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Friday, January 1, 2016

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Ever After Baby Boutique on Main Street closes

Two residents namedto 40 Under 40 list

Ever After Baby Boutique closed its doors one last time Thursday.The children’s clothing store opened Dec. 19, 2013, at 424 S. Main St.This past September, Ever After moved to the basement loor under Karisma Boutique at 305 S. Main St.Sisters Jessica Dinger and Ali Pasteur did not specify a cause for the closing.“We’re ready to go in a different direction with our lives,” Pasteur said in a phone interview.— Reporter Kelda J.L. Pharris

Two Aberdeen residents were on Prairie Business magazine’s “good” list this year: Ryan Rivett, 32, and Tanya Shafer, 34. Both were named as two of the most inspiring and dedicated professionals under the age of 40, according to the magazine.• Rivett is the president/chief operating oficer of My Place Hotels, the co-owner/vice president of Legacy Builders Inc. and the president of Legacy Management LLC.

ABERDEEN

ABERDEEN

Community Business

Business in Aberdeen saw ups and downs in 2015, as there were sev-eral closings, openings, layoffs, new construction projects and more. And Santa wasn’t the only one making a list and checking it twice. In no speciic order, here are the businesses changes we can recall during the last year.

Openings• Hobby Lobby• Wheat Growers Innovation Center• Stutsman Harley-Davidson• New Angus, now dba DemKo-ta Ranch Beef• Famous Footwear• Pulse Nightclub• Colorful Creations• Dakota Outdoor Living• CrossFit Rails• Jimmy Johns (new location in Shoppes on 7th)• Dairy Queen• CJ’s Patisserie• Schwab Audiology• Kessler’s Holiday• My Place Hotel• Midwest Decorative Stump and Design• Aspen Dental• Next Generation Performance• The Brass Kettle• Hair Addictions• Dazzling Detail• Amanda’s Massage• iDeal Furniture• TK’s Sewer, Kitchen and Bath Repair• Hair and Company

• Artisan Custom Homes• Harr Motors Bargain Center

Closings (or planned closings)• JC Penney• Wyndham (oficially closing January 2016)• Ramada/Bully’s/Tapz• Klein’s• Webb Shoe Co.• Hallmark• Subway in Aberdeen Mall

• NSU’s Children’s Center• Mugs Coffee House (12th Ave-nue location)• Junk in the Trunk Antiques• Hush Boutique (to Karisma/Stitch Row)• Aberdeen Originals• EZ Pawn Shop (inventory transferred to Sixth Avenue Pawn)• Sauerwein Construction• Bonn’s Eats and Treats• The Daily Grind• Radio Shack• The Frame Gallery

Opened/closed• Max and Dazy’s retail space closed, but the owners manage the business out of their home.• Ever After Baby Boutique moved into the basement loor of Karisma Boutique’s new lo-cation. The boutique closed for business on Thursday.

Layofs/employee changes• Midstates (-55)

• Xerox (-20)• Molded Fiber Glass this week announced an expansion, adding 15,000 square feet to its Aber-deen facility along with 75 to 100 new jobs within the next year.

Under construction• Mike Miller Elementary School• Buffalo Wings and Rings (ac-cording to spokeswoman Rachel Stolba, construction is going as planned and the business is hop-ing to open early April 2016)• Magnum

• Avera Cancer Institute (which should open soon)• Ag Processing Inc. announced a soybean processing plant for Aberdeen. The company is in the beginning stages of planning and permitting, with an eye toward a 2018 opening.

Now hiring to expand or open• Great Clips (Michelle Curtis, area manager based in Minne-sota, said that hiring is going well enough now that the busi-ness could open by the end of January.)

• New Angus, now dba DemKota Ranch Beef• Subway on Eighth Avenue Northeast in Paramount Village

Other notable changes• Under new ownership, Dad-dy’s is in the process of be-ing changed back to local icon Scotty’s.• Curves has changed to Balance Fitness Studio.

• Kathleen’s closed and its owner now operates Kate’s, downstairs.• JL Photography, Paisley Tree Photography and Jenna Hollinger Photography moved into the basement loor of Karis-ma Boutique’s new Main Street location.

• The owner of MainStream Boutique opened a second loca-tion in Sioux Falls.• Pips Squeaky Clean Soaps opened a new production area in the Citizen’s Building.• A movie theater inside of the Capitol Theatre started playing movies in December.• Body By Design, Hitch ‘N’ Post, Gallery Go Gaming, Sub-way (the 205 Sixth Ave. S.E. lo-cation) and Schriver’s Memori-al all had their buildings hit by vehicles.

• Lakewood Mall was renamed Aberdeen Mall.• Aberdeen plastic surgeon San-jay Mukerji reopened his private practice. • Ray Malsch of Ray’s Barber Shop retired in March after 60 years of cutting hair.• O’Reilly Auto Parts built and moved into a new store on Sixth Avenue.• Several new apartment build-ings opened and more units are currently under construction.• Upper Plains Contracting changed its name to Reede Construction.

• What Women Love and Urban consignment stores combined space.• Firestone changes its name to

GCR Tires and Service.

Changes outside of Aberdeen• The MStation convenience store opened at Mina Lake.• The Wakeside Bar and Grill, also at Mina Lake, closed for the winter season, while still open-ing to host special events.• ALCO stores close in Redield, Webster and Mobridge; Shopko Hometown opened in its place.• The Farmer’s Wife Boutique opened in Groton.

• CompQuest Technology, based in Aberdeen, opened a new ofice in Mobridge.• Sinner Auto Body in Webster closed.• Marcy Lucy Boutique opened in Webster.• Titan’s Bar and Grill opened in Frederick.• Tom and Gabrielle Pioske took over ownership of Frohling Meats in Hecla.• The County Seat: Furniture and Home Décor opened in Redield. • Langford’s Main Street Center opened.

Are there others?Having only been in this posi-tion for just under two months, I relied heavily on memory and the archives of our Friday Com-munity Business page. Thus, I realize not all business chang-es may be included on this list. Let me know what I missed by emailing [email protected].

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The year in local business comings, goings

COLUMN

Victoria LuskBusiness and enterprise editor

The Corner Book Shoppe:

Elizabeth Svensen, owner of The Corner Book Shoppe, left, and employee Linda Nelson stand among the

hundreds of books in the store at 504 S. State St. American News Photo by John Davis

BUSINESS Q&A: THE CORNER BOOK SHOPPE

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Taste

Cookies, cakes and pies.

The holy trinity of bak-

ing, if you will.

Sweets are a

time-honored tradition in many

households, but for some the

thought of having to make a

pie crust or work through an-

other batch of cookies can be

overwhelming.

We’re of the irm belief that

baking should be fun, not frantic,

and we’ve quizzed some bakers

for their tips and tricks to mak-

ing delicious cookies, cakes and

pies.

Cookies

Pastry chef Daniel Benjamin

of Lucettegrace in Raleigh, N.C.,

is no stranger to a good cookie.

His downtown patisserie churns

out dozens of perfect macarons

every day in addition to delicious

cakes, tartlets, croissants and

more.His advice to home bakers

is simple. “Plan ahead,” Benja-

min said. “If I’m making cookies

on a Saturday, I’ll make my list

on Thursday. Do I have enough

lour? Do I have all the tools I

need?”He strongly recommends hav-

ing a proper “mise en place,”

a French culinary phrase that

means “putting in place.” A prop-

er mise means you’ve measured

out all the ingredients, your but-

ter is soft, eggs are room tem-

perature and you’ve read through

every step of the recipe.

“So many things can be done

in stages,” Benjamin said. “Ice-

box cookies can be made ahead

and baked the day you need

them. Even with our macarons,

we make the illings ahead of

time, so that when the cookies

cool, we can ill them right away.

You can do a little bit every day

and inish it up the last day.”

When it comes to technique,

Benjamin pointed out the steps

he never skips.

“Creaming is important,” he

said, noting the process of whip-

ping together sugar and butter.

He creams the butter on low to

medium-low speed in a mixer,

making sure to stop and scrape

the bowl every once in a while

until the mixture is what the

French call “en pomade,” or the

consistency of hair pomade.

How you add your dry ingre-

dients is also important. “I al-

ways add my lour in three’s,” he

said. “Add a little bit, mix it, stop

scrape down the sides of the thing,” Tornquist said. “So I

don’t bake anything that isn’t lat

e

BY MATT LARDIE

The (Raleigh, N.C.) News and Obser

ver

Calendar once meant a grid,

on paper. I scrawled tasks into

der cookie is short and sweet.

Each offers an espresso rush of

punctuality. And, it makes an

excellent snack. Just don’t tell

my computer.

bowl of a stand mixer itted

with the paddle attachment.

(Alternatively, use a hand mix-

er.) Cascade in sugar. Mix until

luffy, about 2 minutes.

