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Volunteers to assemble Thanksgiving baskets
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Volunteers from AT&T and Feeding South Dakota on Monday morning will be assembling Thanksgiving baskets for needy families in Rapid City.
• The food baskets will provide 500 dinners for families in the area. The project is partially funded through a $5,000 grant from AT&T.
• The baskets are being assembled Monday morning at the Feeding South Dakota Food Bank in Rapid City.
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SD cattle on feed down 20,000 from a year ago
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more head had 220,000 cattle on feed for the slaughter market as of Nov. 1.
• The Agriculture Department says the inventory is down 20,000 head over the year but up 25,000 head over the month.
• Placements in feedlots during October totaled 71,000 head, down 4,000 from last year but up 21,000 from September.
• Marketings of fed cattle during October totaled 45,000 head, up 6,000 from 2011 and September.
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Daugaard to speak at 114th welcome home ceremony
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Tim Reisch will speak in Sioux Falls Monday at a welcome home ceremony for security force members of the South Dakota Air National Guard's 114th Fighter Wing.
• Thirty soldiers from the unit deployed to southeast Asia this past spring for six months in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. While overseas they performed security, force protection and law enforcement duties for U.S. and allied forces.
• Over the past two decades, the 114th Fighter Wing has deployed to allied bases in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq.
• The ceremony will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the base dining hall.
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