One of Sioux Falls most popular eating establishments just won’t be the same after next February. Carolyn Downs, executive director of “The Banquet” for the past 20 years, is retiring. Keloland’s Lou Raguse did a nice story on her the other day but it’s hard to sum up the career of a person like…
Kevin and Tina didn’t have to use a computer dating service to find out if they were right for each other, they knew as soon as they met a year and a half ago on the campus of South Dakota State University…probably at the fitness center. Sports was their common denominator and both were already…
Sometimes when I have a hard time falling asleep, I close my eyes and imagine that I had just won the Powerball Lottery Jackpot and 300 million dollars. Oh, man…what would I do with all that money? I know it’s not very Christian to have such fantasies, “the love of money being the root…
It couldn’t have happened at a better time. My kid brother, Tom, and his wife from New Jersey (ya gotta problem with that?) were coming back to South Dakota for 9 whole days. That would mean lots of time for lots of golf..and I was ready. My older brother, Denny, is just starting to heal…
Alarm clocks that had sat silent since late last May, suddenly rang to life early this morning jarring kids out of a deep slumber and forcing them to face the reality that their three month period of hibernation has ended It’s back to pencils, books and teacher’s dirty looks. In a few homes, the start…
Aside from being from South Dakota, what does former senator, George McGovern have in common with Pat O’Brien, Cheryl Ladd, Catherine Bach, Mary Hart, Tom Brokaw and Captain 11? Give up? Well, hold onto your hats folks, McGovern is soon to be immortalized as a bobblehead. On Wednesday evening at the Sioux Falls Canaries baseball…
Well, maybe not “animal”..but I have been spent the last couple weekends on the party circuit. Pretty tame ones, though, no loud music or heavy drinking and most everybody kept all of their clothes on. The first was the annual Phil and Roberta Trooien lawn party at their farm a few miles west of…
What is it hey? Why it’s Buttercup..popcorn.Add sweet cream butter to hot popcornmix it up, wrap it up, buttercup is born.It’s delicious, so nutritious, it’s a taste delightIt’s so munchy, crisp and crunchy, you’ll enjoy each bite.Eat Butter drenched Buttercup, popcorn at its bestServed in a king sized cup.It beats all the rest.Okay, anybody else…
“How’s my miracle lady today?” That’s been the cheery greeting from the doctor this week as she enters my Mother-in-Law’s hospital room at Avera Mckennan ..a room that Mother Mary will be vacating later today. That’s right! Two weeks after the family had been called together in the intensive care unit to consider…
It was one of those surreal moments when I first saw the breaking news from Minneapolis last evening of the I-35 W. bridge collapse. It’s so close to home and a structure most of us have been over hundreds of times. Knowing how busy that highway is, especially at rush hour, my first thought was…