2. Mix: Whisk together yolks,

espresso, vanilla and

Espresso shortbreads ofer sweet pick-me-up

BY LEAH ESKIN

Chicago Tribune

Pastry chef Daniel Benjamin of Lucettegrace in Raleigh, N.C., gives simple advice to home bakers: “Plan ahead.” Benjamin’s

patisserie churns out dozens of perfect macarons every day, in addition to delicious cakes, tartlets, croissants and more. TNS

Photo

Instant espresso powder gives a bit of a kick to buttery shortbread cookies. TNS Photo

Watch how to make a healthy

and illing breakfast in our

latest AN Test Kitchen video

at AberdeenNews.com.

Online

3professional bakers s

hare

tips for home cooks

“So many things can

be done in stages.

Icebox cookies can

be made ahead and

baked the day you

need them. Even

with our macarons,

we make the illings

ahead of time,

so that when the

cookies cool, we can

ill them right away.

You can do a little bit

every day and inish

it up the last day.”

Daniel Benjamin

Pastry chef at Lucettegrace

in Raleigh, N.C.

Monday, January 4, 2016


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The Wells Fargo Auto Finance top performers for September were, back row from left: Dar Patterson,

Zach Anderson, Mary Davidson, Beth Kolb, Judy Schweigert and Corey Barbato. Seated, from left: Joe

Black and Mike Orr.

South Dakota Sen. Jason Frerichs of Wilmot received the "Friend of Local Government" award on Dec.

2 in Huron at the 36th annual South Dakota Association of Towns and Townships Conference. It is the

group's highest award, and is given to a recipient that shows exceptional support for local government.

From left are SDATAT Director Dan Thyen, SDATAT President Jim Pufer, Frerichs and SDATAT lobbyist and

transportation consultant Richard Howard.

Aberdeen Family YMCA recently received a $3,000

grant from the Great Plains Outdoorsmen to help

fund its youth archery program. Back row, from

left: Rod Eisenbeisz, Ray Ireland and Jerry Brick.

Front row, from left: Fallon Eichler, Dan Grewe and

Bill Bowen.

During the Sept. 23 meeting of the Aberdeen Lions

Club, Safe Harbor Executive Director Gina Karst,

right, provided the club with information on Safe

Harbor's goals and activities. With Karst is Bob

Karst, a member of the club.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

www.aberdeennews.com 5AEducation

Central High School students of the month for December were, irst row, from left, Hailey Bieber, Katie Ol-

son, Zoey Gab, Rachel Hohenstein and Megan Kingsriter. Back row, from left, Nico Swalley, MiKayla Wieker,

Makaela Gross and Brandon Heim.Central High School Academic Achievement win-ner in December was senior Thomas Krueger. Courtesy photos

Groton Area School students of the month for October are, front row, from left, Ashley Fliehs, Erin Unzen

and Seth Johnson. Back row, from left, Tylan Glover, Jenifer Fjelstad, Erin Smith and Lily Cutler. Courtesy

photos

Hannahs

Sieler

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF THE MONTH — DECEMBER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT — DECEMBER

Aberdeen Central High School is hosting a inan-cial aid information night at 7 p.m. Jan.11 for seniors and their parents at the Thomas F. Kelly Theatre.

Topics to be covered include the application pro-cess, college/postsecondary costs and a host of other inancial aid matters. Information on scholarships available through the CHS counseling department will also be highlighted.Sharon Kienow, director of inancial aid at North-ern State University, is presenting.For more information, contact counselor Barry Hehn at 605-725-8118.— Staff reports

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLFinancial aid nightset for Monday

GROTON AREA SCHOOL STUDENTS OF THE MONTH — OCTOBER

The Northern Plains Christian Academy students of the month for November are Tafyra Sieler in the elementary and Brant Hannahs in the secondary.— Staff reports

NORTHERN PLAINS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY STUDENTS OF THE MONTH — NOVEMBER

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Special FeaturesMedia Guide

SportsNorthern State

women’s team

receiving poll votes

World of Outlaws Sprint Cars

coming to Aberdeen

Former Minnesota Twins ace

coming to Webster Jan. 23

For the irst time this season, the

Northern State women’s basketball team

is receiving votes in the WBCA Divi-

sion II poll. The Wolves, winners of ive

straight games, received 14 votes this

week.Northern is currently 10-3 on the sea-

son and will be at home for four straight

games starting Friday against Minot

State.Other Northern Sun Intercollegiate

Conference teams in this week’s poll

include 12th-rated Winona State and

Sioux Falls, which received 50 votes.

Northern handed Winona its only loss of

the season last weekend and hosts Sioux

Falls on the inal game of its upcoming

home stand.

The World of Outlaws Sprint Car

Series is coming back to Brown County

Speedway.

The sprint cars will be competing at

the local track on June 19, which is Fa-

ther’s Day this year. It marks the irst

time the sprints will be in Aberdeen

since 1985, when Sammy Swindell de-

feated Steve Kinser.

Donny Schatz of Minot, N.D., won his

seventh championship this past season

and became just the second driver to win

more than 30 A feature events in a World

of Outlaws Sprint Car Series season.

Schatz joined Kinser, who accomplished

the feat three times in his career. Schatz

also won his 200th career race this past

year, joining Kinser and Swindell as the

only three drivers in series history to

reach that mark.

Information on tickets for the sprint

car show will be available soon at www.

slspromotions.com.

The World of Outlaws Late Model

Series made a stop at the local track in

2008.

Webster Legion Post 40 Baseball is

presenting “A Night with Twins Legend

Jack Morris” on Jan. 23 at the Webster

Armory. All proceeds from the event,

which starts at 6 p.m., will beneit the

Legion baseball program.

Cost is $25 for adults (ages 19 and

older) and $10 for students and includes

a meal and the program.

To purchase tickets, email

[email protected] or contact

Chad Hesla at 605-881-0007.

Morris was selected as the 1991 World

Series Most Valuable Player after he

helped lead the Minnesota Twins to the

championship, capped off by his 10-in-

ning shutout pitching victory in Game 7.

BASEBALL

AUTO RACING

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Inside today’s edition:

• PC men knock down Johnson and Wales 2C

• Huron blocks Aberdeen Central upset bid 3C

• Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning skeet shooter

reacts to newly announced gun restrictions 4C

News? Scores? Thoughts?

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Aberdeen Central took the

sting out of the Huron’s bite

early.The second-ranked Golden

Eagles pressured the Tigers

into a big irst-quarter differ-

ential and pulled away from

there, cruising to a 76-42

Eastern South Dakota Confer-

ence girls’ basketball victory

Tuesday night at Golden Ea-

gles Arena.

Central turned up the pres-

sure early, creating scoring

opportunities in transition

and dominating the paint in

the half-court setting. Paiton

Burckhard scored 10 of her

13 total points in the open-

ing quarter, one of a series of

single-player scoring stretch-

es by the Golden Eagles

throughout the night.

The result was a 24-8 lead

by the end of the irst and Hu-

ron could not stem the tide.

“They like the ball to go to

the paint,” said Huron head

coach Wade Stobbs. “We talk-

ed about that. They like to

transition. The things we talk-

ed about before the game was

the things we let them do in

the irst half.”

In addition to Burckhard’s

run in the opening quarter,

the Golden Eagles got other

scoring runs by Karli Gard-

ner, Brianna Kusler and Ally

Steckler, all of whom ended

up in double igures.

Gardner used the transi-

tion game and the three-point

line to her advantage, while

Kusler was active on the

drive into the lane. Steckler’s

spree in the fourth came on

a three-pointer and a trio of

free throws.

“That’s the nice thing

about this team. If a team

tries to take something

away, you have some other

options,” said Central head

coach Dawn Seiler.

“We just needed to ind

Golden Eagles tame Tigers

BY JACQUE SCOBY

[email protected]

Aberdeen Central’s Renee Bragg, center, tries to duck under Huron’s Karissa Schroder, right, as Bragg

makes a move to the basket during the irst half of Tuesday night’s game at the Golden Eagles Arena. Behind

Bragg for Huron is Madeline Willemssen. For more photos from the game, check out the photo galleries at Ab-

erdeenNews.com. American News Photos by John Davis

Aberdeen Central’s Cortez Standing Bear, right, scoops

up a loose ball ahead of Huron’s Madeline Willemssen,

center, and Lexy Glanzer, far left, during the irst half of

Tuesday night’s game at the Golden Eagles Arena.

See Central, 3C

Aberdeen Roncalli held

Leola-Frederick to just two

baskets from the loor and

a total of eight points in

the second half as it pulled

away for a 44-23 victory in

nonconference girls’ bas-

ketball action Tuesday at

Roncalli Gym.

The Cavaliers (4-4)

took an 8-6 lead during the

inal seconds of the irst

quarter and even trailed

13-12 after a 3-point play

by the Titan’s Cassandra

Hinz with 3:19 left in the

second. However, Megan

Streier gave Roncalli the

spark it needed. The fresh-

man scored on consecutive

trips down the court to put

the Cavaliers up 17-13 with

2:25 left in the half.

