2 Broadcaster Press December 19, 2017 www.broadcasteronline.com School Lunch Menus Menus listed below are for December 20 & 21. 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. Pancake Sausage Stick, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Mixed Fruit, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Thursday – A. Yogurt with Goldfish, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Fresh Orange, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Vermillion Elementary Schools Lunch Wednesday – A. Domino’s Pizza, B. Baked Fish Sandwich, Golden Corn Thursday – A. Home-style Tater Hot Dish and Dinner Roll, B. Hot Dog, Mixed Vegetables, Chocolate Chip Cookie Vermillion Middle School Lunch Wednesday – Domino’s Pizza, Golden Corn Thursday – Home-style Tater Hot Dish and Dinner Roll, Mixed Vegetables, Chocolate Chip Cookie Vermillion High School Lunch Wednesday – Baked Fish and Cheese Sandwich, Golden Corn Thursday – Home-style Tater Hot Dish and Dinner Roll, Mixed Vegetables, Chocolate Chip Cookie St.Agnes School Lunch Wednesday – A. Domino’s Pizza, B. Baked Fish Sandwich, Golden Corn Thursday – A. Home-style Tater Hot Dish and Dinner Roll, B. Hot Dog, Mixed Vegetables, Chocolate Chip Cookie Elk Point-Jefferson Breakfast Wednesday – A. Yogurt with Goldfish, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Fresh Orange, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Thursday – A. Pancake Sausage Stick, B. Cereal Choices and Toast, Mixed Fruit, Juice Choices, Milk Choices Elk Point-Jefferson Elementary School Lunch Wednesday – A. Bosco Sticks with Marinara Sauce, B. Cheeseburger, Candied Carrots, Home-style Coleslaw Dave Says Available every day: Breakfast entrée or Choice of cereals w/toast, Fruit, Milk Choices Wednesday – French Toast Sticks, Fruit, Milk Choices Irene-Wakonda Elementary School Lunch Wednesday – A. Super Mexi Tots with Bread, B. Pork Rib Sandwich, Carrots Irene-Wakonda Middle & High School Lunch Wednesday – A. Super Mexi Tots with Bread, B. Pork Rib Sandwich, C. Italian Sub, Carrots Winter Break Begins! Happy Holidays! 4 Unique Ways South Dakotans Can Give Back this Holiday Season 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 December 20 – December 26.. Menus are subject to change without notice. All menus are served with whole grain bread and 1% milk unless otherwise noted. Thursday – A. Home-style Tater Hot Dish and Dinner Roll, B. Hot Dog, Mixed Vegetables, Chocolate Chip Cookie Elk Point-Jefferson Middle & High School Lunch Wednesday – A. Bosco Sticks with Marinara Sauce, B. Cheeseburger, Candied Carrots, Home-style Coleslaw Thursday – A. Home-style Tater Hot Dish and Dinner Roll, B. Hot Dog, Mixed Vegetables, Chocolate Chip Cookie Irene-Wakonda School Breakfast Wednesday – 2/3c Tater Tot Casserole, 1 1/3c Cream of Broccoli Soup, 1/2c Acini Di Pepe Thursday – 3oz Roast Turkey, 1/2c Baked Sweet Potato, 1/2c Creamed Peas, Orange, Cookie Friday – n/a Monday – No Meals – Merry Christmas! The holidays remind us to be thankful for our family, Tuesday – 1pc Upside Down Pizza, 1c Pasta Veggie Salad, friends and what we have. They also remind us to give back. Banana Here are four different ways to support local organizations who help South Dakota communities and the less fortunate. 1. Donate Your Car: Tired of your old clunker? Done with scraping snow off your windshield, paying for parking or having your car towed? Donate your old car to the American Lung Association to create new hope for those suffering from lung disease. Donating your car is easy. Visit LungCars.org or call 1-800-LUNGCAR, fill out a quick form, and a tow truck will haggling with them. See if you can get them to agree to settle for $2,500. Remember to get this agreement in writing before you send pick up your car within 48 hours. Your car donation will help them a dime, and do not give them access to your bank account. fund research and programs for South Dakota residents sufChances are they’ll threaten to sue and all that stuff, but my fering from lung disease. Your donation will also count as a guess is you can work out something on an old loan like this. It deduction on your taxes for 2017. may take a couple of weeks and a little patience, but that’s a small 2. Buy Christmas Seals: While you are purchasing your price to pay if it saves you $2,500. Sorry, but you guys will have to pay something to make this go holiday cards, wrapping paper and bows, don’t forget about away. And I hope it teaches you both a valuable lesson — never the Lung Association’s Christmas Seals. This tradition dates co-sign on a loan! back 110 years and is still a staple of the holiday season. — Dave The first Christmas Seals were created to help fund the treatment of tuberculosis in 1907, and now the money goes to fund research for