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Current Award Winners:

2025 | Cahoy's General Store, Bonesteel (Retailer of the Year)
             Cheyenne Crossing, Lead (Restaurant of the Year)
             Pereboom's Cafe, Webster (Community Service Award)

Previous Award Winners:

2024 | Buffalo Hardware, Buffalo (Retailer of the Year)
             Skogen Kitchen, Custer (Restaurant of the Year)
             Oh My Cupcakes!, Sioux Falls (Community Service Award)
2023 
| Overweg Repair, Kimball (Retailer of the Year)
             Minervas, Downtown Sioux Falls (Restaurant of the Year)
             Fork Real Cafe, Rapid City (Community Service Award)
2022 | Trav's Outfitter, Watertown (Retailer of the Year)
             Cattleman's Club, Pierre (Restaurant of the Year)
             Pizza Ranch - 41st St. Sioux Falls (Community Service Award)
2021 | Keffeler Kreations, Faith (Retailer of the Year)
             Colonial House, Rapid City (Restaurant of the Year)
             Dairy Queen's Lonnie Heier (Community Service Award)
2020 |  Prairie Edge, Rapid City (Retailer of the Year)
              Alpine Inn, Hill City (Restaurant of the Year)
              Schoeneman's Building Materials Center (Community Service Award)
2019  |  Todd & Heidi Jorgenson, One Stop, Madison (Retailer of the Year)
               Entenman Family, J&L Harley-Davidson, Sioux Falls (Community Service Award)

Past Retailers of the Year:
​(prior to 2019 SDRA awarded only the Retailer of the Year Award)

2018  |  Jeff & Janine Nielsen, Total Stop Food Stores, Canistota
2017  |  Scott & Susan Peterson, Scott Peterson Motors, Belle Fourche & Sturgis
2016  |  Ron Luke, Garretson Food Center, Garretson
2015  |  Travis Anderberg, Miller Rexall Drug, Miller
2014  |  Carol & Randy Hallock, Rockingtree Floral & Garden Center, Sturgis
2013  |  Arne Anderson, Haisch Pharmacy, Canton
2012  |  Kathy Villa & Peggy Stout, Prairie Pages Bookseller, Pierre
2011  |  Dick Fergen, Nick's Hamburger Shop, Brookings

2010  |  Kevin & Roy Nyberg, Nyberg's Ace Hardware, Sioux Falls ​
​2009  |  Lori & John Lems, Pump 'N Pak, Canton
2008  |  Ron & Collette Briggs, Ron's Market, Plankinton        
2007  |  Dave Geisler, Pioneer Auto Show, Murdo       
2006  |  Ernie & Laurel Nemec, Ernie's Building Center, Midland
2005  | Mike Grosek, Mike's Jack & Jill, Webster
2004  |  Tommy, Mickey, Wally & Nancy Thomsen, Pierre Flower Shop and Greenhouse, Pierre
2003  |  DeWayne & DeLon Mork, Dairy Queen, Madison
2002  |  Richard Hullinger, 1880 Town/Hullinger Oil, Murdo & Spearfish
2001  |  John & Vickie Clarke, County Fair Foods, Mitchell
2000  |  Keith & Darcy Kramlich, K & A Implement, Eureka
1999  |  Duane, Hazel, John & Jill Langer, Langer's Family Foods, Gettysburg
1998  |  Ken Haug, Fergens Menswear, Brookings
1997  |  Ken Feidler, Ken's SuperFair Foods, Aberdeen
1996  |  Rick & Julie Geyerman, Geyerman's, Mitchell
1995  |  Willis Schnabel, Coast to Coast, Eureka
1994  |  Gloria Christopherson, Nook 'N Cranny, Vermillion
1993  |  Joyce Cook, Joyce's, Clear Lake
1992  |  No annual meeting/No award presented
1991  |  Elmer Karl, Karl's Inc., Gregory
1990  |  Sharon Busch, Toys & Treasures, Sioux Falls
1989  |  Marcus (Marc)  King, Marc's G.W. Market, Platte
1988  |  No annual meeting/No award presented
1987  |  Chuck Chilson, Elevator Store Company, Webster
1986  |  Spencer Gross, Thune's True Value Hardware, Mitchell
1985  |  Bill Dorsey, Ben Franklin, Redfield
1984  |  Chuck Parks, Chuck's Jack & Jill, Madison
1983  |  C.M. (Bud) Galloway, Galloway's Store & Galloway's Fashion Fabrics, Madison
1982  |  Lynn Feist, Lynn's Inc., Lemmon
1979  |  Harlyn H. Hedblom, Hedblom the Clothier, Huron

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