• Services for Winston Odland, 81, of Ipswich will be 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 5 at the Presbyterian Church in Groton.  The Rev. Terry Kenny will officiate.  Inurnment will take place at a later date in Groton Union Cemetery.
• Visitation will be held at the church on Friday from 4-6 p.m.

•  HURON, S.D. -- South Dakota Farmers Union President Doug Sombke released the following statement after the U.S. House and Senate passed a farm bill extension provision as part of the fiscal cliff bill.
•  "This farm bill extension is a complete disappointment for rural America," Sombke said. "Our elected leaders have let us down, and everyone in rural America will be impacted by the lack of a five-year farm bill.
•  "It's incredibly disappointing that the full U.S. Senate and the House Agriculture Committee both passed separate versions of a five-year farm bill, and now all of that hard work is being ignored. Leadership in the U.S. House failed rural America by refusing to even hold a vote on the farm bill. The result is now a piecemeal approach via the fiscal cliff deal by picking and choosing which programs get continued funding, others that will have only discretionary funding, and some that are cut altogether. Farmers and ranchers need certainty, and an extension doesn't give us any.
•  "We'll continue to work with our elected leaders­­ and we hope that at some point they'll realize how important a five-year farm bill is to the food supply and the future of our country. Right now it appears that they don't know, and don't care about the impact a five-year farm bill has on where our food comes from."