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• Bill Gross will be inducted on March 9 during the North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City, along with retired Mandan ranchers Dick and Theresa Tokach.
• Gross started Farm Rescue in North Dakota in 2006 to help farmers in need plant and harvest their crops. It has since expanded to South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota and Iowa, and helped its 200th farmer last year.
• The Tokaches have served with several state and national groups and received numerous awards and honors for their work in the cattle industry.
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SD budget-writing committee has new leadership
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Lawmakers in Pierre are seeing some changes as the budget-writing committee takes on new leadership.
• The Joint Appropriations Committee has changed from last year, when Rep. Dean Wink was chairman of the House panel and Sen. Corey Brown was chairman of the Senate panel.
• A Republican from Howes, Wink has been elected speaker pro-tem and is next in line to be House speaker.
• A Gettysburg Republican, Brown has been elected Senate president pro-tem and handles administrative work while presiding over the Senate when the lieutenant governor is absent.
• Those jobs require a lot of time, so Wink and Brown are no longer on the time-consuming Joint Appropriations Committee. The new chairs are Sen. Deb Peters of Hartford and Rep. Fred Romkema of Spearfish. Both are Republicans.
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School of Mines students collect food for MLK Day
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Some 50 students from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology will be spending their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday collecting food and money for the less fortunate.
• The students will be working next Monday afternoon at Family Thrift Centers, Safeway, Don's Valley Market, Prairie Market and Walmart stores around the city.
• Donations also will be collected around the School of Mines campus.
• This year will mark the third year that Mines students will be involved in the MLK Jr. Day of Service.
• In 2012, students collected 1,182 pounds of food and $700 in donations for Feeding South Dakota, a hunger relief organization working to end hunger in the state, and the SDSM&T Food Pantry.
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