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The Dell Rapids St Mary High School held their Coronation on Monday, September 23rd. This year’s king is Leon Maxwell, and this year’s queen is Sarah Ginsbach. The Dell Rapids Pubic High School also held their Coronation on Monday. This year’s king for the Quarriers is Tad Lacey, and the queen is Tia McKillip.
Congratulations to this year’s kings and queens!
The Dell Rapids School Board will meet in regular session on Monday, September 23rd, at 7:00 p.m. in the HS/MS DDN Room. Some of items on the light agenda include approval of surplus items and the administrative report. The full agenda can be found here.
Both the Dell Rapids High School and Dell Rapids St Mary Homecoming Royalties have been announced.
The royalty candidates for Dell Rapids are Jessica Lambert, Zach Schroeder, Tia McKillip, Tanner Solberg, Karlie Leighton, Tad Lacey, Alex Roemen, and Zach White. The Quarriers will hold their coronation ceremony on Monday, September 26th, at 7:30 p.m.
The royalty candidates for Dell Rapids St Mary are Jared Scholten, Ben Bunkers, Leon Maxwell, Kelly Michel, Anna Wolles, and Sarah Ginsbach. The Cardinals will also hold their coronation ceremony on Monday, September 26th, at 7:00 p.m.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard has proclaimed September as Honey Month in South Dakota. South Dakota ranks in the top five honey producing states. Last year, 17 million pounds of honey were produced in South Dakota with a value of $33 million. Dell Rapids has it’s own beekeepers that produce and sell honey, Dell City Honey. This year will be their third year in business.
Beekeeper David Jastram explained the process of how they make their honey. He said that he bees collect the nectar and convert it into honey for storage in the winter. After the moisture content is at a certain level, they are able to harvest the honey. They will cut the wax cells open with a knife and use a stainless steel extractor to pull the honey out of the cells of the honeycomb. After they have collected the honey, they will lightly strain it, and Jastram said that no heat is applied to the honey at all.
Jastram said, “The only reason that this is not called ‘organic’ honey is because there is no promise that while the bees are collecting nectar they don’t get into any pesticides or other chemicals. But this is as natural as honey can be.”
Jastram also said, “It’s important for people to identify where their honey comes from. There are lots of Chinese and South American honey imports. There is also ‘funny honey’ which is made with high fructose corn syrup. Our honey is 100% South Dakota honey.”
To purchase honey from Dell City Honey, visit their facebook page by clicking here.
The Dell Rapids City Council will meet in regular session on Monday, September 16th, at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. Some of the items on the agenda include the approval of minutes from the September 3rd and September 9th meetings, hearing on outdoor permits for homecoming events on September 27th, second reading and adoption of ordinance 777, and the administrative report. The full agenda can be found here.
The Dell Rapids Connections group held a kick-off event on Wednesday, September 4th, at the Dell Rapids High School. The event was an assembly for students in grades 7 through 12 from Dell Rapids public and Dell Rapids St Mary. Tom Henderson with Restoration Generation was the guest speaker at the assembly. Also joining Henderson was hip-hop band F.O.G. Henderson and the band also joined the students for lunch prior to the assembly.
Then in the evening, a free concert was held at City Park with Henderson, F.O.G., and Chris Heesch.
According to the Restoration Generation website, http://www.restoreageneration.com/, the group exists to restore broken relationships all around the world.
A total of twelve Dell Rapids students will be participating in the 2013 All-State Chorus on Saturday, November 2nd, at the Sioux Falls Area. Eight students from Dell Rapids High School were selected along with four students from Dell Rapids St Mary. This year’s representatives from Dell Rapids High School are Jordan Stone, Mikaela Stofferahn, Ben Hinricher, Jackson Gleason, Jade Schull, Bryana Schull, Ted DeLange, and Dylan Damm. The four students from Dell Rapids St Mary are Kiley Reecy, Angelia Jorgensen, Matt Farmer, and Alex Eulberg.
Alex Eulberg – Dell Rapids St Mary
Not only will Dell Rapids have twelve singers in this years All-State Choir, three of those singers are four-time participants. They are Jordan Stone, Jackson Gleason, and Alex Eulberg.
Jordan Stone and Jackson Gleason – Dell Rapids High School
“This is a great honor and a feeling that you can’t describe,” said Stone. Eulberg said that it was a “pretty big honor” to be selected all four years of high school. Both Stone and Gleason said that it’s wonderful to share the honor with someone, and it’s great to have Dell Rapids have recognition for the four-year recipients.
Even though the selections have been made, the hard work continues for these students. Gleason said, “There is a rehearsal day that is held in Brookings. This allows everyone to get together to go over the songs and learn the foreign language pronunciations because there is only two days to get the concert put together with everyone.”
The students from both Dell Rapids High School and Dell Rapids St Mary will continue to practice many times a week in preparation for the performance on November 2nd.
The Dell Rapids School Board will meet in regular session on Monday, September 9th, at 7:00 p.m. at the MS/HS DDN Room. Some of the items on the agenda include approval of the financial report, approval of FLEX plan documentation, and ASBSD Region meeting information. The full agenda can be found here.
The minutes from the City Council meeting on 9-3-13 can be found here.
The Dell Rapids City Council will meet in regular session on Tuesday, September 3rd, at 7:30 p.m. at the Council Chambers. The meeting has been moved to Tuesday due to the Labor Day holiday. Some of the items on the agenda include discussion for an outdoor events permit, second reading and adoption of city ordinance 775, 2014 budget, first reading of city ordinance 777, and the administrative report. The full agenda can be found here.
As the summer comes to an end, construction in Dell Rapids continues to be at full strength on four big projects.
The 15th Street project continues at a steady pace. All of the curb and gutter has been installed throughout the project. Driveways and approaches along with sidewalks will be the next steps of the project in the coming weeks. The final completion date is still projected to be October 31st.
The new County Fair Foods store has seen great progression over the last few weeks. 
The roof was just recently completed, and there is continuous site grading. According to John Clark of County Fair Foods, the new store is predicted to be open by Christmas of this year.
The Family Dollar building has gone up as well in recent weeks, and crews have be working on the removal of the asphalt parking lot. The Casey’s site has seen some significant changes as well. The entire Dell Rapids Event Center building has 
been removed to make way for the new Casey’s location. Both the Family Dollar and Casey’s General Store should be open sometime early in 2014.
