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program educates them on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The club also includes a skate park and a sweat lodge.
• Former Boys & Girls Club of America senior vice president Robbie Calloway, who helped bring the organization to Pine Ridge, said the club gives kids on the reservation hope for the future.
• "What we try to do, the reason we wanted more clubs was so that they could connect and be part of something bigger than their immediate community," he said.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- State fisheries biologists in North Dakota and South Dakota are working together to stock Lake Oahe with hundreds of adult gizzard shad -- lunch for game fish sought by anglers.

• Last summer's historic Missouri River flooding flushed a large number of young rainbow smelt through the Oahe Dam, drastically reducing the amount that game fish such as walleye have to eat. The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department estimated earlier this spring that the rainbow smelt population was down by as much as 75 percent from last year.
• High water flows and sediment-laden water also reduced the production of other forage fish, according to North Dakota's Game and Fish Department.

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