Time change prompts check of smoke alarm batteries
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Fire Marshal Paul Merriman says people should check the smoke-alarm batteries in their homes to mark the change from daylight savings time to standard time.
• The switch was official at 2 a.m. Sunday.
• Merriman says that in addition to setting their clocks back an hour, people should check their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.
• The state fire marshal says that a majority of deaths in home fires could be prevented if all homes had working smoke detectors.
• Merriman says smoke detectors have a test button. When that button is pressed, it should make a sound to indicate the batteries are fine.
• Merriman says anyone who doesn't have a smoke detector should install one.
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State may offer fewer spring wild turkey licenses
• MADISON, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department is proposing to reduce the number of wild turkey licenses this coming spring by just over 500 tags.
• The department is looking to offer residents 105 less one-tag male turkey and 200 less two-tag any turkey licenses for the prairie unit. Licenses would remain unlimited in the Black Hills unit.
• The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission plans to hold a public hearing on Dec. 6 in Pierre before voting on the proposal.
• Proposed season dates are April 13 through May 19, with the archery season starting a week earlier.
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1st movie theater opens on Pine Ridge reservation
• KYLE, S.D. (AP) -- The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has its first movie theater.
• Nunpa Theatre opened Friday night in Kyle after three years of planning and construction.
• The theater will be showing two movies each week Thursday through Monday. (Continued on page 19)
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