lung cancer and local programs to help those with lung disease live better lives. Learn more at ChristDear Dave, masSeals.org. The Past Can Haunt You Dear Dave, My wife co-signed on a loan for an old boyfriend five or six years ago. Now, a collection agency is after her for the remaining $5,000. We make about $90,000 a year combined, and our attorney recommended we file Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The idea of filing bankruptcy scares me. Is there a better way to handle this? Jeffery Dear Jeffery, Your attorney doesn’t sound very bright. A bankruptcy stays on your Dave record for years. It’s just plain stupid to consider trashing your financial life over What do you think about online investing apps, and the way they allow you to jump in and out of stocks for really low fees? $5,000. Anonymous This collector bought the loan for pennies on the dollar. It’s an old debt, and that means there are very low expectations for collection. At the same time, your wife did co- Dear Anonymous, I don’t think about them, and I don’t use them. And I don’t sign for the loan. If you have the money, and you can pay it off without hurting play single stocks — period. yourselves financially, do it. That’s the right thing, both morThere’s a ton of research out there showing that people who ally and legally. If you don’t have that kind of cash on hand, try play individual stocks on their own — or with their broker, or with a golfing buddy — see a rate of return of about seven percent on average. You can make anywhere from 10 to 14 percent, • AUTOMOTIVE COLLISION REPAIR on average, with good growth stock mutual funds. • PAINT • FRAMEWORK I could probably play single stocks more intelligently than • GLASS REPLACEMENT most people, but why? If the average is noticeably less than I’m seeing with my mutual funds, why bother going there? Plus, with a mutual fund portfolio, you’ve got someone who does this kind of thing for a living managing and researching your investments for you in your best interest. M-F I don’t have an app on my phone that lets me trade stocks, 9AM-6PM nor do I plan on getting one. There’s nothing wrong with apps, SAT in general, but I’ll never recommend jumping in and out of 9AM-12PM single stocks as a method of investing. — Dave Apps and Stocks? Ramsey HOURS: 1205 CARR STREET • VERMILLION • 605.670.0471 BlainesBodyShop@gmail.com * 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. Thank you! Thank you Sanford Hospitals and staff, EMT crew and doctors – Olson, Dendinger, Anderson and Garry. Also Terry Munter, Ron Johnson, Sandra Goulden, Sheryl Suman, Mick & Cheryl Breske, Wess Pravecek, Christy & Larry Kimball and Davis Pharmacy for kindness given during our hospitalizations. Kevin and Marilyn Gregoire Morse’s Market e- -farm fresh produc We still have fresh christmas Trees! Fraser • Balsm • Blue spruce • 4’ – 10’ $20.00 and up Douglas Fir Garland, Door Swags & Wreaths, Free in town on delivery & set-up, Sale: Tree Stands & Tree Bags Local Honey & Fall Squash Open 7 days a week • M-F 12 Noon-6:30pm Sat & Sun 10:30am -5:30pm 3 Blocks of Cotton Soccer Field • 708 S. Dakota St. 605-677-7852 or 605-624-9330 Mitchel Morse 3. Volunteer: Don’t have extra cash to give? Donate your time to help those in need within the community. Volunteer to help those with lung disease at several events and programs throughout the state. Find local volunteer opportunities at Lung.org/Volunteer. 4. Become An Advocate: Being an advocate for those who suffer from lung disease is simple. Share your story, write a letter or make a donation to support lung health policies. Everyone deserves to breathe healthy air, have access to resources to help them quit smoking, get the best medical care and benefit from innovations in research. Learn more about how you can give back by becoming an advocate here. This holiday season, remember the lights, the ribbons and bows and the candy canes, but don’t forget to give back to our South Dakota community. Lean more about how to donate and volunteer at Lung.org. About the American Lung Association in South Dakota The American Lung Association in South Dakota is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease, through research, education and advocacy. The work of the American Lung Association is focused on four strategic imperatives: to defeat lung cancer; to improve the air we breathe; to reduce the burden of lung disease on individuals and their families; and to eliminate tobacco use and tobacco-related diseases. For more information about the American Lung Association, a holder of the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Guide Seal, or to support the work it does, call 1-800-LUNGUSA (1-800-586-4872) or visit: Lung.org. 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