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or Biscuits & Gravy
VFW Post 79 1 209 Cedar, Yankton • 665-3562 • Open To Public
Children 4-10 $3.00 • Under 3 free Everyone Welcome!
$ 6.00 All You Can Eat
Sun., May 6th• 8AM-12:30P M
Pancake
Breakfas t
or Biscuits & Gravy
Veryl Hohn Regular Menu 5:30-8:00
Karaoke with Papa Ray 7-11pm
6-7pm – Domestic Beers $1.50
5-7pm – Hamburger/ Pizza Burger & Fries $5.00
Thursday
Apple Glazed Pork Chop Serving 5:30-8:00
Bing o Wed. at 7:00pm Sunday at 6:30pm
Happy Hou r M-F 4:30-7:30
Friday
Saturday
Chislic Served Last Wednesday of Each Month
VFW Post 791 209 Cedar
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Wednesday & Sunday
5-7pm Cooks Choice
Idle Hour Theatre
Fri. 7:30 PM • Sat. 7:30 PM • Sun. 4 PM Students $ 2.00 Adults $ 5.00
MAY 4, 5, 6
Tripp, SD
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CJ’s At The Lak e CJatthelake.com for menu’s, events & bands • 402-388-4267 Weigan Rd., NE side of the lake • 10 miles north of Crofton • 11 miles southwest of Yankton
SAVE ON YOUR WALLET – OPEN EVERY DAY!
BREAKFAST BUFFET EVERY SUNDAY 8AM SUNDAY NITE: 3 Piece Chicken & Salad Bar ONLY $8.95 MONDAY: 14 Oz. Ribeye with Salad Bar $12.95 TUESDAY: Taco 99¢ WEDNESDAY: 14 Oz. Ribeye with Salad Bar $12.95 THURSDAY: Hamburgers $1.25 FRIDAY: All You Can Eat Walleye & Grilled Shrimp ONLY $13.95 SATURDAY: All You Can Eat BBQ Ribs ONLY $13.95
Joe’s Substation
Rural Lesterville • 605-364-7414
Will Close at 4pm on Saturday, May 5 for a Private Party
Joe’s Substation
Rural Lesterville • 605-364-7414
Don’t Miss Our All-You-Can-Eat
Broasted Chicken & Pollock Buffet
With Salad Bar
Every Wednesday
5 to 9pm Taste specialties prepared by our Groovy Gourmets
followed by a FAR-OUT music variety show!
Groovy Gourmets & Sizzling 70s Show
Groovy Gourmets & Sizzling 70s Show
Saturday, May 5 • 6:30pm Trinity Lutheran Church, 403 Broadway
Tickets: $12 (12 and under $6) Call 665-7415
Overnight Trip To
Royal River Casino at Flandreau, SD
For Dates and Reservations Call
Hennen Tours 1-800-551-5275
or 402-394-1547
or 507-530-0587
A list of addresses & items available online Monday, May 7.
Thursday, May 10 Friday, May 11
Saturday, May 12 See Listing for Individual Times
CITYWIDE
SALES
www.BrandonRummages.com
12th Annual BRANDON, SD
Mothers Day Craft & Gift Show
Friday, May 4 • 10am-9pm Saturday, May 5 • 10am-5:30pm
Sunday, May 6 • Noon-5pm Over 20 Crafters & Vendors
North of Theater Contact Kathy at 402-669-6774 • www.keshows.com
TH E ARGO HOTEL
Open Wed.-Sun. at 5:30 1-800-607-274 6
www.theargohotel.com email: [email protected] CROFTON, NE
Tiki Chicken or Jumbo Shrimp Dinner $ 9.95
plus regular menu
Show Mom You Love
Her... Bring her to The Argo for a Special Dinner
Open 3-8 Sunday May 13 Please call for reservations
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FAMILY MEXICAN RESTAURANT 2502 Fox Run Parkway, Yankton
Just North of Wendy’s • (605) 260-1701
All Day Saturday, May 5th
Out On The Town
Thursday, 5.3.12ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net
NEWS DEPARTMENT: [email protected] 7PRESS DAKOTANthe midwestEffects Of N.D. Oil Boom Focus Of Conference
SPEARFISH (AP) — South Dakota business owners say they areready to profit from the oil boom that’s happening in neighboringNorth Dakota.
