In the Moment, May 11, 2021 Show 1047.
The Rapid City Area School District has surveyed parents about the possibility of ending the mask mandate before the end of the school year. The school board decided to keep the mask mandate. Superintendent Lori Simon joins us with an update.
May is National Stroke Awareness month. Dr. Divyajot Sandhu from Sanford Health joins us to discuss the latest research on strokes, symptoms, and prevention measures.
A recent SDSU Poll found that faith leaders could be the most impactful messengers about COVD vaccines. We talk with Bishop Constanze Hagmaier with the ELCA South Dakota Synod about the role of faith leaders and faith communities during the pandemic. She also talks about healing relationships at this stage of the pandemic.
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May 7, 2021
RAPID CITY/SPEARFISH, S.D. Local college graduates are getting the chance to walk across the stage during commencement this year.
South Dakota Mines will holds its ceremony Saturday morning starting at 9:00 a.m. in the Barnett Arena at the Civic Center.
375 seniors are graduating from the School of Mines.
And in the Northern Hills Saturday morning, about 400 seniors will walk the stage at Black Hills State University.
Commencement will be held at the Donald E. Young Sports and Fitness center.
Due to the pandemic, two commencement ceremonies will be held for the university’s three colleges.
Opening weekend of trout fishing creates holiday atmosphere
Families, friends drop lines at Rowland Lake for spring trout By TERRY OTTO, For The Columbian
Published: April 28, 2021, 9:32pm
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4 Photos Buzz Ramsey with a brooder rainbow trout he caught while fishing Rowland Lake last Saturday during the spring trout opener. A number of other anglers were also lucky enough to find one of the big boys. (Terry Otto/for The Columbian) (Buzz Ramsey for The Columbian) Photo Gallery
The forecasted heavy rain and wind had not arrived when we launched the boat in the predawn half-light.
The lake was placid, and there were just a few rain drops falling gently. The banks were busy with anglers, many who were camping, and about a dozen boats already graced the water.
Rural ambulance services in South Dakota are having an increasingly hard time recruiting volunteers and generating revenues, putting the stability of the services at risk and making it more likely that rural residents will endure longer response times in emergencies or possibly lose ambulance service altogether.
While most larger cities in South Dakota have professional ambulance services or fire departments with paid staff members, rural services rely mostly on volunteers. In recent years, those rural providers have seen fewer people willing to volunteer and those who do volunteer are older residents who are aging out of the workforce.
About a third of rural ambulance directors in South Dakota said they couldn’t respond to a call because of staffing shortages, according to a 2016 survey. Roughly a third more said response times were delayed due to lack of staffing.