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Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Saturday, March 28, 1998 Classifieds BEGIN ON PAGE 7 HOW TO REACH US If you have a question or news tip concerning the features section, call Life editor Jon Walker at 331-2206 or Venture editor Mike Bennett at 331-2333. Section TT fro Comics 2 Tonight's TV 3 Religion 4-5 Sawyer Brown, Montgomery, Foreigner lead fair's lineup A BUI By BOB KEYES Argus Leader Staff The Sioux Empire Fair has booked a mix of country and rock concerts again this year, hoping its fortune will improve. This year's fair is Aug. 11-16. Here's how the lineup shapes up: Sawyer Brown, 8 p.m., Tuesday, Aug.

11. Foreigner, 8 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 12. Truck and tractor pull, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug.

14. John Michael Montgomery, 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15. Diversity of acts is nothing new, but the fair has had a hard time cashing in lately.

Two years ago, rain washed out the Goo Goo Dolls and Dishwalla concert. Last year, a blues festival bombed. Fair manager Ken Giegling hopes to land two more acts for this year's fair before concert tickets go on sale in June. "If I get my way on Thursday and Sunday, I anticipate we'll cert paired with the Franklin Graham Festival. But the last time Giegling hired a Christian band for the fair, Petra in 1994, the show drew a mediocre crowd.

Last year, only a few hundred showed up for a blues festival that was supposed to the be the highlight of the fair's final day. Attendance for all acts was down in 1997, with Bryon White drawing the largest crowd at 2,700 people. The Sioux Empire Fair Association spends about $200,000 a year on entertainment, including bands in the grandstand, the beer tent, on the free stage and throughout the grounds. "We just can't go out and get Garth Brooks. We don't have that kind of budget," Giegling says, noting that many acts touring this summer, such as Shania Twain, cost more than $100,000 each.

Because of costs, it's unlikely he'll hire warm-up bands, either. "We took a hit last year. You can do two things increase rev- Gannett News Service Sawyer Brown will sing in August at the Sioux Empire Fair. pearance by Foreigner will mark the rock band's first show in town in years. Giegling won't say which bands he wants to fill out the week.

He's looking at a rock act on Thursday and a Christian band on Sunday. His memory is still fresh with the sight of 30,000 people showing up at the grandstand last September to hear Michael W. Smith sing a free Sunday afternoon con have the strongest, most diversified, well-rounded lineup we've ever had," he says. "We've had strong lineups in the past Alabama and Chicago were great acts. But it's hard to have six days of great acts.

If I get my way on those other nights, this will be as close as we'll come." The country acts Sawyer Brown and Montgomery have drawn well in Sioux Falls previously. The ap lEin vi I WW rlVfcrt Gannett News Service John Michael Montgomery, shown here performing in Nashville, is headed for Sioux Falls. enue or decrease costs. I'm trying to decrease costs," he says. Tickets likely will go on sale in June, at $18 for the confirmed concerts.

The truck and tractor pull will cost $12 for adults, $8 for kids. World belongs to God, teen tells Congress By JILL CALLISON Argus Leader Staff Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., were lobbied this week on environmental issues, but from a Christian perspective. Krista Boltjes, 19, of Brewster, and five other students from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, spent last Friday through Tuesday taking part in the third annual Christian Envi- RELIGION ronmental Association Congressional Conference. The delegation presented the congressional offices with bumper stickers that read, "God created it. We tend it.

That settles it." "That bumper sticker sums up the message we wanted to make Sim a huvvy Two builders on spring break from school: Kellie Christensen and Carrie Longwood. Young Dakotans join Oklahoma team in building project By JILL CALLISON Argus Leader Staff Kellie Christensen saw sun and sand during her spring break from classes at South Dakota State University, but she wasn't on a beach. Val Hoeppner Argus Leader Melissa MacBride: weekend anchor at KDLT. WSN shuffles radio teams in drive time By BOB KEYES Argus Leader Staff Sioux Falls station WSN will revamp its radio lineup Monday, when Craig Mattick and Jeff Harkness co-host the morning show and Matt Crosby moves to afternoons. Mattick and Harkness will be on together from 6 to 9 a.m.

weekdays for the AM station. At the same time, longtime host Jeff Gould has ended his regular air shift and will work full-time in the station's sales department. J.P. Cola will continue to handle news duties. Managers shuffled the lineup MEDIA WATCH to expand Harkness' role.

A sports guy by trade he's the former KSFY-TV sports director Harkness will now work more closely with Mattick covering general interest topics. MacBride promoted KDLT-TV reporter Melissa MacBride was recently promoted to weekend anchor. "Simply stated, we felt Melissa could fill that role better than the people who were in there before," says station manager Gary Bolton. "She has shown a strong performance on the street in terms of reporting, and she's done a great job in the past as fill-in anchor. She's got good savvy." She replaced the team of Patrick Sawyer and Andrea Barbour, who were fired.

Today marks MacBride's third weekend as anchor. A German perspective German TV reporter Anja Rie-diger spent the past week at KELO-TV learning the ways of American newscasts. The 30-year-old is in the United States on a six-week journalism exchange program. She moves on to Bismarck, N.D., next week. "I chose these places because two years ago I covered a story in North Dakota about Germans living in a small village," she says.

"I liked it there, because it's so different." Back home in Dresden, Rie-diger works for a TV magazine and usually gets four to nine minutes to tell a story. Here, she's learning how to tell a story under tighter time constraints. "Here, it's everyday running." Around the dial Tickets go on sale at 8 a.m. Monday for the May 1 live broadcast by Don Imus at Calloway's. Tickets cost $15 at KSOO, 2600 S.

