December 22, 2015 • Page 8 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com To Our Readers Because both Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall on Fridays, when the Press & Dakotan will not be publishing newspapers, “River City” on both weeks will run on Thursday, Dec. 24 and Dec. 31, respectively. If you wish to submit any information for the “River City” editions on those weeks, please have that information to us by 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22, or 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29. We appreciate your assistance in this matter. New At The Library Here’s what’s new at the Yankton Community Library this week: Adult Books • The Bones Will Speak by Carrie Stuart Parks; Fiction • Commander in Chief by Tom Clancy; Fiction • The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild; Fiction • Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz; Fiction • Happy Retirement by Kenneth S. Shultz, PhD; Nonfiction • Mr. Smith Goes to Prison by Jeff Smith; Nonfiction • Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life by Jason Hanson; Nonfiction • Suspicious Minds by Rob Brotherton; Nonfiction • What to do When You’re New by Keith Rollag; Nonfiction Adult Audio Books • Cross Justice by James Patterson; Fiction Young Adult Books • Beastly Bones by William Ritter; Fiction • Bright Lights, Dark Nights by Stephen Emond; Fiction • Confessions: The Murder of an Angel by Patterson & Paetro; Fiction • Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass; Fiction • Live Original by Sadie Robertson; Nonfiction The Bookworm ... For Kids Book ‘Lights’ Up Holidays “The Night the Lights Went Out on Christmas” by Ellis Paul, pictures by Scott Brundage; © 2015, Albert Whitman & Company, 32 pages ——— BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER The neighborhood over a couple blocks is all lit up. There are inflatable Santas there, musical reindeer, twinkly lights, and candy canes that are taller than Daddy. It’s really pretty and sometimes, you wonder how many lights there are. In the new book, “The Night the Lights Went Out on Christmas” by Ellis Paul, pictures by Scott Brundage, the answer could be that there’s one too many. Every year for the past 55 years, the Johnsons have decorated their house for Christmas. It started with one tree. Then they put lights on the house. Then they added blinkers on the chimney, the roof, the mailbox, there were statues, an electric petting zoo, even their dog’s house was lit up for Christmas. Most folks in the neighborhood put up a single string of lights but one year, the Smiths got a neon Santa. Then the Williams family got into the act, the Wheelers decorated their house, and the Greenbergs put up giant dreidels for Hanukkah. The Jacksons couldn’t be left out in the cold, so they put up snowmen even though everyone lived in a warmweather climate. By 1989, December saw the neighborhood “so darned cluttered” that you could barely see the houses behind the lights! There were Santas and dancing elves, penguins, sleighs, igloos, fake snow, blinky-blinky-blink. Even astronauts could see the lights from outer space while on Earth, entire cars full of AUCTIONS Junior Books • Confessions of an Imaginary Friend by Michelle Cuevas; Fiction • Kid’s First Gardening by Jenny Hendy; Fiction • Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner; Nonfiction fcsamerica.com Easy Books • Minions Snow Day by Brandon T. Snider; Fiction ——— Did you know that you can reserve an item from home? Staff will then notify you as soon as the item is available. Too many mouths to feed? Santa’s Workshop Extended Until Dec. 23 Due to popular interest, Studio Art Center has extended Santa’s Workshop for one more week for young people to attend a creative arts program for creating paintings and making Christmas cards, ornaments and gifts for Christmas. The extended program will take place on Saturday, Dec. 19, from noon-4 p.m. There will also be available hours that students can sign up for on mornings and afternoons until 5:50 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 21, through Wednesday, Dec. 23. The Christmas program is designed for ages 2½ years through teenage years with appropriate projects for the age of the child attending. Each student receives a free stuffed animal or other choice of Christmas gift, a Santa treat bag and can make as many items as their time slot allows. Gifts they make for their family will be wrapped right there at the workshop. There is a short program that is free of charge for the youngest children who need a teenager, parent or older adult accompanying them. Older students may sign up for the longer, more advanced program and may be dropped off while their parents for Christmas shopping. To sign up their children all parents need to do is to call 665-4686 or 665-0954 and request a date and time that their child can attend. For more information, go to studioartcenter. com and click on Santa’s Workshop. Place an ad in the Missouri Valley Shopper today! 