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PRESS & DAKOTAN MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015
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Volume 94, Number 10
Monday, April 13, 2015
State Student Council Convention Held In Pierre; Dr. Kindle Receives Award YHS Senior Class
Attends Retreat
BY
ALLIE
THIESSE
During the last week in March
eight students got the chance to
attend the South Dakota State Student Council Convention in Pierre.
Each year students from Yankton
High School s Student Council and
councils from all over the state join
together to brainstorm ideas. This
year the convention hosted 920
students and advisors.
Throughout the students time at
the convention, they learned many
different things to bring back to
their own schools.
Group sessions were held with
topics ranging from Hot Topics in
High School to Camping Survival. The options were endless, and
students had a blast trying new
things.
I did not realize the state student
council convention had so many
participants. The number of
schools represented from across the
state was incredible. I was impressed with the topics of the break
-out sessions for the students. I
really appreciated our school board
president Kathy Greeneway who
took the time to also attend the
awards night with me. We were
able to see a number of our students being recognized., said
Dr.Kindle, Yankton School District. Superintendent.
Student council is immensely
volunteer based and always trying
to come up with new service projects to implement into communities.
Each year the SDSCA conducts
their own service project and donates tie blankets to local shelters
in South Dakota. This year all the
student councils rallied together
and made 80 blankets to be sent to
shelters across the state.
Throughout the year, each school
holds some type of event to raise
money for Children s Miracle Network, who have hospitals in Sioux
Falls and Rapid City. This year the
South Dakota student councils
raised just over $26,000 dollars for
CMN, with Pierre raising the most
at $2000.
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BY
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PHOTO COURTESY OF MRS. KATHY GREENEWAY
ABOVE (L to R): Allie Thiesse, Hunter Lippert, Abbie Rehurek, Kristen Rezac, Dr. Wayne Kindle, Alexis Rezac, Sophie Kouri, Miss Becky Tasa, and Lyndsay Sylvester are shown at the State Student Council Convention in Pierre last month. Dr. Kindle was nominated for the Ivan Dixon Administrator of the year award by Patrick Binder. Dr. Kindle received this honor at the state convention and will represent South Dakota nationally.
Since 2008, Yankton High
School Student Council has received the Outstanding Student
Council Award. This award is
designed to be given to the schools
who have met standards of having
well-rounded programs that benefit
their school, their community, and
the state.
The "Outstanding" program consists of a self-evaluation of the activities and involvement by each
participating student council. The
YHS Student Council is happy to
announce they once again received
the award.
Other awards are given throughout the duration of the convention.
Individuals from Yankton were
also fortunate to receive awards at
SDSCA. Dr. Kindle received the
Ivan Dixon Administrator of the
Year Award, which is presented to
administrators who present the
efforts to enhance all school activities. Dr. Kindle will represent
South Dakota in the national contest. To be qualified for this award,
the recipient is nominated by students in their school district.
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the community and as superintendent has never lost touch with the
students, said Patrick Binder who
nominated Dr. Kindle for the
award.
Dr. Kindle felt honored to receive this award. I was completely
surprised to receive the Ivan Dixon
Administrator of the Year Award.
The special part of this award was
being nominated by your own students. We have very dedicated
students involved with student
council at both the local and state
level. They are outstanding in their
representation of YHS and the
Yankton School District. Our student councils in our elementary
schools, middle school and YHS
do many tremendous events to help
others in our community and other
places. This award isn't so much
about me but the unbelievable
work of our students and their advisors in each of our buildings.
Our students should know how
honored and grateful I am for this
award, said Dr. Kindle.
Two students also received
awards, Patrick Binder and Allie
Thiesse. These students received
the All-State Student Council
Award which is presented to fifteen students across the state.
The application for the All-State
Student Council Award is an extensive process and is calculated
using a point based system.
I felt proud of YHS student
council because they were the ones
who worked behind the scenes to
accomplish all of the projects we
set out to do when I was president,
which is a crucial reason to why I
received this award, stated Patrick
Binder a senior at Yankton High
School.
The YHS student council is highly accomplished and hopes to continue their projects for the coming
years. The projects wouldn t be
able to be accomplished without
their advisor Becky Tasa.
