On Monday, May 1, in celebration of National Law Day, South Dakota’s Assistant Attorney General, Kimberly Zachrison, made a stop at Sanborn Central to speak to the freshmen and seniors in Mr. Steele’s civics and government classes. 

Zachrison quizzed the students on the first ten amendments to the constitution, and she explained them as they went through them. Mr. Steele asked her to explain South Dakota Senate Bill 146 that requires offenders of violent crimes to serve a large portion of their sentence before being eligible for parole. Zachrison explained that some violent criminals were already required to serve a majority of or all of their sentence before being eligible for parole, but the new law included a broader range of violent crimes to keep South Dakota’s hardest criminals off the streets.

Zachrison went on to discuss the different levels of government and the different branches of government and the functions of each. Following, she described the many types of occupations that can be held in the state in the field of law enforcement, including lawyers, police officers, jailers and sheriff’s deputies, just to name a few. She talked about the many people who work in the prison system and all the services provided to prisoners in order to help them in any way they can to better themselves and to keep them healthy.

…Read on and see a picture in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

On Monday, April 24, the Sanborn Central/Woonsocket FFA held their annal banquet to celebrate the year’s accomplishments and install new officers for the coming year.

At the banquet, many awards were given out. The greenhand degrees for first-year students who successfully completed the requirements were achieved by Cami Edwards, Grant Edwards, Tori Hoffman, Teagen Moody, Aubrey Moody, Clay Moody, Parker Ettswold, Addy Baruth, Liz Boschee, Tanner Christian, Samantha Grosz, Michael Foos, Eli White, Sam Baruth, Kali Hofer, Tyler Brueske and Kenzie Baruth. From the greenhand degree recipients, the Chapter Star Greenhand award winner was selected, and this year’s recipient was Kenzie Baruth. 

The Outstanding Member Award is chosen from all chapter members for being driven, a team player and actively involved in agricultural education and FFA. Bailey Feistner was named this year’s recipient.

The final act of the banquet and meeting was to introduce and install the newly appointed officers of the SCW FFA for 2023-2024. The new officers are President Bryce Larson, Vice President Jaycee Baruth, Secretary Emilie Lindgren, Treasurer Cami Edwards, Reporter Aubrey Moody, Sentinel Parker Ettswold, Parliamentarian Alex Anderson and Ambassador Layton Zoss.

…See a picture of the new officers in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!