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mental illness after Teresa was found dead in a Madison snowdrift in 1994 after battling alcoholism for years.
• Center Director Mike Florek tells the Wisconsin State Journal (http://bit.ly/TK0pjJ ) George McGovern visited the center after it was built and talked with patients about his experiences with his daughter. Florek says if more people were open and compassionate like McGovern, the stigma of mental illness and addiction would be less and more people would seek treatment.
• George McGovern, who lost the 1972 presidential race, died Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice at age 90.
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Hearings set for Sisseton Wahpeton gaming compact
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Two public hearings will be held this week on a proposed new gaming compact between the state and the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (oh-YAH'-tay) for the tribe's two casinos in northeast South Dakota.
• The hearings will be held Wednesday at 9 a.m. in the Roberts County Courthouse in Sisseton and at 2 p.m. in the Watertown Event Center.
• The proposed compact would allow the tribe to operate a total of 750 slot machines at its Dakota Sioux Casino near Watertown and its Dakota Connection Casino near Sisseton. The current compact allows only 250 machines.
• The bet limit at the casinos also would be increased to $1,000 to match the new limit allowed in Deadwood casinos.
• In the proposed compact, the tribe would contribute more money to Roberts and Codington counties.
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SD meeting looks at drug and alcohol courts
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's judicial system is holding a symposium on special courts that handle offenders who have drug and alcohol addictions.
• The two-day symposium in Pierre will include information about drug courts and DUI courts, as well as technical training for staff members of South Dakota's current specialty courts.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard and South Dakota Chief Justice David Gilbertson will speak at the beginning of the symposium on Monday.
• South Dakota already has drug courts in Sioux Falls and the Black Hills, and a DUI court operates in the Pierre area.
• The courts are designed to keep drug and alcohol offenders out of prison. People convicted of crimes can avoid prison if they remain clean and sober for a year. They (Continued on page 22)
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