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Upcoming Events TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 Debate, 3pm Chamber Luncheon, 11:30am-1pm Harrisburg Economic Development Meeting, 7pm-8pm

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 Winter Formal, 8pm @ HS Commons Breakfast with Santa MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 FFA State Leadership, 6:30-8:30pm @Little Theater City Council Meeting, 6pm-8pm @ Liberty Board Room WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 Park Board Meeting, 7pm-8pm SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 ACT Testing, 7am-2pm Prairie Christmas, 2pm @ HS PAC MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 School Board Meeting, 6:30pm-9pm @ Liberty Board Room Planning & Zoning Board Meeting, 6pm-8pm Rising Stars Preschool Winter Concert, 6pm-7pm @ HSMS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 HS Band Winter Concert, 7pm-9pm @ HS PAC WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 Tiger Nation Meeting, 7pm @ HS Library THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 Boys’ & Girls’ Basketball, 3:30 pm SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 Boys’ Basketball, 2pm SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 Shalom Christmas Worship/Program, 9am-10am @ HS PAC MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 City Council Meeting, 6pm-8pm @ Liberty Board Room TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 Early Release, 1:05pm THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24 Shalom Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship, 4pm5pm & 6pm-7pm @ Shalom Lutheran Church MONDAY, DECEMBER 28 School Board Meeting, 6:30pm-9pm @ Liberty Board Room WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30 City Council Meeting, 6pm

1st Annual Harrisburg Business Expo A Success The Harrisburg Economic Development Board and Chamber of Commerce would like to take a moment to thank the following people for their participation in making our 1st Annual Harrisburg Business Expo such a success!

BREAKFAST

~ To our sponsors: Avera Harrisburg Medical Clinic and the Harrisburg Event Center, Thank You!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2015 8AM-11AM SHALOM LUTHERAN CHURCH 1000 E. MAPLE STREET

~To our business booths: KMWF & Associates, PC, Harrisburg Family Chiropractic, Complete Garage  PANCAKES PROVIDED BY THE HARRISBURG LIONS CLUB. FREE WILL DONATION. Doors, Inc., Distinct Auto Glass &  PHOTOS WITH SANTA PROVIDED BY LYNN MARIE PHOTOGRAPHY. FOR $5 YOU RECEIVE A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AND ALL RIGHTS TO YOUR PHOTO. PROCEEDS BENEFIT FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA BACKPACK PROGRAM OF HARRISBURG. Tires, Carolan Rental & N-Flatable  HARRISBUCKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. GREAT GIFT IDEA!  DNA KITS FOR KIDS PROVIDED BY SOUTH DAKOTA CHILD IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM OF SD (WWW.SD-CHIP.ORG). Fun, Neighborhood Dental, 5 Star SEE ATTACHED. Football, Starts with a Shirt, Harrisburg FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE CHAMBER AT INFO@CHAMBEROFHARRISBURGSD.COM , OR CALL (605) 743-5872 Eye Care, J & M Transmission Service, The Harrisburg School District neither endorses nor sponsors the organization or activity represented in this document. The distribution of this material is provided as a community service. Inc., American Legion Post 45 Harrisburg, SD, Blue Collar Tactical, RMS Roller-Grinder, Stockwell Engineers, Champion Fitness, Novak Sanitary Service, Edward Jones - Financial Advisor: Bruce Aldrich, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire, Boom George Funeral Home, Harrisburg Days, Lynn Marie Photography, All-Star Travel, Farm Bureau Financial Services - Amber Steinberg, Agent, Codi Nincehelser Keller Williams Realty and Shalom Lutheran Church - Harrisburg SD! We couldn't have done it without you! ~To Harrisburgers for the concessions and donating half of your proceeds to the men and women of the fire department. ~To Mike at CustomEyez Signs for all of the signs. ~To South Dakota Child Identification Program for being on site to conduct these kits for our kids! ~To Mayor Julie Burke Bowen and Nick Fosheim with Lincoln and Minnehaha County Economic Development Associations for speaking at the Annual Meeting. ~And lastly, to Hy-Vee for catering the Annual Meeting. We look forward to next year!

Deadline for the next issue of the Tiger Times is December 16th.

IN THIS ISSUE

Upcoming Events 1st Annual Harrisburg Business Expo a success City Contact Information

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Community Board of Directors Announced for local Food Pantry Harrisburg Community Food Pantry Neighbors helping Neighbors Important - Harrisburg Consumer Water/Sewer Bills 2015 in Review, and on to 2016! Harrisburg Community Library Corner Snow Alert and Removal Information for the City of Harrisburg

District JOB OPENING:

City Contact Information

CITY WEBSITE – www.harrisburgsd.gov 3 3 Make sure to “Like” The City of Harrisburg on Facebook for city notices at: 3 http://bit.ly/CityOfHarrisburg 4 Mayor: 4 Julie Burke-Bowen Email: Julie.BurkeBowen@Harrisburgsd.gov 5 Phone: 605-743-5872 ext. 20

High School

Ward I Alderpersons: Ryan Berg Tiger Volleyball Takes 4th Place at State AA Tournament 8 Email: Ryan.Berg@Harrisburgsd.gov Harrisburg Performs at All-State Chorus 8 Harrisburg FFA Members Receive Free FFA Jackets 9 Phone: 605-743-5872 ext. 23 Harrisburg FFA Rocks the National FFA Convention! 9 Ryan Wolbrink Harrisburg FCCLA Participates in State Farm 2N2 Program 10 Email: ryan.wolbrink@Harrisburgsd.gov Youth Attend Healthy Living Summit in Huron 10 Phone: 605-743-5872 ext. 21 Ag Class Improves Storage Shed 10 Harrisburg Businesses Brave Wind & Rain to Serve HHS Staff and Students 11 Ward II Alderperson: High School National Honor Society Honor’s Veterans 11 Allison Sanderson Email: Allison.Sanderson@Harrisburgsd.gov Phone: 605-743-5872 ext. 24 Harrisburg North Reporting Team for Mr. Hartzler’s Block B Media Group 12 Fine Arts at NMS 12 Ryan Olson Studying Choices with Officer Runyan in 6th Advanced ELA 12 Email: Ryan.Olson@Harrisburgsd.gov Patriot’s Pen 12 Phone: 605-743-5872 ext. 22 Do-It-Yourself Tree Ornaments 13 Surveying Christmas Cheer 13 Council Meetings: City Council meetings are held the first and third Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the Liberty School Board Room unless announced otherwise. If a meeting falls on a City holiday, typically Certified Kind Classroom 14 the meeting will be scheduled for the following Tuesday.

North Middle School

Endeavor Elementary Freedom Elementary Hullabaloo Huge Success Let Freedom Ring!

Thank You Veterans! Liberty Elementary Liberty PTO Gift Wrapping event and Vendor Fair 2nd Grade Team and Mrs. Van’t Hul Rock-N-Rolling on the 50th Day of School Liberty Elementary – Embracing the Community

Journey Elementary Engineering Fun in First Grade Kindergarteners Rock the 50’s! Thanks to Those Who Serve

14 City Offices Locations/Hours 14 City/Finance Office: 301 E Willow Street Phone Number: 605-743-5872 Monday – Thursday – 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Fridays – 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. City Maintenance: 801 S Prairie Street 16 Monday – Friday – 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 17 18 Police - Lincoln County Sheriff Dispatch (Non Emergency) – 764-2664 18 Emergency – 911 HELP!Line – 211 SD One Call – 811 19 Post Office – 743-2791 19 Community Library – 767-7910 19

The City of Harrisburg contracts with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department. In case of an emergency, dial 911. For non-emergency calls, dial 605-7642664 for dispatch. Keep your garage doors closed at night and when not at home. If you keep your vehicle outside, keep it locked. Speed limits in residential areas are 20 mph, please remember to SLOW DOWN. Reminder: Any chance of two inches of snow or blowing snow may trigger a snow alert, all vehicles should be removed from city streets to avoid ticketing and towing!! HELP!Line Center is available 24 hrs. a day/7 days a week for any personal or family crisis. Dial 211

Publicly submitted articles do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions or beliefs of the Harrisburg School District. The Harrisburg School District has the right to decline publication of advertisements and/or articles that are deemed inappropriate for publication in the Tiger Times. THE TIGER TIMES • MAY 2015 • PAGE 2

The Grand Lodge of South Dakota, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons In cooperation with: *SD Highway Patrol *SD Academy of Physicians Assistants *SD Sheriffs Association *SD Dental Association *SD Attorney General *Masonichip International

The CHIP program allows parents the opportunity to create a kit of identifying materials for their child. The kit contains a fingerprint card, a physical description, a video, DVD of the child, a dental imprint, and a DNA sample. The purpose of the kit is to provide critical information to the public and to law enforcement in the unfortunate event that a child goes missing.

