterville, Maine, where his latest film, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” had its premiere at the Maine International Film Festival. A sell-out crowd of more than 800 attended the premiere of the film, which will open in theaters nationwide Nov. 1. Andrew’s father, Lon Kightlinger, was on hand for the film festival as was fellow Pierre native Chris Markley, who lives in New England. Meanwhile, Andrew’s film “Tater Tot and Patton” is streaming free of charge on Peacock and Prime.

Betty (Keyser) Bourk died recently. She grew up on a farm near Wall and graduated from high school in Lodi, Calif. In 1964 she married Arlen Keyser. They had two children and eventually settled in Blunt near their state government jobs. They divorced in 1987. She married John “Hime” Bourk in 2007. She is survived by her husband; two sisters, Donna Stotts and Lila Hudson; two children, Darrel (Quanna) Keyser and Renee Ryckman; stepdaughter Vea Bea (Troy) Thomas; 10 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

Two Stanley County High alumni were among the coaches honored as Coach of the Year in their individual sports by the South Dakota Coaches Association. Les Coin, who graduated from SCHS in 1988, was named South Dakota Gymnastics Coach of the Year for his work at Sioux Falls Lincoln. Ben Kramer of Hot Springs High School, a 1994 SCHS alumnus, was named South Dakota Football Coach of the Year.

Margaret “Peggy” Rose, 75, Hayes, who taught English and coached oral interpretation at Riggs High for many years, died July 16. Her funeral was held Tuesday at First United Methodist Church. The daughter of Keith and Ruth Wilcox grew up on the family farm near Hurley, but in 1965 the Wilcox family came to Pierre. Peggy graduated from Riggs High in 1967 and earned a degree in general studies from SDSU. She later finished a master’s in curriculum and instruction through Black Hills State. She and Bob Rose were married in 1968. They raised their four sons on the family ranch. As her boys grew, Peggy taught at Stanley County and later at Riggs High. She is survived by her husband, Bob Rose; her sons, Phillip (Michelle), Aaron (Tammy), Andy (Kat) and Josh (Rosemary); her sisters, Mary Wegner and Pat (Dean) Clodfelter; her brother, Bob (Jeri) Wilcox; 13 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; Bob’s siblings, Peggy (Tom) Huber, Janet (Mark) Perrenoud, Bill (Barb) Rose and Pat Rose, and many nephews and nieces. Among those who preceded her in death were her parents; her in-laws, Houston and Gladys Rose; her brothers-in-law, Tommy Rose and Peter de Hueck; her nephew, Tyler Wilcox, and many other relatives.

John and Ashlee Rounds have a new son in their family. He has been named Maddox Ridge.

Two people who are part of the Pierre Wildcats Special Olympics program were honored by South Dakota Special Olympics. Karla Miles received the Ron Stewart Award as outstanding coach of the year, and her son, Colton Miles, received the Spirit of a Champion Award.

Michael Zakahi, 65, Las Vegas, died at home July 8. A celebration of his life will take place in Pierre on a later date. The son of Dr. Raymond and Nylada Zakahi grew up in Pierre. In 1982 he married Julie Jorgenson, and he adopted her son, Joshua. Their own son, Raymond, was born in 1984. Michael began his career in Pierre, working at Holiday Haus, Mike’s Place and the Elks Lodge. Later he worked at the Golden Nugget in Lass Vegas and Willits General Store in Basalt, Colo. He returned to Las Vegas in 2017 to work at the Fremont Hotel and Casino and Tony Roma’s. He is survived by his wife, Julie; his sons, Joshua (Amy) Zakahi of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Raymond (CJ) Zakahi of Davenport, Iowa; two grandchildren; his sister, Aurora (Gene) Nelson of Sioux Falls; his brothers, Dr. Walter (Catharine) Zakahi of Sioux Falls and Cesar Zakahi of Las Vegas; several nephews and nieces; his stepmother, Karen Zakahi of Pierre; his stepsister, Kathy (Brian) Walz of Pierre, and his stepbrothers, Brad (Ashley) Christenson of Aberdeen and Brian (Kate) Christenson in Florida. Among those who preceded him in death were his parents and his sister, Hyrma Zakahi.

Congratulations to Riggs High alumni and Northern graduates Joe King and Tori Thorpe, whose wedding will take place this weekend.

A memorial graveside service for Dr. Richard and Mary Jean Schoessler will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at Riverside Cemetery, followed by a time of fellowship and luncheon at the Red Rossa restaurant in Pierre.

PONDER THIS

Asked what sports taught him, Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in swimming at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, said, “Discipline, patience and perseverance. I don’t get depressed when things don’t happen quickly. I understand that things that are great take a while.”