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Page 4 • April 10, 2013 • The <strong>Faith</strong> <strong>Independent</strong><br />
Opal Area News<br />
John Heidler made business<br />
trips to Bison and <strong>Faith</strong> on Monday<br />
and Glenn, Margaret and<br />
Dan Fogelman made a supply run<br />
to the Hills that day.<br />
Diane Fees made a trip to the<br />
Hills on Tuesday for shopping.<br />
Tuesday night, relatives from<br />
Iowa came to visit at the Dwayne<br />
Vig ranch and spent the night.<br />
The Tokheims had lunch on<br />
Wednesday with Barry and<br />
Cheryl Vig, rode with Dwayne<br />
and Matt Taton tagging calves<br />
and had an airplane ride with<br />
Dwayne before going for supper<br />
at Ronald and <strong>Faith</strong> Millers.<br />
They returned to Iowa on Thursday<br />
morning.<br />
Spud and Bernice Lemmel<br />
went to Sturgis on Tuesday for an<br />
appointment, then Thursday to<br />
Belle Fourche for well repairs.<br />
Friday, Bernice took the car into<br />
<strong>Faith</strong> to have the brakes checked<br />
out, then her and Spud took a cow<br />
into <strong>Faith</strong> on Sunday for the Monday<br />
auction.<br />
Diane Fees stopped by on<br />
Thursday afternoon to visit with<br />
Faye Fees for awhile.<br />
Emily and Cheryl Cowles visited<br />
with neighbor Anissa at the<br />
Peterson Ranch on Wednesday afternoon.<br />
Wednesday morning, Kirk<br />
Schuelke helped Mike and Lisle<br />
Reeve with vaccinating their<br />
yearling heifers. Thursday Lisle<br />
By Kay Ingalls<br />
Keep up with your city, school,<br />
and county...Read the Legals<br />
A fund has been established at the<br />
1st Interstate Bank<br />
PO Box 9, Sturgis, SD 57785<br />
for Darwin Brink<br />
Reeve went over to Spearfish to<br />
pick up taxes.<br />
John Heidler attended an auction<br />
on Saturday and on Sunday<br />
afternoon friend John O'Grady<br />
stopped by for a visit with John<br />
and Carmen as he was on his way<br />
home from an auction.<br />
Sunday dinner guests of the<br />
Sam Cowles family were Duane<br />
and JoAnn Wood and Natosha<br />
Voss and children.<br />
Marlin and Ethel Ingalls had<br />
the yearlings they were wintering<br />
loaded out on Sunday and taken<br />
to the auction.<br />
Marie Ingalls called this morning<br />
to let us know that her and<br />
Dale are back to the ranch after<br />
spending several months in the<br />
southern states. Glad to have<br />
them back.<br />
Sunday, April 14th, the Cornerstone<br />
Bible Institute from Hot<br />
Springs, SD will present their<br />
singers and handbell choir at 11<br />
a.m. at the Opal Community<br />
Church. Everyone is welcome to<br />
come hear this group and will<br />
have a potluck dinner after the<br />
service.<br />
Everyone busy calving and so<br />
very thankful for the moisture<br />
that has arrived in the drought<br />
area. Spring storm is heading our<br />
way but we have been warned in<br />
time to get prepared. Praise the<br />
Lord.<br />
Protect your Finances: Tips to<br />
Avoid Financial Fraud webinar<br />
BROOKINGS, S.D. - On Tuesday,<br />
April 23, 2013, the North<br />
American Securities Association<br />
Administration and AARP are<br />
teaming up to provide a webinar<br />
called, "Protect Your Finances:<br />
Tips to Avoid Financial Fraud."<br />
The webinar is an online interactive<br />
discussion beginning at 2<br />
p.m. EDT on April 23, 2013. To<br />
submit a question in advance, e-<br />
mail moneywebinars@aarp.org.<br />
Attendees of this Webinar can<br />
ask questions during this live<br />
conversation. Please visit the<br />
AARP<br />
Webinars<br />
(http://bit.ly/YGss5O) web page to<br />
register.<br />
If you have questions on other<br />
