Spring 2010

Dale Lamphere: Steeped in Stone and Steel

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If I’d had my way, I would have met Dale Lamphere 25 years ago.

I was the new kid in the public relations department at Regional Hospital and one of my first assignments was to write about a recently commissioned sculpture called the “Spirit of Healing,” done by a talented, up and coming young artist from Sturgis. I naturally assumed I would get to...

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Paul and Rida Dzintars: The Long Road from Latvia

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For most of us South Dakotans, Latvia is one of seemingly dozens of little countries we colored in on a map of Europe during our Middle School career, perhaps memorizing its capital city (Riga), before moving on to the unit on South America. I mean, who ever came here from Latvia? As it turns out, well, not too many people at all. Yet, of the few Latvians who have made South Dakota their new home, a disproportionate number were doctors. Among them is the beloved Dr. Paul Dzintars...

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Keenie Word: Getting the Word Out

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Don’t be surprised if one day you hear about a small town South Dakota girl making it big in Nashville. Fifteen-year-old Keenie Word has the pipes to go far and the patience to wait for her time in the spotlight. The Hermosa teenager credits God for those pipes and hopes to honor God by using her voice to encourage and challenge her listeners. “I want to do God’s will,” she says.

That’s a pretty grown-up statement for a high school freshman, but then again, this...

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Stacy Phelps – Mission: Essential

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“Good Morning Mr. Phelps, Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to change the face of engineering in South Dakota and in the process reinvent higher education for American Indian students across the United States. If you are successful, you will restructure the foundation of higher learning throughout the country.”

This mission has, in fact, been accepted—not by Mission Impossible’s Jim Phelps but by South Dakot’s Stacy Phelps. Stacy, with the support of...

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Learning Curve: Carpet Installation 101

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I met them three years ago, shortly after I opened my gallery on Seventh Street in downtown Rapid City. At that time the economy was on the endangered species list but had not yet become extinct so I had a little money available for improvements. I was renting the building and didn’t want to spend much but the carpet looked as though the previous tenants had been doing oil changes on it and it really had to be replaced. I bought carpeting from a local dealer, who told me that...

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