605-665-5884 Interested in this spot? Call 665-5884 to place your ad here. When you ?nance farmland with us, you aren’t just another customer – you are a customer-owner. So along with our attractive rates and exceptional terms, you get a voice in how we work and a share of what we earn in the form of cash-back dividends. Call us to learn more. YANKTON OFFICE: 605-665-9675 OR 800-658-3631 when you’ve got the right direction Stop searching. The Help Wanted section of the Missouri Valley Shopper lists many possible new job opportunities. Find a career that’s right for you. MV Shopper MV Shopper 160 ACRES UNIMPROVED YANKTON COUNTY M I S S O U R I VA L L E Y 319 Walnut • Yankton, SD LAND AUCTION In order to settle the Lea Guthmiller estate, we will offer the following land at auction. The auction to be held at Minerva’s Convention Center in the Kelly Inn at 1607 E Highway 50 in Yankton SD on The Yankton Community Library will close at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 23, and reopen Saturday, Dec. 26, at 9 a.m. The library will close Thursday, Dec. 31, at 5 p.m. and reopen on Saturday, Jan. 2, at 9 a.m. For further information, call the library at 668-5275. The Yankton Community Library, 515 Walnut Street, invites adults to join the staff Saturday, Dec. 26, and Sunday, Dec. 27, from 2-4 p.m. each day, for the latest trend in stress busting: coloring. No registration is required and there will be no instruction, no lesson plan and no agenda. Just bring your creative mind and perhaps a friend or two. A quiet space with calming music will relieve all that holiday stress and worry. All supplies are provided, but you are welcome to bring your own. For more information, call the library at 668-5275. THERE’S A REASON REAL ESTATE BUYERS LAND WITH US. finding the right job is easier than you think M I S S O U R I VA L L E Y Library Announces Holiday Closings Adult Coloring Session Set For Library people drove up and down the street to look, which only added to the commotion. Then came the year when almost every square inch of the block was decorated. Just the tip-top of one tree was without lights until Missy Johnson climbed a ladder, placed a star on that high-up branch, and her brother flipped a switch… And the lights in town went out. The lights in America went out. Then Canada, Mexico, Paris, Japan, Rio, Johannesburg, Sydney, and St. Petersburg — poof! And yet — there were still lights! Where did they come from? You’ve seen it happen: someone puts up outdoor decorations and their neighbors spend the holidays keeping up with the Clauses. Chances are, your children have been begging to see such a sight because the blinky things seem to be a necessity this time of year… or are they? “The Night the Lights Went Out on Christmas” shows your child another option. With a semi-rhyming story, author-songwriter Ellis Paul gets the holiday hoopla exactly right and that, plus colorfully chaotic illustrations by Scott Brundage, will make your kids laugh. If you’ve ever seen oneupmanship in action, you’ll find the humor, too, but keep reading. What happens at the end wraps this tale up so perfectly that you’ll want to go back and look again, just to be charmed anew. And there’s more: this book, meant for kids ages 4 to 7, includes a website address so they can listen to a holiday song while they’ve got this book in their hands. And hold it, they will. For them, “The Night the Lights Went Out on Christmas” will light up their holiday. Land Lease AUCTION Three (3) Year Lease of 730 +/- Acres of Crop Ground & Pasture & Hunting Rights Property located in St. Charles Township, Gregory County, SD TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29TH • 10:00 AM Offered in 3 tracts (Tract # 1: West 80 Acres, Tract # 2: East 80 Acres, Tract # 3: 160 Acre Combination) Land is located ¾ mile west of Jct of Hwy 81 and 292nd Street or from Yankton