RC Stevens drops games to Tea, Harrisburg Friday
Gary MatthewsMay 7, 2021Sports
Baseball Scoreboard
HARRISBURG, S.D. – The Rapid City Stevens baseball team dropped a pair of games in Harrisburg on Friday.
In their first game, the Raiders played Tea Area, dropping that contest 13-0 in 5 innings.
The Tea Titans wasted no time in scoring, pushing 10 runs across the plate in the first inning alone.
In their second game, the Raiders played Harrisburg and lost 12-2 to the Tigers, also in five innings.
Harrisburg led 11-0 before Stevens would score two runs in the top of the fourth.
Tate Kogel had 2 hits and Sam Rabern had 2 R.B.I. to help lead the Tigers.
Tea Community Food Distribution Feb. 25
Food Response team began providing supplemental food to members of the community in need. At that time it was a subcommittee of the Tea Area Food Pantry. Although the stress of Covid continues to affect a large group, the reality is that food insecurity in the area is something that will likely not go away.
According to feedingsouthdakota.org, food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods.
Food insecure households are not necessarily food insecure all the time. Food insecurity may reflect a household’s need to make trade-offs between important basic needs, such as housing or medical bills, and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods.
Family owned sanitation business finding success in Tea
Ruby and Justin Zuraff of Tea, South Dakota have been operating Roo’s Sanitation business out of Tea for the last four years. While some might not be too excited about starting their own business or diving into the sanitation business it has worked out well for the Zuraff family.
Justin Zuraff grew up with parents who ran their own business, that inspired him to own his own business one day.
Zuraff never knew what he wanted to do but after having worked for another garbage company and after enjoying the freedom that being a garbage man allowed him to have, he decided to start his own sanitation company.
Two healthcare workers share COVID-19 vaccine experience
South Dakota received its first shipments of COVID-19 vaccines in December.
According to the state’s COVID-19 vaccination plan, those first doses were for individuals in priority group Phase 1A, which included frontline healthcare workers and long-term care facility workers.
Independent Publishing Reporter Crystal Dickelman, who also works full-time in healthcare, qualified.
“Frontline workers everywhere were given the option to receive the vaccine if they decided they wanted to,” Dickelman said, “For some of us it wasn’t an easy decision. There are still a lot of unknowns about the vaccine. It is a rather new vaccine and has not been tested on the masses as it soon will be, which is one reason some of my coworkers are hesitant to receive the vaccine.”