THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Girls Basketball vs Burke 75¢ Gregory Memorial Auditorium GREGORY TIMES- JV start time 6:30 p.m. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Boys Basketball vs. Bon Homme Gregory Memorial Auditorium JV start time 6:00 p.m. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 B/G Storm Regional Wrestling DVOCATE Winner Armory at 10:00 a.m. AVOLUME 116 NUMBER 8 - 10 PAGES - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020 - USPS PUBLICATION NO. 229680 Subway opening soon Pop open a bottle at Kegs A Subway restaurant is coming & Corks this weekend soon to the Buche Foods grocery store. Construction is progressing as scheduled with a projected open- ing date of February 21, 2020. Beth Leber will be the restau- rant’s manager. She grew up in Herrick, attending the Burke school where she excelled in academics and athletics. She is the mother of Briana, Jared, and Jad. Working for Buche Foods since March 2017, Beth has worked in nearly all departments as well as serving as a supervisor. Beth attended Subway School January 18 – February 1, along with GF Buche Co. Human Resource Manager/Operations Assistant Manager Jody Kotab, to learn the processes and procedures of sandwich crafting. There they also learned that Subway prides itself on pleasing the guest first while Jody Kotab and Beth Leber are shown here with their promoting family, community, and diplomas from Subway School. opportunity. Both ladies put in over 51 hours Subway hours will be 11:00 a.m. – Cookies and bread are baked of classroom training each, learn- 10:00 p.m., which means that Buche fresh daily on site, and Subway ing the financial aspects of running Foods will now be open until 10:00 also offers catering of sandwich a location. They also had over 33 p.m. as well. Those hours may be platters and giant subs for your hours of in-store training to gain expanded for sporting events or special events. experience of day-to-day operations special town celebrations as need- Orders may be placed online at and management skills. To gradu- ed. The restaurant will also include www.subway.com or by phone at ate, they had to pass six exams. seating for at least twelve people. 605-835-8191. Schulte family continues their Last year’s Kegs & Corks drew a large crowd to sample wines and beers and bid on a variety of silent and live auction items. This evening is the Chamber’s main avenue for journey with son Isaac’s cancer raising money to fund Chamber-sponsored events throughout the rest of the year. by Patty Connealy Isaac Schulte is the two-year-old by Patty Connealy for auction, the event promises to lots of choices for mix-ins. son of Patrick and Erin Schulte The holidays are over. Valentines deliver an enjoyable evening for all. Attendees will have time to pe- of Burke. He was diagnosed with Day has come and gone. Just when Ten beers and 15 different wines ruse a treasury of items and place neuroblastoma. A PET scan showed winter feels like it has nothing fun headline the line-up, along with a bids on the silent auction or plan that Isaac had cancer on his adrenal left to offer, along comes Kegs & mimosa bar featuring a variety of their strategy for the live auction, glands, some of the bones in his Corks. juices to mix in. Not into alcohol? which will begin at 7:00. spine, on his lymph nodes, in his This evening of fun and flavor Juices, soda, and bottled water will Chamber Director Suzanne pelvis, and his upper leg bones in will begin at 6:00 p.m., Saturday, also be on hand. Braun indicated that she will addition to the large tumor on his February 22, at the Gregory Memo- A selection of meats, cheeses, continue to accept donations for liver. rial Auditorium. With a variety of fruits, and vegetables will offer the auctions this week. Call her at We told the first part of his beverages to sample, food to snack plenty of pairing and snacking op- 831-9773 for more information or to story in the January 1 edition of on, and all kinds of items available tions as well as a popcorn cart with purchase your tickets in advance. the Gregory Times-Advocate which detailed the family’s discovery Bill raises texting while driving to primary offense of Isaac’s cancer. This update de- scribes his treatment since then. by Dana Hess - CNS fered a similar bill last year that iffs and police chiefs. Isaac had to go to Masonic Chil- After some emotional testimony, came up one vote short of passage The committee also heard from dren’s Hospital at the University the House Transportation Com- in the Senate. Jeff and Lesa Dahl of Castlewood of Minnesota for apheresis. Dur- mittee approved a bill that makes By moving the