Spring Ave. KRRO-FM expects its new tower in northern Lincoln County will expand its reach. "It used to be a 50- to 60-mile radius. Now we've gained about 10 miles to 60 to 70," says Midcontinent Radio general manager Mike Costanzo. That may not seem like a big geographical gain, but the expansion is critical because much of it will come in Lyon County, Iowa one of three counties that Arbitron includes in its metro Sioux Falls rating survey.

Instead, Christensen and five other college students from Brookings spent the week in Juarez, Mexico, building a house for a family of four. "It was kind of a last-minute and did make, Boltjes says. "God calls us to be stewards of his creation. Because God created it so wonderfully, we have to protect and care for it." Congressional Kellie decision," the Christensen SDSu freshman says. "I was going to go home and do nothing, but I figured I might as well help somebody out on my spring break.

I didn't realize what a big deal it would be for me." Christensen, who was raised in the Black Hills and now lives in Beresford, attends Brooklyn Evangelical Free Church in Beresford and Brookings Church of Christ. The Rev. Rick Cole, her pastor in Brookings, heads Christian Campus Ministry, which sponsored the trip along with area churches, including Oakwood Park Christian in Sioux Falls. The SDSU students joined about 15 other students from Oklahoma State University in building the two-room house. It replaces a small structure that had card Kellie Christensen For the Argus Leader The two-room house in Juarez, built in 212 days, measures 10 by 20 feet.

'We would try to ask them if they knew about Jesus. They didn't have a clue, so we gave them the Kellie Christensen impressed that Krista BoltJes the students took time to share a Christian view of issues, says Boltjes. "Our main focus was the national forests. That means they're yours and mine, but first and foremost they're God's." Boltjes is a graduate of Sioux Valley-Round Lake-Brewster High School, near Worthington. Expenses were covered by the Christian Environmental Association and the Reformed Church in America's Office of Social Witness and Worship, Northwestern's ecology club and the students.

Boltjes and the others were trained by lobbyists before meeting their representatives. "Everyone was very receptive toward our message and I'm sure it will make a difference along the line," says Boltjes, who is majoring in environmental science. Leaders of sisters elected A new president, vice president and three-member council have been elected to lead the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Aberdeen. Sister Virginia McCall will serve a four-year term as the Presentation Sisters president beginning June 1. Also elected were Sister Mary Denis Collins, vice president; and Sister Pam Donelan, Sister Lynn Marie Welbig and Sister Mary Jane Gaspar, councillors.

Jill Callison is a staff writer. Write to her at the Argus Leader, Box 5034, Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5034. HI 1 III" '14 ty 1 board and tin stuck on the walls. The new house measures 10 by 20 feet on a lot 12 by 22 feet. "So we only had maybe a foot on each side of the house to work on," Christensen says.

"We leveled off the land, laid the foundation, put up all the boards, shingled the house, put the sides up, stuccoed the walls. We did everything and we had it done in 22 days." The students worked in dry and dusty weather, were joined by the father of the Mexican family. Conversation was limited, since most of the students don't speak Spanish. Another SDSU student, Pedro Soto of Puerto Rico, helped translate. The students were joined daily at the work site by 30 youngsters who had no adult su- pervision.

The students handed out 100 Spanish New Testaments. "We would try to communicate with the kids and ask them if they knew about Jesus," Christensen says. "They didn't have a clue, so we gave them the Bibles." Christensen returned to the campus filled with thankfulness. "I got back and was telling everybody how I was so thankful for everything, showers, warm water, clean water, actually, because you couldn't touch the water down there, and our homes and our clothes and just all kinds of little things that you don't realize you have." The builders from Oklahoma and South Dakota relax for a minute with their new friends. Aerosmith, May 2, Fargodome, $29.75 and $39.75.

1 he band also will perform May 5 at the Mankato Civic Center. Tickets cost $37. 9 at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Tickets are available for a May 29 show by Bonnie Raitt at the Orpheum in Minneapolis. They cost $25 and $35. To charge by phone, call 334-8181. Tomorrow Accessible wildlife: Spring is a good time to see the birds at Oakwood Lakes State Park near Brookings. Hot tips for the weekend and beyond Dakota Wind Quintet will join forces for a concert at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday in Kresge Recital Hall at Augustana College. The is the fourth concert in the Sunday Afternoon Chamber Music Series. Pianist Rebecca McClaflin will play pieces with both groups, whose members are full-time players with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. Tickets cost $10 for adults, $6 for senior citizens and $3 for students. On sale The regional concert calendar is beginning to fill up.

Tickets for the following shows go on sale at 10 a.m. today through Ticketmaster: Insane Clown Posse, April 19, Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul; $16.50. Jars of Clay, May 14, Fargo Civic Memorial Auditorium; $18.75. Harry Connick May 1, Stephens Auditorium, Ames, Iowa.

Connick also will perform April 25 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Those tickets will go sale at 10 a.m. Monday and cost $27.50, $35 or $39.50. Semisonic will perform June 5-7 HORSES, HORSES, HORSES Horse lovers and others will be in Sioux Falls this weekend for the eighth annual South Dakota Horse Fair at the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds.

The exposition will include lectures, demonstrations, exhibitions and contests. A model horse show is scheduled for the Domestic Art building. At 1 1 a.m. Sunday, members of the Siouxland Model Horse Club will give a lecture about collecting. The fair hours are 9 a.m.

to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for age 8 to 12 and free for those 7 and younger.

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