Jami Ewart kept the run

going and scored Roncalli’s

inal four points of the half

for a 21-15 lead.

In the second half, a de-

fensive switch by the Cav-

aliers was a game-changer.

Changing from a man de-

fense to a zone, Roncalli

shut the backdoor on the

Titans. Roncalli coach Derek

Larson credited assistant

Jamie Neuendorf with sug-

gesting the change.

“I thought when we

went zone in the second

half, it really helped us pre-

vent them from getting to

the rim,” Larson said. “We

only gave up a few points

in the second half. If we

can hold teams on the de-

fensive end, it’s a lot easier

on both ends of the loor.”

Leola-Frederick man-

aged just three points in

the third quarter — all on

free throws — while the

Cavaliers turned the de-

fensive stops into points at

the other end of the court

and carried a 31-18 lead

into the fourth.

Kennedy Lorenz opened

the inal quarter with a

pair of free throws for Ron-

calli. Taylor Morgan fol-

lowed with a layup as the

Cavaliers doubled the Ti-

tan’s point total 36-18 with

7:04 to play. Streier add-

ed her second 3-pointer of

the game before the Ron-

calli bench took over and

closed out the game.

Ewart led Roncalli

with 13 points, while

Morgan added 10 points

and a team-leading seven

rebounds.

Roncalli will be back in

action Tuesday at Tiospa

Zina, while Leola-Fred-

erick will travel to Red-

ield-Doland on Saturday.

Follow @ejhoros_AAN on Twit-

ter, email ehoros@aberdeenews.

com or call 605-622-2323.

LEOLA-FREDERICK (2-4): April

Hoffman 0-3 2-2 2, Abby Berreth 1-1 0-0

2, Chandler Ellwein 1-6 0-0 2, Mackenzie

Heilman 4-14 1-2 9, Savana Hinz 1-5 0-0

2, Cassandra Hinz 2-9 1-1 5, Mikayla

Forsting 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 9-47 5-7 23.

RONCALLI (4-4): Jami Ewart 6-12 0-0

13, Megan Streier 3-9 0-0 8, Taylor Mor-

gan 5-8 0-0 10, Grace Imbery 1-4 1-1 3,

Kennedy Lorenz 3-7 1-1 7, Abby Hanson

0-1 1-2 1, Madelyn Martin 1-2 0-0 2.

Totals 19-44 3-4 44.Leola-Frederick6 15

18 23

Roncalli 8 21 31 44

3-point ield goals — Leola-Frederick

0-5; Roncalli 3-10 (Ewart 1, Streier 2).

Total fouls — Leola-Frederick 12; Roncalli

12. Fouled out — None. Rebounds —

Leola-Frederick 16 (Heilman 6); Roncalli

24 (Morgan 7, Ewart 6). Assists —

Leola-Frederick 4; Roncalli 11 (Imbery

4). Turnovers — Leola-Frederick 24;

Roncalli 17. Steals — Leola-Frederick 10

(Michaela Podoll 7); Roncalli 14 (Imbery

5, Streier 4).

Defense leads Roncalli girls to v

ictory

BY EMILY HOROS

[email protected]

Aberdeen Roncalli’s Taylor Morgan, center, puts up a shot between

Leola-Frederick’s Michaela Podoll, left, April Hofman (3), MacKenzie

Heilman (21) and Abby Berreth, far right, during the irst half of Tuesday

night’s game at the Roncalli High School gym. For more photos from

the game, check out the photo galleries at AberdeenNews.com. American News

Photos by John Davis

Aberdeen Roncalli’s Me-

gan Streier, right, puts

up a shot as Leola-Fred-

erick’s Abby Berreth,

left reaches in on de-

fense during the irst

half of Tuesday night’s

game at the Roncalli

High School gym.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016OBITUARIESSteve RauschHoven: Steve Rausch, 53, of Hoven died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, at his home, west of Hoven.

Mass of Christian buri-al will be at 10 a.m. T h u r s -day, Jan. 7, 2016, at St. Antho-ny’s Catho-lic Church, H o v e n , with Fa-ther Kevin Doyle as cele-brant. Organist will be Al-ice Simon at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church and the choir will sing. Lector will be Rebecca Arbach. Eu-charistic ministers will be George and Shirley Raus-ch. Mass servers will be Dana Hageman and Col-in Arbach. Offertory will be Steve’s sisters. Placing the pall will be his chil-dren: Zachary, Shawna and Luke.Wake services have been scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church.Steven Albert Rausch, son of Patricia (Mack) and Edward Rausch, was born June 4, 1962, at Holy In-fant Hospital in Hoven. He was brought up on a farm 7½ miles west of Hoven. Steve attended St. Antho-ny’s Catholic School and Hoven High School, class of 1980. Steve participated in Greyhound sports while he was in high school, as well as playing Teener and Legion baseball in the summer. He then farmed for a while and attended a taxidermy school in James-ville, Wis. He returned to the farm.

Steve was engaged in a variety of vocations in addition to farming. He practiced taxidermy from his basement in the win-ter. Through the ‘80s and early ‘90s, he operated a crop spraying business. He worked many years as a truck driver. In 1996, he bought a new truck and trailer and he established Rausch Land and Live-stock. Steve married Jill Manolovitz in Gettysburg on Dec. 28, 1998. They re-sided in Hoven until July 2003, when they relocated to Whitewood. Steve re-turned to Hoven in March 2012, where he lived for the rest of his life.He was an avid Mi-ami Dolphins fan. He also spent many hours hunting and ishing. Steven espe-cially enjoyed planning and taking his kids on va-cations. His three children fondly remember riding with their dad in his truck.

Surviving Steve are two sons: Zachary Rausch of Hoven and Luke Raus-ch of Casper, Wyo.; one daughter, Shawna Rausch of Casper, Wyo.; ive sis-ters: Jeanne (Ron) Arbach, Amy (Jim) Arbach, Col-leen (Tom) Hageman and Lori (Chad) Sautner, all of Hoven, and Debbie (Neil) Jensen of Henry.He was preceded in death by his father, Ed-ward, on March 6, 2012; his mother, Patricia, on July 5, 1998; his brother,

James, on Jan. 17, 2002; and one niece, Madalyn Sautner, on July 1, 2003.Casketbearers will be Darrell Griese and Allen Frost of Hoven, Wes Hem-mah of Whitewood, Alvin Phillips of Gettysburg, Mike Arbach of Sioux Falls and Larry Arbach of Pierre.

Please visit millerlienfh.com to view the tribute video.Lien Funeral Home, Bowdle, is in charge of arrangements.

Phyllis A. MarvelAberdeen: Memorial ser-vices for Phyllis A. Marvel, 85, of Aberdeen will be held at a later date.

Phyl l i s died Fri-day, Jan. 1, 2016, at Avera St. Luke’s Hosp i ta l , Aberdeen.

At Phyllis’ request, she was cremated and per-sonally wrote this obitu-ary. Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, 1111 S. Main St., is in charge of arrangements.Phyllis Ann Smith was born Dec. 19, 1930, in Broadland to Milton and Leta (Urban) Smith. She grew up and attended ru-ral schools near Hitchcock. The family moved to Hu-ron, where she graduat-ed from the Huron High School with the class of 1948. Upon graduation, she worked for the Benson Optical Company in Hu-ron. She married Robert Marvel on Sept. 3, 1949, in Marshall, Minn. They made their home in Huron and, in 1957, they moved to Minneapolis, Minn., and in 1965, they moved to Ab-erdeen. Phyllis belonged to First United Methodist Church in Aberdeen, the church choir, organ guild and former Clio Study Club.

Grateful for having shared Phyllis’ life are her husband, Robert Marvel; twin sons: Gregory Marvel, Benson, Ariz., and Bradley Marvel, Hampshire, Ill.; and grandsons: Casey and Cody Colemer.She was preceded in death by her daughter, Monica Colemer; parents, Milton and Leta Smith; and siblings: Lois Thomp-son, Robert Smith and Ce-cil Smith.

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Richard NehlsPierpont: Richard Nehls, 90, of Pierpont passed away Jan. 5, 2016, at San-ford Medical Center in Webster.

Services are pending with Paetznick-Garness Funeral Chapel, Groton.

Janice L. BartlettGettysburg: Janice L. Bartlett, 58, of Gettysburg passed away Jan. 4, 2016, at Avera Gettysburg Hos-pital.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at United Methodist Church, Blunt, with Pastor Kori Lehrkamp presiding.Burial will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blunt.Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.Luce Funeral Home of Gettysburg has been entrusted with Janice’s arrangements.

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Mildred DummerAberdeen: Mildred Dum-mer, 91, of Aberdeen died Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, at Avera St. Luke’s Hospital, Aberdeen.

