The 1st annual Sandhills Classic Bucking Horse Futurity will be held at the Johnstown Fairgrounds in Johnstown, Nebraska this Saturday, September 29th starting at 10am. Come out and watch the future bucking horses perform! This event is free to the public and spectators will be able to watch two and three year old bucking horses perform without a rider. This event is sanctioned by the World Futurity Association and is a qualifier for the World Futurity to be held in Las Vegas in December.

The grand opening celebration of Community Memorial Hospital in Burke will be held this Saturday, September 29th from 4 to 7pm! You get to enjoy a meal and a band starting at 5pm, plus tours of the facility, a bouncy house, face painting, fun prizes up for grabs and plenty more as everyone is welcome to attend this fun event!

Here are the rain reports that were either called in or posted to our Facebook page this morning: Kelly Pravecek, six miles southeast of Winner, received .75. Dennis Hansen at Carlock reported .49. Laura Reuer in Herrick called in a half an inch. Linda Dimond, six miles northeast of Wood received .35. Short Haley said he received .70 in Colome and .45 at Haley’s Hiway Lumber. Stan Bicek, ten miles south of Colome, reported a half an inch. Pete Haukaas in Okreek reported .45. Fred Weidner at Dog Ear Lake said he received .75. Tresh Swedlund in Witten reported .70. Vivian Sweeney, northwest of Bassett, reported an inch ten.

The annual Karla’s last Kall ATV-UTV Poker Run is coming up on Saturday, October 6th beginning at 10:30am with registration and the poker run starting at 11am! It costs just twenty five dollars per person and includes lunch and a steak dinner. If you would like more details, contact Karla at Karla’s Last Kall in Wood at 605-452-3400.

A Neon Nine walk/run will take place on Saturday, October 6th at the Winner Golf Course. Registration will start at 5 and the race gets underway at 5:30pm. The cost to participate is twenty five dollars, which includes a race t-shirt and a meal. There will be a raffle drawing for a queen size star quilt, set of metal angels and other items to be added. All money raised will stay in the area to support breast cancer patients and survivors.

It is clean up time Mellette County! The City of White River is having a fall clean-up take place now through October 6th. The city will not be hauling clean-up items. The landfill will be open on Saturday’s from 12noon to 4pm. Anyone needing to head out to the dump during the week needs to call Leroy at 605-840-2039 to arrange a time.

Community Connections of Winner will be sponsoring a blood drive at the Winner City Office Main Room today from Noon to 6:15, and on Tuesday, September 25th from 8am to 12:15pm. For an appointment, contact Community Connections at 842-1708, or go online to www.bloodhero.com. The sponsor code is Winner.

The Cherry-Todd Electric Cooperative’s annual business meeting of it’s members will be held this Saturday, September 22nd at the White River Community Events Center. Registration will start at 9am and the meeting will get underway at 10am. Refreshments and a light lunch will be served. Also on Saturday, is the Rosebud Chapter Mule Deer Foundation’s 1st annual Banquet at St. Mary’s Hall in Winner beginning at 5pm. There will be gun raffles, auction items and a delicious prime rib dinner.

The Burke Livestock Auction wants to remind you that they will be holding their 51st annual Beef BBQ Sale this Saturday, September 22nd with 2500 head in the offering! Weigh-ups will sell at 10am, baby calves at 12 noon with yearling cattle to follow. The bbq lunch will start at 11am.

We had numerous people send in rain reports this morning. LaWaynie Hossle called in .80, three miles east of Hamill. Tod Meyer in Geddes received over 3.5 inches. Rick Odenbach, six miles west of Hamill, reported an inch 80. Donna Howland said she has received an inch 20. Larry Sheppard in Mills reported 3.5 inches. Rick and Lin Shippy called in .55. Margie Kingsbury, northwest of Wood, reported .90. Pete Haukaas in Okreek said this morning he had .90 thus far. Stan Bicek, ten miles south of Colome, reported an inch 20. Dennis Hansen at Carlock called in an inch 30. Vivian Sweeney said she received .90 northwest of Bassett. Laura Reuer in Herrick reported an inch of rain. Short Haley reported 2.5 inches in Colome and .88 at Haley’s HiWay Lumber. Fred Weidner at Dog Ear Lake called in an inch 24. Delbert Klein has had an inch 90 fall, east of Burke. Brett Heath in Colome has had 2.10 inches fall. Cheryl Schroeder in Winner called in .81 while Tresh Swedlund said he has received two inches total.