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TUESDAY DECEMBER 15TH LEGION HALL, HARRISBURG 6-9PM $1/ BINGO CARD

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Breakfast with Santa

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No Charge to Parents

Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce

SD Chip is provided free of charge to the public. All of the identifying items generated during the event are given to the child’s family. The only item retained is the parental permission slip

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Board Of Directors Announced For Local Important - Harrisburg Consumer Water/ Food Pantry Sewer Bills In becoming truly a community organization, the Harrisburg Area Food Pantry has established a Board of Directors to oversee all facets of the operation. We are proud to announce those who have volunteered to serve: - Melissa Carr, Clinical Research Coordinator at Sanford - April Kooiman, Business Development Advisor, Canfield Business Interiors - Travis Slaba, PA-C, Avera Medical Group - Ritch Noble, CEO of Active Data Systems - Dannette Tobin, Sales Manager for KDLT-TV NBC - Sheila Coleman, AJ Gallagher Ins; Harrisburg Area Food Pantry Coordinator

Beginning January 2015 the following ordinance will be enforced and payment arrangements on utility bills will no longer be honored. All utility water/sewer bills are due on the twentieth (20th) day of the month. If bills are not paid by the due date, a twenty (20) percent penalty shall be assessed the following day. If a bill for utility services is not paid in full the customer shall be given notice by mail or by personal service by posting on the property that service shall be terminated within five (5) working days of the date of posting. Failure to pay all charges and penalties will result Our goals are to enhance the visibility of the Food Pantry and better serve those in disconnection of services. All utilities disconnected for nonpayment must pay a reconnect fee plus payment in full of the amount owed on the we are wanting to reach. account before any utilities will be reconnected. Reconnections will be made only during business hours, 8:00am to 5:00pm, Monday thru Friday.

Harrisburg Community Food Pantry Neighbors Helping Neighbors

During this holiday season, please consider a donation to the Harrisburg Area Food Pantry. We are a non-profit faith based outreach serving Harrisburg and the surrounding area and committed to putting food on the tables of those needing assistance. Did you know, if you purchase two boxes of cereal, they will cost you in excess of $5. For that same $5, we are able to purchase approximately 24 boxes of cereal through our affiliation with Feeding South Dakota. We are currently able to get hamburger at $.18 a pound so your donation will go a long way to helping others in our community. Since choices and availability of product fluctuate, contributions of food, personal care items and cleaning supplies are always needed and appreciated. Immediate needs: coffee, vegetable oil, butter, cheese, cleaning supplies, shaving cream, razors. Items may be dropped off at the Harrisburg United Methodist Church, 204 Grand Ave or the Food Pantry, 203 Prairie St during normal hours of operation. Both are in Harrisburg. Monetary donations can be mailed to the Food Pantry address. For those who need our services, hours of operation are from 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month or by appointment. We will also be open on Saturday, December 5th from 10:00 am – noon. You can always reach us at (605) 929-0599. Whether you’re a shopper or wish to make a donation, we appreciate your participation as Neighbors help Neighbors.

2015 In Review, And On To 2016! The city has had another very busy year, and has a lot of accomplishments to share. In the spring, we held our City Hall Ribbon Cutting in our new building! We are very pleased to say that the Harrisburg Food Pantry has moved into our old city hall. They are a wonderful organization and it is amazing how the organizers have repurposed the space. Stop by and check them out! We had another successful annual audit, which was filed with and accepted by the State of South Dakota. That is very complementary and an indication of the continued expertise of our staff! We reviewed and received resident feedback on our municipal ordinances, which we will be adopting early next spring. We also had an outside firm conduct a community wide survey, and look forward to using your input as a guide when prioritizing future projects. Also, check out our new city webpage, which is easier for you to navigate! On the “quality of life” area, we are pleased to have conducted both a major drainage area and central park design that addresses our “Lake Ole” flooding issues and facilitates our central park plan. We also secured grant funding for a 10ft wide path to be built from Prairie Street to Minnesota Avenue. Grant funded projects may take time to come to fruition but they are worth it in the end. Our neighborhood parks got new trees, grass, and we fixed a lot of playground equipment. There were many other accomplishments in 2015, but we are now looking Continued on Next Page

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Continued from Previous Page towards 2016 and excited about the many items we have planned including following up on several of our planned projects with bids and shovels. We also look forward to a census to help us reach that magic number of 5,000 and sharing the Community Survey results with you! We look forward to continuing to serve you in 2016! Mayor Julie Burke-Bowen • Harrisburg, SD • 605-595-7404

LISTINGS! Business Listing on Chamber website – www.chamberofharrisburgsd.com – and Chamber Facebook Page with new member recognition and FREE listing in the business directory of the Harrisburg Community Guide! RECOGNITION! Chamber Ribbon Cuttings offers a free media opportunity for your business! PERKS! FREE lunches each month at our Chamber luncheons/mixers! EXPO! FREE booth at the Chamber Business Expo event! RESOURCES! Access to information from Lincoln County Economic Development Association, SD Governor’s Office of Economic Development, partner Chambers of Commerce, and more! DISCOUNTS! Discount advertising in the Tiger Times, and Welcome to Harrisburg electronic sign! MARKETING! Access to FREE advertising in the Harrisburg Days booth, New Resident welcome packets and through Facebook shares on the Chamber Facebook account! INVOLVEMENT! Participate in Chamber Sponsored events like Easter Extravaganza, Business Trick or Treat and Breakfast for Santa. SHOP LOCAL! Become part of the city’s Preferred Vendor list! NETWORKING! Meet new people, share your ideas and experiences, and support your community!

BASIC MEMBERSHIP - $100 

FREE Business Listing on the Chamber Website – www.chamberofharrisburgsd.com; Chamber Facebook page - HarrisburgChamberofCommerce, with all new members recognized on each site; FREE listing in the Harrisburg Community Guide

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FREE lunches/appetizers for 2 each month at the Chamber luncheons/mixers.

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FREE tickets for 2 to the Annual Meeting.

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Invite to participate in Business Trick or Treat event.

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FREE booth at the Chamber Business Expo event.

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FREE decal identifying you as a Chamber Member.

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Ribbon Cutting ceremony available for all members.

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Access to information from Lincoln County Economic Development Association, SD Governor’s Office of Economic Development, partner Chambers of Commerce, and more!

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Access to advertising in the Tiger Times (monthly newspaper publication); Welcome to Harrisburg electronic sign; Harrisburg Days information booth; New Resident welcome packets; Facebook shares through the Harrisburg Chamber Facebook account.

To join, contact the City Office at (605) 743-5872 or apply online at www.chamberofharrisburgsd.com

NEW IN 2016 GOLD Membership - $250 All of the benefits of the BASIC membership PLUS: 

2 additional FREE lunches/appetizers each month at the Chamber luncheons/mixers (4 total).

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2 additional FREE tickets to the Annual Meeting (4 total).

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Identified as a GOLD member/sponsor on all advertising and promotional materials for the Chamber’s flagship events, e.g. Easter Egg Hunt, Breakfast with Santa, and Business Expo! 

Special recognition in the Harrisburg Community Guide. 

Special recognition in the online Business Directory.

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Use of Chamber logo on your business’ website.

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Additional decals identifying you as a Chamber Member, free of charge.

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Membership plaque.

