A column by Brenda Wade Schmidt
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Time gets a lot of attention.
We’ve watched or will watch the big clock in Times Square count down the minutes to a new year – happy 2019!
Many of us spent precious time with family over the holidays, creating memories that can’t be easily forgotten or replaced.
Winter arrived in time to derail some travel plans or at least make getting places more nerve-wracking between Christmas and New Year’s.
Some of us watched on social media as four South Dakotans from the local racing circuit found rescuers in Wyoming working against time to rescue them when they became stranded over Christmas while snowmobiling near Laramie. The search and rescue teams reached them in time to find them alive and strong enough to snowshoe their way partially out of the area where they were stranded. The time in the wilderness and the days their families spent without knowing their whereabouts must have felt like time stood still.