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Gerald P. “Jerry” Kerkvliet _________<br />
Gerald P. “Jerry” Kerkvliet, 70,<br />
of Salem passed away on April 12,<br />
2012, at the VA Hospital in Sioux<br />
Falls, SD.<br />
Jerry Kerkvliet was born on November<br />
26, 1941, to John and Elizabeth<br />
(Koch) Kerkvliet in Rock<br />
Rapids, IA. The family moved to<br />
Salem, SD. Jerry received his education<br />
in Salem, graduating from<br />
St. Mary’s High School. In 1964 he<br />
enlisted in the army and served his<br />
country overseas for two years. On<br />
June 15, 1968, he married Faye<br />
Parke in Kadoka, SD. A year later<br />
he started trucking and did so until<br />
his health forced him to retire. The<br />
A national volunteer network of<br />
precipitation observers, or CoCo-<br />
RaHS (Community Collaborative<br />
Rain Hail & Snow Network) is<br />
looking for more volunteers to<br />
track precipitation events across<br />
South Dakota reported State Climatologist,<br />
Dennis Todey, during a<br />
recent iGrow Radio Network interview.<br />
"These are everyday people who<br />
enjoy measuring precipitation and<br />
are willing to report that on the internet,"<br />
he says, of the volunteers<br />
who measure and report after rain,<br />
hail and snow events.<br />
Despite today's automated technology,<br />
Todey believes local reporting<br />
is still essential in tracking the<br />
variability of rainfall.<br />
"It's a huge benefit to us to have<br />
people across the state who monitor<br />
precipitation. The biggest variability<br />
in weather across the state<br />
is how precipitation varies. Even<br />
with all the technology we have, we<br />
really need to have on-ground<br />
measurements all across the state<br />
to tell us what is really happening<br />
on the ground," he said. "Where we<br />
have heavy rain events, like flood<br />
events, the National Weather Serv-<br />
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open road was his passion.<br />
Jerry was a member of St.<br />
Mary’s Catholic Church in Salem.<br />
He was also a member of the American<br />
Legion Post 140. He loved<br />
playing pool and bean-bags, where<br />
he served as “The Decider” in the<br />
Kerkvliet family tournaments. He<br />
was also an avid sports fan and followed<br />
politics religiously. His greatest<br />
love of all was for his family,<br />
especially his grandchildren. They<br />
were his greatest joy in life.<br />
Jerry is survived by his wife,<br />
Faye of Salem, his daughter, Teri<br />
(Jed) Kylander, and their children,<br />
Ella and Evan, all of Highlands<br />
Ranch, CO, a brother, Wayne<br />
(Carol) of Ham Lake, MN, three<br />
sisters, Sr. Marietta Kerkvliet of<br />
Yankton, SD, Donna (Jim) Muller<br />
of Ft. Collins, CO, and Mary Kay<br />
(Dave) Butler of Lake Carlos, MN,<br />
and many nieces and nephews.<br />
He was preceded in death by his<br />
parents, John and Elizabeth, his<br />
twin brother, Ronald, brother,<br />
Michael, brother-in-law, John Nitz,<br />
and three nieces, Sarah Nitz,<br />
Michelle Davis, and Kristine Mc-<br />
Quistion.<br />
Funeral mass were held at 10:30<br />
a.m. on Monday, April 16, 2012, at<br />
St. Mary’s Catholic Church in<br />
Salem. Visitation was held at 12<br />
p.m. on Sunday, April 15 with a 3<br />
p.m. rosary and a 7 p.m. prayer<br />
service all at Kinzley Funeral<br />
Home in Salem. Online guest book<br />
is available at www.kinzleyfh.com<br />
Weather reporting volunteers needed<br />
ice has issued flash flood warnings<br />
based on people's reports on how<br />
much rain fall there was," he said.<br />
Todey says volunteer reports can<br />
also be useful in documenting<br />
drought conditions.<br />
"If people can tell us how many<br />
days they've gone without rainfall,<br />
it helps us document drought conditions<br />
and better support disaster<br />
declaration because of drought," he<br />
said.<br />
Volunteers willing to be part of<br />
the CoCoRaHS network must be<br />
willing to take daily precipitation<br />
readings between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.<br />
and report the events on-line. They<br />
are asked to use a standard 4-inch<br />
diameter rain gauge and will receive<br />
a small bit of training.<br />
A March Madness recruiting<br />
campaign is now underway. To<br />
learn more visit www.cocorahs.org<br />
or contact Todey at (605) 688-5678.<br />
For more information on this<br />
topic, visit iGrow.org. The iGrow<br />
Radio Network and SDSU Extension<br />
bring listeners an informative<br />
show each day. For more information<br />
on the iGrow Radio Network,<br />