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FREE notary public services at City Hall.

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FREE Chamber e-mail blast sent to all members (one time annually, by request, subject to availability).

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Hole sponsorship available at annual golf tournament.

Harrisburg Community Library Corner PHILIP OLINGER Harrisburg Community Library is continuing its effort to best serve the local community, so please come down to 200 E Willow Street and check out our vast selection of books, DVDs, audio books, E-Readers, and Blu-Ray Discs. Please visit our Facebook page and “Like Us” to stay up to date with library happenings; we are always adding new material, and we have just started offering educational classes to the community. Thanks to everyone who was involved in the Story Time with Santa event. It was a great success. January will bring out a new series of community education classes. We plan to offer free yoga classes on Saturday’s in January; the times for these classes will be announced on the Facebook page and posted around town. Other new classes starting up are the book club along with some possible financial education classes. Visit our Facebook site to keep up to speed on our class offerings. As a community library we are now searching for committee members to be on our Friends of the Library board. For more information please call the library at 605-767-7910. We really appreciate all Library Fall Hours: Monday – Thursday: 9am-3pm and 4pm-7pm Friday: 4pm-7pm Saturday: 10am-12pm THE TIGER TIMES • MAY 2015 • PAGE 4

Snow Alert And Removal Information For The City Of Harrisburg The City of Harrisburg will declare a “Snow Alert” when an accumulation of 2” is either forecast for the city or should the city have no prior forecast warning, when the snow plows are dispatched. This could also include blowing or drifting snow that would require plowing. All on-street parking shall be prohibited on both sides of the streets, regardless of the directional run of that street. Vehicles left on the street will be ticketed and fined. Parking may resume when streets have been cleared of snow completely from curb to curb. Ticketing will begin when plows are dispatched which could be any time after the snow alert is issued. Towing of vehicles, trailers and other appurtenances will start 24 hours AFTER the ticket has been issued. In the event of a Snow Alert the City will post or notify: www.HarrisburgSD.gov, City of Harrisburg, South Dakota Facebook, KELO TV, KSFY TV, KSOO AM 1140, KSOO FM 99.1, KYBB 102.7 FM, KKLS “HOT” 104.7 FM, “The Mix” 97.3 FM, KIKN 100.5 FM, KDEZ “Easy” 100.1 FM, KXRB AM 1000 Make Harrisburg safe for everyone this winter by clearing snow and ice from sidewalks and curb ramps around your property. Without a wide clear path, snow and ice on the sidewalk make it difficult for everyone, especially those with disabilities, to commute safely. Do the considerate thing this winter and help keep sidewalks snow free! It shall be the duty of the owner, tenant, or person in possession of any property abutting on any sidewalk to keep such sidewalk and boulevard free from snow and to cause any accumulated snow to be removed within fortyeight (48) hours after the termination of any snowfall, or snow accumulation. It shall be the duty of the property owner, tenant, or person in possession of any public or private driveway, parking lot or parking area or boulevard to dispose of accumulated snow upon such property in such manner that any snow when removed shall not be deposited upon any sidewalk or within or upon any public street or alley, after such public street or alley has been cleared of snow by grading of such snow away from the curb or picking up and carrying away of such snow by the City, or in a manner that will obstruct or interfere with the passage or vision of vehicle or pedestrian traffic.

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Tiger Nation wishes everyone in our Tiger community a happy, safe holiday season! Tiger Nation will be celebrating the Christmas holiday with our annual Prairie Christmas performance on Saturday, December 12th at the Performing Arts Center at Harrisburg High School. All seats are reserved and are being sold Fridays at the high school during the lunch hour, 10:30am through 12noon priced from $7.50 to $10.00.

If seats are still available, tickets will be sold at the door on December 12th. The program, written by our own talent Jeff Gould, our nationally competitive choir performing and led by our director Libbie Gould, will certainly put you into the holiday mood! Baked goods and apple cider will be provided and various holiday raffle items will be available by ticket purchase prior to each performance. See you on the 12th!

One week later, don your Hawaiian gear for Harrisburg’s Hawaiian night during the boys basketball games at Harrisburg High School on Saturday, December 19th. This event features a Winter Cheer Camp for our young girl Tigers wishing to participate in a cheer performance before the Varsity game. Fibber McGee’s will be selling tropical slushies for $5 and the cheerleaders will be selling leis to wear in the gym for the evening.

Come on out, Tiger fans! As we approach 2016, please consider joining and/or volunteering for Tiger Nation. The board is always looking for new members. With the new fundraising format, we are raising funds ALL of which we can give directly back to our students, your input is necessary. Please join us and voice your desires and goals for the future of Tiger Nation. Happy New Year!

A Live Celebration SATURDAY DEC. 12th, 2015 4:00pm & 7:00pm Performances HARRISBURG HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

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High School

Help support HHS students and their families by donating to the……

HHS Angel Tree Christmas 2015

Collecting items till Friday, December 18th

Tiger Volleyball Takes 4th Place At State AA Tournament

The Harrisburg High School Angel Tree is in need of gifts and/or cash donations to help provide an easier Christmas for HHS students.

KAYE WEBER

If you would like to adopt an individual or family, please take a request card from the Angel Tree in the high school commons, call the high school at 743-2567 or email tracy.kern@k12.sd.us.

Mark it down as another successful season for the volleyball squad of Harrisburg High. Finishing the regular season with a 17-3 record, the Tigers fell short to the Brandon Valley Lynx in the District 2AA Championship. However, the Tigers did not give up there! By defeating the Watertown Arrows in a four game battle in the Region 1AA match, the Tigers sealed the number two seed at the State AA Volleyball Tournament located at the Denny Sanford Premier Center, which eventfully housed all three classes this year. The first round of competition was a match between two Tiger teams; in a four-game series, the Harrisburg Tigers beat the Huron Tigers to move to the winners’ bracket. Playing at the State AA Tournament against high levels of competition on both sides of the net, the Tigers fell short to the Brandon Valley Lynx and the O’Gorman Knights but finished with an admirable fourth place. Our team has learned a lot since the first day of practice on Thursday, August 13, and we find it bittersweet to see our season come to a close. As coaches, we are proud to give our girls a great deal of credit; not only do they have high skill levels on the volleyball court, but they also succeed academically, with an average varsity team GPA at 3.91 on a 4.0 scale. Our players value the importance of mental toughness and putting the success of the team before individual gain. Not to mention, somehow, some way, these girls never cease to put a smile on the coaches’, and of course each other’s, faces. We truly do have the privilege to coach an amazing group of girls, and I know each of them looks forward to returning to the State AA Tournament next year, which will be located in Brookings.

Angel Tree Sponsored by: Harrisburg FCCLA

Congratulations are in order for the following ESD All-Conference players: middle hitter, Sami Slaughter; setter, Avery Thorson; and libero, Rachel Nelson (Honorable Mention). Avery Thorson also received the honor of making the state AA All-Tournament team.

