TERRY WOSTER
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Opinion: Milk a snake? Now that would be worth the wait
I once stood in front of a booth at a carnival in Chamberlain for more than an hour listening to the patter from the guy running the place.I can’t recall what he was trying to sell. I mean, I know he was asking people to buy something. That’s the point of a carnival booth, to get the folks strolling past to stop, listen and buy something, take a chance on something, try their skill at something, whether it is matching numbers, pitching pennies into dishes or knocking cleverly weighted dolls from a shelf with a baseball. I can’t remember hearing what the guy in the booth in the carnival in Chamberlain was trying to sell.
By Terry Woster , September 01, 2010
This Crazy Horse photo has a story behind it
Greg Latza saved my life one afternoon in the parking lot of a hamburger joint in Lead.
The farm kid from Letcher is an inductee into the South Dakota Hall of Fame this year. They will tell you he’s going into the hall because he makes amazing photographs with his cameras. In truth, he makes the pictures somewhere in his soul. The camera simply records what he sees there.
By Terry Woster , August 28, 2010
Opinion: Chile miners’ predicament strikes chord deep in his soul 
The enormity of the story grows on a person as time passes, this current-events tale of 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile under the earth in a copper mine in Chile.When I first heard the news earlier this week that rescuers had made contact with the miners and that all of them were alive after 17 days, I listened to the story and then went about my business. After work that day, I had time to consider the event. If I’d been trapped in that mine with those workers, I’d have been underground now for two and onehalf weeks. That’s a lifetime.
By Terry Woster , August 25, 2010
In pursuit of Cash - Johnny, that is
Something like 30 years ago, when Johnny Cash was headlining the State Fair in Huron, I tried to track him down at a motel in Mitchell.
I was doing public relations stuff for River Park, the Pierre-based alcohol treatment program. We hoped to persuade the country superstar to tell his story of addiction and recovery on tape. Cash had an inspirational story, and he could really hold an audience.
By Terry Woster , August 21, 2010
Opinion: As we adjust to online, it needs to adjust to us
I’ve become fairly adept at reading online newspapers and periodicals. That’s a significant statement for a guy who vowed they would pry the printed page from his cold, arthritic hands.For a long while after “online” became a catch phrase in the news business, I tried to ignore it in my personal time. In my professional life, I accepted electronic news. If online was the way to attract and hold readers, online it would be.
By Terry Woster , August 18, 2010
Even after 94 years, death is too soon
A problem with a long life well-lived is you run out of some of your oldest friends when it comes time to mourn your passing.
That thought came to me earlier this week during the funeral service for Sarah Vehle. She lived more than 94 years, and until the very end, she was active and independent.
By Terry Woster , August 14, 2010
Opinion: ‘Snake’ is close enough during the Sturgis rally
One nice thing about being a newspaper reporter covering the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was being able to quote people with names like “Snake” and “Miss Kitty.”In the news business, we usually wanted first and last names, hometowns and sometimes age. During the years I worked in news, I sometimes had the feeling during rally week that even people who volunteered their names might be putting me on. How would I know if Jimmy Joe Sullivan was from Little Rock? Maybe he was really James Smith from Belle Fourche.
By Terry Woster , August 11, 2010
Dream for retirement is reminder of childhood
When I was a kid, I used to take a library book, climb the tree in the south yard of our home in Chamberlain and read for hours.What kind of tree it was, I don’t know. My little brother Kevin could tell you. He grew up asking the name of every plant and animal he encountered on the farm, along the Missouri River breaks and across western South Dakota. I can tell you the names of a bunch of the books I read in the tree out in our yard. I just can’t name the species of tree.
By Terry Woster , August 07, 2010
Opinion: Mirror provides insight into health-care costs
I looked in the mirror the other evening and saw why the cost of medical care is climbing.I’m becoming a case study in the many ways living longer increases health-care costs. I read somewhere what percentage of the cost of health care in the United States is because of older folks like me. I can’t remember the number, but it was higher than I would have imagined.
By Terry Woster , August 04, 2010
Watercraft woes put bummer in summer
For more than 35 years, the Woster family in Pierre has spent summers on the Missouri River. This year, we missed the Fourth of July weekend, and that wasn’t the half of it.
We went Oh-for-July because of mechanical issues. It’s pretty amazing to realize how much of our summer life involves being on the water.
By Terry Woster , July 31, 2010
Opinion: Facebook not as good as being there, but still good
I finally found something of enormous value on Facebook.As some of you know, I have a Facebook account, or presence or whatever it’s called. My place on the book is a bit monastic, lacking in decoration and color and, you know, vigor, as President Kennedy used to say in the days before that word became synonymous with harder high-school courses.
By Terry Woster , July 28, 2010
Memory fades with age: How can that be?
Billy Woster was the Kansas City cousin closest to me in age, but when he told me last weekend that the last time we’d seen each other was 1962, I didn’t have a clue where that would have been.A bunch of Wosters gathered in the southern Black Hills for a few days last weekend. I didn’t see any warning signs posted in the area. Thirty or 40 years ago, there would have been when that many of this clan congregated in a spot. We’ve mellowed, for the most part.
By Terry Woster , July 24, 2010
Opinion: Accident reports should be required reading
I’m coming to the conclusion that highway accident reports should be required reading for anyone who is driving on South Dakota roads.I just finished four days on the road, traveling with Nancy, our daughter and her husband and their daughter. We went to the Black Hills for an extended family reunion and managed to get in a couple of days of sight-seeing, too. It was my truck — big enough to hold the five of us, all of our luggage and a couple of coolers — so I did the bulk of the driving.
By Terry Woster , July 21, 2010
Opinion: An opportunity missed
When Nancy and I were out in Lyman County at an old neighbor’s farm a couple of weeks ago, I took the car and drove to Reliance to get gas.
I probably could have waited until the end of the evening and just filled up when we got back to Chamberlain.
By Terry Woster , July 14, 2010
Party sparks belief in, and prayer for, a cure
Three of the granddaughters received invitations to a huge party thrown by Sanford Health a few weeks ago.
The girls wangled their invitations to the gala by virtue of having type 1 diabetes. If you stop to think about it, that’s a pretty stiff ticket price just to dress up, have some great food and hang around with other people who know families impacted by serious childhood illnesses. The girls didn’t spend much time reflecting on the cost of admission. They put on brightly colored gowns and dazzling smiles and spent the evening winning the hearts of a lot of people who had been strangers just a few hours earlier.
By Terry Woster , July 10, 2010
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