Custer County Chronicle

What legacy will we leave?

Published by admin on Thu, 07/29/2021 - 9:04am

Several years ago, I asked my three sons what they would remember about growing up in our household. My youngest son told me I once asked him to help me plant some seeds. “It made me feel important,” he said. I don’t even remember that occasion, but it evidently made a big impression on him.
Funny how little things like that can leave such a  lasting impression on someone. He’s been planting seeds and trees ever since.
I asked Charley last week what legacy he wants to leave. For we all leave legacies, whether for good or for bad.

Misinformation and Big Tech

Published by admin on Thu, 07/22/2021 - 10:31am

We’ve been hearing a lot about what is called “misinformation,” especially from the likes of President Biden. Last week he accused Facebook of “killing people” with vaccine misinformation, something that Facebook vigorously denied.
The company said over 2 billion people have viewed “authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines” on Facebook, which is more than any other place on the internet. The company said it was actually saving lives by providing information on where and how to get a vaccine.

Time to step up and help ‘Ski’

Published by admin on Thu, 07/22/2021 - 10:29am

Robert Kaliszewski and his wife, Iris, are in dire straits due to his deteriorating health condition and lack of finances due to his big heart. Monday we talked with Iris and learned that “Ski,” as he is better known, is home and not doing well.

Inflation, COVID-19 and other thoughts

Published by admin on Thu, 07/22/2021 - 10:00am

Greetings! I have a lot going on here in my scattered thoughts. With all the talk about inflation going up 5 percent, I have issue with these economists’ modern math. If gas was $1.80 per gallon prior to President Biden and its $3.55 now, that’s pretty near a 100 percent increase.  Perhaps these economists are using common core math? Yes, I did pay $3.55 per gallon at a station in District 30!

We need to save the Black Hills

Published by admin on Thu, 07/22/2021 - 10:00am

Since the announcement of the Hill City sawmill closure in April where is the help to save them? Although the help so far from our congressional delegation is appreciated, we need to all be working harder to save the Black Hills National Forest. Our delegation should be acting boldly, in similar form as past actions by Tom Daschle and others who turned the ship in the Black Hills.

July 4 brings out the best, worst in people

Published by admin on Thu, 07/15/2021 - 9:42am

This July 4 we saw a lot of flag waving and people sporting all kinds of patriotic clothing and hats. Hill City had its first weekend celebration in many years highlighted by a patriotic parade Saturday, July 3. Custer followed with its annual B-1 bomber flyover that kicked off the Kids Parade followed by a Patriots Parade July 4.

Some vital vaccine facts

Published by admin on Thu, 07/15/2021 - 9:41am

With the COVID lockdowns and masking quickly fading into the garbage can of history where they belong, the Biden administration and the medical industrial complex have doubled down on the effort to get every American to take an injection of one of the three COVID vaccines.  President Biden himself has even suggested sending agents door-to-door in order to find out whether people have gotten the jab. (By the way, does anybody know what ever happened to HIPAA?)

Summer marijuana study continues

Published by admin on Thu, 07/15/2021 - 9:11am

Greetings! On July 6 the Marijuana Summer Study toured the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe to visit their medicinal marijuana operation. Our group split into three separate groups going through in round robin: cultivation facility, dispensary and laboratory.  The group I was in went to the dispensary first.

Your guns or pot? The choice is yours

Published by admin on Thu, 07/15/2021 - 8:57am

I have received many emails and phone calls asking about marijuana and how soon will people be able to get it.  Below is an attachment of an article that SD Rep. Kevin Jensen wrote and I wanted to share it with all of you. Please read it carefully as you may want to reconsider your choices. I agree with Kevin, self-defense is way more important to me. I am asking the newspapers to print his story to update all of you on this issue.

Defending our nation’s independence

Published by admin on Thu, 07/08/2021 - 9:41am

On July 4, 1776, our Founding Fathers signed a transformational document full of beautiful principles that would come to define our great nation. “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” Thomas Jefferson famously wrote before outlining those principles.