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WHEN HE WORKS FROM HIS PIERRE office, there isn’t an office – Chris Maxwell, the president of a company
called Peppermint Energy, works on a laptop com-puter from a booth at the Pier 347 coffee shop in Pierre.
That’s how the Fort Pierre businessman says personal computing has revolutionized the idea of how and where people work.
And that’s the model Maxwell and his colleagues say will soon revolutionize the idea of how and where people connect to an energy source to use electricity.
The message? Don’t think “grid.” Think “sun.”
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Thursday, April 18, 2013 www.capjournal.com Volume 132, Issue No. 77 75¢CPARKING PLANSUpper Pierre Street property owners release plans to improve parking around the Opera House and movie theater A2
Memory laneSee the insert on Pierre’s basketball championship
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A parent or guardian must be present to sign permission form
Pierre Masonic Lodge 27Will be hosting a SD CHIPs event at the Pierre Mall
April 20, 2013 from Noon to 4 pmThere is No Charge to Parents for the Child Identification Kits.
The following is provided with the Child Identification Kits:
• Fingerprints• Digital Still Photo• Video Imaged Interview
• DNA Cheek Swab• Dental Impressions
For more information contact SD Grand Lodge at 605 332-2051 or www.sd-chips.org
In cooperation with the International/National Masonic Organizations,
South Dakota Dental Association and the South Dakota Sheriff’s Asssociation
USDA starts new program to track farm animalsMILWAUKEE (AP) —
The federal government has launched a new live-stock identification pro-gram to help agriculture officials to quickly track livestock in cases of dis-ease.
It is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s second attempt at implement-ing such a system, which officials say is critical to maintaining the security of the nation’s food sup-ply. An earlier, voluntary program failed because
of widespread opposi-tion among farmers and ranchers who described it as a costly hassle that didn’t help control dis-ease.
There has been talk for years among consumer advocates about estab-
lishing a program that would trace food from farm to plate. The live-stock identification sys-tem doesn’t go that far and isn’t meant to. Its main goal is to track ani-mals’ movements so agri-culture and health offi-
cials can quickly estab-lish quarantines and take other steps to prevent the spread of disease.
“This ensures that healthy animals can continue to move freely to processing facilities, providing a dependable and affordable source for consumers as well as protecting produc-er’s livelihoods,” Abby Yigzaw, spokeswoman for the USDA’s Animal and This July, 2012, photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Trade and Consumer Protection, shows cows with ear tags at a dairy farm in Lake Mills, Wis. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Agriculture, Laurie Lawrence)
BY JUSTIN [email protected]
A cradle that got its start as a wooden box used to carry grocer-ies is one of the innovative pieces of South Dakota furniture on dis-play in a new exhibit that opens Saturday in Pierre.
“The guy made a cradle out of it and used that for his children who used if for their children who used it for their children down for gen-erations,” Ronette Rumpca, cura-
tor of interpretation for the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center.
The piece is one of many at the center that will make up an exhib-it called, “Furniture: The Fancy & The Functional.” It will feature more than 60 pieces of furniture that help tell something about the way South Dakotans lived from the 1880s through the 1970s.
Jay Smith, museum director,
said the exhibit shows the evolu-tion of style and change in furni-
ture over time.All of the pieces on
display come from the permanent collection of the Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society.
It will be the first time the muse-um has displayed many of the pieces, or at least the first time in
Horse races kick o� this weekendBY CHRIS [email protected]
FORT PIERRE, S.D. — An annual spring tradi-tion kicks off this weekend as horse racing returns to Fort Pierre.
Starting time is 1 p.m. CST on Saturday at the Stanley County Fairgrounds in Fort Pierre. Racing will continue on Sunday as well as the following two weekends.
“It’s hard to imagine April and May without the horse races,” said organizer Dennis Booth.
The six-day season runs April 20 through May 5 on weekends and is expected to feature a full card of races. Admission is free the first Saturday and $1 the remaining race days.
“We should have a real good race card if the weather cooper-ates,” Booth said adding, “We have some feature races again this year and some national quarter-horse races. Then we’ve got the regular 2-year-old races, open derbies, a few charities and some thor-oughbred races. There’ll be good purses again this year.”
Booth expects the stables to be full over the week-end. However, not every horse will make it onto the track as each race is limited to eight horses. With so many horses, Booth predicts plenty of competition.
“It’s hard to say, but there’s probably going to be around 300 horses on the grounds. Most of the races should be full as there should be plenty of horses to fill each race,” Booth said.
Organized horse racing started in Fort Pierre in 1947. The tradition started as part of Stanley County’s Annual Fall Festival which began in 1945. Along with a rodeo, stock show, dance and wild cow milking contest, horse racing became part of the annual tradition.
Residents over the years have refused to let
Historic furniture exhibit begins Saturday
Kate Vandel and Ronette Rumpca set up the title for a hands-on activ-ity that is part of “Furniture: The Fancy & The Functional” exhibit at the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center. (Justin Joiner/Capital Journal)
Peppermint makes power personal
A close-up of the solar panels on the Peppermint Forty2. (Lance Nixon/Capital Journal)
Open up, plug in, power on
Chris Maxwell of Fort Pierre is president of a company called Peppermint Energy. The company builds a portable solar energy generator called the Peppermint Forty2 that uses lithium batteries to store the sun’s energy and uses conven-tional plug-ins to power devices such as computers. (Lance Nixon/Capital Journal)
BY LANCE NIXON | [email protected]
See FURNITURE, A6
See PEPPERMINT, A6
Dennis Booth
See RACES, A6
See ANIMALS, A6
“I’d say (ear tags are) very similar to a license plate on a car,”
Neil Hammerschmidt, APHIS’ animal disease traceability program manager
The exhibit’s grand opening is from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the museum.