Arrangements are pend-ing with Spitzer-Miller Fu-neral Home, 1111 S. Main St., Aberdeen.spitzerfuneralhome.com

James ‘Jim’ DuncanLemmon: Rosary service for James “Jim” Duncan, 82, of Lemmon will be 10 a.m., followed by the Mass at 10:30 a.m., on Jan. 8 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Lemmon.

Burial, with mili-tary honors, at Greenhill Cemetery.Visitation is from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Evan-son Jensen Funeral Home, Lemmon.Survivors include wife, Ilene; daughters: Tammy (Don) Rieger, Milbank and Kimberly (Jon) Lutz, New England, N.D.; son, Steven (Jackie) Duncan, Water-town; six grandchildren; and sister, Phyllis Merkel.evanson jensen funera lhome.com

Marie GutenbergAberdeen: Marie Guten-berg, 85, of Aberdeen passed away Jan. 4, 2016, at her home.

Mass of Christian burial is 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at St. Mary’s Catho-lic Church, Aberdeen.Burial follows at St. Mary’s Cemetery. Schriv-er’s Memorial Mortuary and Crematory, Aberdeen, is handling arrangements.

Visitation is from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the church, with a liturgical wake held at 7 p.m. Visi-tation continues one hour before Mass. No visita-tion will take place at the mortuary.schriversmemorial.com

Gregory ‘Greg’ StrutzOakes, N.D.: Gregory “Greg” Strutz, 67, of Oakes passed away Jan. 4, 2016, at Oakes Community Hos-pital.

His memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Fri-day, Jan. 8, 2016, at Grace Lutheran Church, Oakes, with Pastor Tina Mills oficiating.An online guestbook may be signed at dahlstr

Robert ‘Bob’ WehdeAberdeen: Memorial ser-vices for Robert “Bob” We-hde, 85, of Aberdeen will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at United Methodist Church, Groton. Pastor Tom Carlson will oficiate.

Inurnment, with mil-itary honors, will follow in Union Cemetery, Gro-ton, under the direction of Paetznick-Garness Funeral Chapel, Groton.Bob passed away Dec. 21, 2015, at Banner Heart Hospital in Mesa, Ariz.

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POLICE/FIRE CALLSAlcohol/drugs: Police were called to the 1400 block of 15th Avenue Southeast at 2:24 p.m. Tuesday for a report of drugs.Theft: Police were called to the 100 block of Third Curve at 11:18 a.m. Tues-day for a reported theft.Theft: Police were called to the 2100 block of Sixth Avenue Southeast at 10:16 p.m. Monday for a reported theft.Harassment: Police were called to the 2400 block of Sixth Avenue Southeast at 9:29 p.m. Monday for a

report of harassment.Alcohol/drugs: Police were called to the 500 block of Second Avenue Northeast at 5:17 p.m. Monday for a report of drugs.Theft: Police were called to the 700 block of Sixth Avenue Southeast at 4:35 p.m. Monday for a report-ed theft.

Note: Reports at the 100 block of Second Avenue Southeast are generally reports made at the police department. For recent crime reports in Aberdeen, go to crimereports.com/map?search=aberdeen+sd.

DAILY CALENDARTODAYNewcomers Club Lunch and Cards: 11:30 a.m., Ramkota Hotel, 1400 Eighth Ave. N.W.Weight Watchers: 11:45 a.m. weigh-in, 12:15 p.m. meeting, Super City Mall, 2201 Sixth Ave. S.E.Alcoholics Anonymous: 1 and 8:30 p.m. (both closed; 8:30 nonsmok-ing), Yellow House, 519 S. Arch St. 605-225-1292.

Narcotics Anonymous: 1 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1410 N. Kline St. Use southeast door, down-stairs. 605-262-1159.Weight Watchers: 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30 p.m. meet-ing, Super City Mall, 2201 Sixth Ave. S.E.Family history research: 5-9 p.m., free instruction on genealogical research. Aberdeen Family History Center, 1103 24th Ave. N.E. Call 605-225-0407.

LIVING — Life In Violence in the New Generation: A support group for teenage girls, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Safe Harbor, 310 S. Kline St. Women Survivors of Abuse (physical, emo-

tional, sexual): 5:30 p.m., Safe Harbor, 310 S. Kline St. Cost: free. 605-226-1212.TOPS No. 125: 5:45-7 p.m., Presentation Sister House, North Conference Room in basement, 1500 N. Second St., 605-225-7178.

Alcoholics Anonymous Sixth Sense: Topic meet-ing: 7 p.m. (closed/non-smoking), 422 Fifth Ave. S.E. (west door); Rich, 605-380-4784.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Nonsmoking, 8:30 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 1732 S. Main St.

THURSDAYWeight Watchers: 9:30 a.m. weigh-in, 10 a.m. meeting, Super City Mall, 2201 Sixth Ave. S.E.Weekly lunch: 12:10 p.m., dining room, Masonic Temple, 503 S. Main St.Alcoholics Anonymous: 1, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. (all closed meetings), Yellow House, 519 S. Arch St., 605-225-1292.

GriefShare: 4 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 502 S. Lincoln St., com-munity room.Alcoholics Anonymous Sixth Sense: Beginners Big Book: 5:30 p.m. (closed/nonsmoking), 422 Fifth Ave. S.E. (west door); Rich, 605-380-4784.

Yelduz Shrine Women’s Auxiliary: Meal at 6 p.m., meeting at 7 p.m., Yel-duz Shrine Center, 802 S. Main St.DivorceCare: 6:30 p.m., First United Method-ist Church Community Room, 502 S. Lincoln St.Steps 2 Recovery, Al-

Anon family group: 6:30-

7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1429 N. Dakota St. Use north entrance. Sherry, 605-229-4531.Narcotics Anonymous: 7-8:30 p.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 503 S. Jay St., use back door. 605-262-1159.

Aerie and Auxiliary meetings: 7:30 p.m., Ea-gles Club, 316 S. Second St.

FRIDAYChristian Businessmen’s Committee meeting: 6:30 a.m., Millstone Family Restaurant, 2210 Sixth Ave. S.E.Alcoholics Anonymous: 1 and 8:30 p.m. (all closed meetings), Yellow House, 519 S. Arch St. 605-225-1292.

Alcoholics Anonymous Sixth Sense: Pamphlet: 6 p.m. (closed/nonsmok-ing), 422 Fifth Ave. S.E. (west door); Rich, 605-380-4784.

Narcotics Anonymous: Open speaker meeting, 6-7:30 p.m., upstairs, Yel-low House, 519 S. Arch St., 605-262-1159.Email your regular support group or club meetings for the Daily Calendar to [email protected]. Include town, event, time, place and a number to contact if there are questions. Publication in this calendar is not guaranteed.

SETTING IT STRAIGHTBud and Owen’s: Schyler Kumpf’s name was mis-spelled in a Tuesday sto-ry about Bud and Owen’s closing.Walworth County acci-dent: Eric Martinmaas’s name was misspelled in

a Tuesday story about a trafic accident in the Sel-by area.Wrong date: Harry S. Truman delivered his Fair Deal address in 1949. The year was wrong in Tues-day’s Today in History.

We regret the errors. The American News tries to be fair and accurate. Errors discovered by our staff or our readers will be corrected in this space. If you ind an error, email [email protected].

COURTJennifer Rose McBride, 16, of 1601 Milwaukee Ave., tobacco violation, ined $95.Kathryn Marie Lindquist, 55, of 1915 10th Ave. S.E., No. 5, stop sign viola-tion, ined $120.Joshua Henry Bumann, 24, Bismarck, N.D., speeding, ined $105.Hayden Evan Williams, 24, Casa Grande, Ariz., speeding, ined $85.James King Reed, 46, Baytown, Texas, speeding, ined $125.William Remy Whiteside, 31, of 12963 Richmond Heights Drive, speeding, ined $105.

Ky., seat belt violation, ined $25.Steven Arthur Woodring, 48, Redield, seat belt violation, ined $25.Katelyn Marie Caulield, 22, Frazee, Minn., speeding, ined $85.Andrew John Weyer, 16, of 1619 S. Melgaard Road, use or possession of drug paraphernalia, ined $270.Gary Raymond Rowley, 61, Pierpont,

seat belt violation, ined $25.Erik Russell Nolte, 28, of 2318 13th Ave. S.E., warning ticket violation, ined $120.Melyssa Mette Stein, 18, of 301 S. Washington St., No. 9, unauthorized use of vehicle by restricted licensee, ined $120.Eric Allen Jones, 27, of 414 N. State St., unauthorized use of vehicle by restricted licensee, ined $120.Michaela Lee Smith, 20, Watertown, seat belt violation, ined $25.Hamdi Ahmed Mohamud, 22, of 11 Ninth Ave. N.E., No. 5, parking/standing violation, ined $91.50.Ronald James Geffre, 67, Leola, seat belt violation, ined $25.Whitney Ann Rosebrock, 18, of 1803 N. Jay St., failure to yield after stop, ined $120.

