| The TeleCom Pioneers of America is a organization of volunteers who are active employees or retirees from a branch of the telecommunications industry.
In South Dakota there are two councils in Chapter 119:
- Blue Bell - Rapid City-Hills and Pierre Areas
- Sioux J.L.W. Zietlow - Sioux Falls, Madison, Mitchell, Yankton, Aberdeen, Mobridge, Huron, Watertown Areas
The volunteer efforts depend on the emphasis placed on any specific activity by the Chapter and local Councils. Generally, activities of the local Council are based on local community need and the requests for involvement received. The Pioneer motto is:
"Making Life Better Here"
| Your Council needs you to assist in one of their activities. Contact one of your local officers today. |
Some of the activities of the Councils in South Dakota are:
- Serving at The Banquet - meals for the homeless and less fortunate
- Statewide fishing derby hosted by the Pierre Club
- Assisting Salvation Army with wrapping of children’s gifts
- Highway ditch cleanup in assigned areas
- Provide handicap transportation at Mount Rushmore
- Salvation Army “Bell Ringers” at merchant locations
- Collect pop can pull-tabs for Ronald McDonald House
- Makes “Huggy Bears” for hospitals and Ronald McDonald House to give to children patients and their siblings
- Assist in distribution of food commodities for recipients
- Conducts monthly fellowship meetings for its’ own members
- Repair of "Talking Books" for the visually impaired
- Constructed a pump house, in renovation of Falls Park in Sioux Falls, SD (Picture on the right)> > > > > > >
- Assisted in installing “Life Lines” for home bound elderly
- Recognizes members for volunteer hours spent in community, not just on Pioneer activities but all activities
- Built handicap accessible walkways at the Badlands National Monument in cooperation with the National Park Service
- Built a picnic shelter, interpretive stage, and trailside benches and shelters in preparation for the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in Fort Pierre (2001-2002) Picture below
- Maintains a collection of antique telecommunications related items
- Maintains an information line, to call for current information on events and its' members
- Paint maps of United States on area school playgrounds
- Publishes a newsletter for all its' members
- Built a picnic shelter at Terrace Park in Sioux Falls (2003) Picture below.
- In 2004 two projects were completed in the Yankton Area. A learning center was constructed in Rotary Park in Yankton.
- And a gazebo was built in the State Park west of Yankton.
- Chapter 119 conducted two service projects in 2005. In May we did some re-planking on walkways in the Badlands. Then in June a shelter was constructed for the Sioux Falls Park and Recreation Department. (Shown above)
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