County/Hutchinson County line jog on Hwy 81, 1 mile south and ¾ mile west. The real estate consists of 160 acres (+ or -) of unimproved farm land. The FSA Office reports that it has 154.14 acres tillable and the balance in stock This lease auction will be conducted at the Burke Civic Center, Burke, SD dam, ditches and low ground. The predominate soil types are Clarno-Bonilla Owner: Cedar Ridge Ranch, LLC - Herrick, SD loams, Tetonka Silt Loam, Clarno Loam, Ethan-Bonilla Loams, Tetonka Silt Cory Wetzler, Management Member (605) 775-2702 Loam, Clarno Loam, Ethan-Bonilla Loams and it has a 77.5 soil productivity According to the FSA information this lease auction will consist of 187.68 acres of crop & alfalfa ground and Pictures 542.32 acres of at -From Burke, SDSD,10St. CharlesEast on US Hwy. 18, 2 miles index rating. This tract lays level to gently rolling, a 74.5 acre corn base with & details pasture all located at Herrick, - in miles Township, Gregory County Property General Location: North on 352 Ave., turn east Vulcher Rd. www.danclarkauctions.com on Turkey that mark theand go 2 1/4 miles. Watch for a 146 bu yield and 75.97 acre soybean base with a 38 bu yield. The annual auction signs, arrows and flags property boundaries. real estate taxes are $2830.02. This would make an excellent add on unit for farmer or investor. Monday, January 11, 2016 at 10:00 A.M. LAND LEASE AUCTION Three (3) Year Lease of 730 +/- Acres of Crop Ground & Pasture & Hunting Rights Property located in St. Charles Township, Gregory County, SD Monday, January 11, 2016 at 10:00 A.M. This lease auction will be conducted at the Burke Civic Center, Burke, SD Owner: Cedar Ridge Ranch, LLC - Herrick, SD Cory Wetzler, Management Member (605) 775-2702 According to the FSA information this lease auction will consist of 187.68 acres of crop & alfalfa ground and 542.32 acres of pasture - all located at Herrick, SD, in St. Charles Township, Gregory County Property General Location: From Burke, SD - 10 miles East on US Hwy. 18, 2 miles North on 352 Ave., turn east on Turkey Vulcher Rd. and go 2 1/4 miles. Watch for auction signs, arrows and flags that mark the property boundaries There will be an open public showing on Monday, December 21, 2015 from 1 pm till 4 pm. To schedule a private showing contact Cory Wetzler (manager) on Cell (605) 830-0221 For photos, legal description, full terms & conditions at www.danclarkauctions.com INTERESTED IN THIS SPOT? Any announcements made at the auction take precedence over printed material or prior representation. Call 665-5884 to place your ad here. Terms: This lease is for a term of three (3) years to commence on the 1st day of March, 2016, and end on the last day of February, 2019. On the day of the auction, the high successful bidder, will be required to sign the lease agreement, and pay the first half of the yearly lease payment due for 2016. This Auction being conducted by 30294 www.missourivalleyshopper.com282nd Street Dan Clark Auction & Realty, LLC Winner, SD 57580 Auctioneer & Land Broker: Dan Clark - Winner, SD Drone video of the lease property all of the written information Drone videoof the lease property & & all of the written information can be viewed can be viewedonline at www.danclarkauctions.com online at www.danclarkauctions.com DAN CLARK (605) 842-1150 Office (605) 842-6075 Cell danclarkauctions.com LEGAL: The SW ¼ of Section 1-96-56, Yankton County, South Dakota TERMS: Cash Sale with a 10% nonrefundable downpayment per tract the day of the sale and the balance on or before February 11, 2016. A personal representative’s deed will be provided, title insurance will be utilized with cost split 50/50 between buyer and seller. Full possession granted for 2016 crop year at closing. Seller will pay all 2014 and 2015 RE Taxes. Sold subject to confirmation by the Personal Representatives. Wieman Land & Auction Co., Inc. represents the seller in this transaction. The seller does not warrant that all fencelines are on the true and correct boundary lines. Sold subject to all easements on record. LEA L. GUTHMILLER ESTATE, OWNER Gary Guthmiller & Kim Heikes, Co-Personal Representatives 605-661-1532 or 402-316-6026 Wieman Land & Auction Co., Inc. Rich & Gary Wieman, Brokers Kevin, Mike, Derek & Ryan Wieman & Ron Leitheiser, Assoc. Brokers www.missourivalleyshopper.com Marion SD 800-251-3111 Website: www.wiemanauction.com Visit our Web site at Glenn Roth Freeman & Olivet, SD 605-925-7681 Closing Agent