Stephanie Joe Ramsdell, 34, of 1524 S. Lawson St., No. 202, theft by insuficient funds check, ined $240 and

the jail sentence suspended.Alisha Marie Rombs, 31, of 213 Sev-enth Curve, failure to maintain inancial responsibility, ined $125 and sentenced to 30 days in jail with all of the jail sentence suspended.Beverly Parsons, age unavailable, of 809 S. McCoy St., No. 8, theft by insuficient funds check, ined $116 and sentenced to 30 days in jail with all of the jail sentence suspended.Rayce William Harder, 18, Groton, reckless driving, ined $520 and sen-tenced to 60 days in jail with all of thejail sentence suspended.Syndi Raye Ernzen, 56, Ipswich, speeding, ined $125.Jay Matthew Menning, 39, of 2410 S. Dakota St., speeding, ined $105.Patricia Ann Bruce, 55, of 1315 S. Lawson St., No. 52, speeding, ined $125.Kelsey Jo Etl, 22, of 710 S. 11th St., speeding, ined $125; seat belt violation, ined $25.

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REMEMBERING THREE DAYS OF TERROR

POOL PHOTO BY BENOIT TESSIER AFP/GETTY IMAGES

French car-toonist Sté-phane Char-bonnier orCharb, killed inthe attack onthe satiricalnewspaperCharlie Hebdo,is captured in apainting.

In a ceremony in Paris on Tuesday, French President François Hol-lande greets the mother of Ahmed Merabet, a police officer whowas killed in last January’s terror attacks. Seventeen people died inthe Jan. 7-9 assault on ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and a Jewish supermarket.

POOL PHOTO BY BENOIT TESSIERWreath from President FrançoisHollande and Paris Mayor AnneHidalgo honors the victims.

CHRISTOPHER FURLONG, GETTY IMAGESDemonstrators took to the streets inParis last year after the Januaryattacks.

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U.S. auto sales endstrong, set record

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LAS VEGAS If you want to see theautomobile’s past, visit a vastdealership lot. If you want toglimpse its future, hit the Con-sumer Electronics Show. The annual tech gathering isfast becoming the place to show-case new automotive tech. Withnine automakers and 115 auto-re-lated companies demonstratingtheir wares this year, it’s stealing

some of the thunder from the De-troit Auto Show, which takesplace next week.CES is also turning out to be aplace to sketch out the roadmapto a connected, shared and ulti-mately driverless transportationexperience.

Ford announced Tuesday thatit would be tripling the number ofautonomous vehicles it will beroad testing in various states,while also pursuing projects withtech giants such as Amazon thatwould allow Ford vehicle ownersto leverage the cloud to accesstheir Internet of Things homeproducts.Chevy o�ered test rides in its

forthcoming 200-mile range, bat-tery-powered Bolt, which engi-neers said was deliberatelydesigned as a ride-sharing vehi-cle, intriguing considering GM’sMonday announcement that it

was investing $500 million inride-sharing company Lyft.Toyota executives said Tuesdaythat they would be pushing intothe artificial intelligence space tocreate a self-driving car.

And in perhaps one of themore curious auto events herethis week, mysterious Chinese-backed Faraday Future unveiled arakish, tech-stu�ed supercar onMonday that didn’t seem to di-rectly address the growing call tomake fewer and more practicalcars. The hallmark of all this CEScar talk is synergy. There is an un-precedented amount of collabo-ration on display as automakersseek to agree upon shared plat-forms in order to avoid the Beta-max vs. VHS tech debacle of the1980s. It’s clear that the consum-er is in the driver’s seat, and autocompanies are taking direction.

At CES this year, they are really reinventing the wheelAuto’s future ondisplay at tech fest

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WASHINGTON The centerpiece ofthe new White House proposal tocurb gun violence aims to directmore applicants to a gun dealerlicensing system that already isweighted in favor of aspiring fire-arm dealers, manufacturers andimporters over insuring the near-

ly 140,000 licensees follow feder-al regulations, according togovernment records.Up to 10,000 new business ap-plications received each year bythe Bureau of Alcohol TobaccoFirearms and Explosives are giv-en heightened priority by a groupof a little more than 600 industryinvestigators who must issue de-cisions within 60 days of a fullycompleted application’s receipt.The same group of investigatorsis tasked with conducting period-ic compliance inspections of tensof thousands of licensed gun

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Gunmakers’stocks rally Investors anticipate a rise infirearm sales. IN MONEY

President tears upat unveiling “Every time I think about thosekids, it gets me mad.” IN NEWS

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WASHINGTON U.S. employerswill soon begin bringing in thou-sands more low-skilled foreignworkers to fill seasonal jobs rang-ing from ski lift operators to crabpickers.Critics said a newly expandedvisa program — approved by Con-gress last month as part of a mas-sive spending bill — will exploitforeign workers, take jobs fromAmericans and hold down wages.“What business owners aretrying to get here is captive work-

ers — people who are desperateand won’t complain no matterhow they are treated,” said MarkKrikorian, executive director ofthe Center for Immigration Stud-ies, which wants to reduce immi-gration to the USA. “They’reimporting a servile class. There’sno excuse for this.”Supporters of the bigger H-2Bvisa program said it will help U.S.businesses hire enough people todo the temporary work that is vi-tal for companies to meet con-sumer demand during peakseasons, whether it’s summer at abeach resort or spring at a gar-dening company. The “seasonal”work can last as long as 10months at a time.

“Our members’ businesses arenow spared the devastating hit

they would have faced this springwithout the availability of H-2Bworkers,” said Sabeena Hickman,CEO of the National Associationof Landscape Professionals.“Landscape professionals will beable to hire needed seasonalworkers, support their Americanworkforce and provide their cus-

tomers with the continued ser-vice that they rely on.”The seasonal worker provision,sought by a coalition of industrygroups that includes hotels, res-taurants, resorts, constructioncompanies and seafood proces-sors, allows U.S. companies tobring in far more than the 66,000workers a year that have beenpermitted to obtain visas in thepast. The H-2B visa program doesnot include farmworkers.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said opponents are exagger-ating the impact of the legisla-tion. He points to an estimate bythe Congressional Budget O�cethat the bill will bring in an addi-tional 8,000 seasonal workers in2016, at a cost of about $1 millionin extra health care costs.

U.S. to bring more foreign workersCritics say visa ruleallows ‘captive’ labor

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Kuwait recallsenvoy to IranLatest ally of Saudi Arabia to cut ties withTehran after fires set atSaudi Embassy.

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Quentin Tarantino pre-

fers his characters to

be more hateful than

heroic.

So when you strand a blizzard-

bound bunch of his ne’er-do-well

creations into one cabin, as in the

filmmaker’s new The Hateful

Eight, things get very combusti-

ble very quickly. Just the way he

likes it.“I don’t know if you would call

everybody in the piece a villain,

but they’re all fairly hateful. That

was a good word to use, better

than Eight Bad Guys,” Tarantino

says with a laugh. “Some might be

more likable than others.”

But the filmmaker has a histo-

ry of those kinds of personas

in all his movies, says Walton

Goggins, who was in Tarantino’s

Django Unchained and is also in

Hateful Eight — “people on the

fringes of society or who live

these alternative lifestyles or who

find themselves in situations

based on their karmic actions.”

It’s an especially touchy crew

Tarantino has in his new film:

a couple of post-Civil War bounty

hunters in Major Marquis

Warren (Samuel L. Jackson)

and John “The Hangman” Ruth

(Kurt Russell); vicious fugitive

Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason

Leigh); soon-to-be sheri� Chris

Mannix ( Goggins); the seemingly

helpful Mexican Bob (Demián

Bichir); chatty executioner Os-

waldo Mobray (Tim Roth); elder-

ly Southern general Sanford

Smithers (Bruce Dern); and a guy

known for punching cows, Joe

Gage (Michael Madsen).

There is no moral center, and

all of them have at the very least

done some questionable things —

which means you can’t really

trust any of them.

“People tell you what they did

and who they are, but you don’t

know if that’s true or not,” Taran-

tino says. “I didn’t want you to

have any sure-footed knowledge

about any of the charac-

ters and let them hash it

out and just deal with it

that way.”

The Hateful Eight re-

sembles the group setting

of the filmmaker’s first

movie, 1992’s Reservoir Dogs,

which is pretty much packed to

the limit with criminals. In Pulp

Fiction (1994), Jackson’s Jules

Winnfield is a hitman who spouts

Bible verses and wrestles with his

place in the universe. And the

American World War II soldiers

of 2009’s Inglourious Basterds

scalp and kill captured Nazis and

plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in

the coldest blood possible.

“They’re human beings.

There’s 360 degrees to them.

There’s bad sides, good sides,”

Russell says. “The flow of the sto-

rytelling comes from his charac-

ter behavior and getting to know

these people and getting to care

about them.”

