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• In 2012, Lorig spent 15 days training actress Jennifer Lawrence for her role in the blockbuster movie "The Hunger Games." The Olympian said she never expected the movie would become such a phenomenon, and the fictional bow-and-arrow-toting heroine Katniss Everdeen helped give archery a certain cachet with kids.
• "It's a cool sport," Lorig said. "You can survive with a bow. You can defend yourself."
• The Yankton center has hosted other national and world tournaments, and Cull and his staff are currently readying the complex's three field archery courses for the 2014 NFAA Outdoor National Championships set for July 30-Aug. 3. Field archery is a roving game set up much like a golf course, in which targets are shot at varying distances.
• But the biennial World Youth Championships, which will be held on the complex's two Olympic-sized fields with 70-meter targets, is one of the sport's top draws. The tournament was last held in the U.S. in 2009 at Ogden, Utah, and Legnica, Poland, and Wuxi, China, have since served as hosts.
• Cull, a native of nearby Springfield, said Yankton's status in the archery world began to grow in 2007, when he helped spearhead a state economic development package to encourage the NFAA to move its headquarters from California. Easton, the sports equipment manufacturer, then chose the city for its first archery center, and the Yankton complex now boasts one of just a handful of 90-meter indoor shooting ranges in the nation.
• Yankton will spread out to surrounding towns' hotels and campus housing at Mount Marty College and the nearby University of South Dakota in Vermillion to provide enough rooms for the athletes, coaches and families. Many will come early or stay late to visit Mount Rushmore, the Badlands or Sioux Falls, Cull said.
• "We're talking about a thousand people, bare minimum, here for about eight days," he said. "That's going to have a huge impact on the community."
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Another six committees have been organized to plan celebrations for South Dakota's 125th anniversary this year.
• Eleven events have been held so far and about 20 others are in the works, including festivals with history themes in Freeman this weekend and in Lake Norden, Ethan, Delmont and Willow Lake later this week.
• The local celebration committee in Yankton hosts the "Biggest Barn Dance in Dakota Territory" on Sept. 3 to kick off the 125th Celebration Wagon Train leaving for

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