South Dakota
Events in Eureka, Geddes, Highmore, Mobridge and Pierre/Fort Pierre receive Travel South Dakota Awards Tourism Grants
Travel South Dakota’s Tourism Advertising Promotion (TAP) Grant program has awarded a total of $163,110 to assist the state’s tourism industry and increase visitation to tourism-related events.
The purpose of the TAP Grant program is to provide marketing funds to tourism-related events such as festivals, concerts, rodeos, and powwows. This grant program is focused on providing funding to events in smaller towns, cities, and rural areas of the state, but entities and events of all sizes were encouraged to apply. The grants range from $1,000 to $10,000.
Award recipients include: Arlington Days (Arlington), Rally Event in Belle Fourche (Belle Fourche), Deadwood Mardi Gras (Deadwood), Eurekafest (Eureka), South Dakota Chislic Festival (Freeman), Jesse James Days (Garretson), Geddes 125th Anniversary/Geddes Fur Trader Days (Geddes), Sunflower Festival (Highmore), 1880 Train Holiday Express (Hill City), Irene Rodeo (Irene), The Haunting of Keystone (Keystone), Neutrino Day (Lead), Sitting Bull Stampede (Mobridge), Back Forty Beef and Adventure Farm (Pierpont), Oahe Winter Festival (Pierre/Fort Pierre), Chinook Days (Spearfish), Sturgis Art Festival & Legendary Sturgis Battle of the Bands (Sturgis), Pumpkin Fest (Webster), and Mazing Acres’ Fall Festival (Yankton).
Tourism Secretary Jim Hagen says events of all sizes and kinds will be able to use these funds to celebrate the unique parts of our state. He says he’s excited to provide assistance to these amazing South Dakota events.
For more information about the Tourism Advertising Promotion Grant, visit SDVisit.com/TAP.
South Dakota
FOOTBALL FRIDAY-Week 6 (9-27-24)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – The final Football Friday of September was packed full of prep pigskin action, results and FUN from across South Dakota, Southwest Minnesota and Northwest Iowa!
Our sixth show of the season featured highlights from 16 games which you can watch in the video viewer above:
-Harrisburg @ RC Stevens
-Lincoln vs. Washington
-Jefferson @ O’Gorman
-RC Central @ Brandon Valley
-Watertown @ Douglas
-Brookings @ Roosevelt
-Madison @ Sioux Falls Christian
-Dakota Valley @ Lennox
-Dell Rapids @ Tri-Valley
-Beresford @ Elk Point-Jefferson
-Redfield @ Hamlin
-Faulkton @ Sully Buttes
-Sioux Falls Lutheran @ Canistota
-Blue Earth @ Luverne
-Western Christian @ West Lyon
-Cherokee @ Central Lyon/George-Little Rock
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FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers in South Dakota will close soon
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KTIV) – The FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers in Canton and North Sioux City will close in early October.
On Friday, Oct. 4 at 6 p.m., the Canton and North Sioux City locations will end operations.
Until they close, the centers will remain open Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 12 p.m. until 4 p.m. The centers are closed on Sundays.
After the Disaster Recovery Centers close, assistance will still be available to residents over the phone and virtually.
Services are available through disasterassistance.gov, the FEMA Mobile App, and the disaster assistance helpline at 800-621-FEMA (3362).
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Rapid City welcomes South Dakota’s largest healthcare convention
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Healthcare workers make up a large percent of employees in South Dakota, and more than 500 of those workers made their way to The Monument for the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations’ (SDAHO) 98th annual convention on Thursday.
SDAHO represents all 54 non-profit hospitals in South Dakota, 46 long-term care facilities, home health, assisted living facilities and more. The organization’s staff is divided into five areas: Advocacy and Member Relations, Acute & Post-Acute Services, Education, Business Development, and Quality Integration, all of which are touched on at the convention.
The event kicked off Thursday morning with a keynote speech from Command Sergeant Major Gretchen Evans who told her story of injuries while serving and tied her experience to the healthcare community.
The day continued with breakout sessions that covered topics ranging from leadership for administrators to insurance challenges that could come up. Everything wrapped up with the exhibitor social.
Tim Rave, President and CEO of SDAHO, said the convention provides invaluable networking opportunities and education for all attendees.
“We have national speakers, I think people always kinda assume that with conferences, but we have such a vast array of knowledge within our state in the health care arena. We bring in local speakers, state speakers, and so it’s peers kinda interacting with peers and giving best practices and why that’s important and the things they’re doing and so yeah, just really exciting,” Rave said.
Rave added that the convention allows hardworking providers to take a break and get out of their everyday work routine.
The convention will head back to Sioux Falls for the next two years, but will be back in Rapid City in 2027.
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