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Horizon initiatives help protect wellness
Horizon Health Foundation helps protect the overall wellness of your rural communities through programs supporting the quality care initiatives of Horizon Health Care. Horizon is the farmers, grandparents and children you meet in your local communities every day.
Searching for the current oldest living South Dakotan
Who is the oldest person you know in South Dakota? Each year, the South Dakota Health Care Association’s (SDHCA) Century Clubsm seeks to find the answer! If you know of a South Dakotan born in 1914 or earlier, making this person at least 109 years young, he or she may be our state’s oldest living person. SDHCA would like to honor him or her with the 2023 Centenarian of the Year award.
Inclusion field trips used as growing experience
The Elk Point-Jefferson 6th-12th grade Life Skills Special Education class recently participated in an Inclusion Field Trip in Vermillion. They weren’t the only school to attend, however, Beresford’s High School class also participated on May 4.
DV baseball players named to 1st team
The Dakota Valley Panthers Baseball team had three players named to the Class B All-State 1st Team. The list was recently released from the South Dakota High School Baseball Association. Players included, seniors Isaac Bruns, Jake Pruchniak and Jaxon Hennies.
Dakota Valley Panther state softball preview
The inaugural regular season of high school softball in South Dakota has come to a close, but Dakota Valley still has games to play as qualifiers for state. For the first time ever, as a sanctioned sport, the South Dakota state softball tournament will take place in Aberdeen. Class A and Class B schools will be at Players Softball Complex and Class AA teams play games on Koehler Hall of Fame…
Four Panthers head to Girls Golf State Tournament
Four Dakota Valley golfers will compete at the South Dakota girls state Class A golf tournament in Rapid City on June 5 and 6. The Panthers will play on the Meadowbrook Golf Course. The site location for Class AA is Hillsview Golf Course in Pierre and for Class B it is Cattail Crossing Golf Course in Watertown. Dakota Valley will putt, chip and drive against some of the best high school golfers…
Dakota Valley Girls golf in conference and region meets
The DAK-XII conference golf meet took place on Monday, May 22 at The Bluffs Golf Course in Vermillion. Dakota Valley represented well as a team to bring home a 4th place finish, they also had 2 individuals finish in the top 20.
Murder suspect to be extradited
Union County now has 30 days to travel to Laredo, TX and pick up murder suspect Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales. Castellanos-Rosales was charged with first- and second-degree murder of 23-year-old Jordan Beardshear who was found inside her Dakota Dunes apartment April 26.
Teacher apprenticeship pilot launches next fall
The South Dakota Department of Education has made available an application for its new Teacher Apprenticeship Pathway. The department, and its partners, will pilot the program beginning in the 2023-24 school year.
