shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com on Mother’s Day at the Lewis & Clark Resort and Lodge. May 6 Mount Marty College athletic trainer Andy Holzwarth who has served 13 years at MMC has been accepted for the physician assistant program at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. He has serves as the head athletic trainer for all Lancer teams and also taught courses in the exercise/wellness department of the college. May 7 The report on “Deflategate” came out yesterday and stopped just short of calling Tom Brady, quarterback of the New England Patriots a cheater. The report left little doubt that he had a role in having footballs deflated before New England’s AFC title game against Indianapolis in January and probably in previous games. The report stated that two Patriot employees official locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski executed the plan. May 8 The Rev. Michael Carlson has been selected as the new director of the Yankton Children’s Choir. He hopes to expand the January 26, 2016 • Page 13 The cosmos” in Powell’s honor. Three years ago, current YHS band director Todd Carr mentioned the idea to the YHS Band Boosters of commissioning a piece for Powell. Carr said, “But in my mind, the greatest way to honor somebody is to write music for them.” boundaries of the young singers. Carlson moved to Yankton with his wife, the Rev. Molly Carlson and their two sons from California. Adam Walter and Broc Mauch, students at Yankton High School have qualified for the National History Day contest at College Park, in Maryland to be held on June 14-18. Aedan Huntley, Cody Perakslis, Michael Maldonado, Jacob Selgestad also qualified for the competition, but are unable to attend. May 14 Dr. Angela Hejl was named teacher of the year. The senior class of Yankton High School voted on the award that was sponsored by Lewis & Clark Specialty Hospital. Hejl recently retired after 21 years of teaching. May 9 Yankton’s Evan Payer, 10, captured first place last weekend in the Junior Mini 65cc, age’s 7-11 division at the AMSOil AMA Amateur National Arenacross Championships in Las Vegas. Payer was raised in a motocross family. His father, Waylon, owns Yankton Motorsports and has been riding for about 30 years. May 16 Marcus Long has been named the new Mount Marty College President. Long is a native of Missouri. For last eight years he has worked at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, which is a professional school in the Washington University Medical Center of St. Louis. Former Yankton High School band director, Ted Powell will be honored next week by the current Yankton High School Band when it performs a musical piece specially commissioned in his honor. The band will give the premier performance of “Beyond 41 In addition to a new president Mount Marty College unveiled a new athletic website to its network. With assistance from SIDHelp, the Mount Marty Lancers Athletic Department has created an athletic website to better al- May 21 After several years of deadlock, the City of Yankton and B-Y Water have come to an agreement that allows for the city to service new developments in annexed properties. May 22 Beth Kaltsulas was named the Yankton School District Teacher of the Year. She teaches sixth grade math at Yankton Middle School. She started her teaching career in 1986 at Beadle Elementary School. She taught fourth, fifth, and sixth grade for 25 years before moving to YMS. She will begin her 29th year of teaching this fall. May 26 Paula Hallberg has been hired as the new executive director of Keep Yankton Beautiful. Keep Yankton Beautiful’s main priority is to keep the city clean. 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June 16 The Yankton School board is seeking the public’s input on the Crane Youngworth/ Williams Field project. Superintendent Dr. Wayne Kindle will be holding community meetings to outline the details of both plans. June 17 The Yankton County Commission passed a Tax Increment District #1 encompassing the land around Napa Junction. Commission chairman Todd Woods said this is a way of helping development in the county move forward. The 2015 World Archery Youth Championship has concluded and officials said it was an overwhelming success. According to officials there were a total of 574 archers from 51 countries that competed. June 18 City Finance Officer Al Viereck who has been working in Yankton’s city government for more than 17 years was the recipient of the 2015 South Dakota Municipal League Finance Officer of the Year award. A Sioux Falls man drowned at the Lewis & Clark Marina west of Yankton on Tuesday night. Richard Minder, 54, was on a sailboat that was docked when he fell into the water and did not resurface. June 19 A white man who joined a prayer meeting inside a historic black church and then fatally shot nine people was captured without resistance