The student council members
would like to extend a enormous
thank you to Ms. Tasa and all her
hard work she puts in to make the
council successful.
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BY
ALLIE
THIESSE
On April 1st a group of businessmen and
women presented their idea to better
Yankton, to 1,217 community members.
The group called Onward Yankton announced they will pay $10,000 to the person who comes up with an idea to help
residents stay in Yankton. This sounds too
good to be true right? There is one catch;
the idea has to be presented within the
next one hundred days.
Most people aren t sure why people
aren t moving to Yankton. Could it be the
location, just over an hour from Sioux
Falls or Sioux City? Yankton has jobs, a
great education program and the lake.
What more would people want? That is
the $10,000 dollar question. Many ideas
have stimulated from reviving the downtown, encouraging the fix of our shopping
mall and even ideas to bring more tourism
to Yankton. The possibilities are endless
to help Yankton grow as a town and community.
Yankton wants young people to stay and
create their life here.
As a Yankton native I love this town
and all it has done for me, so it makes me
sad to see so many talented Yankton students grow up to leave this town to start
their new lives somewhere else, stated
Taylor Hirsch a Mount Marty student.
When the idea was presented to the
Yankton High School students, the next
generation of Yankton, it received a positive impact.
Just moments after Onward Yankton
presented the community with their idea,
their website flooded with dozens of submissions.
I thought it was interesting that they
decided to reach out to high school students in attempt to improve Yankton.
There are a lot of teenagers who have ideas that can help Yankton become more
appealing to families, said Madison Dangler a Yankton High School senior.
Yankton is committed to keep moving
forward and stimulating its economy. The
community needs just one unique idea to
spark a forward motion in growth.
Will Onward Yankton be the solution?
The community will find out in just a
short 100 days, which will be July 9th,
2015 at midnight.
Any ideas can be submitted at OnwardYankton.com and entrants have the
potential to win the $10,000 prize.
On April 8, YHS Seniors
had an opportunity to gather to learn more about wisdom, themselves, and their
classmates. This event was
the 2nd annual Senior
Wisdom Retreat, hosted
by Youth Frontiers.
The Minneapolis company hosts retreats with various focuses in an effort to
to build communities
where students thrive socially, emotionally and
academically.
The focus of the wisdom
retreat, according to Youth
Frontier s website, is to
provide A reflective day
for seniors to gain healthy
closure on their high
school years together and
be challenged to finish the
year with respect and
care.
Youth Frontier also hosts
retreats on the topics of
kindness, courage, respect,
leadership, honor, purpose,
and mind; with programming for 4th graders all the
way to educators.
A majority of the seniors
were no stranger to Youth
Frontiers programming, as
they had the opportunity to
participate in the Respect
retreat as juniors last year.
Maddy Logue, YHS
Senior, noted there were
several similarities between the two retreats, but
also felt there was new
content that was fun and
engaging. Similar to the
junior retreat, the class was
split into four teams by
their birth month, and given comical names.
The teams were Cheerio
(January-March birthdays),
Team Giraffe, (April-June
birthdays), the Rugrats
(July-September birthdays), and Team Yes
(October-December Birthdays).
These teams competed in
various tasks throughout
the day, some for fun and
others to be used as teachable moments.
Logue s favorite activity
was a creative exercise,
Each team was given a
word, and we had to select
a song with that word in it.
From there, we as a team
had to create a dance that
matched the song.
Not all the activities
were fun and games.
Throughout the day, students were inspired by the
words of wisdom imparted
to them from the retreat
leaders, and they also had
time to discuss what wisdom meant to them.
In addition to the opportunity to learn about wisdom, the students also
were encouraged to process some of the emotions
they might have about
graduation and leaving the
people they have spent so
much time with over the
past four years.
In conjunction with this
lesson, students ended the
day by gathering in a circle
around a campfire and
honored their fellow classmates by sharing moments
they felt their classmates
had shown wisdom.
Although she does not
consider herself an emotional person, Logue felt
this experience encouraged
closure for the senior class.
I felt it was a good experience. It opened people s
eyes to realize they have to
say good-bye, and it was a
good way for people to
process change that is to
come.
