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Cleveland Abbott

SDPB Prairie Doc highlights Cleveland Abbott

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This Thursday, May 2, 2019, 7:00pm South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s On Call with the Prairie Doc® “A Different Approach to Pain Than Surgery or Medication” will also feature a segment on 2018 South Dakota Hall of Fame inductee, Cleveland Abbott.

Bruce Danielson of Sioux Falls will highlight how Cleveland Abbott’s life was a microcosm of America’s 20th century story of changes. Abbott was one of the people responsible for many social changes we now take for granted in our everyday life. The Cleveland Abbott story is one of excellence in character, personality and perseverance.

In a time of great hardships for his race, he found ways to accomplish the mission Tuskegee Institute’s Booker T. Washington asked of his followers, to prove the worth of a man is not color based.

We in South Dakota can point with pride to the man who overcame the discrimination of his birth, hardships of the South Dakota prairie, to be accepted by our ancestors who then helped shape Abbott’s early life, so he could take on challenges few of us could.

Cleveland Abbott was a leader his entire life. He showed a steady growth of lifetime leadership skills starting with his Watertown boyhood, academic and sport greatness then on World War One French battlefields followed by the Tuskegee Institute and then onto the world stage.

“I believe everyone owes Cleveland Abbott a thank you for opening the world of sports and equal rights to all people of every sex, color or creed” said Danielson.

Thousands of individuals directly benefited during his life and there millions who today, living the benefits of his work in:

  • Equal Rights
  • Civil Rights
  • Women’s athletic breakthroughs
  • Leader in modern NCAA athletics for all students
  • First black member of USA Track & Field board
  • First Black member of US Olympic Organizing Committee
  • Champion of player safety

Cleveland Abbott’s approach to pain and suffering was to get into the arena quietly, with determination and South Dakota spirit to overcome life enormous obstacles.

For more information on Cleveland Abbott, please visit the highlighted exhibit in the South Dakota African American History located in the Sioux Falls Washington Pavilion or contact Bruce Danielson.

Click here to view Cleveland Abbott YouTube videos

Bruce Danielson

Sioux Falls

STRONG TOWNS – SIOUX FALLS PRESENTS FUTURE FORUMS

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We are here for each other. Our duty is to one another. In the Midwest, we lack spaces to talk about our future together. Future Forums is a regular hyper-local meetup facilitation organization. We want to talk about what you want to talk about. We want to create the space for you to do it. We hold space for you to discuss any topic that matters to you with your fellow citizens. We encourage you to discuss topics that impact a diverse group of individuals for your local community such as education, transportation, art, or food. Future Forums started in 2016 at The Bakery in Sioux Falls, SD. What comes of Future Forums? Anything anyone takes action on. We have seen for-profit ventures, community websites, and coalitions form around various topics directly from a Future Forum. In a typical event, 120 minutes is spent wrestling with one topic by and for local citizens. One of our facilitators will hold space for your group to host a public “forum” for your topic. You will end the event with a large dataset from local citizens and the attendees will be empowered to take action.

THE FUTURE OF LOCAL HOUSING

In 2016 Augustana University conducted a study on affordable housing in Sioux Falls. In summary, they concluded, “Unfortunately, the affordable housing system is so complex and difficult to navigate that people opt out. Although programs exist to address a variety of needs, a lack of coordination among programs leaves clients and providers alike without a clear idea of how to access available resources. Families have no clearly defined, single point of entry to the affordable housing system. Faced with this complexity, many people give up. They simply drive around town looking for yard signs, hoping to stumble across an affordable place to live.”

On May 9, 2019, the city is going to host a Housing Summit “to engage in a collaborative solution-based discussion on how we can connect public and private resources to deliver opportunities to working families.”

Houses and apartments seem to be going up everywhere so why is this still a problem?

What if we focused on designing a neighborhood rather than a single structure?

What is the cost of available housing on the health and well-being of renters, increasing rate of food security and poor nutrition, and delaying care?

There are 48 homes available in South Dakota for every 100 Extremely Low-Income family. How do we help the other 52?

What questions do you want to be answered? Inaction is expensive.

All Are Welcome Here, including children. We are looking for emerging ideas and leaders.

Join other concerned citizens in a robust discussion on the Future of Local Housing. The agenda is set by those who attend so everyone has a voice! Leave with new connections and action ideas!

Free

Sioux Falls Downtown Library

Saturday, May 11

9 am – 12 pm

Coffee provided by the Source Roastery.

Reserve tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-local-housing-tickets-60841035174

Jordan Deffenbaugh

jordanjdeffenbaugh@gmail.com

Potholes Public Utilities Public Works Sioux Falls

City of Sioux Falls brags about filling 2.875 potholes per hour

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I guess I have never filled potholes before, so I don’t know how long it takes but;

City of Sioux Falls Street Operations Manager Dustin Hansen tells KELOLAND News city crews have filled more than 2,300 potholes since March 1.

Hansen says that there are “about five to six crews out” every day right now.

So lets do the math, 2,300 potholes in 20 days = 115 day. 5 crews at 8 hours a day = 40 hours a day.

That equals filling 2.875 potholes an hour.

Like I said, I’m no expert, but I’m not sure if I would be bragging about those kind of results.

5G Mayor TenHaken Open Government Open Meetings SF City Council Sioux Falls

UPDATE: California city has 4 public hearings on 5G before telling city council ‘Hold for now’

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UPDATE: Notice Sioux Falls isn’t on this list? Hmm?

Hey, Paul, TJ and Erica, this is what transparent government looks like when the Feds have a cattle prod up your rear;

Amid concerns that federal mandates usurp local authority, the fight for control over the hardware that transmits wireless Internet has reached an impasse in Fairfax.

After the fourth public hearing before the Town Council this week — this one lasting more than three hours — council members said they need more time before adopting new regulations for the installation of wireless antennas used for the high-speed network called 5G.

“It’s a complicated issue,” Mayor Barbara Coler said after the Tuesday special meeting. “After we released our draft ordinance last week, we received a lot of public comment [Tuesday] that we needed to consider and review.”

How many public hearings did we have (that were NOT official readings in official meetings) before we let 5G roam free in Sioux Falls? ZERO.

I will say it again, you can only have open and transparent government by actually practicing open and transparent government.

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