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• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- National Guard units from the Dakotas are awaiting word on whether they will advance to a national Army food service competition.
• Fargo's 141st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade unit breezed through state-level evaluations, allowing it to move on to a regional competition Sunday for best Army field mess section.
• The 141st is competing against the 152nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion of South Dakota for regional honors in the Phillip A. Connelly Excellence in Army Food Service competition.
• The 141st used to contract with local food vendors to provide meals for its Soldiers. That changed when the brigade commander told Sgt. 1st Class Diane Wald he wanted to bring in organic cooks. Wald says it's amazing how far the unit's cooks have come in short time.
• Regional winners should be announced by mid-September.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Caskets as well as amputated limbs from a local hospital might be buried in the wrong plots at a city-owned cemetery in Rapid City.
• The city is paying an outside firm $10,500 to audit records at the Mountain View/Mount Calvary Cemetery. Nearly 400 burial sites of about 22,000 will be checked

this summer.
• Mayor Sam Kooiker (KWAY'-kur) says at least four cases of caskets being buried in the wrong place have already been identified, dating to the 1950s. He says there also are recent allegations that cemetery workers in the 1980s placed amputated limbs in grave sites prepared for others.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says it is too late to pursue any criminal charges.
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• OGLALA, S.D. (AP) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is honoring former American Indian Movement leader Russell Means.
• Means is a member of the tribe and gained national fame in the 1970s for his political activism related to the American Indian Movement. He helped lead the 71-day uprising at Wounded Knee in 1973. Means has gone on to become an actor in films such as "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Pocahontas."

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