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OverDrive is active at the Lake Andes Library. What is Overdrive? It is a free service provided to patrons of the Lake Andes Public Library, which provides them with access to books, magazines and audio books. Overdrive has 25,000 items which can be downloaded to your kindle, i-phone, laptop, etc. The first time you use the service you will need to do so at the library, where you can get the website address and your individual user credentials. You do not need internet in order to read the selection from your device. Check out is for a 2 or 3 week period depending on what you are checking out. The selections may be renewed, and if not renewed will automatically be deleted from your device. You will need internet service in order to download selections.
Read moreMARK 8:13-15 “And he left them, and entered into the ship again and departed to the other side. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. And he charged then , saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod.”(KJV)
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Rocky Blare, reporting from the Senate in Pierre. This week I was fortunate enough to have three bills pass from committee and will be considered on the floor. Representative Finck and I are sponsoring HB 1084 which increases the allowable height for vehicles carrying baled feed up to 15 feet and it passed unanimously. The bill is headed to the Senate, if it passes the Senate and signed by the governor it will go into effect immediately.
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AC-DC Thunder traveled to Colome February 7. As the final buzzer rang the Thunder took the win 58-28.
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Session has been very busy as usual. This was the fourth week of session with 16 days completed of the 37 scheduled. Currently 258 bills have been introduced in the House and 169 bills in the Senate.
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The U.S. Senate has only confronted a presidential impeachment trial three times in American history. The first was President Andrew Johnson’s trial in 1868, which reflected the lingering divisions of the Civil War. The second was President Bill Clinton’s trial more than 130 years later in 1999. At that time, I was serving South Dakota as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. I assumed and hoped that would be the last time I would be involved with the very rarely used impeachment provision in the U.S. Constitution. Regrettably, it was not.
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