What makes The Hateful Eight

cool for Jackson is how the

movie’s large cast of characters

engage in an enclosed, increasing-

ly volatile environment, which

emphasizes Tarantino’s ability “to

write for all kinds of people, create

all these diverse characters and

make all those things work for us.”

In fact, the paranoia and dis-

trust among these characters is

so strong that “it just bounced o�

the walls of the shelter until it

had nowhere else to go but

through the fourth wall into the

audience,” Tarantino says. “And

that’s what I was going for.”

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latest movie,

among them Kurt

Russell, Jennifer

Jason Leigh and

Tim Roth.

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hopes to go out on a high note.

Fox’s one-time ratings jugger-

naut and pop-culture force that

launched superstars heads into

its final season Wednesday

(8 p.m. ET/PT) as sharply declin-

ing ratings claim a show that once

seemed as if it might go on

forever.Judges Harry Connick Jr., Jen-

nifer Lopez and Keith Urban, and

host Ryan Seacrest, are searching

for the 15th American Idol, but

they know the end is coming.

“All of us (realize) this is the

last time we’ll do each one of

these episodes,” Seacrest says.

“This year, I want to make sure I

am present and enjoying every

single aspect of what makes this

show great.”

With a shorter schedule ending

in April, the 15th season will mix

Idol’s past and present, starting

with winners and stars from ear-

lier seasons — Ruben Studdard,

Clay Aiken, Taylor Hicks, Kris

Allen, Lee DeWyze and Nick

Fradiani — advising singers at

early auditions. The original

three judges — Paula Abdul, Si-

mon Cowell and Randy Jackson

— are expected back, too.

Executive producer Trish Ki-

nane won’t confirm who among

Idol’s stars will return — inaugu-

ral winner Kelly Clarkson, Carrie

Underwood, Jennifer Hudson,

Fantasia, Jordin Sparks, Chris

Daughtry, Adam Lambert? — but

says, “Everybody we’ve spoken to

(is) really positive about being

part of this farewell season.”

That list is Idol’s legacy,

Connick says.

“The people who have come

through the ranks of American

Idol are so numerous and diverse,

from Grammy winners to Oscar

winners to people on Broadway,”

he says. “I don’t think there’s any

show that comes this close in

terms of success rate.”

Although the series hasn’t pro-

duced a superstar in some years,

the judges say the new crop could

have what it takes.

“I think we have a couple of

stars, (but) they have to prove over

time that they’re a star with their

performances, their consistency,

how they handle pressure,” Lopez

says. “The girls really stand out. If

we could have, we probably would

have had 20 girls in the top 24.”

Although Idol is now less popu-

lar than NBC’s knocko� The

Voice, its core appeal remains.

“It’s a Cinderella story. For

someone like me, it’s the Ameri-

can Dream,” Australian Urban

says. “You can come from a little

nowhere town with no connec-

tions, no money, no nothing —

just raw talent and drive and am-

bition. And you can make it.

That’s what Idol o�ers and people

still want to believe in that.”

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Judges Keith Urban, left, Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr.

are back on deck for the final season of Fox’s American Idol.

Vanessa Redgrave appealed

for international assistance in

Europe’s migrant crisis during

her visit to a shelter in Athens.

She told the Associated Press

that Greece, a common entry

into Europe for asylum-seekers,

offers a “lesson in humanity”

for other nations.

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Two of Coachella’s headlining

sets also will be high-profile

reunions. Heavy-metal legends

Guns ’N Roses will join forces

after two decades to headline

the Saturday sets of the two-

weekend fest in California. LCD

Soundsystem, which broke up

in 2011, will close the Friday sets.

Rounding out Sundays’

headlining sets is

DJ (and Taylor

Swift beau)

Calvin

Harris.

FESTIVAL TRACKER

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GOOD DAY

ADAM DRIVER

The ‘Star

Wars’ actor

continues his hot

streak into 2016,

hosting the first

‘Saturday Night

Live’ of the new

year Jan. 16.

Another star

who had a

big 2015 is country singer

Chris Stapleton, who joins

as musical guest.

HOW WAS YOUR DAY?

GOOD DAY

RONDA ROUSEY

In what’s likely

to be her first

major TV

appearance

since her

crushing UFC

title fight loss

in November,

Rousey will host

‘SNL’ Jan. 23,

with Selena

Gomez performing.

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“To me the

movie was so

educational.

Honestly, I

learned so

much ... Over the

last nine months

that I’ve been

out I’ve learned

so much about

this community.” — Caitlyn Jenner,

speaking at a Los Angeles

screening of the trans drama

‘Tangerine’

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Automakers posted a solid 9%sales gain in December, an excla-mation point that sealed 2015 asthe biggest sales year ever for theindustry, they reported Tuesday.

All told, automakers sold 17.47million vehicles for the year, Au-todata reported, besting whatKelley Blue Book reported as theprevious record, 17.35 million in2000. Low gas prices, cheap cred-it, low unemployment, soaringconsumer confidence and warmweather fueled a rush into show-rooms in December.

“The U.S. economy continuesto expand, and the most impor-tant factors that drive demand fornew vehicles are in place, so weexpect to see a second consecu-tive year of record industry salesin 2016,” said Mustafa Mohata-rem, GM’s chief economist, in astatement.

Still, sales success for individ-ual automakers presented amixed bag. Detroit’s Big 3 faredwell for December and the year.

General Motors had a 5.7% salesincrease in December, Ford Mo-tor saw an 8.3% boost and FiatChrysler sales rose 12.6%, accord-ing to Autodata. Tesla Motorsdoubled sales during the monthand sold 23,650 of its luxury elec-tric cars in the U.S. for the year.

Among Asian makers, Toyotasaw a 10.3% increase for themonth, Honda was at 9.9% andNissan at 8.7%. But for the fullyear, they came in lower, withToyota posting a 5.3% increase.

One laggard was German auto-maker Volkswagen Group, which

still cannot sell diesel vehiclesamid an emissions scandal, down3.4% overall. The automaker’sVolkswagen brand sales fell 9.1%in December and 4.8% for theyear. The company’s Audi luxurybrand, which has felt a smallerimpact from the scandal,achieved a 6% gain in Decemberand 11.1% for the year. Anotherloser for the month was Hyundai,saddled with a car-heavy lineupduring the SUV surge, down 1.5%.

Consumers continued their ex-odus from less-lucrative cars intocrossovers, sport-utility vehiclesand pickups amid low gasolineprices. At 13.9% market share, thesmall SUV segment is now thelargest category of vehicles in theU.S., trailed by small cars andmidsize cars at 13.7% apiece, ac-cording to Kelley Blue Book.

“There’s no end in sight tothose trends,” AutoTrader.comanalyst Michelle Krebs said.

Crossovers such as the ToyotaRAV4, the Nissan Rogue and theJeep Renegade delivered a robustshowing in December. The FordF-Series pickup, the most popularvehicle in the U.S., rose 14.6% inDecember.

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President Obama’s proposalsto tighten gun rules announcedTuesday can’t take at least onething away: the rally in gunstocks.

Shares of the key three gun-maker stocks — Smith & Wesson,

Vista Outdoor and Sturm, Ruger— jumped an average of 7% Tues-day as investors anticipated aboost in firearm sales by consum-ers looking to lock in their pur-chases before tougher rules arepassed.

Strong performance by gunstocks is in stark contrast to therest of the market. The broadmarket had a ho-hum 2015 and iso� to a shaky 2016 so far. But gunstocks have been a beacon ofstrength. So far this year, thethree gunmakers’ stocks are up10.8% on average as the Standard

& Poor’s 500 has sunk 1.3%.Those big gains come o� a re-markable year for gun stocks in2015. The three gun stocks

jumped an average of 78.1% in2015 — a huge gain when the S&P500 dropped 0.7%.

Several large mutual fundcompanies including Fidelity andVanguard have been huge win-ners from the gun-stock rally.

Consumers have been rushingto load up on guns and ammo forfear the government would makeit tougher to get new weapons.Recent violence around the worldhas stoked interest by regulatorsto tighten rules, especially withbackground checks.

Smith & Wesson has been the

best-performing gun stock, jump-ing 132.1% in 2015 and 17.7% thisyear so far.

Late Monday, Smith & Wessonindicated its financial perfor-mance would be better than ex-pected. “The sell-through rate ofits products at distribution hasbeen stronger than originally an-ticipated,” the company said in arelease.

Smith & Wesson’s revenue isexpected to surge 18% to $650million in the current fiscal yearended in April, says S&P CapitalIQ.