Representatives from several industries met in Spearfish onWednesday to discuss how best to take advantage of NorthDakota’s oil industry at The Black Hills Bakken Conference.
Gas station owner Lavern Bills tells KOTA-TV that demand at hisbusiness has increased because of more traffic in the area.
Dennis Lindahl, a councilman in Stanley, N.D., says there is noend in sight to North Dakota’s oil industry and surrounding statesand communities should be prepared to handle some of thedemands.
The conference continues Thursday at the Spearfish Holiday InnConvention Center.
S.D. Guard Unit Returns From AfganistanSIOUX FALLS (AP) — More than 180 soldiers with the 200th En-
gineer Company of the South Dakota Army National Guard have re-turned to the United States after a year-long deployment toAfghanistan.
The unit deployed in May 2011 in support of Operation Endur-ing Freedom. Their job was to maintain, repair and replace existingmilitary bridges throughout Afghanistan.
Members of company are from Pierre, Mobridge and Chamber-lain. They will spend about a week at Fort Dix in New Jersey com-pleting demobilization requirements before returning to SouthDakota.
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Dignitaries Cut Ribbon On New SD Card CenterSIOUX FALLS (AP) — South Dakota’s governor and congressional
delegation held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday to welcome anew credit card contact center in Sioux Falls.
Capital One in August announced the acquisition of the U.S. creditcard arm of Britain’s HSBC for $2.6 billion. Capital One retained the400 former HSBC employees and added 400 jobs in Sioux Falls aspart of the acquisition.
The company has already hired 225 new associates.Gov. Dennis Daugaard, Sens. Tim Johnson and John Thune, Rep.
Kristi Noem, Attorney General Marty Jackley, Sioux Falls Mayor MikeHuether and Capital One U.S. Card president Ryan Schneider were onhand for the ceremony.
Barbara Stork, chairwomen of the Sioux Falls Chamber of Com-merce, presented Capital One a plaque to welcome the company toSioux Falls, the Argus Leader reported.
Johnson said the new jobs will include customer contact agents,supervisors, trainers, managers and support staff.
“These are high-quality jobs that will help keep South Dakota’seconomy growing,” said Johnson, chairman of the Senate BankingCommittee.
Huether said financial services jobs can be created in SouthDakota because of visionaries such as former Governor Bill Janklow,who thought outside the box to help bring Citibank to Sioux Falls.
“Thousands of jobs were created because of leaders, visionariesand risk takers, and today all of us are reaping the rewards,” Huethersaid.
BY DAVID PITTAssociated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa lawmakers re-ported progress Wednesday in their talksover two large chunks of the state budget, aslegislative leaders reported a deal on an edu-cation spending package and negotiatorsagreed to remove several disputed itemsfrom the health and human services budget.
Leaders didn’t immediately release detailsabout the tentative education agreement, butthey said a bill could be ready for debate asearly as Monday. Education spending repre-sents more than $850 million.
Meanwhile, conference committee mem-bers met to discuss the health and humanservices budget, which funds programs forpublic health, the elderly, food assistance,child support enforcement, Medicaid andmental health. It spends about $1.6 billion.
Sen. Jack Hatch said the group madeprogress in its two meetings Wednesday andwas expected to meet again Thursday.
“We have a couple of more meetings ofwork to do,” he said. “We’re movingforward.”
House Speaker Kraig Paulsen said onceagreement is reached on those two areas ofspending the remaining budget pieces shouldfall into place quickly.
