here,” he said.The governor wouldn’t

specifically reveal whichbusinesses were being courtedon the Dakota Dunes links.“Some of them are existingbusinesses here who are lookingto expand, and some of themdon’t really want it to be knownthat they are looking becausethey have other competitors thatthey don’t want to be aware ofthat.

“It’s very interesting, becausein some cases, we are dealingwith companies who arecompetitors with one another,”he said. “Suffice it to say, it’sreally a range of companies -from manufacturing, to bio, toprofessional services andinformation technology. It’sreally quite a diverse mix ofcompanies.”

Daugaard said the golf classicoffers opportunities for valuable“face time” between governmentand community officials andbusiness representatives.

“It’s very important. We haveone company whose businesswas impacted by the lean finelytextured beef publicity and theunfortunate consequences ofthat,” Daugaard said. “Weconnected them with analternate firm with whom theyare hopeful of doing somesignificant business andregaining some of the workforcethat they had to lay off.

“These kinds of things evolveas you have opportunities forrelationship building,” he said.“Sometimes it’s with existingcompanies that just don’t knowone another, and sometimes it’swith new companies coming inthat are looking for localcompanies to help themestablish themselves and accessservices that are already beingprovided here in Siouxland.”

More than just theopportunity to play on therenowned Dakota Dunes linkslured businesspeople fromthroughout the nation to theevent.

“South Dakota really offers avery good tax environment,” thegovernor said. “We have nocorporate income tax, nopersonal income tax, nobusiness inventory tax and noinheritance tax. Our low taxenvironment is very attractive.

“Companies want to comewhere they are welcomed, andSouth Dakota has its doors opento business,” he said. “Plus, ourgood environment for businessis likely to be that same goodenvironment in the future.”

Daugaard noted that SouthDakota is today in good fiscalconditions by addressing budgetproblems in the last year.

“We also have no long termproblems that are going to forceus to raise taxes,” he said. “Wehave one of the best-fundedemployee benefit plans in thenation. Illinois is in deeptrouble with employee benefitproblems. Some states havepromised public employeeretirement health commitmentsthat they can’t fulfill. SouthDakota doesn’t follow that path;we allow our public retirees toparticipant in our health planbut they pay their way. They paya premium just as any of uswould pay a premium for ourhealth insurance.”

South Dakota also doesn’thave any general obligation debton its balance sheet, unlike

other states. “So, even though other states

may be able to say they have agood environment today, Iquestion whether that goodenvironment may be as goodtomorrow when they have tosomehow meet their financialobligations somehow - likelythrough raising taxes,”Daugaard said.

The governor said that “bymost measures,” South Dakotahas recovered from therecession, with a 4.3 percentunemployment rate.

“At the same time, I think weneed to look at employmentnumbers, because theunemployment rate only looksat those people who are lookingfor work. It fails to look at thosepeople who have becomediscouraged and have stoppedtrying and are no longercounted in the unemploymentnumbers,” he said.

When the recession hit thenation in late 2008, SouthDakota experienced 18 out of 19months in a row through 2009and into 2010 in which its jobnumbers fell, when compared tothe same months a year earlier.

“Since that time, we’ve hadover 20 months in a row wherewe’ve seen an increase,”Daugaard said. “We’ve seenthose job numbers recover, andthis last month, June, for thefirst time we exceeded the 2008peak from which we fell.

“By that measure, you maysay we’ve recovered,” he said.“However, I want to see thatcontinue to happen. I want tosee the July (2012) number beatlast July’s number; I want to seeAugust (2012) beat our August(2011) peak before I say we’refully recovered.”

Businesses that would hireanywhere from 30 people tohundreds of people arecurrently eyeing South Dakota,Daugaard said.

“It’s all over the board, andwe know a good mix of businessincludes a mix of sizes,” he said.“You don’t want too many verylarge employers because thenone large employer can have toomuch of an impact on acommunity. It’s better to have adiverse mix of smaller tomedium-sized companies, andlet them grow.”

