The Sounds of Christmas fill First Bank in Garretson
Last Friday, the Garretson branch of First Bank & Trust had their annual Christmas Celebration, bringing in a model train set courtesy of Dakota Southeastern Division of the Model Railroad Association and local community member Rich Holzapfel. Students from each elementary class were able to view the set, and Holzapfel brought classes to the Garretson Museum to view the Garretson train model as well.
As part of the celebration, Band director Nick Sittig brought five 8th grade students to perform several caroling pieces, and Choir director Taylor Schweitzer brought ten high school students to serenade the audience with their vocal talents.
Sittig noted that his students did exceptionally well with only two practices for those particular songs under their belt, and that a group of band students will be doing more caroling on December 19. On that day, they will travel to Palisades Manor, Bethany Meadows, the Inn on Westport, and tentatively, Annie's Coffeehouse to play their selection of Christmas songs.
More Christmas events will be happening this weekend with Hometown Christmas, with a parade of lights, vendor fair, chili feed, and more. The full schedule is on page 11 and can be found at VisitGarretsonSD.com.
Name Game Week Six
Week 6 of our guessing game. Easing up in the timeline a bit, these are all classmates and we still have most of these today. These photos were taken when most were 10 years old.
Last week's students were Heinemann (female, no first name listed), Cindy Yates, Mary Baldino, Marcia Gulbrandson, Heinemann (male, no first name listed), & Ronald Micheal.
Spitrock Bowling:
The Splitrock Ladies bowled on November 28th, 2023, with the following results:
High Team Game - Garretson, Ins. – 859. High Team Series - JSA Engineers/Land Surveyors – 2477.
High Individual Games - Cheryl Scholl - 216 which was 79 pins over average. Kathie Franz - 202 which was 55 pins over average and Brenda Jones - 182 which was 52 pins over average.High Individual Series - Cheryl Scholl – 483. Julaine Walker picked up the 5-7 split. Cheryl Scholl picked up the 2-7 split.
MCFU quarterly meeting
Minnehaha County Farmers Union held its quarterly meeting on November 15, 2023 at the Ed and Wanda Artz home. Minutes of the previous meeting were read by Wanda Artz, Secretary. Minutes were approved as read. The Treasurer report was given by Wanda Artz which was also approved as read.
There was discussion of the September meeting of District #2 SDFU. The camping season for 2023 had been a success statewide and District #2 had been well represented.
Delegates were chosen to attend the annual convention of South Dakota Farmers Union which is scheduled to be held at Huron, SD November 30 and December 1, 2023.
We sympathized with members Jim and Virginia Solheim on the recent untimely death of their son Clayton.
Wanda gave the three paintings representing the Farmers Union (Cooperation, Legislation, and Education) and an ornament of Farmers Union insignia (the plow, hoe, and rake) to Minnehehaha County Farmers Union with the wishes that these items would be donated to the fundraiser "Night on the Prairie" to be held at the State Convention in 2023.
Delegates were chosen to attend the December quarterly meeting of District #2 SDFU to be held immediately following the State Convention.
Meeting adjourned. -submitted by Wanda Artz, Secretary