The governor’s office, the Republican-ledHouse and the Democrat-controlled Senategenerally agree on spending about $6.24 bil-lion from the state’s general fund budget, upabout 3.8 percent from the current year’sbudget. Contention usually stems from theunderlying individual budgets, how money isallocated within them, and millions of dollarsspent outside the general fund.
Other areas of the budget assigned to con-ference committees are administration andregulation, justice, economic development,the court system, and the Rebuild Iowa Infra-structure Fund, which gets money from gam-bling and other sources and uses it to fix upstate-owned buildings.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, a
Democrat, said some of the groups werescheduled to meet Thursday and Friday.
“The good news is we’re going to thedrafting stage where people can take a lookat that language and make a judgment,” hesaid.
Gov. Terry Branstad’s $25 million educa-tion reform proposal also has been assignedto a committee.
Branstad has said that Iowa student testscores, once the best in the nation, havefallen to the middle of the pack. His proposalcalls for tougher testing for students, and bet-ter training and evaluation of teachers. TheHouse passed a bill with much of thatincluded.
The Senate, however, removed a large por-tion. Legislative leaders are not certain theproposal, one of the governor’s priorities forthis session, will be part of the final packagethis year.
“I’m hopeful we could still do some boldreform, but time will tell,” Paulsen said.
Iowa Leaders Reach Education Deal
GRETNA, Neb. (AP) — A theftallegation played a role in theGretna City Council’s decision tofire a top administrator who wasalready under scrutiny for herhandling of city finances, the cityattorney said Wednesday.
The council voted Tuesday todismiss Colleen Lawry, 49, whohad been with the city since2004.
Lawry was arrested laterTuesday night on theft allega-tions, which were not related toquestions raised last week by thestate auditor about her spending.
City attorney John K. Greensaid the city learned Tuesdaythat Lawry was accused of takingabout $800 from the Gretna Sen-ior Citizens Center. The moneywas part of a $1,000 donationmade to the center, which hesaid uses space in the City Hallbasement but receives no tax-payer dollars.
Green said Lawry was incharge of the center’s debit cardconnected to the account thatheld the donated money. She ex-plained that her use of the cen-ter’s debit card was a mistake.Lawry said that once she learnedof her error, she had the pur-chases transferred to her per-sonal bank debit card, and thebank verified her account, Greensaid.
The theft allegation came upduring an executive session atTuesday’s meeting, Green said.He said the allegation may havebeen the final straw as the coun-cil deliberated her fate, but hedeclined to speak for the councilmembers.
Lawry remained in custody onWednesday. Her attorney didn’timmediately return a call fromThe Associated Press.
In a letter to Gretna officialslast week, state auditor Mike
Foley raised questions about thecity’s financial controls andabout Lawry’s spending in partic-ular. The letter didn’t mentionthe senior citizens center.
Foley said his auditing teamfound several instances in whichLawry used her city credit cardfor personal purchases. Eventhough she paid back the city,Foley said, state law bars per-sonal purchases on a govern-ment card.
Lawry’s travel spending alsowas criticized as being excessive,and Foley said Lawry didn’t pro-vide itemized receipts for muchof it or adequate documentationto show the travel and expenseswere necessary.
Citing a specific case, Foleysaid the audit showed Lawry put18.9 gallons of fuel in her city-is-sued car, but the vehicle holdsonly 16.9 gallons.
The auditor raised a question
of nepotism regarding the hiringof Lawry’s daughter to work as areceptionist for the city clerk andwhether the council properly re-viewed and approved the hiringand documented their votes forthe public.
A letter released last weekunder Mayor Sally McGuire’sname said Foley had raised somelegitimate concerns that wouldbe addressed. But, McGuire said,she viewed some contents ofFoley’s letter as an attack on thecity and she emphasized that“not one penny of taxpayermoney held by the city of Gretnawas missing or misappropri-ated.”
On Tuesday, the counciladopted new policies that re-flected Foley’srecommendations.
Gretna City Administrator Fired After Theft Report