resources available to seniors,<br />
contact SDSU Extension Gerontology<br />
Field Specialist John<br />
Sanders at John.Sanders@sdstate.edu<br />
or 605.882.5140.<br />
as he has suffered numerous medical conditions<br />
For more info: Call Vicki Garrigan<br />
605-739-3901<br />
Well, the ole <strong>Faith</strong> Gymnasium<br />
had its roof raised Saturday<br />
night. Prom time was here and it<br />
looked like the inside of an Easter<br />
basket with all the colorful<br />
dresses and beautiful young<br />
women. They tell me most of the<br />
good looking young people there<br />
were from the <strong>Faith</strong> area but they<br />
were so dressed up it was hard to<br />
recognize them. We certainly<br />
have kids to be proud of. The gym<br />
was packed to capacity by the<br />
number of on-lookers. The body<br />
heat alone must have had it up to<br />
the 90s. The most amazing part<br />
was the weather! It was beautiful,<br />
not typical prom at all. Thankfully<br />
this morning, Monday, we<br />
have some fog and moisture.<br />
Other areas had gotten rain over<br />
the weekend but we at Marcus remained<br />
dry.<br />
I hear Mae Keffler will be turning<br />
100 on April 15. Mae you are<br />
an amazing gal. Happy birthday!<br />
Margie Ingalls also turned 100<br />
last week or the week before.<br />
Happy Birthday to you, too,<br />
Margie. Girls, what is your secret,<br />
hard work, a happy family and<br />
good neighbors must be part of<br />
it?<br />
Wednesday, Vonnie O'Dea's<br />
uncle, Buddy Buchert, came and<br />
spent the day with them. Buddy<br />
Marcus News<br />
By Vicky Waterland<br />
Perennials for ground cover<br />
Those of you that have a perennial<br />
garden of flowers or woody<br />
plants may want to consider<br />
using a perennial ground cover<br />
rather than bare space or all<br />
mulch cover. This can be considered<br />
a living ground cover or living<br />
mulch.<br />
Advantages of living mulch<br />
are: it doesn’t need yearly replacement,<br />
it stays in place, cats<br />
will not be able to paw it aside to<br />
use your flower bed for “facilities”,<br />
it provides added interest and<br />
beauty to your landscape. The<br />
disadvantage is it does take time<br />
to get the plants established and<br />
you need to know the plants you<br />
choose will not overwhelm the<br />
plants or shrubs you are<br />
“mulching”. The bottom line is to<br />
hadn't ridden a horse for over 30<br />
years, but he and Jim rode out<br />
and brought a cow and her twins<br />
to the buildings. Buddy left saying<br />
he hoped he could come back<br />
some day and help again.<br />
Twila Dean met sister, Vonnie<br />
O'Dea, in Sturgis on Saturday.<br />
They went to Rapid and had<br />
lunch and then went to a birthday<br />
party for Mary Kay Sandal.<br />
Twila and Mary Kay graduated<br />
from Philip and have been friends<br />
for many years. They visited with<br />
many friends and enjoyed the day<br />
together. When Vonnie returned<br />
home she received word of the<br />
passing of classmate and friend,<br />
Linda Long Kramer. Vonnie,<br />
LaVonne Hansen, and Linda<br />
graduated from Philip together.<br />
Four classmates have passed<br />
away this last year from their<br />
class. Prayers to the family.<br />
Wednesday Harold and I took<br />
Lacey, Quirt and Rio Wondercheck<br />
to Pierre for Quirt’s<br />
hearing check up.<br />
Friday, Quirt Wondercheck<br />
stayed with Grandpa Harold Waterland<br />
while Lacey, Rio and I<br />
were in Rapid City.<br />
Saturday, John Samuelson<br />
and Harold Waterland attended a<br />
farm sale north of New Underwood.<br />
Harold made it home in<br />
The Garden Gate<br />
By Karen Englehart, Master Gardener<br />
