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Aberdeen school building honors long-time employee
• ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- The Aberdeen Public School District's new maintenance building is being dedicated in honor of the late Dale "Buz" Potter.
• The Aberdeen American News reports (http://bit.ly/17AtTw9 ) that Potter, who died in 2007, worked for the district for 33 years and was the district's director of buildings and grounds.
• The dedication ceremony was being held Thursday at the building, which is behind Simmons Middle School.
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Memorial service to honor USA Today founder
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Sen. John Thune and University of South Dakota President James Abbott will be among the colleagues and friends paying tribute to USA Today founder Al Neuharth on Friday.
• NBC's Tom Brokaw, also a South Dakota native, will give a recorded video message at the memorial service at the university in Vermillion.
• Neuharth died at his Cocoa Beach, Fla., home on April 19. He was 89.
• On Tuesday, Neuharth posthumously addressed mourners at his Florida memorial service with a video segment he taped before his death. In the video, Neuharth recounted his "love affair" with Florida's Space Coast that began during a first visit in 1943.
• Neuharth, a Eureka native, was a 1950 University of South Dakota graduate and frequently returned to his home state.
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Funding to be topic at Indian foster care summit
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- How tribes can secure direct funding for foster care will be one of the topics covered during the last day of a summit focusing on Indian child foster care in South Dakota.
• The three-day summit finishes Friday in Rapid City.
• The summit is bringing together representatives from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Justice, tribal and state judges, and representatives from tribes in South Dakota Oklahoma, Washington and Minnesota to discuss the (Continued on page 17)
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