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BY ALLISON JARRELL ALLISON.JARRELL@CAPJOURNAL.COM When retired teacher Don Shields journeyed to Ireland, he was in awe of the beautiful country where his ancestors had once lived. Perhaps it was having a beer with locals at Irish pubs also named Shields, or maybe it was thanks to the good fortune that comes from kissing the Blarney Stone. But when Shields returned to Pierre, he knew what the com- munity needed – an Irish parade on St. Patrick’s Day. “We’d been to the parade in Sioux Falls a couple times, and I thought, we have Irish people here in Pierre, we just need to get it started,” he said. Shields gathered a group of friends, received the city’s permission to plan a route and collect parade entries, and put on the first-ever St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pierre in 1996. “We were kind of fly- ing by the seat of our pants, because none of us had put on a parade before,” Shields said. “I can remember the day of The voice of central South Dakota since 1881 Thursday, March 14, 2013 www.capjournal.com Volume 132, Issue No. 52 75¢ C COACH HONORED Coach of Lady Govs and Pierre Track and field Skip Kurth named Assistant Girls’ Coach of the Year Dakota Emporium changes location Area News A2-A3 Region A4 Comics A5 Area News A6 Sports B1-B2 Classifieds B3-B4 To reach us, call 224-7301 or e-mail us at [email protected] Twitter.com/capitaljournal Facebook.com/capitaljournal V ATICAN CITY (AP) — Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from out- side Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Francis, associating himself with the humble 13th- century Italian preacher who lived a life of poverty. Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the announcement, marveling that the cardinals needed to look to “the end of the earth” to find a bishop of Rome. In choosing a 76-year-old pope, the cardinals clearly decided that they didn’t need a vigorous, young pope who would reign for decades but rather a seasoned, popular and humble pastor who would draw followers to the faith. The cardinal electors overcame deep divisions to select the 266th pontiff in a remarkably fast, five-ballot conclave. Francis asked for prayers for himself, and for retired Pope Benedict XVI, whose surprising resignation paved the way for the conclave that brought the first Jesuit to the papacy. He also spoke by phone with Benedict after his election and plans to see him in the coming days, the Vatican said. “Brothers and sisters, good evening,” Francis said to wild cheers in his first public remarks as pontiff. “You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bish- op to Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals went to find him from the end of the earth. Thank you for the welcome.” Bergoglio had reportedly finished second in the 2005 con- clave that produced Benedict – who last month became the first pope to resign in 600 years. After announcing “Habemus Papam” – “We have a pope!” – a cardinal standing on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday revealed the identity of the new pontiff, using his Latin name, and announced he would be called Francis. ARGENTINE JORGE BERGOGLIO ELECTED POPE FRANCIS In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Wednesday. Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who chose the name of Pope Francis, is the 266th pontiff of the Ro- man Catholic Church. (AP Photo/L’Osservatore Romano) Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Dmitry Lovetsky) Habemus Papam Company to add 1,000 tech jobs in South Dakota VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — A Minnesota company will bring 1,000 information tech- nology consultant jobs to South Dakota as part of an effort to keep high-tech positions from being shipped overseas, Gov. Dennis Daugaard and company officials announced Wednesday. Eagle Creek Software Services, provides Web and app development and technical support to large health care, financial ser- vices and other companies, plans to build a new $10 million, 200-employee office in Vermillion and partner with the University of South Dakota to help train its potential hires, said Chief Executive Ken Behrendt. Daugaard said state economic develop- ment officials often include training money in incentive packages, but directing the training money to a university in the form Pierre children’s chorus pushes to raise extra money to sing at Red Sox game BY DAVID ROOKHUYZEN DAVID.ROOKHUYZEN@CAPJOURNAL.COM It seemed the perfect 20th anniversary trip for the Capital City Children’s Chorus: a six-day singing tour at prominent Boston landmarks and a stop at a prestigious music school. Plans were made, plane tickets bought, and 31 members of the choir raised a total of $53,000 for the trip. Then came another pitch – an invitation to sing the national anthem at a Red Sox base- ball game in Fenway Park – and that set the chorus in a scramble to raise an additional $13,000 to stay in Boston an extra day. To gather donations, members of the choir scrubbed tires and dried washed cars at the Young’s Mobile gas station by the rail- road overpass on Pierre Street from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday. They plan to be there again Thursday afternoon at the same time to raise more money. The choir also held an hour-long radio telethon with local radio station KCCR Wednesday morning, which raised $3,000. Julie Myers, the choir’s executive direc- tor, said the two-day carwash and telethon are just two parts of the effort to gather the extra money, which will also include a rummage sale, selling Zesto bucks and a fundraiser at Gator’s Pizza in the Pierre Mall on April 1. The Red Sox game is the last stop on the trip, following performances at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the Old North Church and St. Paul’s Cathedral. They will also visit the Berkley College of Music, which Myers said has turned out more Grammy-award win- ning artists than any other school. “The kids are going to get amazing insight See JOBS, A6 The longtime archbishop of Buenos Aires, is the son of middle-class Italian immigrants and is known as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardi- nals enjoyed. He often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina’s capital. He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles, to be the essential business of the church. Catholics are still buzzing over his speech last year accusing fellow church officials of hypocri- sy for forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes. Bergoglio has slowed a bit with age and is feel- ing the effects of having a lung removed due to infection when he was a teenager. In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world’s Catholics, Bergoglio has also shown a keen political sensibility as well as the kind of self-effacing humility that fellow cardinals value highly, according to his official Sunday marks 17th year of St. Patrick’s Day Parade See PARADE, A6 See CHOIR, A6 (From left to right) Hannah Gates, Sydney Larson and Brittany Pillen help dry a car as part of a fundraising carwash for the Capital City Children’s Choir. The choir is raising money to sing at a Boston Red Sox game on April 22. (David Rookhuyzen/Capital Journal) 17th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade WHEN: Sunday, March 17 at 4 p.m., parade lineup begins at 3 p.m. in Griffin Park WHERE: The parade begins at the east entrance of Griffin Park and ends at the American Legion Cabin. The all-you- can-eat Irish stew feed at the American Legion will follow the parade and is $6 per adult and $2 for children 10 and younger. Contact Gale or Kevin Mers- cheim at 223-2970 for more information. (Left to Right) Local Irishmen Bill Molseed and Don Shields are members of the Irish Club of Central South Dakota, which is in charge of putting together the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Shields had the idea to start the club after a trip to Ireland, and Molseed is the club’s president. (Allison Jarrell/Capital Journal) A3 B1 “You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals went to find him from the end of the earth. Thank you for the welcome,” Pope Francis See POPE, A6
