2 Broadcaster Press March 7, 2017 www.broadcasteronline.com SCHOOL LUNCH MENU’S Menus listed below are for March 8 - March 14. Menus are subject to change without notice. Vermillion Schools Breakfast Available everyday: Breakfast entrée or choice of cereals with toast. Fruit or Fruit Juice, Milk choices Wednesday – A. Egg and Cheese Taco Roll, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Apricots, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Thursday – No School Friday – No School Monday – A. Pancake Sausage Stick, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Mixed Fruit, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Tuesday – A. Breakfast Pizza, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Applesauce, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Vermillion Elementary Schools Lunch Wednesday – A. Domino’s Pizza, B. Beef and Bean Burrito, Steamed Carrots Thursday – No School Friday – No School Monday – A. Chicken and Noodles, B. Cheeseburger, Steamed Broccoli Tuesday – A. Southwest Enchilada Bake, B. Chicken Nuggets, Steamed Carrots, Cinnamon Breadstick Vermillion Middle School Lunch Wednesday – Domino’s Pizza, Steamed Carrots Thursday – No School Friday – No School Monday – Chicken and Noodles, Steamed Broccoli Tuesday – Chicken Nuggets, Steamed Carrots, Cinnamon Breadstick Vermillion High School Lunch Wednesday – Chicken and Noodles and Dinner Roll, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy Thursday – No School Friday – No School Monday – Breaded Beef Fingers and Dinner Roll, Steamed Broccoli Tuesday – Chicken Nuggets, Steamed Carrots, Cinnamon Breadstick St.Agnes School Lunch Wednesday – A. Domino’s Pizza, B. Beef and Bean Burrito, Steamed Carrots Thursday – No School Friday – No School Monday – A. Chicken and Noodles, B. Cheeseburger, Steamed Broccoli Tuesday – A. Southwest Enchilada Bake, B. Chicken Nuggets, Steamed Carrots, Cinnamon Breadstick Elk Point-Jefferson Breakfast Wednesday – A. Egg and Cheese Taco Roll, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Fresh Orange, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Thursday –A. Breakfast Pizza, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Mixed Fruit, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Friday – A. Iced Long Johns, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Sliced Pears, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Monday – A. Pancake Sausage Stick, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Mixed Fruit, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Tuesday – A. Breakfast Pizza, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Pineapple, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Elk Point-Jefferson Elementary & Middle School Lunch Wednesday – A. Baked Breaded Beef Fingers, B. Chicken and Noodles, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy Thursday – A. Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, B. Crispy/ Spicy Chicken Sandwich, Peas, Gelatin Dessert Friday – A. Beef and Bean Burrito, B. Cheese Pizza, Steamed Carrots Monday – A. Home-style Cajun Chicken Penne, B. Cheeseburger, Steamed Broccoli Tuesday – A. Southwest Enchilada Bake, B. Chicken Nuggets, Steamed Carrots, Cinnamon Breadstick Elk Point-Jefferson High School Lunch Wednesday – A. Baked Breaded Beef Fingers and Dinner Roll, B. Chicken Dakota Senior Meals Served at The Main Street Center & Town Square, “Meals on Wheels” Please call before 9:00am to schedule or cancel a meal at 624-7868. Menus listed below are March 8 - March 14. Menus are subject to change without notice. All menus are served with whole grain bread and 1% milk unless otherwise noted. Thursday – Beef Barley Soup, Carrots, Lime Pacific Mold, Fruit Crisp, Crackers Friday – Breaded Baked Fish, Baked Potato, Harvard Beets, Carrifruit Salad Monday – Swiss Steak with Onion and Tomatoes, Baked Potato, Oriental Blend Veggies, Fresh Fruit Tuesday – BBQ Ribs, Potato Wedges, 7-Layer Salad, Seasoned Spinach, Mandarin Oranges Wednesday – Turkey ala King over Biscuit, Mixed Vegetables, Peaches, Tomato Juice Foster Parent Training to Begin in March PIERRE, S.D. – Foster families of every culture are needed to keep sibling groups together, to keep children and youth in their own communities and to support the well-being of children in need of a home while their birth family heals. Prospective foster families are encouraged to attend the upcoming Parent’s Resource for Information, Development and Education (PRIDE) training in Brookings for families in Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner and Moody counties beginning Tuesday, March 21, 2017, from 6 to 9 p.m. The training is free and participants must complete 30 hours of training. This session of PRIDE will be a combination of classroom learning and online courses. Class sizes are limited and an initial inquiry process must be completed prior to registration. Participants must be 21 years of age, financially stable and have no convictions of crimes involving harm to children, sex crimes or crimes of violence. If you are interested in opening your home to children in foster care, please contact Deb Riley, family services, specialist at 605-688-4330, ext. 213. To learn more about becoming a foster parent, please visit dss.sd.gov/childprotection/fostercare/ or www.fosteronesd.org/. Dave Says What Will Won’t Work? Dear Dave, When it comes to making a will, would it suffice to sit down and write it all out on a piece of paper, then have it notarized? Joyce Dear Joyce, I would never advise someone to write their own will, unless, of course, they’re an attorney in that state. Laws can vary from state to state, and some states may not look upon a document like that as being official under law. Some even require witnesses, and a Dave notary might not be good enough. If you’re trying to save money by doing it this way, I would strongly urge you to look at involving a lawyer as an investment. In most cases, having a reputable lawyer draw up a legally correct, state-specific will doesn’t cost a lot of money. At the very least, go online to USLegalForms.com. They have all kinds of state-specific legal forms, including wills. Your last will and testament is one of the most important legal documents you’ll ever be part of. Please don’t try to do this yourself, Joyce. I’ve run into so many families who, in the midst of grieving