Jill's Journal: Happy Birthday, Brandon!

I have a friend who celebrates her birthday the entire month in which her birth date is in. And she’s surely not shy about letting us all know that not only her birthday is on the horizon, but that her “Birthday Month” is on the horizon.

We get a kick out of ribbing her about her enthusiasm for her special day, but also applaud her at the same time for being excited about celebrating herself.

As Brandon’s 50-year celebration inches closer, that’s the same mentality that we’ll be taking here at the Brandon Valley Journal. Over the next several weeks leading up to the celebration of our community’s 50th year of incorporation, we’re putting together stories and photos that will make up what we believe will be a keepsake issue for generations to come. After all, we’re only going to celebrate 50 years once, Brandon.

Brandon’s “50 Years in the Making” isn’t just our celebration, it’s a celebration for the greater Brandon community, and we’re turning to you for a bit of help in producing this issue.

For starters, if you or your family has longtime ties to the community, you have an interesting story or photos to share with us, please do. Story ideas and photo submissions can be emailed to me at editor@bvjournal.info, dropped off at our office, 1404 E. Cedar St. or dropped in the mail to BV Journal, PO Box 842, Brandon, SD 57005.

We’re also offering some special advertising deals for this section, so if you, your business, organization, etc., want to be included, please let us know. You can email Carl, our advertising and marketing director, at advertising@bvjournal.info or stop by our office during business hours Monday through Friday.

While there are many great events and activities being planned for the July 21-23 celebration, the Ed Polzine Wild Game Feed committee is organizing a medallion hunt for a cash prize. Check out next week’s Brandon Valley Trader and Brandon Valley Journal for the first clue.

This hunt will be similar to the Journal’s “Finding Brandon’s Christmas Spirit” ornament hunt. So look for our clues in the weeks to come, grab the spouse and kids, a friend or two, a colleague from work or go it alone in this once-in-a-lifetime medallion hunt fo4 the $500 cash prize!