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Rapid City Journal Saturday, December 7, 1996 RegionLocal 03 111 albadl sHiyimk KNBN-TV into news business Peeks' to N.D. woman, dogs attacked VaTO 'Who wanted to eat what you cooked when your hands moiled like Joyc Pnitrbdg I wis ju switched to the Fox Network. KEVN's switch to Fox came about because It was sold to Blackstar, a Washington, D.C., company with financial ties to Fox Broadcasting Co. Black Hills viewers who did not subscribe to cable TV faced the prospect of losing NBC Just as the NBC-broadcast Olympic games were to begin In a matter of days, Moyle and his partners in Rapid Broadcasting Co. bought up an obscure low-power UHF Christian station and struck a deal to become an NBC affiliate, Though the broadcast signal from the Skyline Drive tower remains weak, KNBN has been successful, Lein said.

He estimates that KNBN, primarily via cable systems, reaches about two-thirds of the region's homes. The station's studio in the Fountain Springs business park has a staff of 14 people, he added. Leln, a 28-year veteran of the broadcast Industry, comes to KNBN from Fargo, N.D -based Red River Broadcasting Co. He divided his time between a Fox station In Fargo and NBC-affiliate KDLT in Sioux Falls. "The start-up has been going really fine.

We've had growing pains, which is normal for a new station," Lein said. KNBN is currently lining up syndicated programming for next fall, and has secured rights to the popular NBC sitcom "Frasier." DICKINSON, N.D, (AP) Joyce Prestriedge went to her first day of work as a perfume saleswoman smelling like a skunk. The Dickinson woman was sprayed late last month while trying to break up a fight between two of her four dogs and a rabid skunk that had dug under the backyard fence, "Ha bit one dog and almost chewed his nose off," Prestriedge said of the skunk. "The dog had a yellow spray across his face. 1 didn't know that's where he'd been bit, so when 1 put my hands in the gunk, 1 was contaminated." Prestriedge had a fresh cut on her thumb creating a perfect path fir rabies to enter her system.

She Immediately started getting rabies shots. The series of shots, which could cost up to $3,000, will continue until August, she said. Even after bathing in lemon and tomato juice, Prestriedge reeked. "It was to bad, 1 couldn't keep my hands close to me. It was on my feet and all over my hands and arms," she said.

Later that day, Prestriedge went to work at the perfume counter at Herberger's. It was her first day on the job. Prestriedge lives with her mother, a son, two nephews and niece. She 4 i said the smell made her family nauseous for three days. "Who wanted to eat what you cooked when your hands smelled like skunk?" she said.

The odor invaded two bedrooms in Prestriedge's home and still lingers in the back yard. On the same day as Prestriedge was sprayed, another skunk invaded a garage one block away. The skunk sprayed the garage until a police officer shot It. "They seem more prolific than in past years," said Kevin Pavlish of the Southwest District Health Unit. "Trees and brush have been diminished because of the development and now there are less places (for skunks) to hide." i Af Photo Joyce Prestriedge feeds her dogs a slice of cheese Wednesday, 10 days after two dogs were attacked by a rabid skunk in Dickinson, N.D.

Station will add more updates, aiming for 'full-fledged news By Dan Daly Journal Staff Wrltsr KNBN, the start-up television station launched last summer on UHF channel 24, began easing Its way into TV news, KNBN staffer Becky HUiler has been reading Associated Press news copy during local news breaks during NBC's "Today Show" broadcasts on weekday mornings since the first of the month, said station manager Kent Leln, He said the reason Is mainly to work out the technical bugs and other problems as the station sets up Iti own news department, a process he predicted will be completed by the fall of 1997. "This is the beginning of what will be a full-fledged news service for the Black Hills area," Leln said. The next step will be additional brief news updates throughout the day. He did not say when that would begin. The station, owned primarily by Rapid City businessman Gil Moyle and other investors, debuted in a hasty July 15 launch.

It went on the air as an NBC affiliate the same day former NBC-affiliate KEVN-TV Doctors honored A traditional Indian honoring dinner will be held for Drs. Tom and Edie Welty on Friday, Dec. 13, at the Mother Butler Center. The dinner begins at 3 p.m. and is sponsored by the epidemiology programs at Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service and Sioux San Hospital.

The public is welcome and the dinner is free. The Weltys are leaving Rapid City after 11 years of involvement with Indian health issues. They are going to Africa to help people there, said Roscmond Coins, who is helping to organize the dinner and also had worked with the Weltys. The dinner will include representatives from at least seven tribes. Organizations involved include: Sioux San Employees Organization, Oyatc Center, Intertribal Bison Center, Oglala Lakota Center, He Sapa Elderly, United Sioux Tribes, Rural America Initiatives, Rapid City Indian Health Board, Lakota Homes, Indian Country Today, Mother Butler Center, Wowookiyaspae Elderly, St.

Matthew's Church, Indian Youth Development, Sioux Addition Civic Association and Black Hills American Indian Center. Black Hills briefs Lawrence County awards contract to build Bear Butte Creek crossings Work on the crossings designed to flood in heavy storms Is expected to be completed in March. County commissioners thought they were going to save money, turning down more than $1 13,000 in August from the Federal Emergency Management Agency if they built a bridge. The permanent bridge would have cost an estimated $250,000, leaving the county more than $130,000 of the cost. But bids opened In late November showed the low-water crossings might come a lot higher.