or to listen to archived shows, visit<br />
www.igrow.org.<br />
Read Lamentations 3:24-26<br />
Many Christians struggle to discipline themselves<br />
in the area of self-gratification. There are so many<br />
Willing to Wait for God's Way things we want right now. And to make matters worse,<br />
we usually have the ability to follow through on our desires.<br />
That's what the entire credit card industry is all about: have it now; pay later.<br />
But finances aren't the only area where we get into trouble. Some people are in a hurry to be married<br />
and therefore make an unwise choice regarding a mate. Others don't even see marriage as necessary and<br />
opt for premarital sex instead of waiting for the right person. Or maybe you're just in a hurry to become<br />
successful and well-respected in your career, never giving any thought to whether your pursuit aligns<br />
with God's plans for your life.<br />
One reason the Lord wants us to wait is to protect us from our own self-destructive ways. Those who<br />
can't say no to their own desires end up enslaved to them. God wants us to be mature believers who have<br />
the character and self-restraint to wait for Him to provide in His perfect time. Because the heavenly Father<br />
is omniscient, He alone knows what's best. You can trust that if He asks you to wait, He has something<br />
more wonderful in mind than you could ever provide for yourself.<br />
Does anything seem to have a power over you? If so, it may be an area that requires the practice of<br />
self-restraint. Yield to the Lord, and submit your desires to Him. Then, begin saying no to temptations<br />
as you wait for God to reveal His will for your life.<br />
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delivered in Petersen murder trial<br />
Prosecutor Doug Hammerand<br />
opened his case against Thomas<br />
Petersen on Wednesday, April 11<br />
with compelling and emotional evidence,<br />
including testimony from<br />
an 18-year-old Eagle Scout.<br />
Cody George was only 17, however,<br />
when he discovered his<br />
mother’s bloody body in the family’s<br />
home in Greene and attempted<br />
CPR.<br />
Jurors learned George’s mother,<br />
Judy Renee Petersen, 36, suffered<br />
multiple injuries to her face, neck,<br />
head, chest and arms.<br />
“If you count every cut and stab<br />
wound, there’s 129,” Hammerand<br />
said.<br />
Thomas Petersen, Judy Renee<br />
Petersen’s husband and George’s<br />
stepfather, is on trial on a charge of<br />
first-degree murder. If convicted,<br />
he faces life in prison with no<br />
chance for parole.<br />
Petersen attacked his wife with<br />
three knives, Hammerand told jurors<br />
during his opening remarks.<br />
One was a filet knife, the second<br />
was a chef’s knife and the third<br />
was described as “short.” Two of the<br />
knives’ blades bent during the assault,<br />
according to Hammerand.<br />
“This case is not a whodunit,” he<br />
added.<br />
The fatal confrontation capped a<br />
downward spiral in the couple’s relationship.<br />
They had moved from<br />
Texas several years earlier because<br />
both liked the idea of living in Iowa<br />
and ultimately bought a home in<br />
Greene.<br />
Petersen worked as a Schwan<br />
delivery man. Renee Petersen was<br />
employed by a health clinic. But<br />
money was a problem, and eventually<br />
the van Renee Petersen drove<br />
was repossessed.<br />
“In June of last year, the marriage<br />
between Thomas and Renee<br />
Petersen was over,” Hammerand<br />
said.<br />
Petersen promised a family<br />
member he would make the divorce<br />
“as difficult as possible” for his wife<br />
and “make her life miserable,” according<br />
to Hammerand.<br />
Defense attorney Susan Flander<br />
conceded the point, even suggesting<br />
jurors would indeed find her<br />
client guilty, although not of firstdegree<br />
murder. She noted Petersen’s<br />
history with mental health<br />
issues and what she described as a<br />
serious drinking problem.<br />
“This is the action of a man<br />
under the influence of alcohol,”<br />
Flander said during her opening<br />
statement.<br />
That, she said, means Petersen<br />
could not form specific intent to<br />
kill. According to Flander, jurors<br />
must then conclude Petersen is<br />
guilty of a no more than second-degree<br />
murder.<br />
Renee Petersen got close to her<br />
husband during an argument and<br />
may have brandished something<br />
silver in Petersen’s direction, according<br />
to Flander.<br />
“He felt something against his<br />
testicles and Renee said something<br />
about ‘cutting them off’ and ‘waking<br />
up without them,’ ” Flander<br />
