Badlands Cowboy for Christ Rodeo Camp in Kadoka August 2-5. The campers attending received two days of rodeo event instruction and then competed in two days of rodeo performances.

With 104 campers and more than 70 adult volunteers, the campers took part in a several fun games, including a paint ball competition, chapel services, and spending time with friends.

Goat tying: 1st place, Shania Johnston, Union Center; 2nd place, Tawny Barry, Carter; 3rd place, Tricia Wilken, Meadow; 4th place, Kami Elshere, Faith.

The Northern Bull Riding Tour again was a major draw during the Haakon/Jackson County Fair and Achievement Days.

Beginning at 7:00 Saturday evening, August 7, at the Philip Roping Arena, the full activities lasted until after 10:00 p.m.

All proceeds from this bull riding event go to the Make-A-Wish weekend at the Northern Bull Riding Tour finals at the Sioux Falls arena September 25. Paul Gropper was the main man behind the minute-to-minute operation of the evening's bull riding event.

Marion Nelson is a friendly member of the Philip community, and keeps herself busy with different projects around the house and town.

Marion and her husband, Jim, who passed away three years ago, have seven children.

Marion Nelson is a friendly member of the Philip community, and keeps herself busy with different projects around the house and town.

Marion and her husband, Jim, who passed away three years ago, have seven children.

At the young age of 16 years, it wasn't easy for Jody Petras when she learned she had cancer. She was just a junior at Kadoka High School. Today, she is an 18-year cancer survivor.

Her contagious, bright smile and the soft voice will leave an impact when you listen to her testimonial on how important it is to take precautionary measures when dealing with one's health.

Petras will not only be attending Kadoka's Relay For Life on Saturday, August 21, she is scheduled to be a guest speaker.

She's been through it all.

Plans to proceed with a more indepth look at putting the county library in a downtown location were approved by the Haakon County Board of Commissioners at their August 3 meeting.

Barbara Sloat, Shirley Kangas and Jennifer Henrie, from the library board of directors, and librarian Annie Brunskill approached the commissioners with their intentions to look further at the former K-Gee's building on Philip's main street.

Sloat noted that usage of the library continues to increase and they want to pursue the possibility of moving the library to the downtown area.

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Grasshoppers have taken over Haakon County this summer, and it looks as though they are not going to be thinning out any time soon.

The only sure way the grasshopper species will die for the year is with a hard freeze. While the warm weather remains, grasshoppers will continue to be a nuisance throughout western South Dakota. The first freeze and frost of the year will bring an end to the pesky crop eating grasshoppers, but not the entire species.

This summer, Haakon County is seeing an increasingly large number of grasshoppers.

by Jennifer Henrie, Marketing/Human Resources, Philip Health Services, Inc.

On June 22-23, surveyors from the South Dakota Department of Health visited the Philip Nursing Home for its annual inspection.

Under contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the state is required to inspect all nursing homes that provide care to people receiving Medicare and Medicaid.

There are over 180 regulations and standards that Medicare certified nursing homes must uphold at all times to protect the residents.

The Northern Bull Riding Tour will be presented Saturday, August 7, as part of the Haakon/Jackson County Fair and 4-H Achievement Days.

As an extra feature, between the rounds of bull riding at the Philip Roping Arena, 16 West River high school bronc riding cowboys will also compete in their own event. Those teenage cowboys are experienced in saddle bronc riding competition. Most, if not all, have ridden in competition for the South Dakota High School Rodeo Association state finals. They practice every Wednesday evening at the roping arena in Philip.