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of the blaze was not immediately determined. The town's two dozen residents evacuated their homes and no one was hurt.
• Mike and Evelyn Krug lost their home of 44 years, where they raised six children. Evelyn Krug told The Dickinson Press that she doesn't know how the community will move on.
• "All I can say is Lord help me through this and I know he will," she said. "Seeing this, I don't ever want to come back here again."
• Ardella and Ruben Dschaak's home was saved, but the couple wonders about the future.
• "There'll be a hell of a cleanup," Ruben Dschaak told The Bismarck Tribune.
• Jerald Nelson, 75, of Davenport, Iowa, spent much of his childhood in Bucyrus, starting in the late 1930s. At the time, the town had several businesses, a K-12 school and a post office.
• "I can relate to the days when Bucyrus was a thriving community," he told The Associated Press on Friday.
• Nelson, who has returned to Bucyrus often in his adult life, said he worries about the town's future now.
• "I don't think there will be any," he said.
• Donations to the Bucyrus Disaster Relief Fund can be sent to Dakota Plains Federal Credit Union, 221 South Main St., P.O. Box 1020, Hettinger, N.D. 58639.
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Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials
The Associated Press
• Rapid City Journal. Oct. 17, 2012
• More work ahead on openness
• A state task force created to find ways to make South Dakota government more open concluded its recent work with some recommendations that will be forwarded to the governor and attorney general.
• Any recommendations from the 33-member panel of representatives of news organizations, state officials, law enforcement officials, prosecutors and local government officials that makes government more open to the public are welcome. Among those recommendations are proposals to make more government documents available to the public and make public police mug shots of accused criminals.
• We are disappointed that the panel could not agree on requiring government boards and commissions to record closed meetings. Under the proposal, the recordings of closed meetings would have been sealed unless someone complained (Continued on page 32)
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