Bids ranged from the low offered by the Spearfish company to more than $258,000 by a Rapid City contractor. County officials said the high costs were a combination of having to build a larger creek crossing than first believed, and that the work had to be done during the winter. Spearfish Excavating Inc. came in with low bid. By Tim Mayer Northern Hills Bureau DEADWOOD They could have had a bridge With commissioners Will Lands and George Opitz absent Friday, the remaining three members of the Lawrence County Commission awarded the contract to build a low-water crossing of Bear Butte Creek in Boulder Canyon on Wormdahl Road to Spearfish Excavating Inc.

The company was the low bidder at $134,558 to build two crossings to the creek, serving some 30 residents left stranded after the 1995 flooding. Calendar Win chance to help at Mammoth Site dig HOT SPRINGS Picking bones shoulder-to-shoulder with world renowned scientists is an opportunity two people can win from the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs. Each summer, workers excavate the sinkhole at the national natural landmark. The 18th annual Earth-watch organization digs will be June 30 through July 26. Two field crews are limited to 12-person teams.

But for the first time, two members of the nonprofit Mammoth Site will be picked to join the dig for one day. The drawings will be March 1, The contest is limited to people age 16 and older who are new or renewed members. Board directors and their families are ineligible. The winners can pick the day they wish to help at the dig for bones of Columbian and woolly mammoths and other prehistoric animals that were caught in the sinkhole. Winners must pay their travel expenses to and from Hot Springs.

Membership fees range from $10 for youths to $15 for individual adults and $23 for families. Only one person in a family can fill out an entry form for the drawing. For forms and additional Information, contact the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, P.O. Box 692, Hot Springs, SD 57747, or call 605-745-6017 or fax 605-745-3038. BHSU concert on Sunday SPEARFISH Black Hills State University will present its annual Christmas concert at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 8, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Spearfish. The wind ensemble, under the direction of Jim Cargill, will perform along with the Black Hills Singers and Concert Choir, under the direction of Steve Parker. A select children's choir from West Elementary School in Spearfish also is slated to perform under the direction of Doug Ruhnow.

Selections for the wind ensemble include "Fantasy on American Sailing Songs" by Clare Grundman, "Highlights from Showboat" by KernCluster, as well as others. The Black Hills Singers will perform "Come to the Water" by John Foley, "Requiem Aeternam" by John Rutter, three Spanish Christmas carols, and "Deck the Halls," arranged by James McKelvy. The concert is free to the public. Mobile home decals due South Dakota mobile home registrations are due next month with county directors of equalization. In Pennington County, mobile home owners may get their registration decals at the equalization office in the courthouse in Rapid City 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m. weekdays Jan. 2-31. For a new registration, bring the title to the office. This is not necessary if the title was previously filed with the state, and the county office can verify it by computer.

Active duty personnel with legal residence in a state other than South Dakota may claim exemption from mobile home registration by providing a leave and earnings statement, title or proof of title to the mobile home and evidence that it is owner-occupied. In some cases, additional proof of legal residence may be needed For those unable to register their mobile homes in January, pre-registration forms can be filled out and left with the county equalization office in December for the decals to mailed in January. CSC to present concert CHADRON, Neb. The Chadron State College concert choir and the Chadron Community Chorus will present Handel's "Messiah at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec.

8, in Memorial Hall on the college campus. The concert will have about 60 voices. Directors Roger MacNeill of the Chadron State College Choir and Jackson Hammitt of the community chorus will be among the soloists. Other soloists include: Walt Scholl, humanities professor-emeritus at Chadron; Terri Osborn of Herningford; Connie Schmitz and Ron Wineteer of Chadron; and Chadron State College students f.mily Cayer of Alliance, Virginia Clark of Bayard, Chita Dykes of Ogallala and Chris McDaniel of Chadron. Admission to the concert is $3 for adults, $2 for youths age 18 and younger and $1 50 for senior citizens.

People with Chadron State College IDs and events passes will be admitted free. Slots for Tots Dec. 14 DEADWOOD The Black Hills Area Bikers and Dakota Territory Saloon have teamed up to gather toys valued at $10 or more today and Saturday, Dec. 14. By making the toys entry fees for a Slots for Tots slot tournament at Dakota Territory, the bikers will distribute the toys to needy and terminally ill children and their siblings.

To participate, bring an unwrapped toy to the casino on Main Street in Deadwood between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. today or next Saturday. Slot tournament players will play 10-minute rounds on each of three tournament machines and could win vacation packages to Las Vegas. Other Slots for Tots tournament sponsors are Black Hills Novelty and Dakota Players Club.

A. i 'YO0R-T-. Rapid City Public Works Committee 1:13 p.m. Tuesday, second floor council chambers at City School Administration Center Agenda items Include: Resolution to initiate drainage fee. Meadowbrook Golf Course restaurant lease.

Mount Rushmore directional signs. Vacation of utility easement for petitioner Scott Sigler, continued from Oct. 29. Rapid City Legal and Finance Committee 1:13 p.m. Wednesday, second floor council chambers at City School Administration Center Agenda items include: Rapid Fund status report.

First reading of an ordinance that would allow for microchips to be implanted in animals picked up for running at large. Costs would be borne by the pet owner. Approval of the 1997 capital improvement budget. Humane Society animal control and shelter agreements. Recommendations from the Rapid City Subsidy Com ttee.

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