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One summer during my college years, another premed student and I got a job at the Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis, as nurses’ aides. At that time, the guys were called orderlies, but we were part of the nursing department. We were taught how to clean patients’ private parts without making the patient feel self-conscious, and how to place urinary catheters mostly in old men with prostates that had overgrown and were blocking urinary flow.
Read moreMembers of the Unity Team have begun to plan for the third annual 605 Unity JAM that will be held in Wagner on Sunday, June 11 at the Wagner Lake. The event is a Jamboree of Arts and Music and is a multi-cultural celebration for our part of South Dakota.
Read moreIf you are a parent of a senior high school student or an adult who lives in the community and has thought about going on to more education and training at Mitchell Technical College, Southeast Technical College or Lake Area Technical College, but not sure how you would pay for this education and training, then you should read on. The Yankton Sioux Tribe and Build Dakota Partnership Scholarship and the Wagner Area and Build Dakota Partnership Scholarship are both offering full ride scholarship that will help meet the cost of tuition, books, fees and tools needed to get trained for a wide variety of technical jobs. This information has been mentioned state wide and locally for the past few months, except now the 'deadline to apply is here'. If you have an interest in building a better future for yourself, but the lack of money has been an obstacle then you need to contact Dana Sanderson by texting him at 605-491-0804 'immediately before the opportunity has slipped away”. Good jobs are at the end of this educational opportunity!
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PARKSTON AREA SPECIAL OLYMPIC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
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LADY THUNDERS BASKETBALL SEASON COMES TO AN END
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AC/DC 31 41 55 65 Burke 10 19 29 37 Andes Central/Dakota Christian Lady Thunder defeated Burke in the first round of regions 65-37.
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We passed three more election bills off the Senate floor this week. HB 1112 is an act to modify provisions for a statewide runoff election. This will require a runoff election to occur 8 weeks from the date of the first primary election. HB 1124 is an act to modify provisions pertaining to the testing of automatic tabulating equipment. HB 1165 is an act to modify certain provisions pertaining to absentee voting. This bill bans prefilled absentee voting forms and prevents ballot drop boxes which are an avenue for election fraud.
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