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SDSU Extension offering food safety training
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota State University's Extension is offering food safety training for growers of fresh fruit and vegetables later this month at several locations across the state.
• The training will be May 23 from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. CDT and 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. MDT. The training will be held at the West River Agricultural Center in Rapid City and available via closed-circuit TV at Extension Regional Centers in Aberdeen, Watertown, Mitchell, Sioux Falls and Pierre.
• The training is geared toward managers of Farmers Markets and other professionals. Topics covered will include recent state and national legislation pertaining to food safety, production and handling practices, third-party safety certification and developing a farm food safety plan.
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SD tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by dilapidated structures and hundreds of gravesites -- many belonging to Native Americans massacred more than a century earlier.
• The assessed value of the property: less than $14,000. The seller's asking price: $4.9 million.
• Tribal members say the man who owns a piece of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is trying to profit from their suffering. It was there, on Dec. 29, 1890, that 300 Native American men, women and children were killed by the 7th Cavalry in the final battle of the American Indian Wars.
• James Czywczynski, whose family has owned the property since 1968, is trying to sell the 40-acre fraction of the historic landmark and another 40-acre parcel for a total of $4.9 million. He has given the Oglala Sioux Tribe until Wednesday to agree to the price or plans to open it up to outside investors.
• Earlier this month Czywczynski said he had three offers from West Coast-based investment groups interested in buying the land for the original asking price. He didn't return calls this week to The Associated Press seeking information about the prospective buyers.
• The ultimatum has caused anger among many tribal members and descendants of the massacre victims.
• "I know we are at the 11th hour, but selling this massacre site and using the (Continued on page 20)
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