Pickstown News

More wet weather to finish off the month of October kept producers out of the fields for most of the week ending Nov.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Wagner Community Memorial Hospital-Avera held their annual membership meeting on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 and elected new board members.

Herb Sundall, Kennebec will be among five new members to be inducted into the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Association Hall of Fame this year.A The Hall of Fame Induction Banquet is slated for Saturday, Sept.

Five men will be inducted into the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame. Being honored for their service to amateur baseball on the field and off are Bob Altenburg of Pickstown, Herb Sundall of Kennebec, Bob Benson of Clearfield, Tom Pahl of Claremont, and the late Everett Jensen, who played for teams from Hurley, Irene, Arlington and Oldham.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Randall Hills Country Club in Pickstown will be holding a two person golf tournament fund raiser for breast cancer on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

An Army Corps of Engineers official says federal economic stimulus money will help pay for deferred maintenance at Gavins Point Dam near Yankton and Fort Randall Dam at Pickstown, along with some sediment reduction efforts and other Missouri River recovery projects.

I rolled into the park here at the conclusion of the third leg of the Argus Leader Tour de Kota, and about a half-dozen young kids came racing up asking for my autograph.

The weekly crop report from the Agriculture Department shows some parts of South Dakota could use rain.