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Aristotle is said to have referred to the female as a mutilated male, and this philosophy seems to have carried forward into much more modern times.
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The East River Smoke Men’s FastPitch Team won the 2023 Rosebud Fair & Wacipi Tournament. The tournament was held in Rosebud during the weekend of August 24-27. The tournament was comprised of 16 teams. The East River Smoke played against Redwood, Native Express, Red Leaf and Top Gunz to make it to the championship game. In the championship game, the East River Smoke faced The Tribe to win the tournament. Teams entered in the Rosebud Tournament were from all over South Dakota including Sioux Falls and as far as Oklahoma. The team was made up of mostly Yankton Sioux Tribe members from the Lake Andes and Wagner area, but also had three members from Sioux Falls and two from Wisconsin. The team was assembled rather quickly for the tournament by Terry Bruguier (pitcher), Harry Medicine Bear (second baseman) and Christian Hart (outfielder). The team with some additional players also attended the ISC World Tournament in Denmark, WI this year. Though they did not place, the experience was invaluable to the team and players. Even though getting a team together was done in short notice, they received great support from local businesses including Apparel Worx, Bouza’s Construction, Ruthies, the Yankton Sioux Tribe and The Fort Randall Casino & Hotel.
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The Wagner Community, Wagner Community School and Avon Student Council collected pop tabs for the Wince family from September 15th through October 4th. Tabs for Talia was an idea started by WCS teacher Pam Roth. The WCS elementary had a competition to see which grade could collect the most pop tabs. The 1st grade won the contest bringing in three boxes of tabs. The 2nd grade was a close second bringing in two and a half boxes of tabs. The 1st graders won a movie party in the school theater for winning the contest. All together the Wagner community, WCS and the Avon Student Council collected 11 boxes of pop tabs all together. After the pop tabs were collected WCS teacher, Sam Bialas sent them with her aunt to Denver to be donated to the Ronald McDonald house in Denver in honor of the Wince family.
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Each year the Wagner American Legion Auxiliary members purchase dictionaries for the Wagner Elementary third graders and the Marty Indian School third graders.
Read moreThe Wagner Volleyball team played Canton on Saturday, October 7th. The Lady Raiders lost in 3 sets with scores of 16-25, 12-25, and 18-25.
Read moreThe Lady Red Raiders traveled to Parkston to take on the Parkston Trojans in their annual Dig Pink match on October 10th. Wagner lost with scores of 14-25, 18-25, and 17-25.
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On Thursday, October 12th the Red Raider volleyball team took on the AC/DC Thunder and came away with the win with scores of 25-20, 25-9, and 25-18.
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