Cases Disposed 06/29-07/20-26/2012

Ethan Paul Kitto, 53430 889Road, Niobrara, NE; No driverslicense, $54.00 plus costs

Leaf Edwin P. Rattling, 6104 W.66th St., Sioux Falls; Speeding otherroadways, $59.00 plus costs

Blake Alan Schnell, 3115 SW35th St., Ankeny, IA; Speeding otherroadways, $39.00 plus costs

Richard Neil Plendl, 1901 S.Maple Street, Sioux City, IA;Speeding other roadways, $39.00plus costs

Scott A. Vogel, 430 WestBroadway, Vermillion; No driverslicense, $54.00 plus costs

Karin Monzel, 601 Lewis St.,Vermillion; Careless driving, $54.00plus costs

Darin John Domeyer, 121 S.Garfield Ave., Sioux Falls; Countyspeeding, $39.00 plus costs

Matthew Moore, 415 JeffersonSt., Vermillion; Use/purchasesmokeless tobacco by minor,$120.00

Joseph Mazour, 530 OakmountDrive, Vermillion; Municipalspeeding, $70.00 plus costs

Ruth Ann Rater, 1204 EagleDrive, Elk Point; Failure to stop,$54.00 plus costs

Barbara Vanderwerff Forehand,7042 Lo Chalmers Ln., Garland,TX; Speeding other roadways,$79.00 plus costs

Brent J. Denker, 408 D. Street,Sergeant Bluff, IA; Speeding otherroadways, $79.00 plus costs

Mitchell Hass, 529 Cottage #1,Vermillion; Speeding otherroadways, $39.00 plus costs

Lorena Reichert, 322 TamarackDr., Rapid City; Speeding otherroadways, $59.00 plus costs

Austin Douglas Druin, 30911457th Ave., Volin; Renewalregistration during assigned month,$54.00 plus costs

Carl Thompson, 4864 Highway50, Cherokee, IA; County speeding,$39.00 plus costs

Kelly Lane Korslund, 44532301st St., Volin; No drivers license,$54.00 plus costs

Kyle Lee Joachimsen, 1907 JohnStreet, Yankton; Failure to makeproper stop at stop intersection,$54.00 plus costs

Ross Elliot Loebs, 510 11th Ave.,Britton, SD; Speeding otherroadways, $79.00 plus costs

Danielle C. Polumbus, 205 B.Street #C7, Sergeant Bluff, IA;Speeding other roadways, $59.00plus costs

Douglas Lloyd Ganschow, 45619306th Street, Wakonda; Seat beltviolation, $25.00

Thomas Neil Taggart, 912

Cottage Ave., Vermillion; Seat beltviolation, $25.00

Teena Barrett, 1208 E. Clark#103, Vermillion; Seat belt violation,$25.00; Passengers between 14-18required to wear seat belts, $25.00

Terrance Hagen, 1904 MulberrySt., Yankton; Careless driving,

$54.00 plus costsElizabeth Ann Boyd, 311 S. Yale

St., Vermillion; Municipal speeding,$19.00 plus costs

Ryan Lawrence O’Connor, 2902Peterson Road, Vermillion;Speeding other roadways, $39.00plus costs

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The South Dakota Boardof Regents has approved twonew master’s degree optionsthrough the University ofSouth Dakota’s Department ofMusic. Beginning fall,graduate students will be ableto specialize in collaborativepiano andinstrumental/choralconducting. USD is the onlyschool in South Dakota tooffer these degrees.

According to Timothy P.Farrell, D.M.A., chair ofUSD’s Department of Music,the degrees will provide

invaluable opportunities tointeract with world-classmusicians, which will preparethem for a wide range ofcareer pathways.

The two new graduatedegrees join the musicdepartment’s curriculumofferings that includespecializations in musiceducation, music history,performance and the historyof musical instruments.

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New music degrees to broaden careeropportunities for USD students Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Attorney

General Marty Jackley today announcedformation of an Open Government TaskForce that will study open record andopen meeting laws in South Dakota toensure maximum public access to stategovernment business.

