Broadcaster Press 05 January 27, 2015 www.broadcasteronline.com MARTIN WEEKS struck the side of trailer being pulled by a 2007 Mack truck. The truck, driven by Alan Dale Ouellette, 48, of Vermillion, was traveling on Highway 50. Weeks died at the scene. He was not wearing a seatbelt. Ouellette, who was wearing a seatbelt, was uninjured. May 2014 Vermillion Business Leader Jere Chapman Loses Cancer Fight JERE CHAPMAN Holding back emotion, Jon Robertson, a member of the Vermillion Chamber of Commerce and Development Company (VCDC) Board of Directors, introduced Jere Chapman as the recipient of the Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce and Development Company’s Community Leader Award at the VCDC’s Feb. 6 banquet. This week, Jon and scores of area people who had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with the outgoing businessman and civic leader will bid Jere a final, emotional farewell. Jere, who courageously battled cancer for over a year, lost that fight. He passed away Monday at Sanford Vermillion Hospital Jon, who had worked for many years as a restaurant manager for Jere, purchased Pro’s last year. He’s done extensive work on both the large banquet space, now the Vermillion Event Center, and the restaurant, which today is known as Howler’s. Jon has simply taken a page from his old boss’ playbook: Forge ahead, don’t be afraid to take risks, and provide people what they want. Jon described the impact Jere has had on the Vermillion community during the VCDC banquet award presentation. “This individual,” he said, speaking of Jere, “moved to Vermillion in 1982 because of an opportunity to open a Mexican restaurant in the downtown area. That restaurant was called Recuerdo’s Taco Del Sol. It was so well received that his family move from Yankton to join him six months later. That particular restaurant went through a couple of name changes over the years, and was last known before it was closed because of a fire as Recuerdo de Mexico, or Recuerdo’s.” Since 1982, Jon said, Jere has been involved in many different businesses and leadership positions in Vermillion. “He’s owned a travel agency, called Let’s Travel, an exercise and tanning business in the Chae’s building, a series of restaurants in the Ava Morgan building,”Jon said, “as well as the Chae’s building in both the upstairs and the downstairs. “I wonder if anyone remembers The Upstairs Cafe? Or the Pizza Pub? Or how about the Pizza Kitchen, or Bib’s Ribs?” Jon said. “My personal favorite, as I was a college student in Vermillion, was the Coyote Bar and Grille, where there were 25 cent taps and 25 cent tap burgers.” Jere started the Silver Dollar Saloon and Eatery, which became the Silver Dollar Restaurant, Chalky’s Pool Hall which is now Maya Jane’s, the Cherry Street Grille and several different businesses in what is now The Roadhouse, including a casino, a pool hall, a convenience store, a discount cigarette store, and a counter service restaurant. “As a community leader, he was on the Chamber board a couple of times,” Jon said, “He was involved with the Sertomas, and as the United Way board president, he started The Taste of Vermillion which was the kickoff to the United Way campaign, and still to this day, they do something very similar every year.” Jere has served as the board president of SESDAC, Inc., and served four years on the Vermillion City Council, during which time he was a proud supporter of the construction of the new city hall. Memorial Service Cheryl Miller Planned A memorial service for Cheryl Miller will be held on the 43rd anniversary of her passing. The service will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, May 29, at First Baptist Church in Vermillion. See the May 23 edition of the Plain Talk for her complete obituary. Miller and her friend, Pam Jackson, both juniors at Vermillion High School, were last seen on May 29, 1971, driving in a 1960 Studebaker which was discovered in Brule Creek in Union County last September. The two girls had planned to attend a party held at a gravel pit located near the creek. The car was discovered in the creek in late September 2013. Laboratory testing confirmed that skeletal remains found in the car were of Miller and Jackson. The cause of the two girls’ death was a car accident, said Attorney General Marty Jackley at press conference held Tuesday afternoon, April 15, in the Union County Courthouse in Elk Point. There was a time when local law enforcement believed the girls may have fallen victim to foul play. In August 2004, investigators focused on the Kerwyn Lykken farm of rural Alcester. Armed with search warrants, authorities searched the Lykken farmhouse, and went through barns from top to bottom, digging up floors in some buildings. David