September 2024

Grant Edwards takes off with one of his three interceptions in the Blackhawks’ game against Lead-Deadwood in Wessington Springs last week.

Last Friday night, the WWSSC Blackhawks hosted the Lead-Deadwood Golddiggers in Wessington Springs and sent the Golddiggers searching to strike elsewhere as the Blackhawks earned their second win of the season with a 42-6 victory.

Regarding last Friday’s game, Head Coach Michael Schmitz stated, “The Blackhawks took another good step forward. We did some really good things on offense to continue to move the ball. The team is really coming together and playing with a lot of fun. The defense started to play faster with more confidence.”

The Blackhawks have a bye this week, and then they play Webster in Wessington Springs on Friday, Sept. 13 for Homecoming. The game starts at 7 p.m.

…Read individual stats and see a team photo in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

The Little Red School House Award was presented to the Woonsocket Elementary School for implementing the most significant, innovative and successful education program or project by the School Administrators of South Dakota (SASD).  The Woonsocket Elementary School set a goal to increase achievement scores in reading for the 2023-24 school year. The idea was to create a reading intervention program called Flight School. Woonsocket started the year with an assessment tool called FastBridge to evaluate all their K-6 students. After the assessment, Woonsocket used the data to determine which students needed to receive extra reading instruction. An intervention program was created where every start of the morning for 30 minutes, 40 plus students with the largest “gap” would go into small groups. In the small groups, students would receive instruction on the specific skill that they struggled with.  The on-level students attended Walking Club which gave them the opportunity to exercise for 15 minutes and to help the younger students with the remaining 15 minutes. The teachers and staff at Woonsocket are committed to these 30-minute sessions to help the students improve. The flight school has been so successful that they have shared this with other school districts.  Woonsocket believes that intervention programs like this one will bring more success to students, not only in reading, but across the board.

Marlene Young, 84, of Huron, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, at Avantara in Huron. 

Marlene’s family will hold a memorial service to be announced at a later date. 

Marlene Joy was born on Feb. 19, 1940, to parents Andrew and Gladys (Wenell) Ruffenach in Minneapolis, Minn.

Marlene married Robert Young on May 11, 1964. After the birth of their children, the family moved to Iroquois. Marlene loved to play card games, especially solitaire, gin rummy, spades, and 31. She also loved to have coffee with her friends. Marlene worked at many places in Huron, including the hospital as a cook, the Crossroads, and at Checker’s gas station for 10 years.

She is survived by her children, Jerry (Fay) Young of Woonsocket, Jennifer (Eugene) Conwell of Huron, and Jason (Sharon) Young of Grand Prairie, Texas; four grandchildren; her brother, Stephen (Ginny) Ruffenach of Minnesota; and two nephews.

Marlene was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Young, in 2016; her daughter, Joyette Young; her parents, Andrew and Gladys Ruffenach; and her mother-in-law, Joy Bushey Young.

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