Back Row left to right: Brooklyn Boyles, Darby Kruetzfeldt, Lilly Parker, Madeline Gould, Allison Meyer, Aanna Okerlund Front Row left to right: C.J. Conway, Nolan Carlson, Noah Bunger, Parker Brown, Garrett Buchanan, Isaac Hettver

Harrisburg Performs At All-State Chorus

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Mrs. Gould’s Harrisburg High School All-State Chorus was in attendance for the 63rd Annual All-State Chorus & Orchestra. This event, co-sponsored by South Dakota High School Activities Association and the South Dakota Music Educators Association, was held in Rapid City, October 30-31. Ending with a Grand Concert at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, this performance is the largest interscholastic music event held in South Dakota. The 2015 All-State Chorus includes 956 singers representing 151 South Dakota high schools. The guest conductor for All-State Chorus was Dr. Peter Eklund from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Harrisburg FFA Members Receive Free FFA Jackets TODD MARKS, HARRISBURG FFA ADVISOR Receiving your FFA jacket is a proud moment for many FFA members and helps signify that you are officially a member of the organization. With jacket prices, like everything else, on the rise, getting a FFA jacket for free is a great opportunity. This year, 24 members of the Harrisburg FFA Chapter were able to receive their FFA jackets free of cost through several different programs. The most significant and widely used program Harrisburg members take advantage of is the South Dakota FFA Foundation’s “Blue Jackets – Bright Futures” program. FFA members complete an essay type application and submit it to the FFA Foundation office in September. This year, 21 members of the Harrisburg chapter submitted and all of them received a free jacket from state and local sponsors! The SD FFA Foundation received enough sponsorship to provide 239 jackets to members in 44 different chapters across South Dakota. Harrisburg FFA member, Alexander Auch summed up the importance of the program as he stated, “ I have been very proud and honored to wear my father’s FFA jacket from the Scotland chapter for the past two years but having my own personal Harrisburg jacket indicates how committed to and proud I am to be a part of this great organization!” Members receiving jackets through the “Blue jackets – Bright Futures” program are; Chloe Kunkel, Isabella Saunders, Kenzie Nord, Julia Hopes, Jade Hewer, Jerica Warwick, Lauren Volk, Ryan Meyer, Kenny Hodom, Noah Hovorka, McKenzie Voss, Alexander Auch, Jalee Kreuger, Rylin Fox, Ben Olson, Kylee Gronseth, Logan Bunkers, Mia Cherry, Clair McDowell, Kayla Verley & Regan Yseth. Other Harrisburg members pictured and receiving FFA jackets from the Harrisburg Chapter are Kayla Smeenk who won her jacket for being the first freshman member to correctly recite the complete FFA creed and Jacob Bezug and Sam Gibson who tied as the top freshman FFA fruit sellers. Both Jacob and Sam sold over $900 worth of fruit.

Harrisburg FFA Rocks The National FFA Convention! TODD MARKS, FFA ADVISOR Louisville here we come!! On Tuesday, October 27th, 10 members of the Harrisburg FFA Chapter ands four chaperones loaded up to attend the 78th National FFA Convention and Career Expo. The National FFA Convention is the largest student run event in the nation with over 65,000 members, instructors, parents, and alumni in attendance. The first stop of this year’s trip was in Waterloo, IA to visit the John Deere Tractor and Engine Museum. This was a brand new stop for everyone on the trip and we enjoyed the experience. Not only did we see many old tractors and farm machines, we learned a great deal about how new engines and tractors are designed and created. The museum did a great job in showing how manufacturing methods have changed over the years and how much of an impact the John Deere Company has made on the history and the industry of American agriculture. After driving in the rain for many hours, we finally arrived in Louisville at midnight. The first day of the convention was spent at the career show and expo where over 400 industries, colleges, and businesses representing all facets of agriculture were on hand to help students understand what they did and to help them explore career options. On Wednesday evening we attended the opening session of the convention, which featured performances by the National FFA Band and Chorus as well as a welcome from the National FFA Advisor, Dr. Steve Brown. The highlight of the opening session was keynote speaker Dr. Rick Rigsby. Dr. Rigsby is an ordained minister and college professor who spent 20 years at Texas A&M University where he was a communications professor as well as motivational coach to the A&M football team. Dr. Rigsby presented a powerful, motivational presentation, which followed the theme of “make an impact, not just an impression.” Dr. Rigsby is one of those rare speakers who has the ability to captivate his audience with humor, sincerity, wit & wisdom where he will have you laughing hysterically one minute and the next, be so real that you are close to tears. Senior FFA Officer, Nathan Harmer said Dr. Rigsby’s speech was one of the highlights of the convention for him and stated, “ Dr. Rigsby was able to his message across using great humor and real world, personal examples.” Dr. Rigsby made a great “impact” on all the Harrisburg members; just ask Alysen Voss about the power of his “special laugh”. Thursday found the members back at the convention participating in a variety of leadership workshops and seminars. Topics from college scholarships to career opportunities to improving community service were attended by the members. Thursday was also a great day for seeing the sights in Louisville as we visited Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby Museum and then heading downtown to tour the Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat factory and museum. Thursday night we were back at Freedom hall to

watch the “Stars Over America” pageant where 16 members from across the country in four different categories were recognized for having the biggest and best Supervised A g r i c u l t u r a l Experience Projects in the country. Friday was the final Front row: Nathan Harmer; Back row left to right: day the Harrisburg Kandice Larson Heathcote, Alysen Voss, Kelsie delegation spent Spotanske, Ashlynne Beninga, Sydney Wood, at the convention Katelin Johnson, Sydney Gibson, Grace Aasheim, before the long Noah Hovorka. drive home on Saturday. Friday morning our members and chaperones participated in the National Days of Service project held in conjunction with the convention. Members have the option of assisting with over 15 different community service projects located throughout the city of Louisville. One half of the Harrisburg group helped with landscaping and cleanup projects at one of the Volunteers of America locations in Louisville. Harrisburg members worked with other FFA members from Missouri on this project. The other half of the chapter worked at a men’s mission in downtown Louisville. This mission is located in an old church building and the students and parents volunteering tour out a small wall and removed an old set of wooden seats that was covering the original interior stairs of the church. Harrisburg members worked with other FFA members from Arkansas and Tennessee on this project. After watching some of the National Finals CDE teams perform, we wrapped up our Louisville experience by visiting Louisville’s famous “Haunted Hotel”! As it was the night before Halloween, we waited in line over 2 hours but it was well worth it! It was one of the scariest and most fun haunted houses the kids had ever been to. Be sure to ask Sydney Gibson and Miss Viland just how “interactive” the haunted house was! As an advisor who has been to 34 national conventions, I would rate this year’s trip in the top five and want to thank all the students who attended for being on time, looking and acting professional and representing Harrisburg very well. I would also like to give a special thanks to the parents who attended with us. Mrs. Kim Gibson, Mr. Jesse Harmer, and our student teacher Miss Megan Viland did a great job in sharing the driving time, helping with room checks and simply making the trip a great time. Thanks! THE TIGER TIMES • MAY 2015 • PAGE 9

Harrisburg FCCLA Participates In State Farm 2N2 Program During the Months of October and November, the Harrisburg FCCLA Chapter along with Harrisburg’s audiovisual department, helped initiate the 2N2 Campaign through State Farm. Members helped create and launch the campaign to keep 2 eyes on the road and 2 hands on the wheel. With the campaign, Harrisburg School District was in the running for 1 of 22 $100,000 grant. If Harrisburg wins a grant, money will be used for additional safe driving campaign and service projects within the community.

Seated: Kelsie Spotanske & Katelin Johnson Standing Left to Right: Ashlynne Beninga, Kandice Larson-Heathcote,Sydney Gibson, Nathan Harmer, Noah Hovorka, Sydney Wood, Grace Aasheim, & Student Teacher; Megan Viland.

Ag Class Improves Storage Shed Youth Attend Healthy Living Summit In Huron MRS. TRACY KERN Article written by South Dakota Youth Foundation “YOUth Choose Health!” a healthy living youth leadership initiative began its campaign in Huron on October 21, 2015 at the Huron Events center. The South Dakota Youth Foundation sponsored this event in partnership with Avera Health, Regional Health, Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Health Board, Human Service Agency, South Dakota Community Foundation, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation, USD School of Nursing, SD Discovery Center, South Dakota Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and Black Hills Surgical Hospital utilizing the collective impact approach. Professional mentors and 13 statewide healthy living youth council members planned and carried out the event.

MS. VILAND, AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION STUDENT TEACHER By the playing fields on the northeast side of the school building stands what used to be a smelly and deteriorating storage shed. It was seen as a potential class project for the ag structures class with Mr. Marks. After presenting his plans and ideas, the OK was given to work on improving this shed. In early October, nine students took the tools to improve the shed. Jaekob Olson recalls, “when we first opened the doors to the shed, all we could see was clutter. There were down markers just thrown on the ground, a mower deck in the middle of the shed, and a hole in the wall. When I first saw all of this, I thought that the task of cleaning and organizing the shed was a far-fetched idea.”

