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“Doc, my right hip has been bothering me. Do you think I need a new hip?”
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Andes Central/ Dakota Christian Thunder traveled to Corsica Monday night, October 7th to take on Corsica/ Stickney where they suffered the tough loss 1-3.
Read moreAndes Central Middle and High School Counselor, Synnora Wilbur, held an Organizational Boot Camp starting Tuesday, September 24th that will be coming to an end on October 15th. The workshop was open to 6th through 12th grade students. The curriculum was set up so that the students would meet two times a week for four weeks for 35 minutes per session. This is the first time that this type of small group workshop was held at Andes Central. Synnora decided to make the boot camp one of her small group events this school year. The whole idea behind the “boot camp” came about as she was hearing from her fellow Andes Central staff members that they were wishing that their students were more organized. In addition to the teachers wanting this, there were several students that had expressed interest in learning about how to get better organized.
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Each year The Wagner American Legion Auxiliary presents dictionaries to the third grade classes at Wagner Community School and Marty Indian School. This year the Auxiliary presented 86 dictionaries to the students at Wagner Community School and seven to Marty Indian School.
Read moreIn 2020, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 29,684 reports of suspected human trafficking incidents in the United States. In that same year, the Department of Justice initiated 425 human trafficking prosecutions with 625 defendants being convicted of human trafficking related offenses. Due to the sheer number of suspected trafficking information the statistics for 2022 and 2023 have not yet been able to be completely compiled and calculated. Human trafficking is a $150 billion-dollar criminal industry where it is estimated that less than 1% of human trafficking victims are ever actually identified. Even with all of the statistical data, it has been found by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research that only 20% of people believe that human trafficking happens in their own communities. This is why it is of utmost importance to be educated and aware of what to look for when it comes to human trafficking, in order to do our best to keep our communities safe.
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Jason Von Eschen has been a volunteer firefighter for the Wagner Fire Department since 2010. What drew Jason to wanting to become a firefighter were the people that were on the Wagner Fire Department at the time. Not only were they a great group of people, but they were all people that Jason looked up to, not only as firefighters but as members of the Wagner community.
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