Lavender Joins New Underwood Post Team
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$T1ax In.c0luded0 Number 27 Volume 15 A Publication of Ravellette Publications, Inc. • PO Box 426 • New Underwood, SD 57761 June 21, 2018 Lavender joins New Underwood Post team by Chastity Julson Japan, then relocated with her younger sister, Danielle, is mar - wouldn’t see in a big city, some - with her CNA work even after her After three and a half years of family to Texas when she was ried to a native of Philip, and has thing I never saw. I love every - children began to add to their the New Underwood Post being about six years old. Lavender, her lived in the Philip area for the last thing about Philip, from the peo - family. When an unexpected put together by the writing and mother and her sisters eventually four years. She eventually con - ple I meet when I’m exploring the death brought tragedy to the fam - lay-out team of Chastity Julson moved to Loveland, Colo, which is vinced Lavender and her husband town at night to the small local ily in 2011, Lavender quit her and Nancy Haigh, Haigh’s move where, Lavender said, she did to give Philip a try. businesses,” Lavender said. CNA job to stay home with her to her family ranch near Vale, SD, most of her growing up. It was Despite being more accustomed Lavender’s husband works children and help them grieve. precipitated a change in the Post also in Loveland that Lavender to larger cities, Lavender said from home with stock market in - Her work with Ravellette Pub - team. met Jason, which led to her mov - that, while Philip is not even on vestments, which makes his work lications, the parent company of Michaela Lavender, most re - versatile for any area. This is the New Underwood Post, is her cently of Clovis, CA, moved to “ Lavender’s first experience in the first experience back in the work - Philip at the beginning of April. Everyone here is so friendly and wel - newspaper industry. ing world after her departure She and her husband, Jason, coming, something you wouldn’t see in a During her childhood, Laven - from nursing. have five children ages eleven, b“ig city, something I never saw. der’s mother struggled with mul - For Lavender, the biggest re - eight, seven, five and two. tiple sclerosis. Lavender’s high ward for working with the news - Though this is her first time liv - school years were spent juggling paper is getting to know the Rav - ing in a small town, Lavender is ing to California at the age of 18. the same scale of any other town school, cheer squad and caring for ellette Publications staff. Another by no means a stranger to living After more than a decade in Cal - in which she has lived, it is, in a her mother, Lavender said. This reward is working hard all week in new places and experiencing ifornia, Lavender and her family sense, better than any other city fostered in her an interest in to put together a newspaper, then new situations. The daughter of a were ready for a change of scenery she has called home. medicine. She eventually got her to see it hot off the press and military member, Lavender spent in a place that had a slower pace “Everyone here is so friendly CNA certification so she could ready to be disseminated to read - her early years in Okinawa, and was less stressful. Lavender’s and welcoming, something you help more people. She continued ers. June 14th – Flag Day History states that Betsy Ross is the The world's largest red, white and blue name of the lady who American Flag meas - were chosen as the sewed the first Amer - ures 505 feet colours and represent ican Flag in 1776. (153.9m) x 225 feet valour (red), liberty (68.58m) and weighs and purity (white) jus - in at a whopping 3,000 tice and loyalty (blue). pounds (1,361 Kg) It was made in Pennsyl - vania Working For a Living Faith & Inspiration Rodeo Public Notices Inside: Page 2 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 2 Editorial The Post • June 21, 2018 Working For A Living Tim R. Chastity Julson Goodwin Perennial Hope cart. Child E was my only helper plants out of their pots, set them part of a culture that, though sep - District 30 State Hope springs eternal. That is that day. He was enthralled with in their holes, then filled in the arated by distance and poor Representative why, despite scores of trees and these plants that were suddenly extra space with the potting soil. transportation, knew how to con - flowers and vegetables that have blooming in the cart, and he kept A trickling hose over the roots of nect with each other interperson - been planted to no avail, Friday twisting from his baby seat to each plant, and they were done. ally. I have the advantage in hav - From the Desk of Tim R. Goodwin found me in town, getting items reach the flowers. All day, as the sun refused to ing modern technology and trans - Representative, District 30 at a hardware store, and then de - I snagged a large bag of potting shine, I kept an eye on the flow - portation to keep me in touch It’s State Convention time! Yep, it’s touring to the outside plant sec - soil on the way out the door. The ers. It is common for them to wilt with those I love, though our so - that time of year when the Republican tion. ground into which I would be as they adjust to the ground—at ciety as a whole has lost some of and Democratic parties host state con - ventions. The Democrats have had What I really wanted was moss planting these flowers was full of least, it is for me. But all day yes - our ability to truly connect with theirs, in Sioux Falls. Marcia and I are roses. I do love these bright, gravel, with just enough dirt to terday they stayed upright, each other. headed to Pierre for the Republican hardy little flowers that, once make you forget that you were bright and vigorous. I excitedly These flowers, much like the convention. We’re both excited, as this started, will keep returning year planting in a bed of rocks. I would showed this to Ol’ Handsome, hollyhocks a person can still find year we both have a vote as Commit - after year. No, the man who was need some potting soil to encour - who, despite my explanations, in the pastures, marking the site teeman and Committeewoman. Basi - watering the plants said, they did age these plants to survive. fails to see my fascination with of some old homestead now faded cally, we decide the 7 State Constitu - not have any more moss roses, Those poor plants. After they planting flowers, especially when and blown away into the South tional officers. In South Dakota, they though they had some yesterday. survived the trip to the Kiddie most of them do not survive. Dakota wind, represent an un - are: There were a whole lot of peren - Hauler, the plants had to survive When the rain began to fall willingness to quit trying. Their Attorney General Lieutenant Governor nials on another table, though. five other stops. Finally, hours gently last night, I rejoiced. survival means so much, because Auditor Since most enterprising garden - later, after the plants had proven Maybe these perennials have a I need to know that I can make Treasurer ers put in their flowers weeks their hardiness by not being all good chance of surviving. By this something beautiful and lasting Secretary of State ago, these perennials were wilted from their day in a warm morning, when we left for church, grow, when it seems that so much School & Public Lands marked down into my price vehicle, we finally headed home. we had an inch and twenty hun - of my life is filled with banal Public Utilities Commis - range. We had other commitments dreds in the rain gauge. I have chores and the continual work sioner Last summer, my grandma Friday evening. Saturday morn - not made the soggy walk across that comes with living the dream. We also approve the platform of the gave me some of her perennials. ing I was out early. I find that I the lawn to the perennial bed, but So what happens when they do party (what we stand for). Two of the The rose bush she sent did not have better luck with plants if from the driveway I can see that not survive? Does that foretell my offices, Attorney General and Lieu - tenant Governor, are contested offices make it. The day lilies, Shasta they are planted in the cool, be - the flowers still look content in own survival inability? No. Be - on the Republican side. daisies, and some little yellow fore the sun is beating down on their new homes. cause the very nature of planting The Democrats picked Randy Seller, flower that spreads rapidly did. the plants that go into shock just There is something about these flowers this summer, when some past U.S. Attorney, and Michelle Still, my one little clump of as soon as they come from their flowers that connects me to plantings have survived from pre - LaVallee as Lieutenant Governor, a Shasta daisies, set out where they pots. women who have made South vious years, and so many others long-time Republican who switched her are in honor of a niece whose The weather was on my side.