the NETWORK
Vol. 5 No. 6 — JUNE 2014
IN THIS ISSUE:
» Blood Drive
» Scholarship Winner Essay
» Call 811 Before You Dig
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JVT Sponsors Blood Drive
James Valley Telecommunications will be coordinating a blood
drive again this year. Join us June 25th to help save lives.
Contact Stacy Oliver @397-2323 (JVT) or 397-8217 (home)
to sign up! All JVT members who donate will be entered into a
drawing for a $100 credit on their JVT account!
What if someone you loved needed blood and it was not
available? Find the hero in you. Give blood three times a year!
Groton Community Blood Drive
Coordinated by James Valley Telecommunications
Wednesday, June 25th 12:00-5:30pm
Groton American Legion
We Have The Accessories You’re Looking For
JVT offers a number of necessary and unique
accessories for your cell phone. From screen protectors,
chargers and cases to ear buds and speakers. We even
have remote control cars controlled by your cell phone!
Stop by our stores to check them all out. You may not
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Summer construction season is upon us, so remember to call SD One-Call
before doing any digging for construction or home improvement projects.
SD One-Call will help determine if there are any buried utility lines in your
yard. The call is free and there is no charge for the utilities to locate their
facilities. By calling SD One-Call at least 48 hours before you dig, you can
avoid costly bills that may be charged to you if facilities are cut. Calls to SD
One-Call are answered 24 hours a day.
Below is the information you will need to have on hand when you call.
South Dakota One-Call - 811
Required Ticket Information
Excavator (Company or Homeowner)____________________________
Phone_____________________________________________________
Caller Name________________________________________________
Mailing Address_____________________________________________
City____________________________State____Zip________________
Alternate Contact_________________________ Phone_____________
Best Time To Contact_________________________________________
Work To Begin Date_______________________ Time_______________
Explosives (Y/N)___Tunneling or Boring (Y/N)___Inside City Limits (Y/N)____
Depth of Excavation___________Duration of Excavation_____________
Type of Work________________________________________________
Work Being Done For_________________________________________
County_______________
Excavation Address___________________________________________
Nearest Cross Street__________________________________________
Excavating in ROW (Y/N)____
Description of the Excavation Site (Marking Instructions)
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Remarks (includes driving instructions on rural tickets w/o street addresses)
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Rural tickets might require this information if a specific rural address
is not provided by the excavator:
Latitude/Longitude Coordinates_______________________________ or
Township_______________ Range_________ Section/Quarter________
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Scholarship Winner Essay
Mariah Mikkonen, daughter of
Lonny & Krysti Mikkonen
“What industry or opportunity
would entice you to return to a rural
community after completing your
education and why?”
Engineering is a collaborative
and interactive career. Ideas,
improvements, and advances on
a concept are often made with many minds coming together
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to discuss, propose, and suggest options to improve. While
it is possible for an engineer to develop a great product on their own, two heads, or more than
two heads, are more than likely much better than one. I would love to find opportunities where
technology will allow the engineering and collaborative process to take place from the rural areas
either as an employee of a larger company or establishing my own engineering business in a rural
area.
I am pursuing a career in biomedical engineering. I love the idea that something I may have had a hand
in can help someone walk when they weren’t previously able, see when they had no sight, or discover
a quicker way to find cancer that used to be hard to detect. By looking at the tools that are needed
in this career as I pursue my education, I will consistently keep in mind how I can use these skills
and increased knowledge to better the healthcare in rural areas. Whether I service as a consultant
overseeing testing of new technologies, participate in or lead a team in developing our own new
advancements or even collaborating with a group of engineers online in virtual labs, I hope to show
South Dakotan’s engineering processes and success can come from our rural state.
I know that a number of highly successful biomedical engineers go to large cities and large
companies to pursue their careers. I believe South Dakota can host these same opportunities,
produce great ideas and have successful developments if we start changing where we think they
have to happen.
I love the rural lifestyle and think I’m blessed to have grown up on a farm and attend a small school
where I’ve had opportunities that likely wouldn’t have been available to me had I gone to a larger
school. I would be grateful to give those same opportunities to my own children someday. People
in the rural areas deserve to have the same opportunities to try advancements made in biomedical
engineering. If we can place qualified and interested people in the biomedical engineering field in
the rural areas, we create opportunity not just for careers, but in the health and overall well-being of
those who live there.