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  • What’s the Secret Ingredient to a Winning Team
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    What’s the Secret Ingredient to a Winning Team

    ByPaula Jensen January 26, 2019January 6, 2019

    Guest post by Paula Jensen The Langford Area High School boys’ basketball team made it to the State B tournament for the fifth time in the past six years. As I travel across South Dakota for my job people ask me, “How can Langford (being such a small school) continue producing winning teams year-after-year?” My…

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    The small town stereotype: Old White Guys in charge, stuck in the past

    ByPaula Jensen December 22, 2018January 6, 2019

    I often hear jovial stories and stereotypes, in and out of rural places, about how small-town people are stuck in the 1960s and refuse to accept change. They joke that we nostalgically hang on to our traditions, our history, our ways of doing things, and our small-town values. Personally, I choose to live in a…

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    Raise Your Voice for Rural Communities

    ByPaula Jensen November 24, 2018January 6, 2019

    It seems to me the only voices being heard in this world are from big companies, big cities and big government. The news blasted on my car radio as I drove across the prairie a few weeks ago, “the nation’s Gross Domestic Product growth has risen to a booming 4.1 during the second quarter of…

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