Gunmakers see boost from Obama plan Gun stocks’ performance is stellar:

Company2015 % change

YTD % change

Sturm, Ruger 72.1% 9.9%Smith & Wesson

132.1% 17.7%

Vista Outdoor 29.9% 4.9%SOURCES: S&P CAPITAL IQ, USA TODAY

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Stocks jump Tuesdayas investors anticipaterise in firearm sales

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COMPANY ORDERED TO PAYFOR BATHROOM BREAKSA company near Philadelphiahas been ordered to pay up to$1.75 million in back wages tomore than 6,000 employeesafter it neglected to pay forbathroom breaks, according tothe Department of Labor. Amer-ican Future Systems, also knownas Progressive Business Publica-tions, docked its telemarketers’wages “for virtually all time notspent making sales calls, some-times bringing their wages be-low the federal minimum wage,”the DOL said. “Our company hasa liberal break policy of allowingour telemarketers to chooseunpaid breaks anytime, for anyreason, for as long as they want,”company President EdwardSatell said Tuesday.

EUROZONE INFLATION HOLDS STEADY AT 0.2%Lower energy costs kept a lid oninflation across the 19-countryeurozone in December. TheEuropean Union’s statistics agen-cy found annual consumer priceinflation held steady at 0.2%.Energy prices, down 5.9% on theyear, were the cause for lowinflation, which remains wellbelow the European CentralBank’s target of just under 2%.

SPIRIT SHARES UP AFTER NEW CEO ANNOUNCEDSpirit Airlines said Tuesday it hasnamed Robert Fornaro, a long-time airline executive who oncehelmed AirTran, as its new presi-dent and CEO. Fornaro will re-place Ben Baldanza, a flashyand impassioned champion ofSpirit’s no-frills style who steeredthe carrier to profits, then over-saw a rapid expansion into ri-vals’ territory that may havehelped undermine its financialperformance. Investors seemedpleased with the move. Spirit’sshares closed up 5.9% at $41.50.

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The top auto sellers in December,with U.S. sales, percentagechange from December 2014 andU.S. market share last month:

Sales Chg. ShareGM 290,230 5.7% 17.7%Toyota 238,350 10.8% 14.5%Ford 237,606 8.3% 14.5%Fiat/Chrysler 217,527 12.6% 13.2%

Honda 150,893 9.9% 9.2%Nissan 139,300 18.7% 8.5%Hyundai 63,508 -1.5% 3.9%Subaru 56,274 12.7% 3.4%Kia 54,241 19% 3.3%Volks-wagen 52,015 -3.4% 3.2%

SOURCE: AUTODATA

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dealers.Though the goal is to reviewthe operations of federal licens-ees every three to five years,“there are numbers of licenseesthat have not been seen in morethan five years,” said Ed Court-ney, chief of the ATF’s FirearmsIndustry Branch.

“We are spending more timeputting more people in businessthan inspecting (licensees),”Courtney said.In 2014, according to records,the ATF conducted 12,404 fire-arm license application reviews,while compliance inspectionsnumbered 10,429. There were atotal of 140,446 licensees in 2014,including 55,512 individual fire-arm dealers.

The Obama administration, aspart of a series of executive ac-tions announced Tuesday tocombat gun violence, is attempt-ing to push more private firearmdealers to obtain federal licenses,so buyers would be required tosubmit to criminal backgroundchecks. Such checks are requiredon all purchases from licenseddealers, while many privatetransfers on the Internet and atgun shows have not been subjectto that level of scrutiny.President Obama called for theaddition of 200 ATF investigatorsand 230 examiners for the FBI’sNational Instant Criminal Back-ground Check System (NICS) tohelp process background reviewsof gun buyers more e�ciently. Former ATF o�cials wel-comed the proposal for an infu-sion of additional investigators,but they said compliance inspec-tions of licensees have laggedover the years as the agency’sbudget for personnel and re-sources has remained largely flatfor almost a decade.When Michael Sullivan tookover as the ATF’s acting directorin 2006, he said some dealers hadnot been inspected in more than10 years. The lapse prompted areinvigorated inspection systemas the agency sought to stop theflow of guns from the USA to drugtra�cking operations in Mexico.“The (uneven inspection sys-tem) was tremendously unfair tothe ATF and to firearm dealersbecause many want to do theright thing,” Sullivan said.He described the plan to add200 investigators to the ATF — aproposal that must be approvedby Congress — as a potentially“huge benefit.” Others said manymore investigators were neededto put the agency on firmerfooting.“It is fact that thousands offirearms licensees are never in-spected, never,” said Ben Hayes, aformer ATF o�cial who oversawparts of the ATF’s National Trac-ing Center for more than a dec-ade. “The president’s new

initiatives are long overdue, butATF needs more than 200 newemployees to allow for enforce-ment. There will still be thou-sands who are never inspected.”In detailing parts of the ad-ministration’s new strategy, At-

torney General Loretta Lynchsaid it is “impossible to predict”how many additional gun dealerswill be required to register or facepossible criminal prosecution. The push to license more deal-ers represents a reversal of sorts

for the government, which in theearly 1990s sought to discouragethose who wanted to obtain li-censes for legal cover to engage ininterstate gun purchases. To cutdown on such commerce, thegovernment raised license feesfrom as little as $10 and $25 to afee that stands at $200.The fee changes, former ATFo�cials said, contributed to adramatic decline in the numberof individual dealer licenseesfrom 213,734 in 1994 to about50,000 in 2007.“There was always this tensionover whether someone should belicensed or not,” former ATF di-rector Bradley Buckles said, add-ing that federal authoritiessought to better ensure that theuniverse of licensees did notovertax the agency’s capacity toconduct compliance inspections.“The resources available toconduct compliance inspectionsalways has been an issue,” Buck-les said.

Though the number of federallicensees (dealers, manufacturers

and importers) in the USA de-clined slightly in 2015, from140,446 in 2014 to 138,659, Court-ney said the agency has beenprocessing a steady stream ofnew applications — up to 10,000— each year throughout the USA.About 99% of those applica-tions are approved within 60 daysof receipt. The number of new li-censees is o�set each year bythousands of other dealers wholeave the business or allow theirlicenses to expire. Last year,about 6,000 dealers went out ofbusiness, Courtney said. Theoverall number of dealers has re-mained fairly flat since 2013, aftersurging from 124,946 in 2011.The period of acceleratedgrowth included the aftermath ofthe Newtown, Conn., elementaryschool massacre in 2012 and sub-sequent federal gun control pro-posals that prompted record gunsales in the USA. The administra-tion’s major proposals, includinguniversal background checks, lan-guished in Congress.

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A map Tuesday showing Mus-lim countries that are majoritySunni or Shiite mislabeled Bah-rain. It is majority Shiite, with aSunni-led government.

WASHINGTON President Obamaannounced a series of executiveactions on guns Tuesday, focus-ing on the victims of gun vio-lence in a White House eventintended to prod Congress totake further action. Speaking to an East Room au-dience packed with the familiesof gun violence victims, gunowners and gun control advo-cates, an often emotional Oba-ma broke into tears whentalking about the 20 first-grad-ers gunned down at Sandy HookElementary School in Connecti-cut three years ago. “First-graders,” he said, paus-ing to wipe away tears and com-pose himself. “Every time Ithink about those kids, it getsme mad.”The executive actions — firstpreviewed by the White Houseon Monday — would attempt toclamp down on unlicensed gunsellers who exploit an exceptionfor hobbyists and collectors in

order to avoid having to runcriminal background checks ongun purchasers. Many of thosesellers, Obama said, are runninga business by selling guns at gunshows and online.“The problem is that somegun sellers have been operatingby a di�erent set of rules,” hesaid. Obama said the admini-stration is also beefing up en-forcement, streamlining thebackground check system, in-vesting $500 million in mentalhealth care and researching“smart gun” technology.“If a child can’t open a bottleof aspirin, we should make surethey can’t pull a trigger on agun,” he said.

Obama said the actions he’staking are consistent with gunrights. “I believe in the Second

Amendment. ... No matter howmuch people try to twist mywords around, I taught constitu-tional law. I know a little bitabout this. I get it,” he said.“This is not a plot to take awayeverybody’s guns.”But Obama argued that justlike the First Amendmentdoesn’t allow someone to yell“fire” in a crowded theater,there are common-sense mea-sures that could keep guns outout of the hands of people whoshouldn’t have them. And he ar-gued that Second Amendmentrights shouldn’t infringe on therights of people to safely wor-ship in Christian churches, Jew-ish synagogues, Sikh templesand Muslim mosques — all ofwhich have been targets of gunviolence in recent years. “Theyhad rights, too,” he said.

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“Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad,” Presi-dent Obama said about the Sandy Hook victims.

Emotional Obamaunveils actions

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MANCHESTER, N.H. New JerseyGov. Chris Christie, his fortunesrising in New Hampshire, saysangry voters are ready to take asecond and more skeptical look atRepublican rivals such as DonaldTrump and Ted Cruz as the open-ing presidential primariesapproach.“Things that might seem un-presidential in January are enter-taining (last) July, right?”Christie said in an interview withCapital Download as he preparedto hold his 46th town hall in theGranite State. “What happens ispeople really start to focus onpicking a president and I thinkthat will lead to some potentialchanges in the way things areoperating.”

