NOTICE OF HEARING UPON APPLICATIONS FOR SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

PLEASE PUBLISH: MEADE COUNTY TIMES April 20, 201 / FAITH INDEPENDENT April 20, 2016

NOTICE OF HEARING UPON APPLICATIONS FOR SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Meade County Commissioners at the Erskine Administrative Building, Sturgis, SD, on April 27, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. will consider a transfer of beverage applications for the 2016-2017 licensing year.  Said applicants are as follows:

TRANSFER:

Original Spoke, LLC – Township 6 North, Range 6 East of the B.H.M., Meade County SD

Section 6:  Government Lots 5, 6 & 7; SW1/4NE1/4; SW Diagonal Half of the SE1/4NE1/4; SE1/4NW1/4; E1/2SW1/4; SE1/4

Section 7:  Government Lot 1; N1/2NE1/4; NE1/4NW1/4 – Retail (on-off sale) Malt Beverage and Retail (on-sale) Liquor w/Sunday sales– to Full Throttle Saloon and Campground, LLC.

Notice is further given that any person, persons, or their attorney may appear at said scheduled public hearing and present objections to any or all applicants, if any objections there be.

/s/ Lisa Schieffer        

     Meade County Auditor

Published once at the total approximate cost of _________________.

NOTICE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS AND DECLARED PESTS

NOTICE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS AND DECLARED PESTS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN this 11th day of April, 2016, pursuant to SDCL 38-22 as amended, to all owners, occupants, agents and public officials in charge of lands in Meade County, South Dakota, that they are responsible for the suppression, control, and eradication of noxious weeds and declared pest infestations that may exist on such lands.

Chemical, biological, and/or cultural control methods used for the suppression, control and eradication of noxious weed and declared pest infestations shall be those approved for such purposes by the Meade County Weed and Pest Supervisor, County Agricultural Extension Agent or the South Dakota State University Experiment Station.

Upon failure to observe this notice, the County Weed and Pest Board is required to proceed pursuant to the law and have the noxious weeds or declared pests destroyed by such methods as they may find necessary, the expense of which shall constitute a lien and be entered as a tax against the land, and be collected as other real estate taxes are collected, or by other means as provided by law.

Plants and animals designated as being noxious weeds and declared pests in the State of South Dakota are Leafy Spurge, Salt Cedar, Perennial Sow Thistle, Russian Knapweed, Hoary Cress, Canada Thistle, Purple Loosestrife and Gypsy Moth.

In addition, Chicory, Dalmatian toadflax, Eurasian common reed, and Spotted Knapweed has been approved by the State Weed and Pest Control Commission as locally Noxious Weeds and are subject to the same suppression, control and eradication requirements as the before mentioned plants and animals.

    s/Nathan Jagim

    Meade County Weed and Pest

Published twice at the total approximate cost of ______.

END OF NOTICE

Notice of Intent to Inspect Property for Noxious Weeds and/or Declared Pests

NOTICE OF INTENT TO INSPECT

NOXIOUS WEEDS AND/OR DECLARED PESTS

TO:  ALL LANDOWNERS/OPERATORS IN MEADE COUNTY

    NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if the Meade County Weed and Pest Board has probable cause to believe that the land owned/operated by you has an infestation of declared pests or noxious weeds, SDCL 38-22-23.12 requires that you be notified that an inspection will be made to determine if the suspected area is infested as indicated above.  Therefore, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the inspection will be made by an authorized representative of the Meade County Weed and Pest Board who shall enter the premises without interference or obstruction for purposes of making an investigation of the suspected infected area.  This inspection will be conducted during reasonable business hours.

 Plants and animals designated as being noxious weeds and declared pests in the State of South Dakota are Leafy Spurge, Salt Cedar, Perennial Sow Thistle, Russian Knapweed, Hoary Cress, Canada Thistle, Purple Loosestrife, and Gypsy Moth.

 In addition, Chicory, Dalmatian toadflax, Eurasisan common reed, and Spotted Knapweed has been approved by the State Weed and Pest Control Commission as locally Noxious Weeds and are subject to the same suppression, control and eradication requirements as the before mentioned plants and animals.

 Should the inspection confirm an infestation of noxious weeds or declared pests, remedial action to effectively control the infestation will be required.  You will be notified of the results of this inspection, and any specific remedial action that may be required to remedy the infestation.

    s/Nathan Jagim

    Meade County Weed and Pest

Published twice at the total approximate cost of ______.

END OF NOTICE

Meade County Veteran of the Month: Mr. Gerber

VOM March 2016

Mr. Thomas Gerber: From Sturgis

Service years: 1945-1946

Mr. Gerber was in his junior year of college with a major in Math and a minor in Industrial Arts when he was drafted into the Army.  After being inducted in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, he completed basic training at Fort Lewis.  He was in the middle of rifle training when a sergeant approached his group to find out who had experience in typing and Mr Gerber raised his hand so they sent him to San Francisco at Presidio base. Presidio was an Army post that had originally trained soldiers during the Spanish-American War, and during WWII it was a deployment center and training site. During this time Mr Gerber was to type up handwritten notes from psychologists who were performing interrogations and prisoner interviews.  Mr. Gerber admits the contents of these notes have scarred him to this day, thinking about the things that were done to prisoners.

