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• "We recognize with each and every committee that there's more than even just the six honorable mentions of people that have been in the trenches, helping and advocating for the marginalized," said Lee Kurtz, a member of the steering committee behind the project. "It's just a way for us to broaden the scope and recognize more people."
• Celebrating Community Foundation, the nonprofit group behind the project, needs $540,000 to complete the art and the park. Organizers have raised about $70,000 in grants so far, and they're now turning to private fundraising.
• Avery, who considers himself a social activist, said he hopes the park educates the community, especially children, and engages visitors about fostering awareness and acceptance.
• "It's really about people's goodness," he said. "What we see in Sioux City are common everyday people that really become heroines and heroes through their social service to others."
• Lee said foundation organizers want the park to be incorporated into the history curriculum of both public and private schools in the area. She hasn't heard of a sculpture park quite like this.
• "If we do this right, we could be a model for other communities," Lee said.
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APNewsBreak: SD cancels contract with EB-5 center
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development has terminated its contract with a regional center that handled a U.S. immigration foreign investment program, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday.
• Pat Costello, the office's commissioner, sent a letter to South Dakota Regional Center president Joop Bollen on Sept. 19 terminating the 2009 amended contract "for cause, effective immediately."
• "Demand is hereby made that SDRC turn over to GOED all books, records and reports required to be kept by it under the Contract within ten business days," Costello wrote. The letter also demanded that the regional center turn over balances of the expense fund and an indemnification fund to the state treasurer.
• Construction of the idled Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen was spurred by funds from the EB-5 program, in which foreign investors can secure permanent residency for as little as $500,000. Former plant officials say federal investigators have been asking questions about the plant's finances and EB-5.
• Tony Venhuizen, Gov. Dennis Daugaard's spokesman, said Saturday the eco (Continued on page 19)
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