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Monday, April 22, 2019

Service Saturday with Deuel School Students Saturday, May 11, 2019 8 am-noon All Deuel County community members, students of all ages, and their families are invited and encouraged to take part in coming together to serve their local community on this day. Volunteers will wash windows, improve local parks, pick-up trash, collect rubble site and old electronics for elderly and disabled residents, provide children’s activities and much more! Join us in giving back to Deuel County! Event Schedule: 8:00-9:00 am - Check In: Deuel Cafeteria Breakfast, t-shirt distribution and project assignments 9:00 am-noon - Volunteer teams complete service projects. Dates to Remember: Saturday, May 4, 2019 - Volunteer Sign-Up and Project...

Our Youth Are So Necessary To Our Tomorrow

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Today was Government Day at the Deuel County Courthouse with the Deuel School and DeuBrook High School students and the American Legion. It’s a great event where they meet in the courtroom and visit the various offices and their roles within the county. I always enjoy that day if I get a chance to be on the tour to tell them about Deuel Area Development. Our children are our TOMORROW. Some will move away, some will remain and will raise families and many will return, marry and have children. They come to expect certain things from the community in which...

Deuel Area Development and Sustainability

Monday, February 25, 2019

February 26, 2019 Deuel Area Development and Sustainability Being the director of DADi, I’m constantly learning new things. I’m grateful after having been in economic development these 8 years, and a previous three years as a community coordinator that I have colleagues and peers in the same business that are a great resource for me. Grow South Dakota in Sisseton, SD has a regional roundtable of economic development directors that meets quarterly. It is at this roundtable of directors and professionals of regional entities that come together to hear what other communities are doing. There is a commitment that runs deep when it...

Trouble is Coming...Our Economy is Changing

Monday, February 11, 2019

Trouble is Coming…Our Economy is Changing When Deuel Area Development had a previous grant, we were able to help businesses create websites and that became a goal of DADi’s. It’s still a goal, yet the grant funds are not available, but with the growing number of make-your-own websites, it’s a must that one way or the other it gets done, and DADi can help. Through DADi’s membership with Dakota Resources Learning Network with other rural communities, we are given a great deal of resource and able to network to further advance our county’s economic development in whatever forms that takes in our...

RFI's - Request For Information from Deuel County Land Owners

Thursday, December 27, 2018

The Governor’s Office of Economic Development, otherwise known as GOED, sends out to local economic development offices what are called Requests for Information. Many times when a business is looking to build or relocated to South Dakota, they have need of specific things to make their transition easier, necessary or required. Those needs could include land/or buildings next to a railroad, close to an interstate, needing natural gas and water, or being close to a large metropolitan community. If a community does have land/buildings for sale for one of these businesses looking to locate to an area; it’s important that...

What's Happened in the Last 7 Years?

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

What’s Happened in the Last 7 Years? As the economic development director for Deuel County, I have been in this office part-time now since August of 2011. Where have those 8 years gone? The Deuel Area Development office was established after an assessment was done with area-concerned citizens of Deuel County; a need and solution was created. It was decided that Deuel Area Development would go one way into Entrepreneurship and Deuel County Community Foundation would become a living-legacy-type community savings account. As director, I stepped in during DADi’s baby years where two USDA grants totaling $150,000 were given to help establish the...

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