violation to a whose 19-year-old son Jacob died ing apheresis, a machine removes texting while driving a primary primary offense, Barthel said, it in a car accident while he was us- blood in order to remove one or offense. was likely that more people would ing his phone. The Northern State more blood components before HB1169 would make using an obey the law. The fine would go University student was taking a cycling the blood back into the electronic device while driving a up to $122.50. “It’s not going to be photo with his phone when his car patient’s body. In Isaac’s case, they primary rather than secondary a big revenue generator,” Barthel ran into the rear of a truck haul- planned to harvest stem cells. offense. Currently drivers can’t said. ing soybeans. In preparation for apheresis, Pat be stopped for texting while driv- The legislation is more about Jeff Dahl pulled from a Highway and Erin had to give Isaac neupagen ing, but can be ticketed if they are changing behavior, according to Patrol evidence bag the phone his shots every day to boost his white found to be in violation of another Doug Abraham who represents in- son was using when he died. Fo- blood cell count. The shots hurt and law. surance companies. rensic evidence showed that his caused bone pain, so the parents Exceptions in the bill allow the “When you know you’re going son was on the phone constantly had to work together, one holding use of electronic devices by law to be pulled over, you change your from when he left Northern until Isaac and the other giving the shots. enforcement and other emergency behavior,” Abraham said. the accident near Andover. Once they arrived in the Twin services, texting 911 in an emer- Lobbyists from a wide array of “I cry every single day since Cities, Isaac had surgery to put in gency and entering a phone num- interests supported the bill. They then,” Dahl said. his central line for the procedure. ber to make a call. included hospitals and the medi- The committee approved the bill Pat and Erin were shocked at the The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Doug cal profession, building contrac- on a vote of 10-1. It now goes to the size of it; the line was the size of a Barthel, R-Sioux Falls, said he of- tors, firefighters and EMTs, sher- full House. drinking straw, sticking out of his Isaac returned the favor, giving his doctor a check-up of jugular vein. The nurses explained his own during one of his visits. that is had to be that size because Townships won’t get motor fuel tax funds for culverts of the large volume of blood that nurse. As Pat didn’t immediately IV Ativan, and moved Isaac to sit by Dana Hess - CNS Greenfield, R-Clark, about the repair. would have to pass through it dur- sense the urgency of the situation, up. Once the surgeon looked at the A bill that would have changed repairs townships need to do on “I really enjoy driving on smooth ing the stem cell collection. Erin started yelling that it was an line, he decided to pull it out. the distribution of the motor fuel their roads. SB90 secured funding highways to get here,” Wiik said. In order to begin apheresis, emergency. Isaac was given some versed to tax to give townships money for as well as a funding mechanism Greenfield said South Dakota’s Isaac’s stem cell count needed to be Two nurses appeared on the calm down, and the surgeon went culvert repair failed to receive the for townships, Greenfield said. outdoor tourism activities like at least 10,000; his final blood work scene and started putting pres- to work. He clipped the stitches and required two-thirds majority vote Rising in opposition was Sen. hunting and fishing rely on good showed that his count was 668,000. sure on the area while taking an pulled what was left of the line, on Wednesday in the Senate. John Wiik, R-Big Stone City, co- township roads. SB90, Green- That explained why he was having emergency blood sample to check which caused the bleeding to stop SB90 would have created a spe- chairman of the appropriations field said, would “redirect a small so much pain with so many extra his platelets. They also called sur- almost immediately. cial fund from motor fuel taxes committee. Wiik explained that amount of money for a huge cells packed into his bone marrow. gery. Isaac’s nurse literally ran his Erin commented that she doesn’t and provided $1.2 million annually hemp enforcement and other en- amount of relief.” The process took about three and sample to the lab to insure that it know how many Hail Mary’s she to townships to help them repair tities are seeking money from the The vote on SB90 was 18-16, a half hours, during which time six would be run immediately.