The 4 You Pages

12/05/2024

Thank you Lord for the precious Gift you have given us! Remind us during this season, that it isn't about presents or money, it's about Jesus and His love! How can we spread love like Jesus this season and all year long?
Take time to be still, be silent, stop spending money and spend more time with the ones you love! Focus on the gift that is free and that we all have!

12/05/2024

Tell your customers and the community, how much you appreciate them and all they did to support your business in 2024!
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12/03/2024

This event NEVER DISAPPOINTS!!!
So much fun for the kiddos and so many helping hands! Make sure to head to Furnishings on First Ave , on DEC 7TH to let the kids see Santa and join in all the fun!!

12/03/2024

❌ SCAM ALERT!! ❌

Residents in our area are being contacted by someone claiming to be a Deputy Sheriff, using names of our Deputies. The person is claiming the people they are contacting have a failure to appear warrant and are being asked to send money. As in the past, our office will NEVER ask anyone to send money through gift cards, Coinstar, or any other way. If you receive a call like this and are concerned about it, please contact our office right away and DO NOT send any money!!!

12/02/2024

Thankful in all circumstances?

My kids and I volunteered to help serve the community Thanksgiving dinner at Mitchell Wesleyan Church just like we had done for a number of years on Thanksgiving, so we had our family Thanksgiving dinner on Friday in 2015. My dad followed my brother Matt out to Forestburg since it was the first time he was coming to my new house. When they arrived I didn’t want to keep everyone waiting or have the food get cold so I set aside the birthday present that my dad handed me in order to give him a brief tour of the house and put some finishing touches on the dessert I was making. Then, sitting around the table I asked everyone to say something that they were thankful for. My dad couldn’t seem to help himself so every time someone would say something that they were thankful for, he would add, “I’m thankful for that too!”
With a full belly and lots to be thankful for my dad decided that he would follow my cousin Tim back to Mitchell since my brother planned to stay a bit longer, and around 7PM my dad hugged me with his cocoon hug where it literally feels like he is wrapping me up from the tips of my toes to the top of my head and I feel so loved. Then I handed him a container of left overs and we said our goodbyes.

My phone buzzed in my pocket shortly after they left. It was Tim. He told me to hand the phone to someone else. “What just happened?” I thought he hit a deer. I couldn’t make out what my cousin was saying. I only had my slip on shoes on. No coat. I sped down the gravel road. My brother knew the call wasn’t good and he left in his car before I could get out the door. I couldn’t pass him on the gravel. When I arrived at the scene Tim was shaking his head no. I thought maybe he didn’t realize it was me. I stopped my vehicle in the middle of the road on the Hwy 37 curve, got out and started toward my dad’s vehicle. Tim tried to stop me. My brother tried to stop me too. I was determined to march over there and tell my dad that this wasn’t funny. He was always joking around.
Tim yelled at me - something about the utility pole. I didn’t see it lying on the ground until just that moment. There was splintered wood sticking out of the ground and splintered wood on the wires above. At that moment my dad’s vehicle and my dad came into focus. I heard someone say I was his daughter and moments later they covered my dad with a blanket.
Some time went by and Tom Fridley walked over to me and told me that he was the sheriff and also the coroner. I knew that he was the sheriff. The coroner? He asked me which funeral home I wanted to call. Funeral home? “I don’t know… I need to call pastor Keith… I want to see my dad”. He walked with me to my dad’s vehicle. Standing next to my dad’s body all I wanted was one more hug. I told the sheriff that and he moved the blanket again, but the door frame made it hard for me to hug more than just my dad’s arm.
As I stood on the side of the road again near the ambulance someone said that we should probably have coats and that they could have someone bring them. Why did we need coats? Why did we need anyone else there? Reluctantly, I agreed and said, “If you’re having him bring coats, have him bring Mickey to.” My son Mickey was trying to understand what was going on as I was walking out the door, but I hurried out without telling him anything. As I saw the vehicle approach, I walked over and met my son on the passenger side. Telling him what happened, he collapsed in my arms, and I sat him back on the passenger seat. None of this seemed real, but it was real.
I learned later that the jaws of life froze and that the other fire departments jaws had to be brought out. I guess it was only 11°. I suppose that’s why we needed coats.
Hours went by before we were back at the house. The other kids didn’t know yet and we still needed to tell them. After telling them what happened my cousin Tim came over to me, “Your dad wanted you to open your birthday present.” I forgot about my birthday present. Tim went over to get it and brought it to me. Inside of the plastic bag that my gift was wrapped in was also a card. It wasn’t a typical birthday card and in small print at the bottom on the left was Romans 8:28 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
We know that in all things? I wish I could say in that moment that I knew anything. Months went by when I remember wondering if a day would go by that I wouldn’t cry.
The following October, my friends son died. I remember standing in her house hours after she heard the news, and I remember hearing her say thank you to God for the 19 years that she had her son. What an amazing thing that I could witness her being thankful in that very moment. It’s easy to be thankful when things are going well. It’s so much harder to be thankful when we feel like we’ve lost so much, but there she was thanking God even in all of her grief. I am still so amazed and humbled by that moment.
Looking back on November 27, 2015 I am thankful, and it is true that in all things God works for the good of those who love him. We don’t all grieve the same, and that’s okay. In my moment of loss, I didn’t thank God the way that my friend did when she lost her son.
Eventually I did stop crying and I am thankful that my relationship with God has grown stronger through my loss. God tells us that when we are weak, he is strong. I’ve learned that it means that my strength comes from relying on him. I know that I can’t do this alone.
I’m thankful for all of the things that my dad was and the way that he loved me. For how he embarrassed me so many times because he was so goofy. For the serious talks and his words of wisdom. For the times that he told me not to do something, and then I did it anyway just to find out later that he was right. For the time that we had together before his accident, and for the way that he included, “I’m thankful for that too!” after everything everyone else said.
A few months before my dad‘s accident I remember him telling me that he didn’t think that he should darken the door of a church and how thankful he was that he finally realized God‘s love was greater than anything he could’ve done wrong in his life. I’m thankful that my dad accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior and I know that I will see him again.
I’m thankful for all of the people who were on the scene that night. The highway patrol and the sheriff’s department. Artesian and Woonsocket fire departments and Woonsocket ambulance. For my cousin Tim, for all that he did and for telling me to stand by the ambulance and for Jed who at one point stood next to me and offered me a pair of gloves. For Joel who I met since that night and learned that his part that night was that he created a barrier between the accident and oncoming traffic to protect the workers.
I’m thankful to Pastor Keith and Saundra for being there and all that they did.
For Bart and Bittner’s. For Loren with Dick’s Body Shop and Towing for his ability to get my father‘s vehicle loaded up and hauled away and for waiting for patrol to finish their report.
I’m also thankful for the DOT for meeting with me, hearing my story, and seeing the photos. And I’m thankful for the seven new lights at the Highway 37 and Highway 34 split. It is true that with God nothing is wasted and that all things do work for the good of those who love him. Lighting up that curve to Mitchell is another one of the blessings that came out of all of this.
Just today I reached out to Jed and Joel two of the guys there that night and Jed said, “You know it’s kind of amazing to think, in rural South Dakota, how many agencies come together for an emergency situation.” It really is amazing. Talking to Joel I said I appreciate what they do, thanked him for doing it, and he said, “We don’t do the job for glam and glory, we do it because it needs to be done, and when you guys thank us like that we do appreciate that, we do. Thank you.”

