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VOL. 108 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012 USPS - 079-740 50¢ Per Copy 16 PAGES NUMBER 24
Petitions Filed GOV, Daugaard Presents State Of The State Address
On Athletics
Coop Idea
At a recent meeting of the
Burke School Board a petition was
handed to the board with 55 signa-
tures requesting that Burke and
Gregory coop their athletic pro-
grams. The petition stated "In
signing this document, we are in
support of expanding an existing
sports coop between the Burke and
Gregory School Districts. We
would like to see the wrestling
coop be expanded to include all
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By Elizabeth "Sam" Grosz
Community News Service
Education and economic de-
velopment will get a financial shot
in the arm, if proposals by South
Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard
in his 2012 state of the state ad-
dress are adopted.
Daugaard called for a new
emphasis on creating jobs and
growing the state's economy Jan.
10, while encouraging the educa-
tion of the people needed to fill
those jobs. It involves a program
called "South Dakota WINS," short
for "South Dakota Workforce Ini-
tiatives." A 20-point plan, South
Dakota WINS has four categories
to "get more South Dakotans
trained and ready to work in a rap-
idly growing and changing South
Dakota economy," said Daugaard.
Those four points include pre-
paring the state's children; training
for skilled jobs; promoting rural
health occupations; and recruiting
"new South Dakotans" to help fill
the gap between current skilled
workers living in the state and the
needs of businesses to fill skilled
jobs.
"There are 1,466 unfilled jobs
in this state," said Daugaard, "in
the engineering, information tech-
nology, accounting, and skilled
worker fields alone." He said there
are fewer than 100 South Dakota
workers in those careers receiving
Continued on page 2
athletics".
At a recent meeting of the
Gregory School Board a similar
petition was presented to the board
with 100 signatures.
At the Burke School Board
meeting last Monday a committee
was formed to look into the coop-
ing of sports with Gregory. The
committee is made up of three
board members, David Indahl,
Travis Serr and Jolene VanMetre as
well as the Superintendent, Erik
Person, Principal Mark Otten and
Athletic Director Mike Sebern.
Weather
The weather over the past
week continued cool with a light
snow midweek with little accumu-
lation. The high for the week was
57 ° on Sunday and the low for the
week was Tuesday morning a -2 °.
A light snow fell early Tuesday
morning with a total accumulation
of an inch or two. The advance
outlook indicates that it will con-
tinue cold and a slight chance of
snow on Thursday. The weekend
looks nice with highs in the mid
40's.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny,
with a high near 29. Blustery, with
a southwest wind 14 to 23 mph
becoming north northwest. Winds
Continued on page 2
Rancher's
Workshop Set
For Tuesday
Cattle producers are encour-
aged to attend Ranchers Work-
shops scheduled for Jan. 23 at the
Burke Civic Center in Burke, S.D.,
and Jan. 24 at the Sinte Gleska
University Multipurpose Building
in Mission, S.D.
The January 23rd event in
Burke begins at 9:30 a,m.
Continued on page 2
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The Burke Gazette
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Services Held
Wednesday For
Bill Janklow
South Dakota's longest serving
Governor and former Congressman
passed away on January 12, 2012.
William John "Bill" Janklow,
son of Arthur and Lou Ella Jank-
low, was born in Chicago on Sep-
tember 13, 1939. His father was a
prosecutor of Nazi officials at the
Nuremburg Civil Trials in Ger-
many during the aftermath of
World War II. After Arthur died of
a heart attack, his wife Lou Ella
moved their six young children
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