L. Lykken was 17 and residing at the farm at the time of the girls' disappearance. The investigation eventually led to his indictment and arrest. Lykken is already serving a 227-year sentence in the South Dakota Penitentiary for kidnapping and rape. Lykken was 52 at the time he was indicted Friday, June 29, 2007 on two counts of premeditated murder, two counts of felony murder and two counts of murder. He was arrested Monday, July 2, 2007, at the penitentiary where he has been incarcerated since 1990. USD Staff Drafted Atlanta Tyler Starr has landed in Atlanta. Starr, the record-setting linebacker from the University of South Dakota, was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the seventh round (255th overall) of the NFL Draft on Saturday. Starr was the second to last player taken. “It was a grueling day, just not knowing what was going to happen,” Starr told atlantafalcons.com. “I was starting to lose a little faith, and the in the last couple of picks the Falcons swooped me up. “A lot of emotions.” The Missouri Valley Football Conference Defensive Player of the Year recorded 71 tackles, including 15 for loss and nine sacks in 2013. A threeyear starter, he finished with 27 career sacks, tying the school record set by the last Coyote linebacker to play in the NFL, Matt Chatham. Starr recorded 197 tackles, 41 for loss, in the seasons with the Coyotes. His 13 career forced fumbles made him the NCAA active leader his senior season. Starr was selected to the East-West Shrine Game and was a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award for the top defensive player in FCS. He was also named to several All-American lists. At the NFL Combine in February, Starr posted the top three-cone drill time among the 35 linebackers at the event, clocking a 6.64. Starr joins an Atlanta team that won the NFC South in 2012, but struggled in the area of pressuring opposing quarterbacks. According to ESPN Stats and Info, the Falcons sacked or put opposing quarterbacks under duress on just 22.4 percent of drop-backs, which ranked second-worst in the NFL last season. Atlanta opens the preseason at home against Miami on Aug. 8. The Falcons open at home against division rival New Orleans on Sept. 7. Starr's selection gives USD NFL draftees twice in a three-year span, as offensive lineman Tom Compton was picked by Washington in the sixth round (193rd overall) in 2012. June 2014 Vermillion Man Claims $154,737 Dakota Cash Jackpot PIERRE - At first, Derek Ronning thought his coworkers were playing a joke on him. “I figured maybe they’d put a fake ticket in my wallet to make me think I was a winner,” said the Vermillion man, who works nights for the City of Vermillion. “So I stared at the ticket to see if it was the right game, the right date, the right numbers.” After half an hour of inspection, Ronning came to the conclusion that he was the winner of the $154,737 Dakota Cash jackpot from the June 7, 2014 drawing. He collected his prize at the Sioux Falls Lottery office today. Ronning, who’s an avid scratch ticket player and regularly purchases Quick Picks for Dakota Cash and Hot Lotto, purchased his winning lotto ticket at HyVee on West Cherry in Vermillion. The store will receive a $5,000 bonus for the sale. Having to wait until Monday to claim his jackpot gave Ronning some time to think about what to do with his winnings. “I’m going to invest half of it. And I’m going to buy my parents a new car next month for their 50th anniversary,” he said. The $154,737 Dakota Cash jackpot is his biggest win to date, and he plans to keep trying his luck. “You can’t win if you don’t play,” said Ronning. Dakota Cash is played and won only in South Dakota. Powell Re-elected Mayor Will Greet Several New City Aldermen Mayor Jack Powell will continue to serve as mayor for at least another four years after defeating challenger Stan Peterson in Tuesday’s primary/municipal election in Vermillion. The incumbent mayor easily beat Peterson in the mayor’s race receiving 79 percent of the vote. Powell received 927 votes while Peterson got 246. Several new faces will greet Powell in July when newly elected aldermen take office at Vermillion City Hall. In the Northeast Ward, Holly Meins barely crossed the electoral finish line ahead of her challenger, Sara Bye. Meins received 58 votes or 50.88 percent, to Bye’s 56 votes, or 49.12 percent. Current Northeast Ward Alderman Kent Osborne did not seek another term. In a three-person race for alderman to represent the Southeast Ward, Rich Holland was the top vote getter, bettering incumbent Dennis Zimmerman and challenger Kris O’Connor. Holland’s 237 votes totaled 39.57 percent of the ballots cast in the race. Zimmerman followed with 212 votes, or 35.39 percent. O’Connor received 