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REGION 2 | OBITUARIES 3 | VIEWS 4 | LIFE 5 | CLASSIFIEDS 7 | MIDWEST X | SPORTS 9 | WORLD 16 TOMORROW: City Commission Gets Report On Noise Ordinance Issues Printed on Recycled Newsprint Printed with SOY INK YANKTON RECYCLING THIS WEEK: NORTH OF 15TH STREET BY JORDYNNE HART [email protected] Prepare to be stuffed. The 19th annual Yankton Com- munity Holiday Feast will be held at the Calvary Baptist Church on Wednesday, Nov. 26 from 4:30-7 p.m. The holiday meal is a free will dona- tion and is open to the public. The feast prepares 90-100 turkeys, 200 pies, 500 pounds of pota- toes, and tons of cranberries, corn and volunteers. Behind this huge community event is just a small team of people. Don “Murdo” Edwards and Steve “Chopper”Johnson first discussed the possibility of a feast several years ago during a Chamber mixer. “One thing lead to another and we just decided to do it,” Edwards said. “It’s my favorite holiday. We wanted to do something for the community, and it worked.” Anywhere from 2,500 to 3,500 people come in attendance every year. “It has been a big event since the beginning,” Johnson said. He added that said weather is a factor to the turnout. Marlene Johnson, Donna and Cliff Madson are also part of the team. Each and member has a special job. “We work together,” Donna Madsen said. “Chopper and Murdo have to get all the supplies, Cliff is the gravy maker, Marlene is the delivery to the shut-ins.” Last year, the feast delivered more than 230 meals. The highest they have had was 250. 3 Arrested After Deadly Stabbing In Wagner WAGNER (AP) — Authorities are hold- ing three people after a deadly stabbing in Wagner. The Charles Mix County sheriff’s of- fice says a person was stabbed on Friday night in tribal housing. The suspects left in a vehicle but were pulled over with the help of Yankton Sioux Tribal Police. KELO-TV reports three people were arrested and were in jail Sunday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is helping investigate. BY ROB NIELSEN [email protected] Leo Dangel of Yankton has been writing poetry for the better part of the last 40 years, a pursuit he took on as an English professor at Southwest Min- nesota State University in Marshall. “I started to write poetry seriously about 1975,” Dangel said. “When I was in college, I took a fiction writing course and at first I thought I wanted to write fiction, but after I started teaching and got to Marshall, I just found I was better suited to writing po- etry.” Earlier this month, Dangel’s fifth collection of poems — “Saving Single- trees” — was the recipient of the Ne- braska Center for the Book’s highest honor for poetry. Dangel, who’s lived at Avera Sister James at Majestic Bluffs since 2008, said he doesn’t set out to write books, but in- stead lets them come together as he writes the poems “I just write poems,” he said. “(For) ‘Saving Singletrees,’ I started to write the poems shortly after I came to the nursing home. I just wrote poems for about three years and decided I had a book.” “Saving Singletrees” was published in 2013 and covers a number of topics ranging from growing up in rural South Dakota to observations of living in a care center. Other works by Dangel include “Old Man Brunner County” (1987), “Hogs and Personals” (1992), “Home from the Field: Collected Poems” (1997), “The Crow on the Golden Arches” (2004) and the chapbook “Keeping Between the Fences” (1981). Local Poet Receives Nebraska Honor POET | PAGE 2 Meet The Feast Team KELLY HERTZ/P&D The 19th annual Yankton Community Holiday Feast will be held Wednesday, Nov. 26, from 4:30-7 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church. Donna Madson, Marlene and Steve Johnson, Don Edwards and Cliff Madson are the team behind making this huge community event so successful. Group Prepares To Serve Up Yankton’s Community Feast FEAST | PAGE 3 “One thing lead to another and we just decided to do it. It’s my favorite holiday. We wanted to do some- thing for the community, and it worked.” DON ‘MURDO’ EDWARDS The Flutes Of Fall KELLY HERTZ/P&D These flutists add their own flourishes to a performance of James Swearigen’s “In the Presence of Heroes,” one of the se- lections presented during the Mount Marty College concert band’s fall concert Sunday night at Marian Auditorium in Yankton. The song honors the unsung heroes of society, such as law en- forcement personnel and firefighters. The band, directed by Dean Rettedal, performed a variety of numbers, ranging from John Philip Sousa’s “The Liberty Bell” and Robert Sheldon’s “Triumph of the Argonauts” to a suite of music from “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.” To see or purchase images from this event, visit spotted.yankton.net/. ROBERT NIELSEN/P&D Leo Dangel of Yankton was recently hon- ored by the Nebraska Center for the Books for his 2013 collection “Saving Single- trees.” MONDAY n November 24, 2014 Y ANKTON D AILY Volume 140 Number 179 Inside Today Cold But Clearing 9 a.m.: 22 | 3 p.m.: 27 FORECAST DETAILS: PAGE 2 P RESS & D AKOTAN Yankton High School • Home of the Bucks and Gazelles WOKSAPE “The Wise Book” Monday, November 24, 2014 Volume 94, Number 4 PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014 PAGE 13 Yankton High School Clubs Unite To Conduct Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive BY MADISON DANGLER Yankton Hosts State Volleyball Tournament s Collected BY JACOB SELGESTAD Ferguson Situation The Dakotas’ Oldest Newspaper | 16 PAGES | www.yankton.net 75¢ By The Associated Press SISSETON — Autopsies are being performed on the bodies of four people, authorities said Sunday, after a shooting at a South Dakota home in which authorities say a man killed three people and wounded one before taking his own life. The body of the suspected shooter, 22-year- old Colter Richard Arbach of Sisseton, was found among the dead after authorities initially thought he may have fled. The Division of Criminal Investigation said interviews continue and the South Dakota Crime Lab is working on performing ballistic tests and a reconstruction of the shooting. Dan Shinerock told KSFY-TV that he woke up to the gunshots around 3 a.m. “You’d expect you’d hear somebody screaming, but there was only that woman whimpering. The only sound was that woman whimpering and it was a hopeless whimper, it wasn’t a cry for help,” he told the station. A Sisseton hospital official said a woman wounded in the attack was flown to a Fargo, North Dakota, hospital. Her condition was not available Sunday. Names of the victims are expected to be re- leased Monday. William Ryan of Sisseton tells the Argus Sisseton Slayings Suspect Was ‘No Monster’ Saturday Incident Leaves 4 Dead, Including Suspected Shooter DEATHS | PAGE 3
