Schedule a Life-Saving Exam to Stop Colon Cancer

This year, more than 150,000 new colorectal cancers will be diagnosed, and some 52,000 Americans will die of the disease. With the help of your medical local providers, you can help turn the tide. When found early, these cancers are treatable. In fact, they are even preventable.

Best Farm, Home & Health Show We Have Been To

Letter to the Editor, On Monday, February 19 my husband and I attended the Farm, Home & Health Show. We were very impressed as it was the best one we have been to. There were lots of vendors, very well organized and the 4-H kids did an exceptional job serving lunch.

WRAPPING UP IN PIERRE: DISTRICT 20 COLUMNS

This past week was not only the last week of the 99th legislative session but it also marked my final one in the South Dakota Legislature.

WRAPPING UP IN PIERRE: DISTRICT 20 COLUMNS

We finished the final week of this year’s Le g i s l a t ive Session. As always, the final week of session is a flurry of activity, especially in the Joint Committee on Appropriations.

WRAPPING UP IN PIERRE: DISTRICT 20 COLUMNS

Week 9, the final week in the state legislature was a lot of hurry up and wait. The final week consists of conference committees where the House and Senate passed different versions of the same bill and they have to iron out the differences.

GRATEFUL I HAD A PRAYING GRANDMOTHER

I am so grateful and thankful that I had a praying Grandmother. I often wonder where my life would be if she had not been a praying Grandma! One thing that I remember thinking was Grandma was really old, probably 60! Yikes! That means she would have been younger than me right now!

Viral Infections and Where We Stand

I decided it might be useful to review where we stand with regard to the various viral infections that have caused so much disruption, suffering and death. Covid Covid is still with us. All indications are that it will be for years to come. We hear less in the media about the threat from Covid.

“Cuppys Corner”

Darleen Cuppy wrote her Cuppy’s Corner News Monday morning. Delia wasn’t feeling good, so Editor Kristi Hine came to get it. It was such a nice day Darleen went for a walk in the afternoon. Tuesday Darleen enjoyed the ham dinner from the Manor kitchen.

DISTRICT 20 COLUMN

Week 8 in the state legislature hummed right along. The second to last week seems like a transitional type of week. Committees wrapped up their work, and the chambers begin to start playing political funny business.

Prairie Doc Perspectives

“I’ve got this cough that just won’t go away,” my patient says, and I know this story all too well. Chronic cough, a cough that lasts more than two months, is a common ailment which in most cases is benign. But for the patient it is both bothersome and worrisome.