said.<br />
Because he had been drinking<br />
all through the day leading up to<br />
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the fatal confrontation, Petersen<br />
blacked out, according to Flander’s<br />
version of events.<br />
“The next thing he knows, he<br />
wakes up and he saw a horrific<br />
sight,” Flander told jurors. “His<br />
only thought was to get his 2-yearold<br />
son out of there.”<br />
Law enforcement officials apprehended<br />
Petersen in South Dakota.<br />
He had the couple’s youngest child<br />
with him, according to numerous<br />
sources.<br />
Hammerand anticipated the<br />
question of specific intent and intoxication,<br />
which from the attorneys’<br />
opening statements appears a<br />
central issue in Petersen’s case.<br />
“His specific intent when he<br />
grabbed the first knife, the second<br />
knife and the third knife was to kill<br />
Renee Petersen,” Hammerand<br />
said.<br />
Jurors also heard from Beverly<br />
Truax, a dispatcher for Butler<br />
County who first spoke to Renee<br />
Petersen’s son, Cody George. Hammerand<br />
also played a recording of<br />
the 911 call from June 4, 2011. On<br />
it, George frantically pleads for<br />
emergency crews to hurry.<br />
“I need them here now,” the boy<br />
said.<br />
“Hang in there, man. I know it<br />
seems like forever,” a male dispatcher<br />
responded.<br />
“Momma, wake up,” George said<br />
later, adding “there’s no pulse or<br />
anything.”<br />
“Just keep pumping, man,” the<br />
dispatcher said.<br />
Many in the courtroom audience,<br />
including Renee Petersen’s<br />
mother, wept as the six-minute<br />
recording played.<br />
Six men and six women will determine<br />
Petersen’s guilt or innocence.<br />
Defense attorneys,<br />
prosecutors and the court picked<br />
the group from a field of 92 potential<br />
candidates.<br />
The process began at 9 a.m.<br />
Tuesday and concluded when those<br />
selected took an oath at 11:30 a.m.<br />
Wednesday. The court also selected<br />
two alternates — a man and a<br />
woman.<br />
Petersen appeared comfortable<br />
during the first two days of his<br />
trial. He actively participated with<br />
his defense team, Flander and Annette<br />
Boehlje, as they eliminated<br />
potential jurors Wednesday morning.<br />
At one point, Petersen smiled<br />
with others in the courtroom when<br />
Flander asked if any potential<br />
juror had ever been described as<br />
“stubborn or willful by anyone<br />
other than their spouse.”<br />
reprinted with permmission<br />
--by Dennis Magee<br />
for The Globe Gazette<br />
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SD officers officers testify in<br />
Petersen trial on chase dangers<br />
Aided by technology, jurors on<br />
Thursday heard from the late<br />
Renee Judy Petersen and her husband,<br />
Thomas Petersen, the man<br />
accused of murdering her, at the<br />
second day of trail, April 12, 2012.<br />
“He was making threats against<br />
himself and me,” Renee Petersen<br />
texted.<br />
The message went to Thomas<br />
Petersen’s sister, Kelly Svebek,<br />
about two months before a fatal<br />
stabbing claimed Renee Petersen’s<br />
life.<br />
Thomas Petersen also “hinted<br />
at” killing himself if he did not win<br />
full custody of his children as the<br />
couple headed for divorce, according<br />
to Renee Petersen’s texts.<br />
He also “planned on attending a<br />
funeral in two weeks, and it wasn’t<br />
his.”<br />
Authorities allege Petersen<br />
stabbed and cut his wife more than<br />
120 times on June 4, 2011. He allegedly<br />
used three knives in the attack.<br />
Renee Petersen’s son, Cody<br />
George, discovered her body in the<br />
family’s home in Greene.<br />
Petersen, however, allegedly fled<br />
the scene with the couple’s 2-yearold<br />
son.<br />
Jurors on Thursday learned how<br />
close Petersen came to losing his<br />
own life during a confrontation<br />
June 5, 2011.<br />
Bryan Warner, a federal park<br />
law enforcement officer in June<br />
2011, testified about the pursuit in<br />
South Dakota that ultimately led<br />
to Petersen’s arrest.<br />
During the chase, Warner said<br />
he topped 100 mph in his patrol vehicle<br />
and watched as Petersen<br />
forced a sheriff’s patrol car off a<br />
road.<br />
Warner testified seeing Petersen<br />
eject his 2-year-old son from his<br />
pickup after stopping briefly during<br />
the pursuit.<br />
“I saw the defendant throw<br />
something out of the door. At the<br />
time I couldn’t comprehend was it<br />
was,” Warner said.<br />
“I realized it was the child that<br />
we were looking for,” as a result of<br />