the loss of a loved one, were handed a handwritten piece of paper that wouldn’t hold up in court. That kind of thing just adds more stress to an already heartbreaking situation. — Dave RAMSEY Not Ready for a House my credit score, because I’d like to buy a house. Do you think this is a good start toward getting my credit back on track and taking control of my finances? I make $50,000 a year, and I have $3,500 in debt and $2,100 in savings. Maria Dear Maria, No, getting a secured credit card is not a good idea. Let me tell you a couple of things. Number one, your income is your most powerful wealth building tool. If you don’t have any payments, you have the ability to build wealth and be generous. When you have debt, all you do is send money out the door to make payments. So, being in debt is a guaranteed way to stay broke. Number two, you can get a home mortgage with no credit score through a manual underwriting. Just make sure you have a good, long history of paying other things, like your rent and utilities on time. You would also need to have all your debts paid off completely, and the accounts closed for at least six months. I want you to become debt-free before you buy a home, Maria. I also want you to save an emergency fund of three to six months of expenses and a down payment before you buy a home. Buying a house when you’re broke and in debt is a really bad idea. — Dave * Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and business, and CEO of Ramsey Solutions. He has authored seven best-selling books, including The Total Money Makeover. The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 12 million listeners each week on 575 radio stations and multiple digital platforms. Follow Dave on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com. Dear Dave, I’m thinking about getting a secured credit card to help rebuild BRULE TOWNSHIP PROPERTY OWNERS The Board of Supervisors will meet as a Board of Equalization on Monday, March 20th, 2017, 5:30 p.m. at the Union County Shop in Spink, SD. A written request to appeal must be delivered to the clerk’s office no later than Thursday, March 16th, 2017, 5:00 p.m. The request must include the parcel number. Alternate date if bad weather: March 27th. Gregg Hanson, Clerk 47568 SD Highway 50 Elk Point, SD 57025 •ATTENTION• The Garfield Board of Supervisors will meet as a Board of Equalization at the Dalesburg Farm Supply 30442 University Rd • Centerville, SD 57014 By Daris Howard Misfire I sat down to read my email on the first day of winter semester. “Professor Howard,” one of them read. “My name is Shanae, and I am in your math class. I won’t be there today. I hope you won’t drop me from your class. I’m not sure when I will get there. We had a family emergency. I don’t have any clothes or anything to wear. I know this isn’t making sense, but it’s a long story. I will explain when I get there. I’ll try to get there as soon as I can.” I have received a lot of strange emails from students over the years, and each time I do, I can hardly wait to hear the explanation. It was almost a full week after the semester started before Shanae arrived. She came to class and asked me what seat was available. I pointed out the only one that was left. She sat down, and we started class. “Shanae,” I said, “I had all of the other students introduce themselves the first day, but you weren’t here. Would you mind taking a minute to tell us a little about yourself?” Shanae nodded and rose to her feet. She told us the basic things. She was a freshman, hoping to major in nursing. She told us the town she was from and a few other interesting facts. “You are starting class almost a week late,” I said. “You wrote that the reason you’d be late coming to school was a long story. Is it something you can share with us?” She smiled and nodded. “It’s an interesting story, and it might sound a little strange. You see, my family lives on a ranch which takes up most of a small valley. Our nearest neighbor lives about a mile away. We have to go about forty miles to the nearest town to buy groceries and stuff like that. “On the other side of the mountain from where we live is a big ski resort. On winter nights, it lights up the sky above the mountain. In the winter, almost everyone gets part time jobs in town to help support the influx of people coming to the ski resort. My dad works on the ranch in the summer, but in the winter he works in town at a sporting goods store. My mother works as a waitress in a restaurant for the breakfast and lunch shifts. “Every morning we would all get up and drive to town, and we kids would go to school while Mom and Dad worked. But since I graduated last spring, I got a job this winter working at the restaurant with Mom. “Just a couple of days before I was to come here, my dad picked up Mom and me after work, and then we picked up my brothers and sister from school. When we got home, we found our home had been blown up. Everything was destroyed; our clothes, furniture—everything.” The class gasped. “What happened?” a boy asked. “We wondered that ourselves,” Shanae said. “But we didn’t know. The sheriff and the county investigator came, and at first they assumed it was a gas explosion from our propane tank. But then the investigator found evidence of something. It was a mortar shell. Our house had been bombed. The sheriff figured it had been done on purpose and asked us questions about whether we had any enemies, or if anyone who would want to kill us. It was scary. We drove back to town and got a hotel room. We didn’t dare let anyone know where we were except the sheriff and the investigator. “We were nervous about going to work or school the next day, afraid that whoever wanted to kill us would come back. But then the sheriff came to the hotel. He said he had found out it was an accident. “An accident!” a girl in class said. “How does someone blow up your home with a mortar shell and claim it was an accident?” “Well,” Shanae said, “it appears the ski resort was firing mortars onto the hillside to trigger avalanches to make skiing safer. The idiot firing them happened to aim one too high, and it went over the mountain.” Romsdahl’s Repair & Remodel Carpentry, Interior & Exterior, Painting, Refinishing, Drywall, & Ceramic Tile Letters of Appeal must be received by Thursday, March 16th 2017. 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