** I didn't know that..surprising Mother's Day fact from SD Magazine

SD Magazine sends out an e-mail newsletter now and then. The text below was in the May version. Interesting if you happen to have a mother and live or lived in South Dakota.

Mother's Day Originated in South Dakota

Although Mother's Day has origins that date back to the Greek sages, South Dakota actually played a significant role in its development in America. Anna Jarvis of Wessington Springs came up with the concept in 1905 and began an official campaign to kick it off. Unfortunately, some history books credit West Virginia as being the first state to make it official in 1910. South Dakota beat the Virginians by a full year. Governor Robert Vessey proclaimed the nation's first Mother's Day observance on April 9, 1909.

Motherhood is truly the world's highest calling. What compares to the sacrifices made by a good mother, many of which the child never perceives? Not even service in the military, or the ministry or medicine. What else requires a lifetime committment? What else is undertaken with a surety of at least a degree of frustration, failure, financial hardship and heartbreak? But what else gives mankind a hopeful future?

Happy Mother's Day to all in South Dakota and beyond our borders, the mothers and the mothered.
— Bernie Hunhoff

**Stay tuned even if you always buy your mother or wife candy on Mother's Day and then eat all of it yourself..well actually that's what happens on Father's Day, but that is a ways off---- Doug Wiken