yesterday after an all-night manhunt. Dylan roof, 21, spent nearly an hour inside the church before killing the six women and three men including the pastor. June 20 This year’s VFW/Ladies Auxiliary State Convention was held in Yankton at the Kelly Inn. Senator John Thune gave the formal opening address board wants to keep the public informed and involved in the decision making process. July 14 Two Yankton residents were killed in a two vehicle accident that occurred Sunday afternoon five miles west of Yankton on Highway 52. Khuyen Nguyen, 52 and Ryan Nguyen, 39 were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Two occupants in the other vehicle were injured. Khuyen Nguyen drifted across the center line and into the path of an eastbound vehicle driven by Corey Sestak. Sestak and the passenger in his vehicle, Katherine Sestak, 30 both of Sioux Falls, received serious but non-life threatening injuries. The investigation is continuing into the crash. July 15 Joshua Hudson, a man accused of murdering his uncle in Yankton in 2014, has pleaded guilty to a single count of first degree homicide as manslaughter. Hudson was in court yesterday where he accepted a guilty by reason of insanity to charges of homicide in the second degree, aggravated assault and grand theft. July 18 Jeff and Jolene Steffen and their children Jenna and Cole were named the Farm Family of the Year by the Yankton Chamber of Commerce’s Agri-Business Committee at the Chamber’s annual Ag Gala. The Steffens farm southeast of Crofton in Nebraska. August 8 The Lewis & Clark traveling exhibit which stopped in Yankton in 2002 as part of the bicentennial commemoration of the Lewis & Clark Expedition will be finding a permanent home at the Mead Building, the future home of the Dakota Territorial Museum in Yankton. The exhibit was acquired in 2007 from the American Rivers, Inc. in Washington, D.C. They wanted the exhibit to be donated to an organization along the Missouri River where it could be seen. Yesterday members of the South Dakota Army National Guard began hauling the 20 crates from storage to the Mead Building. August 9 Pro Football Hall of Famers Frank Gifford died at 84. He led the New York Giants to a league championship in 1956 and later teamed up with Howard Cosell and Don Meredith in the “Monday Night Football booth. August 10 Two Yankton residents were injured when their small plane crashed into a cornfield in Cedar County, Nebraska on Saturday night. Pilot Ronald Feimer, 56 and his son Alan, 16, were taken to Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton for unknown injuries. August 11 After years of slow growth of affordable housing in Yankton, the Westbrook Estates project is taking shape and aiming at addressing the city’s housing needs. Dan Specht is the head of Yankton Area Progressive Growth committee. Westbrook Estates is located along West City Limits Road. The first phase will include 70 apartment units, 16 four-plex lots and 28 duplex units and 29 single family homes. August 15 The Yankton School Board was awarded the 2015 School Board of Excellence Award by the Associated School Boards of South Dakota at their annual conference in Sioux Falls this past weekend. June 22 Yankton Madison Dangler was crowned the 2015 Czech Days Queen. 54 YEARS IN BUSINESS May 29 Chuck Bennis, of Brookings painted a style called “street art” a design on the west side of a former restaurant near the Easton Yankton Archery Complex. 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Their project was titled “Leadership and Legacy: George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan.” August 18 Don and Marlys List have been selected to be the grand marshals at this year’s Riverboat Days parade. Don has spent more than 25 years marching with the VFW honor guard. The Lists have been active with the military and related causes in the Yankton area for many years. July 2 University of South Dakota senior Autumn Simunek was crowned Miss South Dakota 2015 recently in Hot Springs. She will represent South Dakota as the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City in September. August 19 The Yankton County Commission is set to start a series of town hall meetings, attended by two commissioners each, in county communities to speak on commission matters and gain input from the public. The meetings come as the commission gears up for a referendum on the levy. July 8 A public meeting was held last night at the Yankton High School Theater to collect input on the Crane-Youngworth/Williams Field project. Members of the Building and Grounds committee made a formal presentation outlining the details of the project to the public. The school August 21 Authorities have confirmed the body found in the Missouri River near Elk Point is the 19 year old swimmer missing since last Sunday. The victim was identified as Brant Joseph Blaha of Dante, SD. Blaha was in a group