VOL. IV Issue 5K
KELO Gambles Sweeps on EAFB
May, as we all know by now, is Sweeps. Keloland is hoping to strike ratings gold at home rather that trot out the same old boring CBS Wednesday night fare. Rather than take a chance on Dan Rather and the usual gang at "60 Minutes", they are having a special report dealing with the impending close of Ellsworth Air Force Base. It's all part of their "Tradition of Caring". They are hoping the viewers care enough to tune into it. All of us here at the Holabird Advocate, or at least most of us, will be watching "Lost" on ABC instead of that report. We are still curious to see what other folks will do. Anyone with bona fide ratings for the hour of 7 pm CDT in South Dakota are encouraged to share them with our Publisher. We will not reveal the source if we publish the results, we will even refrain from publishing if the source requests that they be kept quiet. Thanks in advance. Good luck Keloland, on your latest reality show this evening. But we're opting for fantasy tonight.
Thunderstorm Misses Hyde County
Thunder and lightning were the order of the night, but only a quarter inch of rain. Nick Nemec Reported .30 of an inch at his spread. Lightning flashed close enough to the Ponderosa that Harold Hinkle interrupted his son as it was Jerry Hinkle's bath night. Apparently, Harold thought a bathtub full of water was not the place for him to be. The National weather service did not think Hyde County was in danger, it appears, as the storm with originated in Canning, Hughes County just disappeared once it hit the Hyde County border and reappeared in Hand County. Both of those counties were warned, Hyde county was not warned at all.
Big Day for Hinkles
May 18, 2005 is a special day for the Hinkle family. Besides the birthday of Joyce Ferris, it is also the last day of School for the year for Brittany Hinkle. It is also the day that the Ponderosa carpet received it's first visitor, Nick Nemec, who looked only briefly because he was on the trail of some runaway bulls.
Mary Hinkle took her mother, Agnes Hahn, to the doctor in Pierre this afternoon. When she got back home, she took the long way around to avoid soiling her new carpet. She also went to Walmart to purchase (you guessed it) carpet protectors.

Because we wanted to hear Ana Nemec invite us to the Graduation commencement, all of us here at the Holabird Advocate changed stations from XS 95 to KPLO. We never heard Ana, just some guy who talked so fast that we never caught his name. It matters not, since we didn't go anyway. We have decided that we like KPLO better. At least the morning. "Prime-Time" Paul Rollie is very entertaining in the morning, much more so that those idiots Bob and Sheri, who talk all the time on XS 95. The XS must stand for "X-tra Stupid". At any rate, we have made the chance permanent. Or at least until XS 95 has a "Less Talk More Rock" format.