The sights and space weren’t the only issue in the shed. Austin Alby vividly remembers that “it had the foul odor of putrescine. There was fecal matter everywhere and lots of dust coating everything. We were moving a board and found that there were two live mice present.” Kandice LarsonHeathcote reminisces on the surprise we found while clearing the shed. School Districts were trained in a holistic approach to leading a healthy “Then as we worked on clearing the building out, we found a decayed lifestyle. 100 Youth and adults participated in collective impact activities rabbit in the corner of the shed. The animals were able to get in because that trained and prepared them to lead a collaborative effort in their the doors wouldn’t shut snugly and they left a gaping hole at the bottom”. home communities. They were also given the opportunity to work through The first step in the project was assessing what needed to be done. The various activities and programs found within the community toolkit and primary task was to try to sanitize everything so we didn’t have to breathe participated in hands on activities to create a “connected” atmosphere. the smell of animal dung and remains. “We used an air compressor to blow Each school team has been provided access to an online healthy living out the dust in there. Then we took some cans of bleach and ammonia community toolkit that they can use to lead the initiative throughout their and spread it around the shed to kill the germs and rid the stench,” Steffen school year. Stoutamire recollects. Seven members between Harrisburg HOSA and Harrisburg FCCLA, After making the shed sanitary and workable, the class then needed to participated in the event. Those members from these two organizations determine how they could improve organization and reduce clutter in the that attended the event included: Ireland, Nichols, Maraya King, Elizabeth shed. “The class came up with the idea to put in two shelves in the back Miller, Sydney Kooistra, and Anahi Aragon. Advisers who attended included of the shed. An old mower deck would be stored on the floor, underneath Kay Bass (Hosa) and Tracy Kern (FCCLA). the bottom shelf. On top of that first shelf, yard markers and field goal pads For more information about how you can become involved with South could be stored. On top of the second shelf, some field equipment may Dakota Youth Foundation, visit with a Harrisburg Youth Council Member be stored. The chain gang markers could be placed on the wall studs with Mya Hanisch and/or Alaina Ford. some hooks,” Lucas Koolstra recalls. With a vision in place, the class began to get to work. One of the first projects was making the interior of the shed less vulnerable to the outdoor environment. “The shed had holes that had to be patched. We just put a board over the hole from the inside and screwed it in place. We also added extra 2x4 secondary studs where there was some give next to the main studs” says Jordan Miller. After putting secondary studs in, it was time to create the storage shelves. “We had to do some measuring to figure out how high up we wanted our shelves and how big we had to cut our wood. We did put two large shelves in the back of the shed over top of each other. Then when we completed that, we created a skinny shelf along the side of the wall to place the soccer nets and cones on,”MycKenzie Kuchar recollects. THE TIGER TIMES • MAY 2015 • PAGE 10

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Harrisburg Businesses Brave Wind & Rain To Serve HHS Staff And Students Harrisburg High School would like to thank the many local Harrisburg businesses who braved the wind and rain while barbecuing burgers, brats and hot dogs for over 900 students and staff at the high school on November 18th. A complete lunch was served by volunteers from the following businesses. We thank you for your generosity and kindness. Starts With A Shirt Embroidery

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SHED, Continued from Previous Page One final but crucial step was to prevent more animals from getting into the shed by making the doors shut tightly. Holden Niewenhuis remembers putting in a lot of work and thinking on how to get the doors to fit; “we took one of the doors off and brought it into the shop. We moved a 2x4 on the door so it wouldn’t be too far down. Then we took the hand-held belt sander and sanded off about half an inch. Then we found more issues. A lot of the nails holding the trim and the 2x4’s were rusty and made the door loose and flimsy. We decided to fix the trim and put it on straighter. The door looked better and we were confident in knowing it was done the right way”. Then we went to see how the door adjustments fit. Holden said he “made sure the door was perfect, then I finished screwing the hinges on”. Now that the doors fit snugly and opened and closed nicely, the project was complete.

Jacob Klemme summarizes some of the lessons learned by working on the shed. He says it is best to “measure twice, cut once”. He also says “there were new techniques we learned to make do with the space we had in the shed.”

High School National Honor Society Honor’s Veterans MARISA MORRIS Harrisburg High School’s National Honor Society hosted this year’s Veteran’s Day program. The service began with the Presentation of the Colors, the National Anthem, and a few words from NHS President Madeline Gould. The high school choir then sang “Keep the Homefires Burning,” a song about soldiers coming home to a warm welcome. They finished with “To Those Who Serve” to honor the veterans who died in service and those who are still serving. Winners of the Patriot’s Pen and the Voice of Democracy were then awarded by Rick Williamson, head of the Lincoln County VFW. The featured speaker was Ken Teunissen, who served in both Vietnam and Germany, and is a highly decorated veteran of the US Army. He gave a touching speech that brought the audience to their feet. Senior members of NHS read a poem by Joanna Fuchs, entitled The Noble and the Brave: A Veteran's Day Tribute. The high school band then played the military service songs and finished with a piece called “Inchon” in remembrance of the Korean War. The ceremony concluded with cake and punch for community members in attendance, and lots of “thank yous” to the veterans who have kept our country safe and free.

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North Middle School Harrisburg North Reporting Team For Mr. Hartzler’s Block B Media Group Men’s Volleyball

The Mile

ANDREW HAAR, HNMS SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENT

ISABELLE MOORE, HNMS SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENT

Seventh-grade teacher, Mrs. Andrews, has started a men’s volleyball league at HNMS school. Andrews says that sixth through eighth graders are able to participate in the school sport.

The mile is a four-lap run that all students at HNMS have to run every quarter. Some students find it as the highlight of the quarter. For others it’s the worst time of the year. Andrew H says that it all depends on the weather.

Actually a lot of people signed up, even I did, I asked Elijah O. if he thought volleyball was fun and he stated. “Yeah I love it, it’s fun. It is good exercise.” Currently, there are more seventh graders doing volleyball than there are eighth and sixth graders combined. I asked Hayden V. if volleyball was hard he said, “Yeah I think it’s hard, and it’s hard because you have to learn stuff that you have never learned before, such as you have to move your feet to get a better spike, and it’s hard to angle the way you want to pass to your teammate. Their first game is on Friday in an interclub tournament. Will it continue next year?

He states, “ If it’s windy, I don’t like it because you have to run against the wind, but if it’s nice its okay, easy to run.” This is the case for a lot of kids attending Harrisburg North Middle school. On the other hand though, kids also find it to be horrible. This is the case for Allie L, who says,“ it’s just really tiring and I feel like it takes all the energy out of you to keep on learning effectively for the rest of the day.” This is a good point to bring into the controversy on the topic. Some kids say that it is hard to breath after the mile and it takes all the breath out of them. Others say it causes soreness, but isn’t that a given in sports? Just a thought. A big factor on this also would be that some kids

Fine Arts At NMS LAUREN WILLIAMS, ZACH SCHULTZ, MAGGIE WIPF, ARYSSA BARAAN, MADDIE REYNOLDS These past few weeks have been pretty hectic for the students in theater at Harrisburg North Middle School as they prepared for their musical, “Back to the 80’s.” In this production, Corey Palmer, played by both Josh Muth and Dawson Lee, looks back on his high school experience. They

are more just simply more athletic than others. Is it fair to make those not so athletic kids run it? The mile will always be the high for some and the low for others, and it will always be that way

HEIDI STREIT AND AMANDA OLINGER Last week, the sixth-grade advanced English language classes finished a novel study of the text, The Red Kayak. In the novel, the main characters carried out a prank that went awry. This impactful text helped students understand the repercussions for their actions along with the powerful impact of choices. After the class study of the novel, Mrs. Streit’s students participated in a mock trial for the characters in the novel. In this activity, students analyzed the actions of the characters, weighed them with the effect of their actions, and assigned each character a sentence. The sentences varied

JACK DAVIS AND ELIJAH OLSON, SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS AT HNMS

GRACIE STUGART, SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENT AT HNMS

Why should students be able to wear shorts in second quarter? They should be able to because you are in a heated building, and you are inside most of the time; it is not that cold.

