January 29, 2013 • Page 19 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com January 2012 January 2 Tom and Jo Anne Stanage have been selected as the 2011 Citizens of the Year. Tom is the executive director at Lewis & Clark Behavioral Health Services, Inc. and Jo Anne is a nurse at the Yankton Medical Clinic. A reception to honor the couple will be held at a later date. Nick Robinson, a junior at Yankton High School recently got a day with the Minnesota Vikings. He is a first year member of the Yankton High School student newspaper the “Woksape”, He was allowed to shadow the teams media and communication staff and helped “run” stats to media members and photographers, and assist with the post game press conferences. Terri Mandel, Woksape Advisor helped set up the meeting with the director of corporate communications with the Vikings. January 3 Todd Zephier and Eliza Wedell of Wagner, SD welcomed a baby girl to their family at 7:31 am on New Years Day. She was the first baby born at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in 2012. January 5 Yankton set a record high yesterday or 57 degrees, breaking the previous record of 53 degrees set in 1962. January 7 Snowy owls have been spotted at Lewis & Clark Lake in Yankton. The bird can top 2 feet in height, with a wingspan of 5 feet. January 9 Debra Bodenstedt is the new manager of the Yankton County Area Red Cross. She has served 28 years in the military and has worked with disaster preparedness and Tom and Jo Anne Stanage were selected Citizens of the Year for 2011. emergency response. She is a retired U.S. Navy Captain. January 11 Governor Dennis Daugaard opened South Dakota’s legislative session with a proposal to give bonuses to the best teachers in the state, while eliminating tenure for new teachers. He also proposed bonuses for teachers who take the hard to fill jobs in math and science. January 13 Bill Janklow, a flamboyant politician who left a lasting mark on South Dakota politics by serving four terms as governor but resigned as the state’s congressman after causing a fatal traffic accident, died Thursday. He was 72. Janklow’s son Russ Janklow confirmed that his father died around 11 a.m. Thursday of brain cancer. Bill Janklow had announced in November that he had inoperable cancer, and Gov. Dennis Daugaard this week said Janklow had been moved to hospice car. With the downtown Yankton post office set to close Jan. 21, those who use the facility are bracing for the change it will have on their routines. For some, it will be as simple as doing their business a few blocks away at a new contract postal unit (CPU). Others will have thousands of dollars in additional annual costs. January 16 Yankton’s Brady Hale won the NFL Punt, Pass and Kick national championship for his age group. The final competition was held in Baltimore before the AFC playoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans. January 18 Memorial services were held at the Capitol Rotunda in Pierre yesterday for former governor Bill Janklow. His funeral will be held in Sioux Falls. January 20 Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether and his wife, Cindy, laid out a challenge to the Yankton community Thursday to raise $25,000 for the Sack Pack Program. The Yankton natives will in turn make a matching donation of $25,000. It costs approximately $50,000 annually to purchase the program’s food supply for area youth. January 23 Former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, died yesterday of lung cancer he was 85. Paterno a coach at Penn State for almost half a century was scarred forever by the child sex abuse scandal that lead to his stunning dismissal. January 24 The Yankton School District is seeking a twoyear, $1.4 million opt-out. The school board decided to refer the measure to a public vote that will be held on February 28th. February 2012 February 6 The New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots with a last minute touchdown 21-17 to win Super Bowl XLVI. Eli Manning was selected as the MVP. February 7 Another inmate gets the death penalty for the murder of SD Prison Guard Ronald Johnson. Rodney Berget, 49, plead guilty to killing Johnson, he waived his right to a jury trial. Judge Bradley Zell sentenced Johnson to death. February 9 The University of South Dakota partially evacuated Coyote Village living facility after items the USD officials considered of explosive in nature were found in one of the doorm rooms. Elan Haba, 19, a sophomore from Newark, NJ was arrested and facing charges including theft, possession of fireworks, and a prohibited weapon. Mount Marty College is celebrating a new beginning with the inauguration of the school’s ninth president tomorrow. Dr. Benoit comes to Yankton from the University Of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND where he served as the dean of the Graduate School and professor for the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Therapeutics since 2001. February 13 Singer Whitney Houston, 48, died at the Beverly Hilton Mike Huether, Mayor of Sioux Falls, and his wife, Cindy, laid a challenge to raise $25,000 for the Sack Pack Program. Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. She was in town to attend the pre-Grammy parties. There was no official cause of death, toxicology result may take weeks. February 14 The City of Yankton is pursing a deal to purchase property on the Human Services Center grounds with a price tag of $1.95 million. The land is currently being used as soccer fields. George Smith and Joann Pieper prove that love can be found at any age. Pieper, 80 and Smith 84 are exchanging vows today at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Each of them was happily married for many years before their spouses died. Neither of them expected to find love again. February 16 Springfield native Dennis DeJong who has served 21 years in the U.S. Navy providing humanitarian relief has been honored as one of the top Navy recruiters. He has been chosen as the Navy’s 2011 Recruiter of the Year award for the Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate Program. He was honored this month at a ceremony in Washington, DC. February 20 Learning Arabic during her freshman year at American University (AU) has been an exciting journey for Yankton native Sadie Stevens. Stevens is majoring in International Studies with an emphasis on the Middle East at the Methodist University in Washington, D.C. Last week, she learned that those studies will be taking her places sooner than she expected. Stevens was notified that she had been selected to take part in the Arabic Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program.