02 Broadcaster Press April 17, 2012 www.broadcasteronline.com CHAMBER CHAT Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce & Development Company 116 Market Street, Suite 103 Vermillion, SD 57069 605-624-5571 of the above. Contact Bill Saunders at willygsaunders@gmail.com for more information. Community Calendar: vcdc@vermillionchamber.com www.vermillionchamber.com Chamber Business: Congratulations to Jerad Higman, who was named Small Business Exporter of the Year by the South Dakota Small Business Administration District Office. Higman, president of Masaba Mining Equipment, was also named Regional Award Winner and will represent Region Eight during National Small Business Week. Business After Hours cohosted by Davis Design and Bank of the West, 15 East Main Street, is Wednesday, April 25 from 5:30-7 p.m. Please join us to make new contacts, socialize and find out what Davis Design and Bank of the West have to offer! Appetizers and refreshments will be served. The Vermillion Area Chamber and Develop.m.ent Company (VCDC) Annual Golf Social is Tuesday, June 26! The 4Person Best Ball Scramble Golf Tournament will begin with team sign-in at The Bluffs Golf Course at 11:45 a.m., followed by team pictures. The open format shot gun start will begin at 1 p.m. The buffet dinner will be served at 6 p.m. followed by the golf awards and door prizes. Please call the VCDC office at 624-5571 or e-mail annb@vermillionchamber.c om to register your team, be a hole sponsor or donate a pin or door prize. Please register soon! Business After Hours: Are you looking for an opportunity to showcase your business and network with your peers? Sign up to host a Business After Hours event! These events generally run from 5-7 p.m. on a weeknight and the hosting business provides hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. If interested, please contact Ann at: annb@vermillionchamber.com or at 624-5571. ANN BREITAG through May 4. Corroborations 2012, which pairs visual arts students with poetry majors, is in the I.D. Weeks Library second floor exhibition cases. Tapestry weavings by award-winning South Dakota tapestry artist Grete Bodogaard are in the USD Libraries Gallery in the Academic Commons. Getting Graphic by USD Education Librarian Abby Moore is an exhibit of graphic novels on the west side of the second floor of the University Libraries Gallery. SkateCreate is an exhibition of skateboard designs created by students in the first-year seminar class. It’s featured in the student gallery on the west side of the second floor. • Show your team spirit! The Vermillion Baseball Association is looking for local sponsors to help defray the cost of the game for young players and families. Your business will be top of mind on the field when you choose one of the following sponsorship levels: Web sponsor: $75 – Your business logo/link on Web site (vermillionbaseball.org); Team sponsor: $150 – Your business logo on team uniforms; Field sponsor: $225 - 2'x5' Your business logo on a double sided banner on Barstow Field; League sponsor: $300 – All Gary’s Tree Service Tree Trimming - Removing -Stump Grinding - Tree Moving - Hedge Work Licensed & Fully Insured Call Gary: (605) 670-1199 • Elk Point, SD Patricia Curry: 605-661-2860 Andy Curry: 605-261-1202 Archie Dunham: 605-366-4625 Announcements: • USD Libraries are displaying a series of artistic exhibitions exploring skateboard designs, graphic novels and tapestries now Also see us at Siouxlandhomes.com Junk cars, trucks, semi trucks, & trailers, plows, construction equipment, dozers, scrapers, trackhoes, backhoes, etc., misc. ...and other misc. irons and metals. Also wanted: Batteries. Call 712-898-8244 402 E. 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New full bath, bedrooms 4 & 5, NO Egress. 101 West Cherry Street, Vermillion, SD 605-624-8624 • 800-624-6690 www.vermillionford.com Tom Taggart 624-8701 David Halverson 624-4097 2011 Ford Fusion SE Ford Taurus SEL Ford Fiesta SE 2010 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer Ford Focus SEL Ford Fusion SE Ford F-150 Super Crew Platium Lincoln MKZ Ford Escape Limited 2009 Ford F-150 Super Crew Platium Ford Escape XLT Ford Expedition XLT Ford Edge SEL Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab 2008 Ford Edge SEL Ford Edge Limited Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer Honda Element AWD Mercury Sable AM Lawn Care — Thad & Alex Manning — Offering: Aerating, Power Raking & Fertilizing Spring Clean-up – Leaves, Branches (605) 624-9347 or (605) 670-2113 • APRIL 22 – Missouri National Recreational River Earth Day event clean-up organized by the National Park Service. This will be held at Mulberry Bend from 1-4 p.m. Clean-up will take place at both the Mulberry Bend Overlook and Boat Ramp, but volunteers meet first at the overlook parking lot. Directions: Take Highway 19 south from Vermillion (it becomes Nebraska Highway 15 as soon as you cross the bridge). The overlook is on the east side of the highway in Nebraska just above the Missouri River. Also, if any civic or school groups are interested in scheduling a presentation about the importance of river cleanups, especially post flood, NPS representative Chris Wilkinson would be happy to present information. To schedule, contact Chris at (605) 665-0209 or call Maureen at the VCDC office at (605) 624-5571. • APRIL 22 – USD Theatre Dept. presents “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” at 2 p.m. at Knutson Theatre. Does your business or organization have an event you would like included in the Chamber Chat? If you do please call us at 624-5571 or email us at vcdc@vermillionchamber.com ACREAGE OPEN HOUSE Sunday, April 22 1:00-3:00 58160 888 Rd., Newcastle $145,000 3 BR/2 BA home with 2 car garage on 20 Acres, M/L. Don’t Miss It! It is just a few miles off Hwy. 12 just north of Newcastle. Call Rochelle Lundy 712-253-0576 Call For An Estimate 2008 Side by Side Duplex – $209,000 301 & 303 S. Pearl St. OPEN • SUN. 4/22 • 2-3PM 2-bedroom, 1-bath, many updates in kitchen and bath. Oversized attached garage w/ work bench. Kitchen appliances and stacked washer and dryer included. 