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Timber Lake educator is SD's Teacher of the Year
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Timber Lake High School math and science teacher LuAnn Lindskov has been named South Dakota's Teacher of the Year.
• The announcement was made during a Thursday evening banquet in Oacoma.
• Lindskov is a member of Black Hills State University's QuarkNet, a group of South Dakota science teachers who study subatomic physics and connect their students with physicists and students from around the world. In 2011 she attended a conference about advanced particle physics research at the FermiLab National Laboratory near Chicago.
• State Education Secretary Melody Schopp says Lindskov is "connected and therefore keeps her students connected."
• Lindskov wins $9,000 in cash and a $7,000 technology package to use in her classroom. She also is now a candidate for the National Teacher of the Year award. .
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O-negative blood donations needed in the Dakotas
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- United Blood Services is looking for people in the region to donate type O-negative blood, in part because of the recent blizzard in the western Dakotas.
• O-negative is the universal donor blood type, meaning it can be given to anyone.
• United Blood Services says the demand for O-negative blood recently has outpaced the supply. One reason is that the early October blizzard shut down blood drives and facilities in Rapid City.
• O-negative blood also is in demand because only 6 percent of people have it.
• United Blood Services has North Dakota offices in Bismarck, Fargo and Minot and South Dakota offices in Aberdeen, Mitchell and Rapid City. It collects blood for 93 hospitals.
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SD Unemployment Insurance Division wins awards
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Division of Unemployment Insurance has received two awards from the U.S. Labor Department for the way it handles benefit payments and appeals.
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