MITCHELL – The Mitchell City Council will consider approving a special event permit on Monday for a future disc golf tournament.

The council is expected to consider the event at its next meeting Monday, June 17 at Mitchell City Hall. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m.

The tournament is planned to be held on July 20 at Dry Run Creek Disc Golf Course. Event organizers estimate between 30 to 90 disc golfers will compete.

According to the details in the special event permit application, the one-day tournament would begin at 8 a.m. and wrap up by 4 p.m.

Local disc golfer, Cary Muilenburg, is the applicant for the permit. Muilenburg has organized multiple successful disc golf tournaments at the Dry Run Creek course. Last year, the course played host to South Dakota’s State Disc Golf Tournament.

The July 20 tournament would require the course to be reserved from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The one-day tournament would mark this summer’s first major event held at the course.

Parks and Recreation Director Kevin Nelson noted in his memo to the council that the Dry Run Creek trail, which stretches around the 18-hole disc golf course, would remain open throughout the tournament. Signs warning trail-users of flying discs would be posted along the trail.

Vendors are also expected to be set up throughout the course during the tournament.

The Dry Run Creek Disc Golf Course is Mitchell’s lone 18-hole course. The course has undergone major improvements over the past few years, which have helped attract more major disc golf events.

Sam Fosness joined the Mitchell Republic in May 2018. He was raised in Mitchell, S.D., and graduated from Mitchell High School. He continued his education at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, where he graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in English. During his time in college, Fosness worked as a news and sports reporter for The Volante newspaper.

Chislic — skewered cubes of deep-fried lamb or beef — is a rugged regional culinary tradition tracing its roots to South Dakota’s pioneer days.

“For decades a mainstay at cafés, bars, fairs and celebrations, it historically has been enhanced only by salt or garlic salt and served with saltines and, if you are so inclined, washed down with a cold beer,” South Dakota Magazine wrote in a classic treatise on chislic, first in 2005 and updated since then.

The popular bar snack, often served on wooden skewers or stabbed by toothpicks, enjoys a modern revival today at places like Urban Chislic in Sioux Falls. 

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Co-owner Hong Phrommany was born in Laos but raised in Sioux Falls. He’s as proudly South Dakotan as Sitting Bull and has become an oracle of chislic history and tradition.

“Russian-German immigrants migrated from Europe and landed in Hutchinson County, South Dakota, in 1870,” Phrommany told Fox News Digital by phone a few days ago, between bites of chislic at lunch with his daughter.

“So to celebrate the harvest they would slaughter the oldest sheep, which is mutton, and they would cube it and fry it and skewer it.” 

Mutton meat is tougher than that of younger sheep. Small cubes, deep-frying and salting made mutton tastier and easier to chew. 

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Beef is now common, too. Few eateries have deviated, until recently, from the tradition of salting the meat and serving it with saltines — a modern interpretation of dry, long-lasting breads such as hard tack common in the 19th century. 

People around the world know chislic as shishkebab. 

“It’s been done that way for years and served at all the little bars around South Dakota,” said Phrommany. 

He even created a YouTube video tracing the history of chislic to one Russian-German immigrant in particular, John Hoellwarth, who brought the dish with him from the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea. 

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The word chislic traces its roots to shashlik, the Russian word for a common dish of cubed, skewered meat from nearby Turkey on the other side of the Black Sea. People around the world know it as shishkebab. 

Chislic is most common in the southeastern corner of the state, an area that South Dakota Magazine dubbed “The Chislic Circle.” 

The Regret Burger from Urban Chislic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The hot double smash lamb burger was featured on the show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” with Guy Fieri and generated national acclaim for the restaurant’s modern take on chislic, a South Dakota culinary tradition.  (Christian Holman/Urban Chislic)

Sioux Falls, easily South Dakota’s largest city, is the heart of The Chislic Circle.

Top spots in town to experience the South Dakota delicacy include the Barrel House, Attic Bar & Grill, Gateway Lounge, Ode to Food & Drinks and Tinner’s Public House, according to the website of the Sioux Falls Convention & Visitors Bureau. 

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Urban Chislic tops its list. Phrommany opened the eatery in 2018 with partners Erik Christensen and Chad Knudtson. 

Their concept gives traditional chislic a mix-and-match makeover you might find in an overseas or big-city ramen bar.

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The menu comes with a choice of both proteins and sauces. In addition to lamb or beef, guests can select cubes of fish, pork, chicken or bison and pair it with any of a dozen different dips. 

Chislic nachos with house-fried tortilla chips from Urban Chislic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Chislic traces its roots to the arrival of Russian-German immigrants in the 1870s.  (Christian Holman/Urban Chislic)

Among them: creamy white barbecue, spicy-sweet maple and honey mustard sauces.

One sauce, jaew bong, is a tribute to Phrommany’s birthplace and ethnic heritage. 

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The traditional Laotian condiment is a sweet-hot sauce made with Southeast Asian chili spice.

MITCHELL — A Dakota Wesleyan University student-athlete was killed Friday in a car crash.

The school said in a statement that Hadley Wallace died Friday as the result of a car crash. He was a freshman at the school during the 2023-24 school year. He was a player on the school’s football team.

”We were saddened to learn that Hadley Wallace was the victim of Friday’s traffic accident. Hadley had just completed his freshman year at DWU and played football for the Tigers,” Dan Kittle, president of Dakota Wesleyan University, said in a statement.

The Department of Public Safety said it was a one-vehicle crash about five miles south of Delmont.

The driver of a 2012 Ford Escape was traveling southbound on 401st Avenue near 290th Street. For an unknown reason, the vehicle left the roadway, vaulted over a field approach and rolled, ejecting the driver who was found deceased at the scene, officials said.

Though the South Dakota Department of Public Safety has not yet named the individual, a

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for Hadley Wallace also notes he died as the result of a car crash and was 19 years old.

Kittle said that the school would have counseling resources available to its campus community in the wake of the death.

“Members of our campus community, including our campus ministry and campus counselor teams, and the athletic department are making sure that resources are available to all students, as well as our employees. In addition, our players and coaches are organizing a time to gather for sharing and reflection,” Kittle said.

Kittle said the school community would mourn the loss of Wallace and extended support to the student’s family, friends and fellow Tigers.

“In moments like this we are reminded of the deep and personal connections students form on our campus, and how far-reaching grief can be when a tragedy such as this occurs,” Kittle said. “We will continue to ask our students and employees to keep Hadley’s family and friends, including his sister Peighten, also a student at DWU, in their prayers during the coming weeks.”

Services for Wallace are being handled by Bittner Funeral Chapel in Mitchell and are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 20, at Hanson High School in Alexandria. Burial will be at Greenhill Cemetery in Alexandria. Visitation will be on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Hanson High School with a 6:30 p.m. prayer service.

The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.

Erik Kaufman joined the Mitchell Republic in July of 2019 as an education and features reporter. He grew up in Freeman, S.D., graduating from Freeman High School. He graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1999 with a major in English and a minor in computer science. He can be reached at ekaufman@mitchellrepublic.com.