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The need for a new EMS facility in Redfield is the top priority for Michael Sanger, Ambulance Director for Spink County Ambulance. Sanger is leading the effort to raise funds to retain what most believe to be an essential service to the community. Since the EMS service was established in Redfield in the early 1970s, its size, value and need have increased without any proactive approach to building an integrated facility, like you’d have with a police station or a fire hall. Sanger believes the current state of EMS in Redfield makes it increasingly difficult to retain and recruit volunteers...

Career choice is a matter of determination. We don’t often know at a young age what we want to be when we grow up. Our career choices are like that feather floating in the air at the start of the movie Forest Gump. It will land someplace, but we’re not quite sure where it will land. This was not the case for young Randall Waldner as he was growing up in Redfield, South Dakota. He knew where he wanted his feet to land, and at an early age he began putting himself in a position to make that dream happen...

“Ball in the summer has always been big in Redfield for as long as I grew up,” said Brent Osborn, one of four brothers to start on the same team. “My dad played fast pitch softball, which kept us kids all you know involved, watching him play and then getting our games together. We went through the little league and then played college baseball. My mom played softball. Ball was very ingrained in everybody in the area it seemed like. Everybody played.” Former Redfield DQ pitcher Lonni Stover, taking a break from fixing a fence, agrees. “I just think i...