Cory Banning from Black Hills Power Sports hands Glenn the keys to his new 2024 Kawasaki KRF 800-4 he won on our annual raffle. Glenn is from Box Elder area and works on Ellsworth as a Engineering Contractor. He looks forward to riding in the Black Hills and also in Colorado. We thank Glenn for taking a second and supporting Freshman Impact and buying a raffle ticket. We wish him many years of fun.Black Hills Power sports has help sponsor these machines since 2015. They give back to the communities in which they serve.
Their staff is excellent, please stop in and see what they have and tell them thanks for supporting our youth.
Watch for our upcoming announcements for the 2025 Raffle!!
Posted 06/18/2024
Our Fall 2024 dates are:
Onida / Gettysburg September 16th, 2024
Alexandria – September 18th, 2024
Timber Lake – September 23rd, 2024
Rapid City at Camp Rapid – September 26th, 2024
Douglas October 2nd, 2024
News from the Board of Directors:
Our board met last night. They have declared the following surplus and will be selling the following items on social media in the next few weeks.
2015 Cargo Trailer 8.5 x 27. More details when advertised.
2 – 2016 Kawasaki KRF 800’s These units are in good shape with lower milage on than usual. A new grant has enabled us to sell these and get new replacements.
Posted: 01/18/2024
Back by popular Demand!!!
We are excited to announce that ticket sales for this year’s Family Fun Day will begin on February 1st and continue until the day of the event in the Fall. As always, we are committed to bringing you another amazing year. This year, we are thrilled to be raffling off a 2024 KRF 800, 4-door side-by-side! Get ready to purchase your tickets for a chance to win this incredible prize.
2024 Spring Programs
April 8th – Armour, SD
April 11th – Martin, SD
April 12th – Lakota Tech, Pine Ridge, SD
April 17th – Southern Hills Program at Crazy Horse Memorial
April 22nd – Presho, SD
April 24th – Saint Francis, SD
April 29th – Northern Hills at Spearfish, SD
Posted 09/23/23
Rapid City Freshman Impact Program is Scheduled for October 19th. Any Freshman Student parent wanting their student to attend please contact us for complete instructions. This program is open to the public and all Freshman Students, public, private or homeschool students..
Rick at : r.mcpherson@freshmanimpact.org
Karaleigh at: karaleightwocrow@gmail.com
Marco at: forensicsdude@protonmail.com
Posted 07/28/2023
Summer is here, Motorcycles are here, more coming, please drive carful.
Belated Spring cleaning of the units. Getting geared up for our awesome fall programs.
Posted 07/06/2023
Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful 4th of July. Now that its over, time for C.O.R.E. Time for C.O.R.E. to get to work again. Tonight is our board meeting and we will be interviewing our top two candidates for the Program Director / Managers position.
Below are listed the 20203 fall Freshman Impact programs. WOW! looks like we might be busy with 8 programs!
We have the following programs going on these 2023 Fall Dates & Locations. We are always looking for volunteers who want to make a difference in their community, youth included.
Timber Lake SD:
September 14th, 2023
Gettysburg SD
September 18, 2023
Alexandria SD,
September 20th, 2023
Parkston SD
September 25, 2023
Alexandria SD,
September 20th, 2023
Douglas: High School
Box Elder SD October 4th, 2023
Rapid City:
SDNG Armory October 19,2023
St. Francis Indian School:
TBD
Posted 06/13/2023
On Saturday June 10th 2023 we Certified 14 new Local Coordinators after a grueling 2.5 days of training. We look forward to their new and existing programs.
A new Freshman Impact Program for Rosebud Indian Reservation will be at Saint Francis Indian school this fall, date to be yet determined. The new coordinators are: Becky Eddie-Moosman, Baily Denoyer, Laura Brushbreaker.
Standing Rock Reservation and Cheyenne River Reservation will be getting a new Freshman Impact Program this fall. There is a community meeting on June 20th 2023 6 PM, a program date should be determined at that time. The new local coordinators for this program are: Shanna Martin, kyle Nilson, Shad Bellinger.
A new Freshman Impact program is planned ta Parkston with a current Local Coordinator, Matt Van Der linden and a new Local Coordinator; Ashley Love’
1 New Local Coordinator was added to the existing program at Spearfish his name is: Austin Drapeaux
1 New Local Coordinator was added to our Douglas program, his name is: Abram Wheeler.
1 New Local Coordinator was added to Lakota Tech and Martin his name is: Cody Bettelyoun.
2 New Local Coordinators were added to the Alexandria Program, they are: Christy Larson and Diane Shelton.
1 New Local Coordinator was added to the Rapid City Program and he will also help at Spearfish program, his name is Martin (Marco) Kocanda.
A total of 13 new Local Coordinators were added to our growing program. We wish the the best of luck in their programs, and we want to be there helping them achieve the best programs.