Do you love sports? Do you think they should be part of the school curriculum?

Corbin states, “They are comfortable and the climate is moderately warm”

Isabelle states, “that there should be after-school sports to help kids stay in shape.”

The climate is moderately warm in November; people wear shorts at home in November, so why can’t we wear them in school? Shorts are comfortable and they are not as warm as pants. Shorts can be a problem, too. It could be cold so pants could be better for outside wear, but shorts are better for inside wear so your legs don’t get too warm.

The Power Of Sports

Although, Andrew S. says, “There shouldn’t be because it takes kids’ minds off of school and people can’t get their homework done.” Kids grew up with sports, and that is why I think we should keep it that way. Sports include, swimming, baseball, gymnastics, basketball, soccer, and many more! People who play after school sports get their homework done because they take a break from school to do something they enjoy. Sports is an important of formal education, and I want every other student to take advantage of them as well.

performed it Thursday and Friday, November 5 and 6. All of the parents had a good chuckle while watching this performance, recalling back to when they were in school during the 80s. If you were not able to make it to this production, don’t worry as North Middle School will have another production coming soon as the show choir is just kicking off at our school as well. Show choir is simultaneous singing and dancing, as well

Studying Choices With Officer Runyan In 6th Advanced ELA

Shorts in Schools

as performing music for others to watch. They will perform on February 22 at Harrisburg North Middle School and at various other venues in March. Overall, this performance was a hit with all ages and the audience of Harrisburg North Middle School Fine Arts (HNMSFA) can’t wait for their next performance.

from a monetary fine (a whopping $200) to years in prison. The students then met with Officer Runyan, (the school resource officer at HNMS) and had a question and answer session. The students asked him a variety of questions relating to their novel along with how the fictional scenario would play out in our present judicial system. Mrs. Streit talked about the abundance of learning that came from the mock trial and the interview with Officer Runyan. “Student’s became more aware and insightful about how every choice they make has an outcome: good or bad.” This goes hand in hand with the theme for the year, which is ‘Choices.’

Patriot’s Pen CHRIS SNYDER In November, the middle schoolers wrote their Patriot’s Pen essays, sponsored by the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars). This year’s theme is “What Freedom Means to Me.” Students are judged on their knowledge of the theme, theme development, and clarity of ideas. After a variety of classroom activities, research, and peer revision, students submitted a 300-400 word typewritten essay. Grade level winners and ultimately a district winner will soon be announced. That winner will advanced to the VFW Department (state) level. The one first-place winner at the Department level is then advanced into the VFW national competition. The winner from each Department (state) then competes for the national prizes. The national winners will receive at least $500. The first-place national award is currently $5,000 plus an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. for the winner and a parent or guardian. THE TIGER TIMES • MAY 2015 • PAGE 12

Do-It-Yourself Tree Ornaments

ABBY PHIPPS, OLIVIA PFIEFLE, GENEVIEVE WESTERMAN, HUNTER KADLECIK The time of the year in which the weather becomes colder, families become closer, and the gift of giving is profoundly ‘present’. To celebrate this joyous time of year, the spirit of cheer and wonder can be brought to your home through a trip to the craft store and a little love. The next time you’re caught with Jack Frost nipping at your nose, and need some quality family time, gather around the table and give these spirited DIY crafts a try. How to Make Miniature Reindeer What you will need: • Popsicle sticks • Brown construction paper • Small red pompoms • Googly eyes • Brown pipe cleaners (one large, one cut in half for antlers) • Red string • Hot glue gun

Directions • Glue three popsicle sticks into a triangle • Cut the brown construction paper into a triangle the same size as your popsicle stick triangle • Glue it to the popsicle sticks (cut to make the edges the same size if needed • Glue the googly eyes in the center to the construction paper and red pom pom to the point of the triangle to the opposite side of the eyes • Twist a pipe cleaner around the top of the triangle leaving exes on both sides • Attach the small pipe cleaners (one on each side) to the exes large pipe cleaner • Tie the red ribbon to the twisted pipe cleaner

Surveying Christmas Cheer TESSA PEDERSON, THIAGO FALCO, ADDISEN JENSEN, MIA TJADEN Christmas is a wonderful time of year,but it is connected to some tough decisions, like what cookies to make or what type of present to buy your child. We had forty-one students take a survey to make your Christmas a little more fun and a little more educational. First off, let us talk about the best part of this joyful holiday: not presents, not Saint Nick, but the food. Kids love their sweets, and we had kids tell us what their favorite types of cookies were. We gave them four options, peanut butter, snickerdoodle, sugar cookie, or a chocolate chip cookie. Sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies tied for first place with 30% of the respondents voting them as their top cookies, and snickerdoodle and peanut butter cookies also tied with 20% of the votes. Our survey led us to the conclusion that the students at HNMS love sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies; so a successful Christmas treat would be to whip up a batch of either of these delicious treats.

Another holiday challenge is finding the perfect gift for your child, but our survey will help you make the best gift giving decision. HNMS students had four gift options to pick on the survey: electronics, clothing, money, or gift cards. Our survey found that roughly 21% of the students said they would prefer to get electronics or gift cards, so either of those options are probably a good gift. Stay out of the clothing aisle, as only 3% of the students say they prefer to get clothing, but if you really want to hit a home-run this Christmas, just stop at the bank, as 48% of the students say they would prefer money for a gift. While this survey hopefully helps you with those hard-to-make decisions this holiday, we are pretty positive that no matter how you spend the holiday you will probably enjoy it. Whether you’re going to Florida or your Grandparents, eating peanut butter or snickerdoodle cookies, receiving money or clothes, enjoying a tradition or not, have a Merry Christmas!

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Endeavor Elementary Certified Kind Classroom LISA NORRIS Team Norris started the year by reading the book Wonder, by R.J. Palacio. The book is about a boy that is born with a face that horrifies most people. He is home-schooled and goes through a number of surgeries. As he is about to enter the 5th grade, he starts to attend a public school. The story talks about the struggles of fitting in, bullying, acceptance and most importantly…kindness. We then accepted the author’s challenge. The challenge was to have our team do multiple acts of kindness to fill a marble jar. 1kind deed=1marble. We completed our task and received a “Certified Kind Classroom “ banner. We are continuing the kindness theme by having a “40 Days Of Kindness” countdown to Christmas. We challenge you to join us in our quest. We want to make the world a better place, with one act of kindness at a time.

Hullabaloo Huge Success LISA M NORRIS Endeavor Elementary PTO sponsored their third annual Harvest Hullabaloo on Oct. 23rd. The goal of the evening was to raise enough funds for microscopes for the school. The PTO provided carnival games, pizza, inflatables, a sock hop, bake sale and grab bags. There was an amazing turn out for the event and lots of volunteers donated their time and talents. Thanks to the efforts of everyone involved, enough money was raised to purchase 13 Boreal2 microscopes for students, as well as 2 teaching microscopes that produce a live image display. We are very excited to implement the microscopes into the Science curriculum! Great job Endeavor Elementary!

Winter Cheer Camp 5 – 12 Year Olds!

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Free T-Shirt Tiger Nation, along with the high school cheerleading squad, invites you to participate in the 2015 Winter Cheer Camp on Saturday, December 19th! Cheer Camp Registration begins at 10:00 AM Camp running from 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM The participants will perform before the boys’ varsity basketball game that evening!

Science Saturday Join us one Saturday a month from 9:00 am - Noon!

Want to perform on varsity game night? Come join the Harrisburg Cheer Squad as they will facilitate a mini-‐cheer camp in preparation for Hawaiian Night at the Boys’ Basketball Game. Young girls from ages 5-‐12 will be taught a routine to be performed that evening before the varsity game. This will be a great camp for girls interested in cheerleading or to just have fun!

