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By Mitchell Now August 7, 2024 11:46 am

FORESTBURG, S.D. (MITCHELLNOW) The South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs will be hosting a State Bridge Dedication Ceremony to honor U.S. Army Private First-Class Gunnar D. Becker.

The ceremony will be Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. (CT) at the Sanborn County 4-H Building in Forestburg (23237 405th Avenue).

The SD34 westbound bridge over the James River, just southeast of Forestburg, will be dedicated as the PFC Gunnar D. Becker Bridge.

Gunnar was the first casualty of his unit during Operation Iraqi Freedom and the only one lost from Sanborn County since the Vietnam Conflict. He died January 13, 2005, in Mosul when a .50-caliber machine gun round was accidently discharged,…

The South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs will be hosting a State Bridge Dedication Ceremony to honor U.S. Army Technician Fifth Class Harald Haraldsen Wednesday (July 10, 2024) at 2:00 p.m. (MT) at the Lions Civic Center in Buffalo (210 State Route 20).

The US 85 Bridge over South Fork Grand River, just south of Buffalo, will be dedicated to T/5 Haraldsen.

Haraldsen was assigned to 743rd Tank Battalion. This Tank Battalion was part of the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. It supported the 116th Infantry Combat Support Team and the 28th Infantry Division on Omaha Beach. Haraldsen’s unit fought through France to the Siegfried Line near Aachen, Germany. He was wounded and died on October 7, 1944.

“Our fallen heroes are no longer with us, but their memories live on in the hearts…

• A kind-hearted lecturer at the Gateway Polytechnic helped one of his students carry a crying child
• Lectures were going on when it seemed the child was disturbing its mother, and the lecturer offered to help
• The baby relaxed at the back of the lecturer while he went about the class to the admiration of his students

A lecturer at Gateway Polytechnic has been praised on social media for his kindness to one of his students.

In a video, it was revealed that one of his students is a nursing mother and that her baby was crying during classes.

As a way of helping, the lecturer offered to carry the baby from the mother to allow her to concentrate in the class.

The lecturer, identified as Adekunle, was spotted with…

Lauren Chapman, a West Bloomfield Middle School alumni, visited the school on Dec. 14, and spoke with students in the 7th- and 8th-grade musical theater class where it all began for her.

She shared how shows develop, and the difference between joining an existing cast as she did with Kinky Boots, and being part of building a show through workshops and out-of-town tryouts before bringing it to Broadway as she did with the Disney musical, “Frozen.”

Chapman attended West Bloomfield (formerly Abbott) Middle School from 2003-2005. She also attended West Bloomfield High School and went to Interlochen Center for the Arts her senior year.

In 2017 Lauren…