Palace City Profile: A billboard brought them to Mitchell
The billboard brought them to Mitchell, but it was the people they met that convinced them to live here.
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By Karen Whitney, Mitchell Regional Workforce Coordinator | 7:00 am, May 10, 2021 ×
Brian Lester and his wife Alahna Gross. (Courtesy photo)
Editor’s Note: Palace City Profiles is an ongoing series of community members’ stories, introducing us to our neighbors and the personalities that call Mitchell home. If you have suggestions for individuals or families with a great story, please contact Karen Whitney at 996-1140 or kwhitney@mitchellsd.com. Hey, can we stop? Brian Lester asked his wife Alahna Gross as they were traveling down I-90 on their way to visit Alahna s grandma.
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St. Mary s junior Madison Mathiowetz announced her commitment to continue her education and basketball career at South Dakota State University in Brookings. She’ll join the Jackrabbits after graduation a year from now. Maddie said she’s been recruited by colleges for a couple years and recently decided she’d found the right fit with SDSU: “They have a super successful women’s basketball program and recruit good kids,” she said.
Maddie is looking forward to playing with the Knights her senior year which she expects will be another successful one for her and her teammates.
The Korean War began in 1950 and never officially ended.
Cozad businessman Rex German was a man on a mission, intent on establishing a meaningful, lasting memorial for a hometown war hero and boyhood idol.
Capt. Robert Laier was a âfine fella and good studentâ who yearned to fly. His dream came true in 1945, only to be cut short in a dog fight somewhere over North Korea.
Cozadâs native son was a fighter pilot in the Korean War. He was flying as wingman on June 19, 1951, when his F-86A Sabre engaged two Soviet MiG-15s. Laierâs jet was hit and went down.
Frederick Manfred is credited with crafting the term âSiouxlandâ to describe the gathering of the corners of South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and his home state of Iowa.
He lived in a massive home that was an interpretive center at Blue Mounds State Park just outside Luverne, MN. I was disappointed to learn the center was closed in 2015, and the state is considering tearing down the house Manfred built.
The REVIEW recently published a revealing look at the man, the house and the issue.
His daughter, Freya Manfred of Stillwater, MN, hopes the house, which has considerable water damage, can be saved. Placing it on the National Register of Historic Places would help that happen.
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