Mr. Gerber can recall a story that sticks with him to this day about a person’s will to live. There were two US Soldiers on the USS Solomon that had their ship sunk by the Japanese.  They were taken onboard a prisoner ship, which ended up being sunk itself on its way to Japan, and they were picked up again by another prisoner ship, where they were subjected to terrible experiences. They were able to survive through all of that, but towards the end one solider told the other that he was tired of fighting and he gave up and died a short time later. The moral of the story and something Mr Gerber follows in his age of 90, is the will to live. That story had a tremendous effect on Mr Gerber and he says is the power from within one’s self that you can overcome anything.

After typing notes for a couple months, Mr. Gerber was sent back to basic to finish his training while being on kitchen duty.  His training was once again interrupted by his next duty assignment, which was to work as a guard at a POW camp in Sacramento, CA. During his stay at the camp, he was also asked to teach others to double shift in trucks since not many people knew how to drive. He assisted in driving trucks for supply runs. He also worked in the reduction department where he would teach prisoners about democracy and America. When that short assignment was complete, he was back to Fort Lewis and kitchen duty. All in all, he ended up going back and forth 5 different times. He had worked in Montana at a war camp and another camp working with German prisoners. Lastly he was sent to Texas and Fort Lewis where they needed a separation clerk.

After his honorable discharge in 1946, Mr. Gerber was able to go home and finish his college education and earned a B.S. in Education with an emphasis in math. Interestingly, his first teaching job actually came about because a teacher had become pregnant, which disqualified her from teaching due to the rules for women teachers during that time. Mr. Gerber would end up teaching all over the state. During his travels around South Dakota, he ended up meeting his wife. He decided to attend grad school for Math at University of Iowa

Mr Gerber had always had a love for teaching, but as technology advanced, he found an even bigger love for computers, which drove him to work for IBM. Over many years Mr Gerber had worked in Milwaukee, New York, Chicago, all over South Dakota and Minnesota, Los Angeles and Arkansas. Mr. Gerber ended up having 7 children, 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.  Since retirement, he enjoys computers still, writing fiction, gardening, and- oddly enough- shoveling snow.

News Release from EAFB on PRTC Exercise

Please see the attached news release concerning an upcoming large force
exercise in the Powder River Training Complex, currently scheduled for March
30-31. This release serves as the official public notification of the event.
We appreciate any assistance you can provide in raising awareness of the
upcoming exercise.

Questions or requests for additional information may be sent to the 28th
Bomb Wing Public Affairs office at 28bw.pa@us.af.mil, or by calling (605)
385-5056. Normal office hours are Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until
4:30 p.m., Mountain Time.

Notes from the County Commission

by Galen Niederwerder, District 1 Commissioner

The Meade County Commission met in regular session Wednesday, February 24th in what was a pretty routine meeting.

I don’t know if you’ve been to a Commission meeting lately, but we always begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and then one of the Commissioners says a prayer.  Bob Heidgerken led us this time with a heartfelt prayer.  It’s a great way to start, and Bob did a great job.

The county received no bids for the liquor license that’s available, so the Commission set the first-come first-served price at $225,000.  

County Highway Superintendent Lincoln Shuck brought right-of-way agreements for what the Commission calls the Elks Project (the rebuilding of parts of Elk Creek Road and Elk Vale Road) which were approved.  

The Commission approved the purchase of the property located at 1333 Willard Street, which is located just south of the Erskine Building and west of the old elementary school, for future expansion.  We discussed declaring the house on the property as surplus, and plan to auction it off at the county/school surplus auction in May.

And, believe it or not, we lowered some fees the county charges.  Mainly the fee for the Mobile Home Building Permit, but some others as well.  Thanks  to Bill Rich for his work on that.

At Commissioner Heidgerken’s request, we had lunch at the chinese food place which is right next door to Dick & Jane’s Naughty Spot.  We made sure not to linger on the combined porch too long on our way in and out, lest someone should happen by with a cell phone. (Hmmm, I’ll bet nobody can tell you the name of the place, but I’ll also bet everybody sure knows how to find it.)  Bob really likes chinese food, and has been suggesting the place for years, but we never had the guts to go before.

Another vacancy has opened up on the Metropolitan Planning Committee.  Commissioners Aker and Heidgerken will be talking to potential replacements; if you live in the MPO area and are interested in serving on this committee, please contact one of them.

Well, that’s about all there was.  If you’re in Sturgis for lunch or dinner sometime, try the chinese food place.  I had the sweet and sour chicken, it was really good.  Whatever the name of the establishment is.  (I think if I owned it, I’d just change the name of it to The Chinese Food Place Right Next to Dick & Jane’s.)

God Bless Meade County.