October 24, 2017 • Page 2 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com A South Dakota Tradition By Sen. Mike Rounds We are fortunate to be home to the country’s best pheasant hunting, and opening day of pheasant season is a weekend South Dakotans look forward to all year. I’ll once again be spending opening weekend near Presho, hunting with family and friends. One of the aspects of hunting I enjoy so much is the camaraderie. Our kids grew up learning to hunt, and all four are planning to join us in the fields this fall, along with their own families. My oldest grandson will have the opportunity to mentor hunt this year. While the grandkids are still young, they look forward to hunting season as much as we do! They enjoy helping dogs chase down birds, and afterward we all enjoy a meal together as we share stories about that day’s hunt. I first learned about hunting when I was just 3 or 4 years old, when my dad, Grandpa Don, and the man who raised my dad, John Kauth, took me out hunting with them for the first time. However, I was introduced to the sport on the day I was born—the opening weekend of 1954. Each birthday, my dad reminds me about how I messed up his hunt that year! Hunting is more than just a hobby for South Dakotans, it’s also a big source of income for many of our small businesses. Each year, people from all over the country visit our state to hunt in the best pheasant habitat in the nation. They stay in our hotels, dine in our restaurants and enjoy all of the other things South Dakota has to offer. We’ve had a tough year in South Dakota with this summer’s drought, and there will be fewer birds out there, but I’m confident hunters will still be able to have a successful season – both South Dakotans and nonresidents alike. Hunting plays a large role in land conservation, as well. One of the best things we can do as sportsmen and women is continue to promote the use of Conservation Reserve How to Get the Girl By Daris Howard Program (CRP) acres. It’s a good program for farmers, because it provides them with an additional source of income and it’s good for hunters because it creates excellent habitat for deer, pheasant and water fowl to nest. As we continue discussions on the upcoming farm bill, raising the number of CRP acres has been a top priority of mine. We’re looking forward to enjoying some fresh air, hunting a few birds and making even more family memories this season, and we hope you, your loved ones and friends will do the same. We wish all South Dakotans safe, fun and successful hunts! Dave Says What’s the Difference? Dear Dave, concentrate on personal training and my DJ work. What’s the difference between a Steve credit union and a bank? Jake Dear Steve, I always tell people to first get to a point where their side hustle is generating almost as much money as their day job. I want the Dear Jake, A bank is owned by stockhold- boat pulled as close to the dock as you can get it, so that when you ers. When the bank makes a profit – make the jump from the dock to the boat you don’t hit the water. and they should make a profit – the In your case, I would want the $10,000 you earn from personal stockholders, who are owners of the training to look more like $20,000. When you reach that level, comcompany, get that profit. It can be bined with what you’re making as a DJ, it would create a pretty dispersed in the form of dividends, or safe situation for you to quit your day job. the value of their stock is increased. Maybe you could cheat a little on the personal trainer money, A credit union is run more like a co- because you’re making as much or more as a DJ as you are in your operative. Technically speaking, it’s day job. Otherwise, you’re giving up $25,000 for $10,000 and only Dave operated not for profit, and the owners are hoping the personal training gig will grow. That’s not a good idea. the credit union members, who are also I’d like to see that hope proven a little bit more before you walk away from a day job. customers. As a customer of a credit union, whatever Good luck, Steve! you pay into the credit union – the “profit” – is returned to the — Dave members in the form of increased services or actual dispersements. Sometimes, you actually get a check from the credit union. A lot of banks don’t like credit unions, and say they have an un- * Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and busifair advantage because of their non-profit status. This really isn’t ness, and CEO of Ramsey Solutions. He has authored seven besttrue. Credit unions, with whatever “profits” are made, put that selling books, including The Total Money Makeover. The Dave money right back into creating cheaper checking accounts, better Ramsey Show is heard by more than 12 million listeners each interest rates on loans, or higher interest rates on savings. week on 575 radio stations and multiple digital platforms. Follow A bank could do the same thing, if it were willing to make less Dave on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramprofit. So, there’s no disadvantage. They’re just trying to keep sey.com. stockholders happy and sell stuff to customers. But really, that all means nothing if you don’t get good service from the organization! — Dave RAMSEY Time to Leave the Day Job? S.D. State Parks To Host Halloween Events Dear Dave, I make about $25,000 a year in my day job, but I have side jobs PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) as a personal trainer and a DJ. I’ll make about $10,000 this year as a trainer, and $25,000 to $30,000 working events as a DJ. 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So the next semester the first thing I did was sign up for a piano class. The next thing I did was sign up for dance class. And I thought I had it made because both were full of girls. In fact, I was the only boy in the piano class.” “Maybe your mother was on to something,” I said. Brian nodded. “One of the things I quickly learned was that many of the girls were in those classes hoping to find a guy. I thought it was perfect.” “So that’s how you met?” I asked. “In a sense,” Brian replied. “I was so bad at dancing that after a while the girls were reluctant to dance with me and didn’t want anything to do with me.” “What about piano class?” Donna asked. “It wasn’t any better,” Brian replied. “I found that I was almost tone deaf. I couldn’t even tell when I made a mistake. After one turn of playing for the class, the girls suggested that maybe I could just play for the teacher’s aid instead. They didn’t want to listen to me. I also realized that is part of the reason I was a bad dancer. I also couldn’t sense rhythm.” Donna turned to Sarah. “So how did you fit into the story?” “Well,” Sarah said, “I was the teacher’s aid for the piano class. The students had to play for me at different intervals during the semester so I could grade them on their improvement. In the midst of all of the girls was one good-looking guy. I was excited when he walked in. But then he played the piano, and he was so bad I was immediately annoyed with him. And to top it off, the teacher requested that Brian play for me what he should have played for the class.” “I was so bad that Sarah thought I was I must not be practicing at all,” Brian added. “He claimed he did,” Sarah said, “but I doubted it. In fact, I decided to listen outside his practice room. Sure enough, he practiced, but he’d miss a note and not even realize it was wrong. He was not getting any better because he didn’t know enough to correct his mistakes. I just couldn’t stand it, so I started going into the practice room with him, and I would reach around him and hit the right note when he missed one.” “At first I was only playing with one hand,” Brian said. “But eventually we got to two hands, and sometimes I made a mistake on both hands at the same time. Then she would reach around me with both hands and hit the right notes.” “It was enough to grate on a person,” Sarah said. “I couldn’t stand it and just had to fix it.” Brian grinned. “But then I got thinking. I have a girl putting her arms around me. What could be better? I can’t say that I made the mistakes on purpose because I didn’t even know if I did it wrong in the first place. But I didn’t really care if I hit the right notes or not if she was going to put her arms around me.” “Eventually his smile and humor won out over his bad music,” Sarah said. “I fell for him and enjoyed putting my arms around him. But when he asked me to marry him, I agreed on one condition. Unless a miracle occurred, and he somehow figured out how to play the piano, he was to never play it when I was around.” Brian laughed. “And I was happy to do that, because I already had what I took piano for anyway!” The food’s awfully good down at the Gates of Heaven Chinese Restaurant. The valley’s other Delbert, Delbert Chin, has been putting on a decent feed there since he came to this country many years ago. We like that lunch buffet. All you can eat, of course, and he makes this pink sauce that’s out of this world. You can put it on everything. And you want to. He asked me once why I used so much of it, and I told him if I had enough of that sauce, I could live on cardboard boxes and bedding straw. But there’s something else about Delbert, too. He is so proud of how clean his kitchen is, he will drag strangers in to look at it. We’ve all been in there. At least once a year, Delbert will say, “You been in my kitchen? You come look.” And we do. 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