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than $3.5 million came from private sources, $1.5 million from the Chamber Community Appeals campaign and $1.5 million from the city of Sioux Falls. Sanford Health donated the land.
• The SCHEELS IcePlex will offer open recreational skating and will be home to the Sioux Falls Youth Hockey Association and the Sioux Falls Figure Skating Club. It will also serve adult hockey leagues and new recreational ice programs such as broomball leagues and curling.
• Games, multi-team tournaments, competitions and skills development camps will all be hosted at the facility.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's governor has asked for a presidential disaster declaration for 14 counties and two American Indian reservations hit by October storms that caused an estimated $38 million in property damage.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard's request is for public assistance in those counties, snow removal help in six counties that had record snowfalls, debris removal and disaster unemployment assistance.
• Assessments done this week show a preliminary estimate of nearly $38 million in damage to public infrastructure and property of private, nonprofit entities, the state said. If a presidential disaster declaration is granted, a more detailed assessment of costs would be made.
• Counties included in the disaster request are Butte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Perkins, Shannon and Ziebach, as well as the Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge reservations.
• In his letter to President Barack Obama, Daugaard said the storm began with heavy rainfall in the Black Hills area. The rain changed to snow, and the winds increased to as strong as 65-70 mph in some areas of the plains.
• Record snowfalls were recorded in Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade and Pennington counties.
• Nearly 50,000 customers were without power at one point, and an advisory against travel was issued for more than half the state.
• The first storm with heavy snow and high winds struck Oct. 3. A second storm that started Oct. 10 brought more rain where deep snow was already melting, which caused flash flooding.
• State officials have estimated that between 15,000 and 30,000 cattle were lost. Daugaard said disaster unemployment assistance could help ranchers who have no income because of livestock losses and people who work on ranches.

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