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Last week’s Britton blood drive had a good turnout. 32 units of life saving blood were collected that day. The units donated at the blood drive can help save up to 96 lives.

The Buckhorn Rodeo is celebrating 51 years with this weekend’s event. The rodeo takes place Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. nightly. There are plenty of rodeo favorites on the schedule.

LeRon Knebel says he can only watch so many episodes of “Gunsmoke” before he gets bored. At age 79, you’d expect Knebel to have mostly taken up the rocking chair and to be quietly enjoying his golden years. But not so for this well-known Marshall County resident. In fact, Knebel is in the midst of 24 summers working for the South Dakota State Parks and is still enjoying every minute of it.

The Claremont Legion baseball team picked up three wins in its first five outings to open its summer campaign.

Claim Sisseton Tourney Crown

The memorial service for Beverly Jane Hoglund Churchill will be on Friday, June 16, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery. Beverly was born to Gust K. Hoglund and Esther Ruth Rapp Hoglund on April 13, 1929. Beverly passed away in 2017 in California. She will be laid to rest next to her parents and siblings.

The celebration of life for Joyce Kristofferson will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 24, 2023 at the Britton Event Center. Rev. Terrill Sorensen will officiate the service and inurnment will be at the Britton Cemetery.

Lois Smail of Britton, SD, Manhattan, KS, and Staunton, VA and points east and west on four continents passed away on Monday, June 5, 2023 in Staunton.