That could be wishful thinking.National polls show no erosion inTrump’s double-digit lead overTexas Sen. Cruz, who is in secondplace. But the combative NewJersey governor now is in strikingdistance of leading the establish-ment field in New Hampshire —where he said he hopes a second-place finish to Trump could setan outsider-vs.-insider show-down down the road.Christie warns that nominat-ing an “entertainer-in-chief”(that would be Trump, among

others) or a contender who choseto be “sidelined” during the bigdebates of the past few years (for-mer Florida governor Jeb Bush,for instance) or one who haschanged positions to suit the mo-ment (that’s a reference to Cruz,he says) would risk blowing Re-publican chances of winning back

the White House in November.So would a third-party bid di-vide the GOP?“A third-party candidacy, if it’sone of the people who’s currentlyon the stage, yeah, I think thatwould probably lead to a loss bythe Republican Party” in the gen-eral election, he told USA TO-

DAY’s weekly video newsmakerseries Monday. “There are no silver medals inthis business — you lose, you gohome — so we need to be focusedon that,” Christie went on. Hecalled for the party to unite on“common themes, all geared to-wards defeating Hillary Clintonin the fall, which is what I thinkwe have to be focused on.”Christie argues that senatorslack the executive experience thatpresidents need. So does Trump.“Listen, I think it’s much,much harder — as Barack Obamahas shown — when you have noexperience in the executivebranch of government to come inand run the most complex, di�-cult executive branch the world’sever seen,” he says.Trump may not fully under-stand that, he adds. “I would justtell you that I think governmentalways looks easier from theoutside.”

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Republican presidential candi-dates quickly denounced Presi-dent Obama’s gun announcementTuesday, saying his plans under-cut the Second Amendment andstretch the limits of executivepower.“It’s part of a broader narra-tive,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubiotold Fox News. “And that is thatthis president is obsessed withundermining the Constitution in

general, but the Second Amend-ment in particular.”Former Florida governor JebBush said Obama’s call for en-hanced background checks andother new restrictions “shows anutter disregard for the SecondAmendment as well as the properconstitutional process for makinglaws in our nation.”In his remarks at the WhiteHouse, Obama said he supportsthe constitutional right to beararms. The president said the Re-publican candidates, in concertwith the National Rifle Associa-

tion and other members of the“gun lobby,” have distorted hisplans, and that his proposals donot represent a “slippery slope”toward mass confiscation offirearms.“This is not a plot to take awayeverybody’s guns,” Obama said.Gun rights always are a big is-sue in Republican primary con-tests, including the current one.Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, cam-paigning in Iowa, repeated hispledged to rescind Obama execu-tive orders on gun control, sayingthat “when you live by the pen,

you die by the pen.”Former Arkansas governorMike Huckabee called Obama’sannouncement a “blatant, bellig-erent abuse of power,” and saidthat “I will never bow down andsurrender to Obama’s unconstitu-tional, radical, anti-gun agenda.”Retired neurosurgeon BenCarson tweeted that Obama’s “ac-tions have everything to do withadvancing his political agenda &little to do with actually protect-ing American citizens.”Democratic presidential candi-dates, meanwhile, voiced support

for the president’s actions.The party’s front-runner, Hil-lary Clinton, tweeted that Obamahad taken “a crucial step forwardon gun violence,” and his succes-sor “has to build on that progress— not rip it away.”Vermont Sen. Bernie Sandersalso endorsed the Obama plan,saying in a statement that “a vastmajority of the American people,including responsible gun ownerswho are sickened by the deaths ofso many innocent people, agreewith the common sense reformsannounced today.”

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The plains of northeast South Dakota are the proving ground for a handful of authors.

From adventure to children’s histor-ical iction to an eye-opening memoir on the whys of cancer, local writers are offering different stories and genres. Here’s a rundown of what a few have been working on recently.

Derek KeelingDerek Keeling is

an Oregon transplant who’s found the calm of Redield conducive to writing his second book.

In Portland, Keel-ing was able to join writer’s circles, visit a variety of bookstores and get lots of feed-back from peers that often inluenced his writing.

“In Oregon, I could go and be in-spired at a bookstore or having writ-ers circles and support like that. Here, there are readers, not writ-ers. There isn’t as much support,” he said. “My wife is the support I have here. It’s made it a book of my writing, my ideas and a sprinkling of her inluence. It’s less chaotic in Redield. Things close down at 5:30 p.m. Because you don’t have much to do, you create things to do. You’re either going to write or you’re going to be bored.”

Keeling followed his wife Kyrié to Redield.

“I call it the reverse Oregon Trail. Kyrié moved here to be here with her friend who was preg-nant,” Derek Keeling said. “The she told me there are good peo-ple here, it’s a nice place, there are jobs here, and everything was true.”

Keeling has one book listed on amazon.com, “The Umbras.” It’s a detective mystery he put out in 2011. Now he’s working on a new book, “Nomad’s Island,” that he’s hoping to have published one way or another

Local authors come in variety of genresBY KELDA J.L. PHARRIS

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“The Dandelion Conspiracy,” written by Marie Cleveland, is a historical iction chil-

Keeling

Saturday, January 2, 2016


DIRECTORYPlaces of worship around the Aberdeen area. Call or email for service times and events. Report changes to [email protected] Alliance Church: 1106 S. Roosevelt St., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-225-9724; aberdeenalliance.orgAberdeen Christian Fellowship: 214 First Ave. S.E., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-226-2331; aberdeenchristianfellowship.com

Aberdeen Church of Christ: 1801 S. Lincoln St., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-225-3621; aberdeenchurchofchri.wix.com/churchAberdeen First Assembly of God Church: 1424 24th Ave. N.W., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-225-5322, aberdeenirstassembly.comAberdeen Seventh-Day Adventist Church: 825 12th Ave. S.E., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-225-2185Aberdeen Wesleyan Church: 1701 Eighth Ave. N.E.,

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Evangelical Free Church of Aberdeen: 1801 Eisenhower Circle, Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-229-5080Fairview Baptist: 901 24th Ave. N.E., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-226-4956Faith United Methodist Church: 503 S. Jay St., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-290-5506; aberdeenfaithchurch.blogspot.comFamily Worship Center: 435 U.S. Highway 281 North,

Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-225-5444; aberdeencog.orgFirst Baptist: 1500 E. Melgaard Road, Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-225-9581; fbcaberdeen.comFirst Presbyterian Church: 318 S. Kline St., Aberdeen,

SD 57401; 605-225-6753; presbyterian-aberdeen.comFirst Presbyterian Church: 300 N. Main St., Groton, SD 57445

First Reformed: 818 Ninth Ave. S.E., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-229-5953; aberdeenrcus.orgFirst United Methodist: 502 S. Lincoln St., Aberdeen,

SD 57401; 605-225-5680; aberdeenirst.orgFreedom Worship Center: 202 S. Main St., Suite 330, Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-725-0777; time4freedom.orgGood Shepherd Lutheran: 1429 N. Dakota St., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-229-0846; goodshepherdaberdeen.org

Grace Covenant Lutheran Church (AFLC): Ramkota Theatre Room, 1400 Eighth Ave. N.W., Aberdeen, SD 57401; 605-252-2552 or 605-216-0078Holy Cross Lutheran (LCMC

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Rap and hip-hop aren’t the irst music genres that come to mind when one thinks about faith-based concerts. But Dave Scher-er, who performs under the moniker Agape, thinks the styles are very conducive to getting God’s message to the masses.“I think the thing about hip-hop, when it’s at its best it’s about storytelling and we have the greatest story to tell,” Scherer said. “It invites in people who have been shut out by the church: young people, peo-ple of color. We don’t have the market cornered on any worship preferences. In the end, it all belongs to God.”

Scherer will team his rap and hip-hop lyrics with Rachel Kurtz who croons blues and folk music at the Make A Difference Day concert at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1620 Milwaukee Ave. N.E. The cost is $5 per person or $20 for a family.“People will get differ-ent styles of music,” Scher-er said in a phone inter-view last week. “It’s the same faith and same mes-sage, but in much different packages.”Scherer is a touring musician, author of a book of meditations called “Agap-ology” and does many outreach and minis-terial projects across the globe. He got serious about his faith in college.

“I grew up not feeling the need for faith and Je-sus. I’d been disappointed by inite causes I’d placed my faith in and gotten let down,” Scherer said. “I ended up being invited into a Christian group on campus, seeing people that love each other and I’d nev-er seen

Artist uses hip-hop to facilitate God’s messageBY KELDA J.L. [email protected]

Rap, blues featured at Make A Diference Day concert Tuesday

Dave Scherer performs under the moniker Agape. The hip-hop artist, a cham-

pion of faith-based outreach programs, will bring his unique sound and God’s

message to Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Tuesday for a Make A Diference

Day concert. Courtesy photo

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