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“Everyone must visit beautiful South Dakota. Pack your bags and rush to the car and start driving. With so many fun and exciting things to see and do, what will you do first?” Those are the words of an elementary school student who visited the Black Hills with his family last summer. He wrote a school report on his trip called “The Best Place to Visit.”
Read moreWagner Spring Varsity snagged a late lead and defeated Parker (SD) 16-6 on Sunday. The game was tied at six with Wagner Spring Varsity batting in the bottom of the fifth when Hunter Loeffler singled on the first pitch of the at bat, scoring two runs.
Read moreWagner Spring Varsity watched the game slip away early and couldn't recover in a 4-0 loss to Scotland (SD) on Sunday. Scotland (SD) took the lead on an error in the second inning.
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On March 1st, 2004 John was born in Yankton, the homeplace of his heritage for the Yankton Sioux Tribe. John's parents are Betty Leader Charge and Jacob Bernie his siblings are Jude Bernie, Craig Schmidt, Antonio Bernie and Cleo White Face, John favorite childhood memories is when he would push his grandma Mavis around the house helping her being with her when she needed help and being with her made John feel safe & loved. Classes that John liked & sports he participated in while in high school is Native American Studies, Track, CTE Finish Carpentry and English 12.
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Wagner Spring Varsity defeated Beresford 21-2 on Monday thanks in part to Matt Link, who drove in four runners. LINK drove in runs on a single in the third and a single in the fourth.
Read moreMay 8, 1945 is remembered as V-E day, the end of WWII in the European theatre. Along with the end of the war came the release of those detained at Concentration Camps. The Holocaust is memorialized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum located in Washington, D.C. The Museum in conjunction with First Book has curated a diverse collection of historically accurate and relevant books that libraries can use to increase the understanding of how and why the Holocaust happened. The Lake Andes Library was able to secure a donation of this curated collection of 9 titles to our library. Titles include “All But My Life” by Gerda Weissmann Klein, “Diary of Anne Frank”, by Anne Frank, “Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany” by Andrew Maraniss, “I Have Lived a Thousand Years “, by Livia Bitton-Jackson, “Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe” by Leo Bretholz, “Maus I A Survivor’s Tale : My Father Bleeds History”, by Art Speigelman, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, “Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry, and lastly “The Light in Hidden Places” by Sharon Cameron.
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