209 S. Walnut Street – $89,900 Anonymous at 9 a.m. at Sanford Vermillion Medical Center, 20 S. Plum St., Administration entrance. • APRIL 21 – Vermillion Area Farmers Market from 10 a.m.-1p.m. at the Clay County Extension Building, 515 High St. • APRIL 21 – ESA (Theta Omega Chapter) Tour of Tables to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will be held at St. Agnes Catholic School's Father Wolf Auditorium. Tickets are $15. Doors open at 10:45 a.m. Salad luncheon prepared by St. Agnes women will be served at 11:30. For information or tickets please contact Barbara Campbell at 6244626. • APRIL 21 – Yankton’s First Fitness to hold third annual Fitness For a Cause event at 2509 Fox Run Parkway, Yankton. The event raises proceeds for a local charity. First Fitness has selected Heartland Humane Society as this year’s recipient. All proceeds will go towards vet care and spay and neuter costs for the more than 200 animals the shelter expects to help in 2012. Participants can register for the event at First Fitness and select a number of workout classes to participate in between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Membership is not required. Those who raise or donate $25 or more will receive an event t-shirt. Registrations with over $100 raised will be entered into a grand prize drawing. Register by April 14 and receive a ticket to enter into your choice of drawings. For more information, contact First Fitness at (605) 665-6643. • April 21 – USD Theatre Dept. presents “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” at 7:30 p.m. and April 22 at 2 p.m. SUNDAY, APRIL 22 Virtual Tours www.dunhamcompany.com Elk Point, SD WANTED TUESDAY, APRIL 17 • All School Band Extravaganza at 7:30 p.m. at Vermillion High School. • Vermillion Rotary Club Meeting from noon-1 p.m. in the Freedom Forum Conference Room of the Al Neuharth Media Center. • The Abu Bekr Shrine Circus will be at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City April 17-22. Tickets are $17 (reserved), $14 (reserved) or $10 (general admission). There are complimentary tickets for GROUPS of 20 or more. You'll get 10 percent of your tickets at no charge in multiples of 10 after 20 or more or purchased. Group orders do need to be purchased directly through Melissa Lanzourakis-Joens at (712) 224-6423. If you are buying individual tickets, please come to the Tyson Box Office, log on to www.ticketmaster.com or call Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 • Lions Pancake Days, serving 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. at the National Guard Armory, next to Lions Park. “Totally Twirling” to perform. This is an annual fundraising event to support community projects and people. • USD Theatre Dept. presents “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” at 7:30 p.m. at Knutson Theatre, Fine Arts Building on USD campus. For tickets, visit www.u;sd.edu/theatre or call 677-5481. THURSDAY, APRIL 19 • APRIL 19 – Lions Pancake Days, Wednesday serving 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. at the National Guard Armory, next to Lions Park. “Totally Twirling” to perform. This is an annual fundraising event to support community projects and people. • APRIL 19 – “End-ofLife Ethics”: 19th Annual Hospice Foundation of America Living with Grief Video Education Program, from 12:30-3:50 p.m. on USD campus, Lee Medical Bldg., Room #107. Program is free of charge. However, the Hospice Foundation of America is charging a $30 online processing fee for Continuing Education Credits. Local discussion for CE credit from 3:20-3:50. Brown bag lunches welcome. Pre-registration requested. Call Julie at (605) 638-8484. You may leave a message. • APRIL 19 – Seventh/Eighth Grade Track at 3:45 p.m. at Canton. • APRIL 19 – USD Theatre Dept. presents “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” at 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY, APRIL 20 • APRIL 20 – Come celebrate the University’s 150th Anniversary: The USD Alumni Association invites you to join us for USD Day to hear the Governor’s official proclamation, enjoy birthday cake and sing happy birthday to Charlie Coyote too! At 12:30 p.m. at USD Muenster University Center, 401 E. Cherry St. • APRIL 20 – USD Theatre Dept. presents “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” at 7:30 p.m. • APRIL 20 – Spring Fling at the Main Street Center, 320 W. Main St. Dinner from 5-6:30 p.m. followed by music and dance with the music of the McNeill’s from 7-9 p.m. Proceeds to benefit The Main Street Center. Call 6248072 for ticket information. SATURDAY, APRIL 21 • APRIL 21 – Overeaters Great Business Opportunity: live on one side, rent the other. 2 units each: 2 bedroom, 1 bath 2 stall. Each unit with stainless steel stove, refrig, dishwasher. Washer/dryer included. Professionally landscaped. 111 Green Court Drive – $229,900 OPEN • SUN. 4/22 • 1-2PM Ranch 2724sf finished. 3 bed 3 bath, main floor laundry. New ceramic tile in kitchen. 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