“The workings of government shouldbe as transparent as practicable,” thegovernor said. “Unless there is acompelling reason otherwise, I believegovernment information should be openand easily accessible.”

The task force includes media; city,county and state officials; representativesof various organizations; lawenforcement; prosecutors; and others.

“This task force will continue workthat has been done in the past decadethat led to creation of the Open MeetingCommission and an open meeting statutethat presumes most state governmentrecords are public,” the attorney generalsaid. “Reviewing the current process withthose who deal with open records andmeetings each day is invaluable andshould be considered.”

The Open Government Task Force willmeet several times this summer and fall,and then report its findings andrecommendations to the Governor and

Attorney General. The initial meeting ofthe group will be Aug. 22, at 1 p.m. CDT,in the Capitol Lake Visitor Center atPierre.

A likely result of the study will belegislation that would continue toimprove and update open record andopen meeting laws.

Members of the Open GovernmentTask Force: Diane Best, assistant attorneygeneral, Office of the Attorney General;Dale Blegen, publisher, De Smet News;Jim Bolin, state Representative, Canton;Dave Bordewyk, general manager, SouthDakota Newspaper Association; PatButler, managing editor, Rapid CityJournal; Jonathan Ellis, journalist, SiouxFalls Argus Leader; Jason Gant, Secretaryof State; Tena Haraldson, director ofcommunications and media relations,University of South Dakota; Joe Kafka,press secretary, Office of the Governor;Maricarrol Kueter, executive editor,Argus Leader; Shawn Lyons, executivedirector, South Dakota RetailersAssociation; Jack Marsh, president andchief operating officer, Al NeuharthMedia Center, University of SouthDakota; Al Novstrup, state Senator,Aberdeen; Bob O’Keefe, deputy state’sattorney, Davison County; David Owen,

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slam home run in the top ofthe fifth inning broke open aclose game, and from then onVermillion was on cruisecontrol en route to a 15-1 first-round win over Irene inLennox Monday night.

Starting pitchers ColinOlson of Vermillion and JackHuether of Irene dueledthrough four innings, and itwas still anybody’s game at thatpoint. Vermillion scored oncein the first on Pete Haught’s hit,Jay Munger’s sacrifice andOlson’s infield grounder andonce more in the second on Ty

Iverson’s walk and stolen baseand subsequent walks earnedby Seth Miller and then byHaught with the bases full.

Huether struck out 10Vermillion batters in his fourinnings of work, fanning theside in the second, third andfourth innings, yet he trailedwhen he left the game.

Olson, on the other hand,lived dangerously but rose tothe occasion, surviving onecrisis situation after another.Irene left the bases full in thefirst and second and strandedtwo in the third and fourthinnings. Olson got twostrikeouts in the first afterIrene loaded the bases with oneout. In the third Olson picked arunner off second base to end

that threat. In the fourth agreat catch by Ben Houser inright field helped Olson survivetwo infield errors. In all, Olsonstranded 10 runners on base inhis four innings of work.

Despite all of that,Vermillion still led 2-0 goinginto the fifth when Ty Martztook over on the mound forIrene. Seth Heine’s doublestarted it all, and he eventuallyafter two walks and a hit batter.Then Bendesky launched hismoon shot into the darknessbehind left field, and suddenlythe game was out of Irene’sreach at 7-0.

Vermillion picked up threemore runs in the sixth on hitsby Olson, Heine and TyIverson, two more walks and a

hit batter. A five-run seventhfeatured hits by Iverson, JackBrown, Bendesky and Haught,three more walks and an infielderror.

Haught finished the nightwith three hits while Olson,Heine, Iverson, Brown andBendesky had two each.Bendesky’s productive nightearned him six RBIs.

Ethan James relieved Olson,who fanned five and gave upfour hits, for the final threeinnings. James struck out four,walked two and allowed onlyone hit over that stretch. Irenespoiled a shutout with a sixth-inning run on a hit batter, astolen base, a balk and a wildpitch.

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