SDSU Extension - Perkins Co.<br />
do your research and set up your<br />
plan before you purchase any<br />
ground cover plants.<br />
A popular ground cover is a<br />
perennial geranium, a newer variety<br />
is Cambridge geraniums,<br />
they are more compact than the<br />
old familiar Johnson Blue. An advantage<br />
of the newer type is they<br />
require little or no late summer<br />
shearing. They creep along establishing<br />
satellite plants by rhizomes.<br />
It is easier to control the<br />
mother plant as well as lift and<br />
transplant the babies.<br />
Geranium x cantabrigiense of<br />
Cambridge geraniums, these<br />
plants form a low, spreading mat<br />
of fragrant dark green leaves,<br />
bearing clusters of bright magenta-pink<br />
flowers. The very long<br />
blooming period sets this apart<br />
We have end rolls of newspaper<br />
available. Makes great wrapping<br />
for moving, kids drawing paper,<br />
etc. Stop in to The <strong>Faith</strong> <strong>Independent</strong><br />
and check it out.<br />
time for supper and to attend<br />
prom at <strong>Faith</strong>. After prom, Denise<br />
and Cody Weyer, Harold and I<br />
visited at Corinna Thompson’s<br />
home.<br />
I’m not sure it’s all getting in<br />
the <strong>Faith</strong> paper but it seems<br />
we’ve had quite a rash of new babies<br />
in the <strong>Faith</strong> area. So far it<br />
looks like there are way more<br />
boys than girls. My sister, Adele<br />
Enright, was the Dewey County<br />
Auditor for many years so kept<br />
track of births and deaths in the<br />
county. We often discussed the<br />
seeming correlation between<br />
years when the cattle had mostly<br />
bull calves and the people had<br />
mostly male offspring. We also<br />
discussed the possibility of having<br />
a multi-million dollar study<br />
funded to check that fact and its<br />
causes. After all, if they can study<br />
the sex life of a fly why not this?<br />
Suppose to be a big snowstorm<br />
headed our way tonight. I, for<br />
one, sure hope so. We are in desperate<br />
need of the moisture. The<br />
stockdams are dry or very low.<br />
The area has not had enough<br />
moisture to green up as it should<br />
this time of year and a lot of the<br />
winter wheat seed is not germinated.<br />
Yes, we need moisture in<br />
any form.<br />
I hear Harold swearing as he<br />
puts away my electric roaster<br />
oven aso better go help!<br />
Got any news? Call 985-5318<br />
or email vickywaterland@hotmail.com<br />
from others, and makes it especially<br />
useful as a low groundcover<br />
or edging plant. Also worth considering<br />
in tubs or mixed containers.<br />
Fairly drought tolerant, once<br />
established, they are easily divided<br />
in spring or early fall, considered<br />
evergreen but some turn<br />
orangey-red in the Fall. According<br />
to the research, these are<br />
rated for Zones 4 to 9, however in<br />
some catalogs they are listed as<br />
hardy to Zone 5 which may be<br />
“iffy” for Perkins County.<br />
There are older varieties such<br />
as Cranesbill or Biokovo which<br />
are not quite as lovely as the<br />
newer variety but have small<br />
abundant flowers ranging from<br />
white to pink. Plants are not<br />
fussy about the type of soil and<br />
will do well in full sun or partial<br />
shade. Next week we will touch<br />
on some other ground covers.<br />
Remember to call 244-5402 if<br />
you want rhubarb plants. It will<br />
soon be time to dig and divide!<br />
Old timers depended on the<br />
standby rhubarb for desserts and<br />
jams and it hasn’t lost its popularity<br />
yet!<br />
Adopt the pace of nature; her<br />
secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo<br />
Emerson