January 28, 2014 • Page 7 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com January 2Brooks and Vi Ranney have been selected as Yankton’s Citizens of the Year. Brooks spent almost 50 years providing obstetrician/gynecology services to patients, and was the first fully trained OB/GYN in the region when he arrived in 1948. Meanwhile, Vi spent years in the banking and non-profit sectors. Later in their lives, the two collaborated on a shared passion — designing and escorting tour groups. Jessica and Dan Guthmiller, Menno, welcomed daughter Abby Marie Guthmiller to their family at 6:03 p.m. New Year’s Day — the first baby born at Yankton’s Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in 2013. Abby weighed six pounds, 13 ounces and measured 19 ? inches. She will join big brothers Lane, 4, and Eric, 2 1/2, at home in Menno. for four more years yesterday in a simple ceremony at the White House. Today will be the public inaugural events when Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will be sworn in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. January 23Ray and Pam Epp of Epp’s Farm in Mission Hill were recently recognized as winners of the Pork Environmental Stewardship Award, as chosen by the South Dakota Pork Producers Council. Nominees for the award were evaluated on their conservation practices, manure management systems, wildlife habitat promotion, odor-control strategies, farm aesthetics and innovative ideas used to protect the environment. January 8President Barack Obama nominated former senator and combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon Hagel would be the first enlisted soldier and first Vietnam veteran to head the Pentagon. January 24Eleanor Wrede Nielsen, formerly of Bloomfield, Nebraska marked a milestone on Saturday when she celebrated her 110th birthday. She currently resides in a nursing home in Norfolk, Nebraska. She is the second oldest resident of Nebraska. She was born on January 26, 1903, in West Point, Nebraska to John and Anna Wrede. January 14Tami Keller of Yankton’s Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home has been honored with the Patriot Award from the Department of Defense’s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) agency. She was nominated by Bravo Battery Pfc. Jordan Schurman because of Keller’s efforts to provide him with flexible hours for his National Guard duties January 26Taylor Specht and her grandfather Dean Specht were inspired by SDSU men’s basketball coach Scott Nagy’s work with “Samaritan’s Feet” and organized the Yankton project that served 150 children yesterday. Specht solicited more than $3,000 in donations, which she forwarded to Samaritan’s Feed for the purchase of the shoes. January 18Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94. Yankton Resident Todd Van Maanen was recently honored as the South Dakota Pork Producers Council 2012 Honorary Master Pork Producer. The award is given to someone who actively supports the South Dakota swine industry. January 19The Northern State University marching band of Aberdeen, which features four area students, will be marching in the inaugural parade. The Marching Wolves include Carrie Pospishil and Schuyler Boyd of Yankton, Kaitlin Buchholz of Tripp and Ellie Wintersteen of Olivet. The unit is among more than 40 organizations invited to participate in the 57th inaugural parade. “The band was selected from more than 2,800 applicants. A downtown Yankton landmark has been restored. Terri Cash, owner of Temari Designs, will be moving into the location once occupied by Meredith’s Jewelers on Third Street in downtown Yankton. Meredith’s had a sign with a clock on it and Cash decided the clock was too much of a landmark to take down. “I didn’t just want to take down the old sign and put up another one, so I had the old sign and clock redone with the store name,” she said. “The clock has been a part of downtown for a long time and I wanted to keep it there.” January 21President Barack Obama was sworn in January 29- 4 Ken and Lynn Wintersteen, owners of Menno Livestock Auction since 1996, are this year’s recipients of the “Friends of the Industry” Award from the South Dakota Pork Producers Council. January 30Jan Schiferl of Crofton, Nebraska has just been named the 2013 Nebraska Mother of the Year. She succeeds another Crofton resident, Joyce Stevens. Schiferl will compete in the national competition in April. February 2Brittany Little of Castlewood, South Dakota and Weston Swanson of Homer, Nebraska were crowned Mount Marty College’s Lord and Lady Marben during Mount Marty College homecoming festivities this week. The San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens are set to play in Sunday’s XLVII Super Bowl in New Orleans, LA. February 6Yankton County Auditor Paula Jones is on unexpected medial leave. Larry Jones, Paula’s husband yesterday, notified the Yankton County Commission. The commission said the state would assist Yankton County with the property tax bills the commission