As a precursor to Tuesday’s very first school meal served with locally-produced beef, (see more in next week’s True Dakotan) the inaugural donors to the new “Beef to School” program were honored at last Friday’s home double header basketball game. Shown left to right are beef donors Hayes Christensen and Christina and Wade Christensen of Kimball Livestock Exchange; Processing fee donor Kari Fagerhaug of BankWest (Mitchell North Branch); Transportation donors Adam and Holden Schelske of Schelske Angus; FFA Vice President Austin Schimke; Transportation donor Dennis Scheel; FFA Parliamentarian Ridge Roduner, FFA Advisor Brady Duxbury, FFA Treasurer Caroline Witte, Wessington Springs School Superintendent Dr. Michael Ormsmith, Wessington Springs Board of Education Chairman Todd Grohs; Processing Fee donor Sarah Faulstich; Wessington Springs Schools Finance Officer Marcy Argo; Processing Fee donor Travis Hohn of On Target Agency. Not pictured: Beef donors Chad and Sara Thompson of Thompson Show Steers; Katie Jones, one of the founding “Beef to School” Program organizers. More details about the program launch will be published in next week’s True Dakotan. KRISTI HINE / TRUE DAKOTAN
