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ers offering lactation support programs.
• The annual observance commemorates the August 1990 Innocenti Declaration made by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding to improve the health of babies around the world.
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• BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) -- Get your telescopes and model rockets ready.
• Badlands National Park has announced that it is holding its first-ever Astronomy Festival next month.

• The Aug. 17-19 event will include hands-on activities and workshops, including model rocket building and launching, photography and night observations.
• Guest speakers include NASA Astronaut Story Musgrave, Dakota Lapse photography Randy Halverson whose time-lapse videos of South Dakota's night sky have gained national attention and nuclear physicist Peggy Norris.
• All events will be in the area around the Ben Reifel Visitor Center.
• For more information, visit www.badlandsastrofest.org.
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• MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) -- Brad Bigler, the men's basketball coach at Southwest Minnesota State University, was in critical condition Sunday after a two-vehicle crash in western Minnesota that killed his 5-month-old son and injured two other relatives.
• Bigler, 33, was hospitalized in Sioux Falls, S.D., with several broken ribs and a broken shoulder blade, SMSU athletic director Chris Hmielewski said. Drake Phillip Bigler, the coach's young son, was killed in the crash.
• "Obviously it's a tragedy when you lose a young family member," Hmielewski told the Independent of Marshall. "The thoughts and prayers of the entire Mustang family and everybody should go out to the Bigler family as they cope with this situation."
• Bigler has been head coach of the SMSU men's basketball program for three years. The Mustangs finished 19-11 last season, winning the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament championship and making their third-ever appearance in the Division II tournament.

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