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227 Compete in Brule County 4-H Rodeo.
Cody Heckenlaible of Fort Pierre placed fourth in the Junior Boys Goat Tying at Saturday's Brule County 4-H Rodeo at the Chamberlain rodeo grounds. For results of Brule County 4-H'ers, see page 8 in the July 23rd issue of the SUN. Photo by Jessica Giard/SUN.
Performing arts center project picking up speed Jessica Giard/Sun
The Chamberlain City Hall remodel project continues to move forward with a push from the Chamberlain School District and support from Chamberlain City Commission.
Koch Hazard Architects of Sioux Falls are in the midst of a feasibility study on turning Main Street’s City Hall into a performing arts center. Chamberlain School District is funding the study for $14,784, which comes from a capital outlay funding set aside for the potential project.
Koch Hazard is in the early stages of developing plans, which should be available for public review by mid-September.
Post 3 denied back to back trips to State Wade Hamiel/Sun The Legion Region 5B Baseball Tournament was held in Chamberlain Saturday, July 19 through Monday, July 21.
Chamberlain Legion Potter Post 3 ended the tournament as Region 5B runner-up. The team lost in the final game on Monday by two runs, 7-5, to Platte/Geddes, who will advance on to state play. Four teams, Howard, Platte/Geddes, Miller/Wessington, and Chamberlain played in the double elimination tournament. Following up Chamberlain was Miller/Wessington and then Howard.
All by Hand: Forty-three years of hand-stitching for local quilter
All by Hand: Forty-three years of hand-stitching for local quilter Karla Ellingson/Sun When people start talking about quilts and quilting, the name Billy Mae Peterson usually is not far behind.Billy Mae has lived in the Oacoma – Reliance area all of her life and started quilting in 1965, with all of her work being done by hand. In this day and age of machines helping out with everything from washing to cooking, one should not be surprised that there are also machines that help with things we enjoy such as knitting, embroidery as well as quilting.But it is nice to know that some people still do things the “old fashioned way’ by hand, because they enjoy it.