150 votes, or 25 percent of the votes in the ward. Central Ward voters elected Katherine Price alderman. She received 129 votes, or 59.17 percent outpacing her challenger, Jennifer French, who received 89 votes, or 40.83 percent of Central Ward ballots cast. Incumbent John Grayson did not seek re-election. Parker Erickson will be seated on the city council in July to represent the Northwest Ward. He ran unopposed; incumbent Alderman Tom Davies decided to not run for reelection. Out of 7,308 eligible voters, less than 2,000 showed up to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in the Clay County and Vermillion municipal elections. Of the final 1,679 counted votes, 676 were Republican voters, 916 were Democratic and Independent voters and 87 were non-partisan voters. There was one blank ballot. Total voter turnout was 23 percent. Micheal Manning and incumbent Phyllis Packard were the top two vote getters to receive the Democratic county commissioner at large nomination. They received 554 votes, or 39.66 percent, and 435 votes, or 31.14 percent of the vote respectively. Ray Hofman came in third with 408 votes, or 29.21 percent. Commissioner Les Kephart, Vermillion, did not seek reelection. Fischbach Inducted SDATA Hall of Fame University of South Dakota Head Athletic Trainer Bruce Fischbach was inducted into the South Dakota Athletic Trainers’ Association (SDATA) Hall of Fame in a ceremony held Tuesday at Beef “˜O’ Brady’s in Sioux Falls. Fischbach has tirelessly served the healthcare needs of thousands of studentathletes at USD since 1987. He earned his bachelor’s degree from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1984 and his master’s degree from United States Sports Academy in 1991. Outside of USD, Fischbach has spent time working with Special Olympics, minor league baseball, local youth athletics and athletes in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA). Bruce has contributed considerably to the NWBA as a tournament director, conference commissioner and member of its board of directors. He has also served the Make-AWish Foundation as a wish granter and regional ambassador. Fischbach has mentored and continues to provide guidance to many athletic trainers who began their careers as student and graduate assistant athletic trainers at USD. He directed the USD sports medicine program to its first College Athletic Management “Award of Excellence for Athletic Training Management”. Fischbach has served as president, vice president and secretary/treasurer for the SDATA and has been on the Mid America Athletic Trainers’ Association’s board of directors. Over the years, he has continually advocated for the athletic training profession. Fellow inductees honored Tuesday included Jensen Wins First In Shot Put At State A Vermillion senior saved his best performance of the season for when it really mattered. Having a season best mark of 52’11” to qualify in second place in the shot put behind Canton’s Tyler Lems, he was launching his efforts just before Lems all morning. Coming back from an injury-plagued junior campaign, Nick Jensen has been in the mix all of this season. “I knew I could be right there with him, but I never thought about it until now,’ Jensen said. “But now it feels awesome.” The winning throw came on Jensen’s final attempt in the prelims, landing over a foot farther than his season best qualifying distance. The toss of 53’11.5” bested Lems’ best effort by only half an inch. “I knew I’d have to throw good just to beat him,” said Jensen. “He’s a great thrower, but I had a good week of practice.” Jensen said that his nerves helped him prepare to put the shot. “I was really focused for State, but sometimes you need those (nerves) to throw well,” he said. “It gives you a faster twitch, and that gets me going.” “Nick’s win was a long time in coming,” said Coach Lenni Billberg. “He battled back from surgery last year to outlast a very talented thrower from Canton in Tyler Lems. I am going to miss the big man a lot in the years to come.” Jensen scored all 10 of the Tanager’s team points with his victory in the shot put. He finished in 10 place in the discus on Saturday in Sioux Falls with a toss of 138”0”. The discus was won by Lems with a toss of 169’7”. “We had a great state meet,’ said Billberg. “Our kids all ran close to or better than their best all-time.” The boys” 1600-meter Sprint Medley Team did not fare so well on Friday. Jeremiah Johnson, Rylan Pratt, Jon Rosales and Parson Covington completed the four laps in 3:59.90 to finish in 16th place. They were unable to make it out of the preliminaries, but with two sophomores, an eighthgrader and a seventhgrader, the future looks promising for this team. 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