an Amber Alert, he added.<br />
Officials were able to narrow<br />
their search for Petersen because<br />
he used a credit card in South<br />
Dakota. Warner was just a few<br />
miles away and deduced Petersen’s<br />
likely route.<br />
“There were only a couple of<br />
ways for the individual to go,”<br />
Warner said.<br />
While being taken into custody,<br />
Petersen talked about hoping for a<br />
cliff to drive off, according to<br />
Warner. He also suggested he<br />
wanted officers to shoot him.<br />
“He said he wished one of the officers<br />
had an itchy trigger finger,”<br />
Tornado warning systems to be tested April 25<br />
A statewide tornado drill will be<br />
conducted for South Dakota by the<br />
National Weather Service between<br />
9:00 and 9:30 am MDT (10:00 and<br />
10:30 a.m. CDT) on Wednesday,<br />
April 25. Because the exercise is<br />
used to ensure communications<br />
and warning systems are functioning<br />
properly before storm season,<br />
people will see and hear the alerts<br />
used for tornadoes.<br />
Outdoor warning sirens will be<br />
sounded in many towns. The sirens<br />
may not be heard inside homes and<br />
office buildings, as they are intended<br />
to alert people who are outdoors<br />
away from radio or TV.<br />
The drill will also include activation<br />
of the Emergency Alert System,<br />
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Warner and other officers<br />
trained their weapons on the man<br />
they believed was the subject of an<br />
Amber Alert issued in Iowa. A<br />
South Dakota trooper was using an<br />
assault rifle, and Warner had a<br />
shotgun, according to the park<br />
ranger.<br />
“I fired the first round of my<br />
shotgun,” Warner testified, “and<br />
racked the second shell.”<br />
Warner said Petersen made several<br />
“erratic” statements and cautioned<br />
the officer not to employ his<br />
Taser.<br />
“He said something to the effect<br />
of my day was going to go very<br />
badly, or end very badly,’” Warner<br />
said.<br />
Later parts of the incident were<br />
captured on video, recorded by a<br />
dashboard camera mounted in<br />
Trooper Clay Kartak’s patrol car.<br />
Kartak is a member of the South<br />
Dakota State Highway Patrol and<br />
joined the high-speed pursuit.<br />
On the video, jurors saw Petersen’s<br />
burning pickup and then a<br />
tense standoff that lasted about 20<br />
minutes.<br />
“Stop right there,” Kartak called<br />
to another officer on the video.<br />
“That’s the crazy guy.”<br />
Petersen walked several hundred<br />
yards, concealing a black item<br />
in a pocket as he walked along the<br />
highway.<br />
“He does have something in his<br />
hand. We do not know what it is,”<br />
Kartak reported at one point.<br />
Kartak admitted being “amped<br />
up” during what he described as a<br />
stressful situation. As officers jockeyed<br />
for position, closing in as Petersen<br />
retreated and backing off as<br />
he advanced, Kartak’s frustration<br />
seemed to show.<br />
Petersen swore repeatedly and<br />
threatened the officers.<br />
“My name is ___ ___,” he yelled.<br />
“I want this guy to shoot me,”<br />
Petersen added later, pointing at<br />
an officer holding what looked like<br />
a shotgun.<br />
In cross examining Kartak, defense<br />
attorney Susan Flander directed<br />
attention to another of her<br />
client’s comments.<br />
“He said his wife was trying to<br />
take his balls off with a paring<br />
knife. Is that correct?” Flander<br />
asked the trooper.<br />
“Yes,” he said.<br />
The video concluded when a officer<br />
fired his Taser. As Petersen<br />
went down in a ditch, at least nine<br />
law enforcement officials moved in<br />
quickly to subdue him and take<br />
him into custody.<br />
reprinted with permmission<br />
--by Dennis Magee<br />
for The Globe Gazette<br />
ing, while the audio will be identified<br />
as a test.<br />
Local emergency response agencies<br />
may practice their response<br />
procedures and schools will conduct<br />
safety drills for their students.<br />
Individuals do not need to take<br />
any action during the drill, but<br />
they are encouraged to make plans<br />
to protect themselves and their<br />
families before storms develop.<br />
Don’t wait until the storm is<br />
headed toward you as there won’t<br />
be time. Information about storm<br />
safety is available from county<br />
emergency management offices or<br />
visit the following web sites: The<br />
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Black Hills Chapter of the American<br />
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