02 Broadcaster Press January 15, 2013 www.broadcasteronline.com CHAMBER CHAT Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce & Development Company 116 Market Street, Suite 103 Vermillion, SD 57069 605-624-5571 vcdc@vermillionchamber.com www.vermillionchamber.com Chamber Business: The Vermillion Area Community Foundation is accepting proposals for projects to improve our community. Forms for submitting proposals by groups or organizations are available at the Chamber of Commerce office. While available funds are limited we can fully fund small one time requests or partially fund larger projects. Your annual donations to our foundation will provide us with increasing funds each year for worthwhile projects. 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, contact Ann at: annb@vermillionchamber .com or at 624-5571. Announcements: Are you interested in an intern for your business? USD students are eager to gain realworld work experience with you. Internships can be paid or unpaid and students can gain college credit for their experience with you. If you are interested in accepting interns at your business, please contact Carly at Carly.Heard@usd.edu. Sharing the Dream, 10 W. Main St., is having two months of sales on current inventory. Beginning the week of Jan. 14 all jewelry will be 25 percent off; the week of Jan. 21 all scarves will be 25 percent off; the week of Jan. 28 all purses/bags will be 25 percent off; week of Feb. 4 all kitchen/glass items will be 25 percent off; week of Feb. 11 all wood items will be 25 percent off and the week of Feb. 18 all children’s items will be 25 percent off. Our products are handmade by Mayan artisans using many traditional techniques. Purchasing these products not only provides work for these artisans, but the profits go to support community development projects in Guatemala. www.sharingthedream.org Exhibition: “Picturing Native: Photographs from Edward Curtis, Horace Poolaw and Zig Jackson” at John A. Day Gallery located in Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts on USD campus. On display through Jan. 29. ‘Tremendous crowd’ fills DakotaDome Farm show attendees appear optimistic despite lingering drought By Travis Gulbrandson travis.gulbrandson@plain talk.net It’s a big anniversary for the Dakota Farm Show, and exhibitors say Tuesday may have been their biggest opening ever. The 30th annual show opened Tuesday at the DakotaDome in Vermillion and will be open today (Wednesday) from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. John Riles, president of Midwest Shows Inc., producer of the show, said he expects approximately 25,00030,000 farmers to visit the nearly 300 exhibitors. “It’s been a tremendous crowd,” he said. The exhibitors agreed. Jason Diekevers, precision ag specialist with the Farmers Coop Society, said his booth had been visited by approximately 100 people by the early afternoon. “It’s probably the best first day we’ve seen,” added Bill Christensen, former owner of Christensen Well & Irrigation Inc. of Hartington, NE. Dallas Harkness, area sales manager in South Dakota for Curry Seed, said there was a “huge amount” of visitors that tapered off as the day PRECISION PAINTING A17407 went on. “I would say we were busier in the first hour than we normally are. We’ve had real good results,” he said. “I think tomorrow’s going to be better yet, even.” Riles said he may know the reason. “Things are really good in agriculture right now,” he said. “Things are really as good as they’re going to get, I believe, and we’re just hoping it’ll hold. The price of corn and all the commodities is right up there. “Things are good, and farmers are doing well,” he said. “I was a farm kid when I grew up. It’s always been a lot of hard work, but there’s just a little more money in it today.” Diekevers said the Farmers Coop booth has had the most questions on autosteer technology and planter equipment. “Those are the two biggest drivers right now,” he said. “I think all the farmers are in ‘spring mode’ in their head, or thinking for next spring. ‘What do I need to get ready? What equipment do I want? 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According to a comparison sheet provided to the members of the council, the construction cost for the smaller pool would be approximately $6.15 million, while the larger would cost approximately $6.95 million, a difference of $800,000. Annual total operating costs for the smaller pool would run from $201,000-$336,000, and $261,000-$436,000, a difference ranging from $60,000-$100,000. In an interview Tuesday, Prescott said that some of the operating expenses could be offset by the revenue generated by the completed facility. “The project consultant feels that with our market area as well as some of the features that we have, that some additional individuals will come to the pool from outside the community that typically would not come to the facility we have today,” Prescott said. “So, we would have an expanded drawing area in terms of potential patrons for the pool.” ? POOL, Page 03 ? 3 ??34????3Ž?3 3 ??Ž?3Ž????3&??????? h A farmer can never have too many tools. 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