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dren whose parents are divorced, separated or not married.
• The commission can recommend changes that reflect adjustments in the cost of raising children, the establishment of paternity and other issues. The panel will submit its recommendations to Gov. Dennis Daugaard by the end of the year so the issues can be considered by next year's state Legislature.
• The first meeting is set for June 11 in Pierre. Other meetings will be held later in Rapid City and Sioux Falls.

Pine Ridge Boys & Girls Club celebrates 20 years

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The first Boys & Girls Club in Indian Country celebrates its 20th anniversary Saturday.

• Named in honor of an Oglala Lakota teenager killed in a car accident, the SuAnne Big Crow Boys & Girls Club on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota serves about 300 youth annually.
• The club, which gives youth a place to go without alcohol and drugs, is seen as a bright spot on a reservation plagued with poverty, alcoholism and violence.
• The club was the first created on a reservation. There are now nearly 200 Boys and Girls clubs on

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