BY DIRK LAMMERS Associated Press

VERMILLION — Grammy-win-ning fingerpicking guitarist PatDonohue thinks a South Dakotacollege town of about 10,000 is anunlikely place for a wide-rangingcollection of musical instrumentsthat includes saxophones built byinventor Adolphe Sax, a rare Stradi-varius violin with its original neckand a Spanish guitar on which BobDylan composed some of his earli-est songs.

But that’s part of the charm ofthe 40-year-old National Music Mu-seum, a treasure tucked away in anold Carnegie library building onthe University of South Dakotacampus.

Donahue, a regular performeron Garrison Keillor’s radio show “APrairie Home Companion,” got toplay a 1947 D’Angelico New Yorkerguitar and a 1902 black and wood-grained guitar built by Orville Gib-son for millions of listeners duringa 2006 live broadcast from campus.

“The only unfortunate thingthat I can think about it is that notenough people are going to see itbecause of where it is,” Donohue

said. “But then again, that’s one ofthe things that make it unique.”

The National Music Museumhas boasted a world-class collec-tion of musical instruments since itwas established, and officials nowwant to build a facility to matchthat. The museum is looking toraise $15 million over the next fewyears to triple its gallery space, im-prove the entrance and revamp thevast archives where music schol-ars can peruse the thousands of in-struments and documents not onpublic display.

“We’ll have a proper lobby andvisitor reception area, which we re-ally don’t have now,” said TedMuenster, who’s leading thefundraising effort for the USD Foun-dation. “It will be a pretty impres-sive complex when we’re finishedwith it.”

The expansion plans recentlyearned a federal seal of approvalwith the awarding of a $500,000challenge grant from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities. En-dowment chairman Jim Leach vis-ited the museum in 2010 and found

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-dent Barack Obama’s pick to bedefense secretary is unsuited tohead the Pentagon, but Republi-can senators should stopstalling the nomination andallow a vote on Chuck Hagel, aleading opponent said Sunday.

“No, I don’t believe he’squalified,” said Sen. John Mc-Cain, R-Ariz. “But I don’t believethat we should hold up hisnomination any further, be-

cause I think it’s(been) a reason-able amount totime to havequestions an-swered.”

Republicanshave angeredObama by de-laying the for-mation of hissecond-term na-

tional security team, which in-cludes Hagel, a formerRepublican senator from Ne-braska, and John Brennan, thepresident’s top counterterror-ism adviser who’s awaiting con-firmation as CIA director.

Critics contend that Hagel,who snubbed McCain by stay-ing neutral in 2008 presidentialrace when McCain ran againstObama, isn’t supportive enoughof Israel and is unreasonablysympathetic to Iran. The nomi-nation also became entangledin Republican lawmakers’ ques-tioning of how the White Househandled the Sept. 11 attackagainst a U.S. diplomatic mis-sion in Benghazi, Libya.

GOP senators also havechallenged his past statementsand votes on nuclear weapons,and his criticism of the Presi-dent George W. Bush’s adminis-tration lingers.

Republicans last week heldup a confirmation vote but haveindicated that they eventuallywould relent and permit a votewhen they return from theirbreak on Feb. 25.

Obama’s chief of staff, DenisMcDonough, said Hagel, a Viet-nam combat veteran, said wasthe right person to lead thePentagon, and “has one thing inmind: How do we protect thecountry?”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, who’sled the opposition with McCainto Hagel’s nomination, said crit-ics were “doing our job to scru-tinize ... one of the mostunqualified, radical choices forsecretary of defense in a verylong time.”

“But at the end of the day,”said Graham, R-S.C., “this is thepresident’s decision. I give himgreat discretion. I can’t believeone Democratic colleague is notupset by this choice enough tospeak out.”

BY DEREK BARTOSderek.bartos@yankton.net

Five tons of lumber, 3 tons of roofing underlay-ment and 125 tons of clay tile.

The volume of materials that went into the roofrestoration of the Mead Building in Yankton wasstaggering, but so too was the amount of man-hoursand donations, said Steve Kunkel of StonebrookRoofing.

Kunkel spoke Saturday afternoon at an openhouse at the historic building hosted by the Yank-ton County Historical Society (YCHS) and theDakota Territorial Museum. The event celebratedthe completion of the roofing project and gave thepublic a chance to tour the Mead Building before itwas closed again for more renovations.

“It’s been an amazing undertaking,” Kunkel said.“It’s taken an extreme amount of hours and a lot ofdedication by a lot of people.”

Work on the 103-year-old building and futurehome of the Dakota Territorial Museum began lastsummer. With the assistance of inmate labor andother volunteers, Stonebrook Roofing repaired theroof to stabilize the building for future phases ofthe renovation. The roofing project cost approxi-mately $600,000, and was funded largely throughcontributions by Larry Ness and First Dakota Bank(who each gave $250,000), as well as the DeadwoodHistoric Preservation Commission and the SouthDakota State Historical Society Deadwood funds.

