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will go to help feed and care for Leo.
• BHSU rodeo coach Glen Lammers says the team is grateful for the support. Lammers says the couple is interested in rodeo and wanted to help the student athletes and see the horse reach its potential.
• The rodeo team's first competition is in September in River Falls, Wis.
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Postmaster General Donahoe to visit North Dakota
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Sen. John Hoeven says Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is slated to visit North Dakota next month to ensure mail service is adequately serving rural communities.
• Hoeven says the visit is a chance for Donahoe to see firsthand the impact of economic and population growth especially in oil-rich western North Dakota.
• Hoeven says "growing communities are in need of reliable and timely postal services now more than ever."
• Donahoe says he has directed staff in the Sioux Falls, S.D., regional office to work on recruiting additional employees for the state.
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Missouri Valley laments loss of Big Ten opponents
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The commissioner of the Missouri Valley Football Conference -- which includes two schools from South Dakota and one from North Dakota -- says her league would be hurt the most if the Big Ten Conference stops scheduling smaller Division I colleges.
• The Big Ten says it is unlikely to schedule Football Championship Subdivision teams now that Rutgers and Maryland are joining the league and a playoff system is being planned in the upper tier of Division I.
• Missouri Valley commissioner Patty Viverito tells the Sioux Falls Argus Leader (http://argusne.ws/12FMW1V) that her league has close ties to the Big Ten, mainly because teams from the conferences are located in the same area.
• Viverito says there's always a lot of interest in games between Missouri Valley and Big Ten teams.
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SD Lutheran church celebrating 150th anniversary
• ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota church that bills itself as the first Norwegian Lutheran Church in the Dakota Territory is celebrating its 150th anniversary.
• The St. Paul Lutheran Church in Elk Point was founded in 1863. The parish was originally known as the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation.
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