called for a trio of actions starting with the call to the Department of Revenue to assist Yankton County with calculating its tax levies so property taxes can be paid. The second resolution requests the Department of Revenue and the South Dakota Department of Legislative Audit to complete and audit of Jones office with the findings to be delivered to the Yankton County Commission. The third resolution would be for the commission to make inquiries concerning temporary assistance in the auditor’s office while Jones is absent. February 8Long-time Yankton landmark, the old Trinity Lutheran Church on the corner of Sixth and Capitol was demolished; the church was built in 1903. The area is owned by Sacred Heart Church and church officials said the space would be used as green space for the children at Sacred Heart School. The Mount Marty College cafeteria in Roncalli is undergoing a facelift. The renovation will feature a new layout that will offer students multiple hot and cold stations for food, an area just for pizza, a new griddle, and an Asian wok station. The main dining room will also get a February 12Pope Benedict XVI announced during mass yesterday that he plans to step down as pope on February 28. The resignation is the first in 600 years, Benedict said in 2010 that a pontiff should resign if he got too old or infirm to do the job, but surprised the world when he said that he couldn’t carry on. Benedict was a top aide to Pope John Paul II and watched from up close as he suffered publicly from the Parkinson’s disease that enfeebled him in the final years of his papacy. The Vatican announced that Benedict would live inside the Vatican after his successor takes office. February 16A Scotland man gets life in prison for his second-degree murder conviction in the March 2011 death of his four-month-old infant son Jacob Miller. He was also sentenced to 50 years for aggravated assault and 10 years probation for probation violation, will all sentences to run consecutively. Larry Hames was recently inducted into the Sacred Heart Hall of Fame. Hames acted as the liaison between the school board and the construction company during the St. Benedict school addition. He also managed the investment certificate program for Sacred Heart and St. Benedict and set up all the computer networks in Sacred Heart Elementary and middle school. February 19Judi O’Connell and Jane Pugh were honored with the “Woman of Distinction” award during the 5th annual luncheon held at Mount Marty College’s Roncalli Center. The program honors women from Yankton for their service to the community. The keynote speaker was Kristie VerMulm, who is a news anchor for KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa. The Yankton Police Department recently acquired a remote control robot through a Department of Defense program. The remote control robot is equipped with a camera that can be sent into potentially dangerous environments to show officers what lies ahead. The robot and the supporting equipment are worth more than $12,000k, however the department obtained it for only $200-the cost of shipping. 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Goetz graduated from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska with a law degree at age 22, he then came to Yankton to start his practice, and he practiced law for more than 60 years in South Dakota and Nebraska. The U. S. Senate has confirmed former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to be the nation’s next defense secretary. The vote was 58-41, Hagel, 66, a former two terms Nebraska Senator and twicewounded Vietnam combat veteran, and he will succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. March 1The Yankton River Walk committee has unveiled 14 new sculptures with artists hailing from eight states. Two Yankton artists Roger Huntley and Scott Luken will return. Other artists include Shannon Sargent, Sioux City, Iowa, Adrian Hanft II, Norfolk, Nebraska; Carl Weiss, Springfield, Nebraska; Alan Detrich, Lawrence, Kansas; Deb Zeller, Victoria, Minnesota; Leslie Bruning, Omaha, Nebraska; E. Spencer Schubert, Kansas City, Missouri; Nicholas Legeros, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chris Powell, Denver, Colorado; Kyle Fokken, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Julie Ann Jones Denkers, Fishers, Indiana. March 4Dr. Brooks and Vi Ranney were honored at the Citizen of the Year program held yesterday at the Yankton Elks Lodge March 7The Yankton school district will no longer be used as a polling station. During the general election of 2012 Yankton County and the Secretary of State piloted the e-poll book and voting center concept. With the new poll book in place there is less need for so many precincts and voting centers. Voters can now go to any voting center to cast their ballots. This replaces the need for precincts. March 11The Wynot boy’s basketball team has captured their first boy’s basketball state title with a win over Spalding/Spalding Academy in double overtime. The victory was triumphant for Wynot fans that saw the Wynot girl’s basketball team win the state title last week. 