Located at Harrisburg High School For Harrisburg students in 3rd – 5th grade Out of district students welcome too! Cost is $20.00 per Saturday (cash or checks made out to HOSA)

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Hawaiian Night Game Theme Saturday, December 19th, 2015

Register your student monthly online at: https://harrisburghosa.shutterfly.com $20 due at 8:45 AM registration Parent pick-up at Noon in the High School Commons

HHS HOSA members will be holding breakout sessions varying from dissections, chemistry experiments, engineering projects, and other hands-on activities. HOSA is a student organization at HHS focused on developing future healthcare professionals giving leadership opportunities, career explorations, and involving them in community awareness, education, and outreach.

Freedom Elementary Let Freedom Ring! On Wednesday, November 11, Freedom Elementary joined in with the rest of the schools in our district to invite former and current service men and women to lunch. The 31 veterans shared stories, chatted with the students, and posed for a quick picture with some of the kids. Everyone at Freedom Elementary is so proud and thankful for their service! Check out the next page for some more pictures of our service men and women with their tiger cubs! THE TIGER TIMES • MAY 2015 • PAGE 14

Contact the Cheer Coach, Eve Becker with questions: Eve.Becker@k12.sd.us Registration and pick up will be at the High School Commons, campers need to be back at the high school at 4:30 PM. Performances will begin at approximately 5:00 PM. Wear your camp shirt for the performance! Must be pre-‐registered by Thursday, December 10th – Registration fee is $30 (payable to Tiger Nation)

Mail your registrations to: Harrisburg High School (Attn: Cheer Coach/E. Becker)

PO Box 339, 1300 W. Willow St. Harrisburg, SD 57032 Participant’s Information

Name: ___________________________________________________________________________ Parent or Guardian: ________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________________ City: _________________________________________ State: _________ Zip: ________ Phone #: _______________________ T-‐Shirt Size: (circle) Youth SM, Med, Lrg / Adult SM, Med, Lrg, XL Emergency Contact Name: ______________________ Phone #: ____________________ Parent/Guardian Email Address: _____________________________________________________

In consideration of ___________________________________ (Child’s name) my minor child/ward, being allowed to participate in the 2015 Winter Cheer Camp and all activities that pertain. The undersigned acknowledges, appreciates, and agrees to the following:

Signature: _______________________ Date ___________Printed Name__________________

The above signed, being the custodial parent / legal guardian for the above named participant, hereby releases and waives any and all claims, losses, damages, injuries to person or property, expense, cause of action or cost named participants has, had or may have in the future have against Tiger Nation, Harrisburg School System, their employees, coaches, trainers and all event sponsors arising from or relating to participant’s participation in, and/or the conduct of, the event. The above signed also hereby authorizes the director/staff of the event to act according to their best judgement in seeking and obtaining medical care and treatment for the above named participant.

Thank You Veterans!

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Liberty Elementary

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Liberty PTO Gift Wrapping Event And Vendor Fair

Science Saturday

Nicole Slocum

Located at Harrisburg High School

Join us one Saturday a month from 9:00 am - Noon!

For Harrisburg students in 3rd – 5th grade Out of district students welcome too! Cost is $20.00 per Saturday

No time to wrap your holiday gifts? Or maybe you’re just not so good at it…? Still need to do some holiday shopping?

(cash or checks made out to HOSA)

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Register your student monthly online at: https://harrisburghosa.shutterfly.com $20 due at 8:45 AM registration Parent pick-up at Noon in the High School Commons

Then join the Harrisburg Liberty PTO for our first Holiday Gift Wrapping event and Vendor Fair December 5th, 9AM12PM (during the Big Sioux Youth Basketball tournament), in the Harrisburg Liberty Elementary Commons. Bring all your gifts to be beautifully wrapped and shop vendors for last minute gifts and services. (Free will donations for gift wrapping appreciated. All proceeds go to the LPTO for school events and supplies.) If you are available to help wrap or are interested in vendor space for only a $25 space rental fee please contact Nicole @ 605-521-4636 or mucols88@yahoo.com

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2nd Grade Team And Mrs. Van’t Hul Liberty Second graders have been very busy this Fall. In November, we celebrated Veterans Day with a guest speaker and learned how to show respect to those that serve our country. We learned about Thanksgiving past and present, and we made turkey’s with geoblocks to review the geometric shapes we learned in math. We also practiced and performed the play “The ABC’s Of The First Thanksgiving” for our parents. In December, we will learn about different countries, cultures, and customs in our Christmas Around The World unit. Below are stories written by 2nd grade students. (Note: these are unedited pieces of work. Enjoy!) Have a Wonderful Christmas!!

Thanksgiving Stories

How To Cook A Turkey By Levi If you need to cook a turkey, you need to git a grill. Then, you git a turkey. After that, you pott the turkey on the grill. Then, you cook the turkey for 2 seconds. Finally, you pott really hot spises on it for your dad. Last, you eat it. How To Convince Your Mom To Make Pizza For Thanksgiving Dinner By Jovie If you want to convince your mom to make pizza for Thanksgiving, you have to beg your mom like this, “Plese, plese, plese!” Then say, “Plese, it’s rilly, I mean rilly, hellthy.” After that, say, “I need more fat in me. Turkies are almost extinct.” Last, say, “Mom you are werd. Who wouldn’t have pizza on Thanksgiving?”

World’s Largest Turkey

Christmas Stories

By Evan

How To Put Christmas Lights On A House

Once upon a time there was the worlds largest turkey and his name was pop fiz since he loved pop and he liked to make it fiz one day there was a strange man who was running after him so he tried to run from the man but he couldn’t run because he was to big so he roled down to traffic and then the strange man couldn’t get him and then he went to the trees but those trees belonged to someone and then he tried to role but there were to much twigs finally he was traped he was going to see no more sunshines for himself… until another little turkey ran out of the trees then the same strange man was coming maybe this was a trap he thought and he was right he was dinner. World’s Largest Turkey By Emily Once up a time there was a huge turkey. And it’s name was Bob. He can’t fit behind enything. He was as big as a tracter. But he needed somewere to hide before thanksgiving. Because he did not want to be eaten on thanksgiving. And how he got big was he ate so much. First he trid to hide behind the tree but he couldn’t. He was to big. Next he trid to hide behind the fence but he couldn’t. He was to big. Then he trid to hide behind the barn door but he couldn’t. He was to big. Finly it was the mornig of thanksgiving. But he did find a hiding spot. And nobody ever found him again. His hiding spot was the corn feild. So the farmer went and trid to find another turkey. But he couldn’t. So they actshuly had a back up plane after all. But they had a great thanksgiving with there back up plane.

By Wyatt How to put Christmas lights on a house climb on the roof and grab the Christmas lights then put them on the roof then don’t fall off or brake youy arm because it will hurt really bad Anyway back to the lights don’t forget the lights and now when it’s Christmas Santu will find you and then you will get gifts and open them then Christmas is over then it is Easter and Easter is fun! If I Were An Elf What Would I Do On Christmas Day? By Paityn I would soak in a hot tub all night and all day. I would make presents that are so awesome every Elves head would explode and cool stuff! In the hot tub I will eat the softest hottest cookies and the warmest milk with mashmallows in it. The Elf wished he was Santa. He was sad he was not santa. He was going to ride a real sleigh with real reindeers. Rudolf the red nosed Reindeer. He wanted to make the kids happy too! He told one of his friends. His friend told Santa. Santa gave the Elf a letter that said “I apprecia you making all of the gifts you made for me!!! The Elf did not want to be santa anymore. He only wants to be himself. He knew making presents made him and others happy. If I Was A Reindeer And It Was Christmas I Would….. By Melanie If I was a reindeer and it was Christmas I would get in a hot tub that is really bubbly. I would eat hot chocolate whith the creamiest