With the first phase of the renovation complete,work will now focus on the repair or replacement ofthe nearly 250 windows on the three floors andbasement of the building.

“This is a magnificent day,” YCHS President JoanNeubauer said. “What makes us happy is that wehave begun. We know we have a long way to go, but

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-dent Barack Obama is con-cerned about the effect thatlooming, drastic across-the-board budget cuts will have onthe middle class, his new chiefof staff said Sunday. Congres-sional Republicans predictedthe cuts would start as sched-uled next month and blamedObama not only for doing littleto stop them but for the idea it-self.

The cuts, called the se-quester, would drain $85 billionfrom the government’s budgetover the coming seven months.Actual cuts may be around 13percent for defense and 9 per-cent for other programs be-cause lawmakers delayed theirimpact, requiring savings over ashorter period of time. TheWhite House last week let loosea list of ways Americans wouldfeel the trims, from longer waitsat airport security to as many as13,000 teachers being laid off.Outgoing Secretary of DefenseLeon Panetta told a congres-sional panel the sequesterwould hollow the U.S. militarybecause it would give the Penta-gon little leeway in decidinghow best to spend the money.

Denis McDonough, the presi-dent’s chief of staff, warned thecuts would come as the stockmarket is coming back, thehousing market has improvedand the number of jobs hasgrown, and urged Congress toconsider a balanced approachthat would further strengthenthe economy and, in turn, themiddle class.

“This isn’t a spending fightfor us,” McDonough told NBC’s“Meet the Press.” “This is a fightabout whether we’re going to

BY CHET BROKAWAssociated Press

PIERRE — On tap this week in theSouth Dakota Legislature: a special hear-ing on expanding Medicaid to covermore people and special spending billsthat include proposals to boost state fi-nancial aid to school districts.

Here are five things to know headinginto the session’s seventh week:

———— CROSSOVER DAY

The Legislature is off Monday for thePresident’s Day holiday, but the Houseand Senate will work hard Tuesday andWednesday as they face the deadline forgetting bills out of the chamber in whichthey originated. That deadline, calledcrossover day, is Wednesday. All Senatebills must be dealt with by the Senate —

either passed and sent to the House orkilled — and the House must finish workon its own bills. Leaders of the Republi-can majority said both chambers are ingood shape to meet the deadline.

———— SCHOOL AID

To meet the crossover deadline, theSenate Appropriations Committee mustvote Tuesday on 24 special spendingbills, including some that would giveextra state financial aid to school dis-tricts. Gov. Dennis Daugaard has pro-posed increasing state aid by 3 percentnext year, essentially covering inflation.But representatives of school districtshave said they need more money to helprecover from the effects of budget cutsmade two years ago. One bill, sponsored

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Members of the Yankton Bucks' basketball team hold up a check for $3,583 to representfunds raised by the team and the Yankton community to donate to the family of PierresConrad Adam, a junior basketball player who is battling cancer. Yankton fans were askedto wear green to the game, and fundraisers during the game added another $1,121.81 tothe total donated to the Adam family. The University of South Dakota also presented acheck for $5,000 to the Adam family on Saturday, from fundraisers done on campus in re-cent weeks.

BY LINDA WUEBBENP&D Correspondent

FORDYCE, Neb. — There will be a hottime in the old town this summer when theVillage of Fordyce celebrates its centen-nial.

The small northeast Nebraska commu-nity is planning day-long schedule of activi-ties on Saturday, June 8. The centennialcommittee includes Jennifer Eickhoff,Charlie Becker, Ruth Wiebelhaus, AmandaPotts, Kurt and Cassidy Potts, John Pinkel-man, Tom Pinkelman and Jeanne Kaiser.

Along with counting down four monthsuntil the big day, the committee has beenordering souvenirs for sale and planning afun time for all ages.

Fordyce was known for many years as arailroad town and was actually named forthe first railway official, William F. Fordyce,

stationed at the depot. The depot wastagged Fordyce and the name stuck whenthe town became incorporated. In 1912, afire destroyed several downtown busi-nesses and the area residents realized theneed for some type of a fire district. Thetown was incorporated in 1913 and thewater tower, which still stands today, waserected in 1915 as a defense for a futurefire disaster.

In 1919, there were 21 businessesaround town including a bank, hotel, gro-cery store, post office, hardware, meatmarket, clothing, grain elevators and ablacksmith. A Catholic parish was startedin 1909 before the town was incorporatedand a parochial school built in 1919 andboth are active still. The town’s population

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Visitors check out the inside of the Mead Building in Yankton during an open house Saturday afternoon. Theevent gave the public one last chance to tour the facility before it was closed again for a year for further ren-ovations.

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Andre Fields of Sioux Falls, left, works with a Yanktonplayer on dribbling during Saturday morning’s seventhand eighth grade Olympia Scott free basketball clinic atthe Summit Activities Center. Fields was one of the vol-unteers who traveled to Yankton with Scott, a formerWNBA player and two-time champion. The clinic was partof the healthy Yankton winter festival.

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