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04-04-2025
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Saturday Boredom Busters: April 5th
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — The One Book Siouxland community reading project hosts its kick-off event at the downtown main library in Sioux Falls. The year's featured book is Vanished in Vermillion, by former KELOLAND News reporter Lou Raguse. Activities include a look at local, historical crimes at 10 a.m., a discussion on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women at 11:30 a.m., and a panel of local journalists, including KELOLAND's Dan Santella, discussing crime reporting at 1 p.m. Registration is encouraged. The top bull riders in the world are competing in PBR: Unleash the Beast at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. The action gets underway at 7:45 p.m. Sunday's event is at 1:45 p.m. Purchase tickets at the KELOLAND Box Office. EmpowerHer Women's Expo is a showcase of women-run businesses taking place at Grand Falls Casino & Golf Resort in Larchwood, IA. You're invited to shop, sip and snack with other women from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. AMC Collective in Sioux Falls is hosting an Easter Card Make & Take. Drop in anytime between noon and 3 p.m. to create 2 cards for $4 using a variety of paper colors and stamp sets provided by the store, or create your own design. The Urban Adventure Center in Sioux Falls is hosting a Day of Play. Activities include a game room, wall climbing and STEM activities from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost is $10. Kanaranzi Creek and Merch & Company in Edgerton, MN are hosting their Spring Event featuring re-purposed home decor, painted furniture and many one-of-a-kind treasures. The hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. American Legion Post 42 in Arlington, SD is hosting an Oyster Feed. Happy hour is at 4:30 p.m. The meal starts at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children and free for ages 3 and under. Terry Peak in the northern Black Hills is hosting a Pond Skim on this final weekend of skiing and snowboarding season. Registration is at 9:30 a.m. Mountain Time with the pond skim beginning at 11 a.m. A costume contest follows along with live music. The Green Earth Players present A Night at the Palace, featuring three one-act plays performed at the Palace Theatre in Luverne, MN. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Sunday's matinee is at 2 p.m. The Mighty Corson Art Players present Women Playing Hamlet. The performance is at 7:30 p.m. at the Corson Playhouse. Sunday's showtime is 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $25, $20 for students. Movies playing at the historic State Theater in downtown Sioux Falls include Spring Breakers, rated PG-13, plus The Fire Inside and Taxi Driver, both rated R. The Wells Fargo CineDome & Sweetman Planetarium at the Washington Pavilion features T-Rex, Mars: The Ultimate Voyage, 3-2-1 Liftoff and Robot Explorers. New movie releases playing at a theater near you include A Minecraft Movie, rated PG and The Friend, rated R. Enjoy semi-final action of March Madness on KELOLAND TV. CBS Sports pre-game coverage of the men's Final Four begins at 2 p.m. Central Time. Then, the Florida Gators take on the Auburn Tigers at 5 p.m. That's followed by the Houston Cougars against the Duke Blue Devils at 7:30 p.m. KELOLAND Weekend News at 6 will air on KELOXTRA. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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27-03-2025
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One book, many conversations
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The kickoff to the One Book Siouxland community reading project takes place next week at the Main Library in downtown Sioux Falls. This year's featured book is Vanished in Vermillion, the real-life story of a cold case that baffled South Dakota law enforcement for decades. The book's author is former KELOLAND News crime reporter Lou Raguse. SF woman sees positive change after elimination diet The power of a single book can bring readers together from all walks of life. We tend to think of reading as a solitary activity. But when a book captivates a reader's attention, many others take notice. 'Reading is a wonderful pastime as we all know. It's a window into other worlds, an escape and a way for us to gain knowledge and what a wonderful thing to do together and have something in common,' One Book Siouxland selection committee member Denise DePaolo said. The goal of One Book Siouxland is to draw a community of readers together to share their insights and opinions about a single book that will generate a lot of public discussion. 'A lot of times, we try to pick books that have maybe a little more tough of a subject, so that we can have programming based around it, but then gives people a better reason to come together to talk about it,' One Book Siouxland Coordinator Kim Kolblank said. This year's One Book is Vanished in Vermillion, the story of the 1971 disappearance of two Vermillion teenagers. While working for KELOLAND News, Lou Raguse dug into the new leads that emerged years later that would turn this cold case from a suspected homicide to a tragic car crash that claimed two young lives. 'The main thing that made this thing different than like another true crime book, or another wrongful prosecution book, is that a man was charged for a crime that never even happened. So that kind of put me on a quest for answers,' Raguse said on January 8th. Vanished in Vermillion is unique from previous works picked for One Book Siouxland. 'In the past, a lot of the books we have chosen have been fiction. This one is non-fiction and it's also sort of a true crime book because there was a criminal investigation element to it,' DePaolo said. Book clubs hosted by Siouxland Libraries always fill up quickly. So you can think of One Book Siouxland as a kind of book club on steroids. 'It is. Yep. We buy 150 copies. Every time we pick a book we buy extra copies so that multiple people can read it at the same time,' Kolblank said. Copies of Vanished in Vermillion are available at all 13 branches of Siouxland Libraries. You can also stream the book online. 'We actually have this one available on our digital platform Hoopla where multiple people can check the e-audio and e-book out at the same time. We want to create that access so enough people can read it. Book clubs can discuss it and they can come to our programs and have that context of why we're talking about these subjects,' Kolblank said. Organizers of One Book Siouxland say readers connect with Vanished in Vermillion because it's a local story, shrouded in a decades-long mystery: one that has a new twist with every turn of the page. 'That's one of the delightful things about this whole program is that you never know what it's going to be and it also can appeal to all sorts of different people in our community,' DePaolo said. The One Book Siouxland kickoff takes place Saturday, April 5th at the downtown library that will include a panel discussion on crime reporting. KELOLAND's Dan Santella will be part of that discussion. You can see a full listing of events throughout the month, including a talk by author Lou Raguse. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
