The idea for the walk came from teacher Julie Zumpano and paraprofessional Mattie Ingram, who both love to walk and hike. 

At the contest in Rapid City, which is open to all high school choirs, bands and orchestras in the Region 8 area (from Edgemont up to Harding County), CHS ensembles brought pieces they had performed for the spring concert in March and performed for three judges. The band played “Shaker Variants” by Elliot del Borgo and “Festivo” by Vaclav Nelhybel while the choir sang “Come to the Music” by Joseph M. Martin, “Keep Your Lamps” arranged by Andre Thomas and “O Sifuni Mungu” arranged by Roger Emerson. 

Community members are invited to attend this event. 

A forum, “Understanding the Adolescent Developing Brain: Helping to Ensure Success for Children and Adolescents," will be held Tuesday, April 30 at Crazy Horse Memorial from 6-7 p.m

New research on adolescent brain development demonstrates several newly discovered facts:

“We knew it was a good idea to help people and it made us feel really good to help,” Sedlacek said. 

“I think it’s important because a lot of kids are affected with leukemia,” Woodward said. “One kid here (Gavin Scragg) was diagnosed with leukemia. We wanted to do something to help him and kids like him.”

“We’re very excited for this year’s program,” said Hank Fridell, program coordinator. “This is one of the events that links the kids and parents in the community to our elders. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate who we are.”

The four honorees this year are Leonard Wood, Eloise Pepin, Bill Tretheway and Marge Baldwin. They have already met with four elementary classes and shared their lives through stories and photographs and gave advice to the students.

"The committee who selects the participants for Partners in Policymaking did an awesome job in filling this class,” said coordinator of the leadership program, Sandy Stocklin Hook, of South Dakota Advocacy Services in Pierre. “Choosing the participants is always difficult as we receive so many excellent and qualified applications. For this year's class, we received around 41 applications and the committee felt that both Brandon and Josh's applications were exceptional. They will be a valuable asset to the class." 

This hands-on project was started by sixth grader teacher Kim Webster 20 years ago as a way to give back to the community. Concepts such as measuring, fractions, estimating and other mathematical facts were used in a “real life, practical” activity to teach math concepts to her students.  Through the years it has grown into a more encompassing project that includes many partnerships in our community. 

Special programs were held this year, including the Golden Diamond Anniversary Gala Friday evening, which also celebrated the 75th year of the Western Junior Livestock Show held on the same weekend each year. 

Oral Interpretation consists of seven categories: non-original oratory, interpretation of serious plays, interpretation of serious prose, poetry reading, humorous reading, duet interpretation and readers theatre.

Middle schools in the Southern Hills region are Custer, Rapid City Christian, Rapid City Southwest, Rapid City West, Rapid City South, Rapid City East and Rapid City North. High schools in the Southern Hills region are Custer, Hill City, Rapid City Christian, Rapid City Stevens and Rapid City Central.