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He is the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit and the first named Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi, the man who dedicated his life to helping the poor. His title will be Pope Francis I. Eagle Creek Software Services has chosen Vermillion as their new project center. They have the potential to create 1,000 new jobs. The company’s headquarters is in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and was founded in 1999. The company provides consulting and technical expertise in software development, deployment and support. March 20Services were held yesterday for Vermillion teen Madison Wallace, 16 who drowned in the Big Sioux River last week after she attempted to rescue her younger brother, Garrett after he slipped into the icy water during a family outing to Falls Park in Sioux Falls. Bystander, Lyle Eagletail, 28, of Sioux Falls also entered the water to help the children and lost his life in the river also. Garrett was rescued from the river later uninjured. March 21- The Missouri National Recreation River officials are introducing a new attraction to the park. A new mobile visitor’s center that will be taken to area parks and events in the hopes of attracting additional traffic to the river. The trailer has already been at Mount Rushmore. March 27Senator Tim Johnson has come home to Vermillion to announce his retirement from the U.S. Senate. Senator Johnson with his wife Barbara by his side announced he would not seek re-election for a third term. He will be 68 years old at the end of his current term. Johnson has held a political office since he was first elected to the state legislature in 1978 while practicing law in Vermillion. He has won 12 elections in a row, which includes four in the state Legislature, five in the U.S. House of Representatives and three in the U. S. Senate. March 30The Yankton County Clerk of Courts office has gone digital. Yankton joins 13 other counties in the First Judicial Circuit and 14 counties in the Sixth Circuit in making the switch. The new system known as Odyssey, replaces various legacy systems that have been in use since the 1980’s April 1Local archers will compete in the South Dakota Archers Association State Indoor Championships held in Sioux Falls on March 23-24. Participants included Jamie Van Lent, Kevin Colgan, Hannah Bartos, Owen Warren, Fisher Bartos, Tom Juffer, Alexis Sejnoha, Michael Strom, Gabby Keiser, Kendra Hunhoff and Eric Tollefson. Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter in front of 250,000 people who overflowed St. Peter’s Square. He pleaded for world peace and remembered the world’s needy people. Francis has repeatedly put his concern for the poor and suffering at the center of his messages April 3Kelsie Thoreson, teen court coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club of Yankton, Moody and Brookings County, recently brought the program to Yankton. Teen court allows juvenile offenders to admit guilt in the cases in order to have their juvenile record cleared. The program seeks to lower re-offender rates among juveniles. April 4Long-time journalist Hod Nielsen has passed away at age 92. He was one of Yankton’s most recognized World War II veterans. He had countless friends and followers including Yankton native Tom Brokaw who feature Hod in his book “The Greatest Generation” that honors World War II veterans. Nielsen was a P38 pilot and was one of only seven pilots whom in his group of 27 to survive. Nielsen was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, and a President Unit Citation. He achieved the rank of Captain. He received numerous state and national awards for his journalism. He worked as the sports editor at the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan and KYNT-AM sports radio broadcaster for over 40 years. Nielsen was also known as the voice of the Yankton Bucks and the University of South Dakota, his alma mater. Roger Ebert, 70, first journalist to win a Pulitzer prize for movie criticism, who, on his long running TV review program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb. April 8Annette Funicello, 70, child star as a perky Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950’s who then teamed up with Frankie Avalon on a string of 1960’s fun in the sun movies. She died of complications from multiple sclerosis. April 9England’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has passed away at the age of 87. She was known as the “Iron Lady” who ruled for 11 years, she was the first and still only female prime minister in Britain’s history. April 10Charlie Gross, Brad Woerner and Brooke Blaalid were elected during Tuesday’s municipal election to the Yankton City Commission. Gross and Woerner were re-elected and Blaalid is a newcomer to the commission. 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