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and wine tasting. Day care services are being provided free of charge.
• "Understanding the many responsibilities rural women take on each day, we wanted to show our support and admiration by hosting a fun and inspiring event just for them," spokeswoman Camie Janikowski said. "Rural Women in America is about women helping women and this is a great opportunity for us to pay it forward to our friends in South Dakota."
• The Oct. 4-5 blizzard that hit with surprising intensity brought rain and then up to 4 feet of snow to western South Dakota, killing more than 40,000 cattle, sheep and horses. More than 600 ranchers have applied for help from a relief fund set up by the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, the South Dakota Cattlemen's Association and the South Dakota Sheep Growers Association. The fund has received more than $4 million in donations from around the country.
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• WINDOM, Minn. (AP) -- The small city of Windom in southwestern Minnesota is among the places sheltering motorists with no place to turn in the blowing snow that's made some roads impassable.
• About 70 people, forced off the highways in whiteout conditions, stayed overnight at the Business Arts & Recreation Center where the Red Cross set up cots.
• Center manager Greg Warner says four ping pong players from Sioux Falls, S.D., who went to a tournament in the Twin Cities, are among the stranded. Three dogs also stayed warm at the center.
• Businessman Andy Winstrom says he was on his way from Omaha, Neb., to Minneapolis for a meeting Monday when he was directed off Highway 60 by the State Patrol. Winstrom says as soon as it got dark Sunday night, he couldn't see the highway because of blowing snow.
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