marshmallows and cookies that are so soft that it will melt in your mouth. Then I would go to the movies and watch Chicken Little. Then I would go to bed. The next day I forgot that it is school so I had breakfast my breakfast was the best pancakes ever. Now I have to go to the store and get egg and milk. Then I went home and made egg and milk. Then I went home and made eggs that were hardboiled. After school I was so tired that I slept all day and night. If You Were An Elf On The Day Before Christmas, What Would You Do? By Norah If I were an elf on the day before Christmas, I would help get the toys and candy ready for the kids. Then, I would get ready for Christmas. Next, I would get the cookies ready for Santa Clas. Then, I would wake up Santa from his three hour nap. Then, I would do a surprise for Santa. Last, I would get the Christmas tree ready. Then, I would get the raping paper ready. Then, I would get more presents for the kids if its thar birthday. If You Were An Elf On The Day Before Christmas, What Would You Do? By Mareth If I was an elf on Christmas Eve, I would help Santa wrap puppies up as presents. Next, I would put the presents in Santa’s big red bag. Then, I would help Santa get on his sleigh. After all the reindeer are ready, Santa will yell “Ho ho ho” and deliver the presents. How To Fall Asleep The Night Before Christmas By Jake If you need to fall asleep the night before Christmas, you should whoch a Christmas movie. Then, drink some milk. Next, don’t whoch scary movies. After that, have a nerf war in light. Last but not lest, say good night to your parints. Then go to sleep and you’ll have good dreams. If You Were An Elf, What Would You Do The Day Before Christmas? By Tessa If I was an elf, I would be a noughty elf. I would tolite paper the houses! I’d tip all the Christmas trees over! I would hid all your clothes. I would hid all your toitle paper wher you could not find it! I mean all of it! I would flood the houses! Than, I would spill hot chocolit and candy canse all over on the fireplace! I would be so nosy that you could not sleep! I would also hid your underwar too! I would throw snow every where! After all of that I

would be a nice firend! I would pick up the mess I made! I will decorate the Christmas tree! I would go back to the North Pole and have a party and invite you and with raendeer, Mrs. Close, Santa, and the elves to! How To Fall Asleep On Christmas Eve By Dylan I am going to tell you how to fall asleep on Christmas Eve. First, you will try to stay up until 12:30am, because then you can be more tired for bed. Next, you will play gams with your neighbor. Then, you will keep on throwing a ball to get your legs tired. Then, you will get your pj on. Then, eat a snack so you are not hungry. After that, get in your mom and dad’s car and let them drive you around the town. Last, you can fall asleep and your mom and dad can carry you to bed and sleep until you wake up. Then, you will open some presents and have a great day with your famaly and friends. If You Were Santa, How Would You Deliver Presents? By Jake If I was Santa, I would make a robot Santa and program it to drop presents in howses. Then, I would make robot reindeer so my other reindeer could rest. Then, I would sit down and eat cookies and feed my feindeer apple and oats. I would control the robots by anather robot elf. The robot elf would srve me cookies all day. I would watch them through a thelescope while eating gummy bears and drinking mikl. It was a busy day for the robots. Then thay get dack they will get cookies becawas thay worked hard. That is how I would deliver presents if I were Santa. If You Were Santa, How Would You Deliver Presents? By John If I was Santa, I would make tons of robots to help me deliver presents to houses. The robots would listen to me. I would go house to house while the elves were busy at work. Then, when the kids woke up I would gone. Then, I would take some cookies before I left. Then, I would wake up everyone. The, I would go as fast as I could to the North Pole. Then, I would find Rudolph and feed him. Then, I would get back in to my normal clothes and find a dog or a cat. Then, I would celebrate with gummy bears, cookies, milk, French toast, and candy cans. This is how I would deliver presents if I was Santa. The End.

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SHED, Continued from Previous Page How To Make A Gingerbread House

Red Ribbon Week

By Calyn

Liberty Elementary celebrated Red Ribbon Week the last week of October. This week was designed for students and staff to celebrate being drug free. Students learned about the harmful effects of drugs and having pride in making good choices. Students and staff participated in dress up days and 2nd grade had the privilege of a guest speaker who was a Drug Enforcement Agent.

I will show you how to make a gingerbread house. First, you will need a plate, some bowls for the candy, and a butter knife. You will, also, need a lot of candy canes a lot of chocolate and vanilla iceing, a lot of licorice for the fence, a lot of muffins for the trees, a lot of lollipops for some more trees, a lot of gummy bears for the people, gingerbread for the house. Next, you will need to sort the stuff like this….put candy in the right bowls and put the gingerbread on a towel. Put the iceing on a paper towel too. Then, put the pieces together with vanilla or chocolate icing. Next, you will decorate the house how ever you want. Last, put the candy on the house. Then put on lege and stand back and look.

Rock-N-Rolling On The 50th Day Of School NICHOLE DREXLER Liberty first grade teachers, Kelly Enebo, Courtney Sattler, Megan Kockx, Kate Hanson, and student teacher Arielle Titze rocked and rolled through the 50th day of school with their students on Monday, November 9th 2015. Teachers planned a fun filled day where students dressed in their best fifties attire, enjoyed floats and completed many activities centered around the number 50. This has been an annual tradition the last six years at Liberty Elementary.

Liberty Elementary – Embracing The Community NICHOLE DREXLER On November 19th, a group of fifth grade students volunteered their time to help serve Liberty’s Senior Citizen’s Turkey Dinner. Liberty Elementary has offered a Turkey Dinner to senior citizens of the Harrisburg Community for many years. The delicious meal prepared by the Liberty Elementary kitchen staff consisted of roast turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, green beans, a dinner roll, and a pumpkin treat. Liberty fifth grade students; Isaac, Bella, Ava, Zachary, Abbigail, Logan, Hannah and Peyton served this lovely meal along with help from Chris Beach, District’s Child Nutrition Director and Dr. Jackie McNamara, the Liberty Elementary Principal. Liberty students created beautiful placemats to use at each table setting in Art with Mrs. White, Art teacher. Mrs. Passick and the Liberty kindergarten students performed “Things I am Thankful For” and “Five Fat Turkeys” for all who attended. A big thank you goes out to all who helped put on these wonderful community events.

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Journey Elementary Engineering Fun In First Grade MRS. DEB BURWITZ, JOURNEY 1ST GRADE TEACHER As part of the new science standards of South Dakota students in Mrs. Burwitz’s class participated in engineering design practices through three different projects. Their first project was working as a team to design a landing pad for a hard-boiled egg dropped from four feet. All the teams were successful in their first attempt! They were challenged to see if they could improve their landing pad based on what they observed in the first test. The students had noticed the egg had bounced and worked to see if they could redesign to stop it from potentially bouncing and hitting the floor. One group decided to roll tape and put it on top of the pad so the egg would stick and not bounce. It worked beautifully. The second project was to see if they could take one piece of construction paper and use tape to make a structure that would hold up their reading book. Through trial and error they learned that cylinders are very strong structures. Finally the first graders designed paper airplanes to see if they could launch them twenty-five feet. That is a long way for a paper airplane! Many designs were tried with victory and defeat occurring but everyone enjoyed engineering designing!

Kindergarteners Rock The 50’s! KILEY NIELSEN, JOURNEY KINDERGARTEN TEACHER On Monday, November 9th, Kindergarteners at Journey Elementary had officially been in school for 50 days! We were so excited to be 50 days smarter that we decided to celebrate the 50th day by dressing up like we were living in the 1950’s. Between the black leather jackets, white t-shirts, cuffed jeans, scarves, and poodle skirts there was not a minute that we weren’t living the part. We enjoyed doing 50’s day activities such as “Rockn-Roll” Patterns in Math, “If I lived in the 1950’s” writing prompts, and some fun 50’s themed art projects. To end our 50’s day bash we learned the Hand Jive and enjoyed Root Beer Floats! What a blast to the past we had going back to the 1950’s!

Thanks To Those Who Serve SANDIE CHILDS, JOURNEY ART TEACHER Journey students and staff were honored to have 15 military servicemen and servicewomen from their families join them for lunch on Veteran’s Day. Posters and student made cards of appreciation were presented to them, with many students also shaking their hands and offering their personal thanks. Thank you veterans and servicemen and women.

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Collecting items till Friday, December 18th The Harrisburg High School Angel Tree is in need of gifts and/or cash donations to help provide an easier Christmas for HHS students. If you would like to adopt an individual or family, please take a request card from the Angel Tree in the high school commons, call the high school at 743-2567 or email tracy.kern@k12.sd.us. Angel Tree Sponsored by: Harrisburg FCCLA

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