11/30/2024

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11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Stay safe, count your blessings, thank God for everything you have and gobble till you wabble!!
Philippians 4:6-7
"In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God"

11/27/2024

Ok gobblers!!! If you could only have one what would it be???

11/27/2024

Ok ..... It's time for the big debate!!!!
This or That

11/26/2024

Don't miss the big sale!! Look inside your paper for Slumberland Furniture black Friday doorbuster!! Or stay up to date by checking their Facebook!!

11/25/2024

We hope you all have a safe and blessed Thanksgiving! Here are the pages for 11-27-24!

11/22/2024

11/22/2024

Now is the time to let the kids tell us adults how to prepare a holiday meal.

Please don't worry about the spelling, sometimes that is the cutest part.

You can send them to me through Facebook, email them, or mail them to our address.

For ages 5 to 10 details are in the picture on the post.

11/14/2024

Friendly, close-knit Mitchell a perfect fit for Les Schwab Tires
By Ross Wilkerson
Mitchell’s Les Schwab store manager
Les Schwab Tires has a 70-year history of earning customers’ trust. I’m honored to continue that tradition as the manager of our new store at 2306 S. Mentzer St. in Mitchell.

Rural, hardworking communities like Mitchell are perfect for Les Schwab Tires. We started in a small town in 1952, and supporting farmers, ranchers and families runs in our DNA. Mitchell is also a perfect fit for me and my family.

My wife and children came here with me from Boise, Idaho, after many years in Northern California, where I grew up. We were ready for a new adventure, and we love close-knit communities like this. The people here are more friendly than anywhere I’ve lived before. Our neighbors genuinely care about each other’s well-being.

At Les Schwab Tires, we care too. Our commitment to service extends beyond our customers – we’re also dedicated to supporting our employees and neighbors. As a first step, we partnered with the Mitchell Weekend Snack Pack for our grand opening on May 31, installing donated new tires on their delivery van as part of our Tires for Purpose program.

My own career path is a great example of how Les Schwab Tires creates. I started working at a California store in 2005, and after 12 years I needed a new challenge. I tried to quit, but my manager wasn’t having it. Instead, he got me into work I loved, leading people. Our managers do this all the time, even when it means promoting great people out of our own stores. That’s what my manager did for me, and that’s very dear to me. I like to say we’re really in the people business. We just happen to sell tires.

I look forward to meeting more of our neighbors at our new store. As winter approaches, now is a perfect time to stop by for a free vehicle safety check to make sure you’re safe on the road. In addition to great tires, we offer brake services, alignment, shocks, oil changes, custom wheels, batteries and more. We take pride in how well we look after our customers, from fixing flats for free to offering the best tire warranty in America at no extra charge. We’re open 8 am to 6 pm Monday through Friday, and from 8 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. Come by and say hello!

11/13/2024