Stay true to your roots
As seniors of Roslyn, Waubay and Webster high schools, you may think your time here is over once you cross the stage and receive your diploma.
While it may be true that your education is finished at your respective high school, we hope the latter is not.
As young men and women, your learning has just begun. Some of you will be heading off to college, others to tech schools, military service and yet others may opt to just head out and find their place with a job.
But ultimately, I hope your time here is something you will remember and someday not only come to appreciate, but want to come back.
Go and explore and find your potential in the world, but remember your roots and the values that were instilled on you and if the opportunity arises and you find a chance to come back to Day County, please do so.
As residents of Day County, we have seen these young men and women grow and change over the years. For some, they have tried to help these soon to be graduates grow by telling them and by example of the experiences life has taught them as well as what life in Day County can offer.
There is one more opportunity to show them your support. Graduation at Roslyn is May 17 at 2 p.m. in the Roslyn school gym, Waubay’s is May 18 at 1:30 p.m. in their gym and Webster’s is 2 p.m. at the Webster armory.
No matter what path you take after graduation, the best goes out to all our 2008 graduates and we look forward to the day you may return to South Dakota and Day County.
Congratulations to all the 2008 graduates. Congratulations also goes out to all former graduates who have found their way back to South Dakota and Day County. John E. Suhr
Parenting is not for lightweights
Having returned from the annual Mother’s Day tea at my mom’s church, that’s the holiday on my mind.
There is a long history of the Mother’s Day meal in that church. Well, at least there was one way back when I was little.
Mom, having four daughters, shared us with some of the ladies who had none. (This is definitely different than the time my daughter tried to trade me off so she could be with someone else at Girl Scout camp.) I honestly don’t remember whose daughter I was being that night. What does stick in my memory is the wonderful fresh strawberry pie. That and all the men in the church running around in aprons serving us!
There was no pie at this year’s event, but that’s alright. It was a great meal and the guys do a great job serving it.
This year’s entertainment included a skit about Mother of the Year competition. Of course it ended in every mother there winning. That is something that would never happen to this little mother! I knew for sure the year Betsy was in kindergarten.
One day I was at the office, just going about my day in the usual way when I got a phone call. It was the school wondering if I was going to pick up my daughter. The poor kid was just sitting there waiting. All her friends had left but nobody came for her.
Yes, I felt terrible. She was pretty good about it, but that didn’t help. I knew that I had abandoned my five year old!
Off to day care we went. She always liked going to Julie’s, so that cheered her up.
Then I headed back to work. And oh, what clever coworkers I had! There must have been a picture of Betsy on the desk. They had come up with a milk carton and put her picture on it.
Well, I am not supermom and will never be nominated for Mother of the Year.
But she forgave me for that error and many others since. Adam too, but there’s one right now he’s still working on.
Hopefully, someday they can look back at some of the odd things that happened and smile.
But it might take a few parenting mistakes they make themselves before they truly understand.
By George, by George
Careless chief may get grief
Gun safety did more than backfire on him.
Riverdale, UT police chief Dave Hansen shot himself in the ankle while waving a loaded pistol and being careless, according to two students attending his class to qualify for a concealed-weapons permit.
“We were told the gun is the chief's personal sidearm, but it looked to me like he didn't know anything about the gun,” Lewis Walker said.
Bart Ulm, another student seeking certification to carry a concealed weapon, said he was surprised the chief was using a loaded gun to show how it worked.
“Right then, I was very leery, because there's no need to have live ammo in a gun in the class. But I figured he's the chief, so he must know what he's doing,” Ulm said.
Hansen held a Glock 40 under a table to disassemble it when a bullet fired in a police headquarters conference room. The chief urged students to call 911.
Hansen was taken to the hospital for surgery and released later.
Walker doesn’t have confidence in the investigation. “I think Riverdale police are just trying to keep this quiet and act like the chief is a hero. But if you ask me, he's really stupid,” he said. “His state certification to teach concealed-weapons classes should be taken away from him. This was totally gross negligence.”
Ulm said there was a moment of levity during the emergency when another officer at the scene joked that “instead of shooting himself, he should have used the Taser.”
by george
Rose Griffin ain’t dead, so a call trying to arrange her funeral came as a bit of a shock.
The Methuen, MA woman got word late one night from someone looking for her son, who wasn’t there. An irate Griffin used caller ID to return the call, where a man informed her that he was a funeral director trying to make arrangements for her son's dead mother.
Seventy five year old Griffin told him, “You're talking to the dead person.”
A co-owner of the funeral home admits someone played a “cruel prank” by leaving a message with their answering service that she died.
Griffin, who stills works, said she plans to be around for some time because she's “mean and only the good die young.”
bye george
