Events

Jun 12

Becoming an Outdoors Family teaches skills for a lifetime of outdoor recreation. We'll introduce you to many outdoor activities, providing all the instruction and equipment you need to try it out for yourself. It's ideal for kids ages 8 and up, but the whole family will enjoy spending time outside together, no matter their age.

The program fee is $75 for a family of up to six people and includes an electrical campsite for two nights, programs, equipment and T-shirts. A limited number of tents and sleeping bags are available for families to check out who don't have their own equipment. So if you are ready to have some fun fishing, kayaking, hiking, crafting, birding, challenging yourself on the obstacle course, shooting air rifles and archery sign up soon!

Fee: $75

Jun 11

This camp is geared toward school-age kids (grades K-5) who are struggling with any aspect of reading or spelling or preschool-age (4-5 years) kids who are at-risk for reading/spelling difficulties, especially those with speech/language delays or family history of reading/spelling difficulties. One-on-one services will be provided by a speech-language pathologist, who has extensive training in language and literacy and will include structured, interactive and multi-sensory activities which are individualized to each child’s needs and specific areas of difficulty to include phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary and/or comprehension.

Intensive – three days per week for 45 minutes each session (Monday-Wednesday).

Session 1: June 11-13, 19-20, 25-27, July 2

Cost: $325.00

Call 605-791-7400 for scheduling.

Jun 12

Improve your child’s articulation skills in this articulation intensive targeted at improving intelligibility and improving the use of difficult sounds. Individualized articulation therapy for two days per week for four weeks (45-minute sessions). *Please bring a copy of your child’s IEP to the first meeting.

Session 1: June 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, 26-27

Cost: $325.00

Call 605-791-7400 for individual scheduling.

Jun 07

We invite you to join the Vern Eide Hops & Hondas Tour - a 6 week event with a chance to enter to win a Honda Civic, have drinks at four awesome local breweries, and help raise money to protect the best interests of abused and neglected children through Sioux Falls Area CASA. Visit each brewery, or tour stop, and get your “passport” stamped to be entered to win a $750 giveaway package. While at each tour stop, you’re allowed one entry (4 total entries) to win a 2-year Honda Civic lease! If you are willing to star in one of our quick videos with a story of your first ride, you get a double entry! Plus, at each tour stop, you could win a $50 tab to that brewery!
Brewery Tour Schedule:
■ Downtown Block Party (Launch) - June 1
■ Fernson on 8th - June 8
■ WoodGrain Brewing Co. - June 15
■ Remedy Brewing Co. - June 22
■ Monks House of Ale Repute - June 29
■ Downtown Block Party (Final Giveaway) - July 6
Don’t forget Vern Eide will be offering FREE rides home until 12 AM on all Brewery Tour Stop Dates!

May 07

When Laura Ingalls Wilder recorded her experiences living in "The Little House on the Prairie," she could not have known the exceptionally broad reach her tales would achieve. Adapted from Wilder’s book series in 1974, the acclaimed NBC television show "Little House on the Prairie" brought this enduring story into homes nationwide. In 1982, to honor the beloved television series, the East Palestine China Company commissioned South Dakota artist Eugene Christopherson to create 12 paintings for a collector's plate series. In March of 2017, the 12 original oil paintings Christopherson created for this series became part of the Center's Fine Art Collection. This series, together with several other prairie-inspired Christopherson paintings, will be on display in the gallery exhibition, “On the Prairie: The Art of Eugene Christopherson,” which opens May 7 and runs through October 12, 2018.

A reception will be held June 8, 2018 from 6:30- 8:30pm.
The show is free and open to the public.

Jun 13

Learn to tie a fishing knot, take part in a casting contest, learn tricks for cleaning, make fish prints and go fishing.