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SD state Sen. Adelstein resigns after hip surgery
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota state Sen. Stan Adelstein announced Monday that he's resigning from his legislative seat due to complications from recent hip replacement surgery.
• Adelstein, 82, said he had the surgery on Oct. 4 and should have returned to full mobility within 30 days, but continuing infection led to three additional operations.
• Adelstein, chief executive officer for Northwestern Engineering Co., said his latest medical schedule led him to conclude that he would not be able to give 100 percent to the job when the legislative session begins in January.
• "I am hoping to have a new hip replacement completed in early January and am optimistic about my prospects thereafter," the Rapid City Republican said in a statement.
• Adelstein, who served four years in the House and seven years in the Senate, said he makes the decision with great reluctance because he loves representing the people of District 32.
• In his letter to Gov. Dennis Daugaard, Adelstein said he knows the governor has many capable people to fill the remainder of Adelstein's term.
• "I hope that you will select someone who represents the mainstream of Republican thinking, someone who is devoted to improving our schools and universities, and someone who is committed to protecting the civil liberties of all Americans," Adelstein said.
• Daugaard has not announced who will be appointed to fill the District 32 seat.
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SD woman gets married at hospital for dying mother
CARSON WALKER, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Rather than fulfill her own dream for a January wedding in Mexico, a South Dakota woman held it at a hospital instead to made her dying mother's wish come true.
• Delores Vastenhout, 58, of Leota, Minn., died Friday at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, four days after one of her daughters, Nicole, married her sweetheart, Ken Decker of Yankton, in the hospital's packed chapel. The couple had planned to tie the knot Jan. 11 at a Mexican resort.
• "We knew there were two things my mom really wanted this year," Christy Menning, of Hartford, said Monday. "One was to see my sister get married and the second was to have a family Christmas."
• On Christmas Eve, which was the day after the wedding, the family brought all (Continued on page 19)
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