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By Journal staff | Saturday, November 08, 2008

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Industrial technology department expanding

SPEARFISH — The Industrial Technology Department at Black Hills State University is once again expanding. Starting in January, four courses will be offered at the Regional Technical Education Center in Yankton as BHSU makes the associate degree in industrial technology available to manufacturing businesses and employees in southeast South Dakota. 

According to Tom Termes, BHSU assistant professor of industrial technology, offering these classes East River creates opportunities for the manufacturing industries and BHSU students.

“South Dakota has a great many manufacturing companies and most of these are located along Interstate 29 on the far eastern side of South Dakota. The manufacturing community’s need for technically educated people was the catalyst for the development of Rtec,” Termes said. “This is an exciting step for the program.”

The BHSU Industrial Technology Department now offers courses in four locations: Yankton (digital network and face-to-face), Rapid City (face-to-face), Spearfish (digital network) and in Sioux Falls (digital network). 

For more information, call Termes at 642-6498.

Agriculture in the classroom annual meeting Nov. 12

PIERRE — South Dakota Agriculture in the Classroom’s annual meeting and recognition luncheon will be Wednesday, Nov. 12, at the Americ Inn in Fort Pierre. 

The emphasis of the event is to recognize the members and sponsors of Agriculture in the Classroom and to honor an outstanding teacher who has helped promote a better understanding of agriculture in South Dakota’s youth.

For more information, call 800-573-2482 or e-mail Lisa@sdagclassroom.org.

A ‘Meeting of the Mines’ fair, reception, tours planned

RAPID CITY — South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is holding an open house on Friday, Nov. 7, and Saturday, Nov. 8. Activities include a veterans’ reception and a variety show on Friday, and campus tours, an academic fair and department open houses on Saturday. For more information, call 394-2554 or go to http://sdmines.sdsmtedu/motm.

Custer students will hold Veterans Day assembly

CUSTER — The Custer High School student council will hold its 14th annual Veterans Day Assembly at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at the Custer Middle School Armory.

Grants will help 12 school districts fight tobacco use

PIERRE — Eighty-five kindergarten through 12 school districts are the recipients of grants totaling $548,000 from the South Dakota Department of Health to combat tobacco use. The funding is aimed at helping schools improve and promote tobacco control. 

This is the second year the South Dakota Department of Health has allocated funds specifically for school districts to use in tobacco control efforts. Last year, 56 school districts were awarded funding.

Public, tribal and private school districts with an enrollment of at least 100 full-time students in 2007 were offered grants.

School districts of fewer than 100 students may still receive free evidence-based tobacco prevention curriculum.

Grant awards were based on school enrollment numbers.

The grant awards are funded by Initiated Measure 2 passed by voters in 2006. The ballot measure increased the tax on tobacco products and allocated funds to the Department of Health for tobacco prevention.

Reducing tobacco use is a key objective of the department’s Health 2010 Initiative.

The districts include Bennett County, $5,000; Custer, $5,000; Douglas, $15,000; Edgemont, $1,000; Mobridge, $5,000; Oelrichs, $1,000; Pierre, $20,000; Pine Ridge, $5,000; Rapid City, $60,000; Rapid City Catholic, $5,000; Faith, $1,000; Hill City, $2,000; Hot Springs, $5,000; Kadoka, $2,000; Lead/Deadwood, $5,000; Marty Indian School, $2,000; McIntosh, $1,000; Meade, $20,000; Spearfish, $15,000; Todd County, $15,000; Winner, $5,000; Wounded Knee, $1,000.

Dahl offers K-5 classes during school break

Rapid City public schools will not have classes Monday and Tuesday, but the Dahl Arts Center will be offer  ing two “school’s out” art classes from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

Classes are for students in kindergarten through fifth grade; enrollment is limited to 20 students each.

Registrations are due Friday, Nov. 7, although students can still join a class on Monday or Tuesday if there is room.

The fee for each class is $44 per student ($38 for Dahl members). To register or for information, go to the Dahl at Seventh and Kansas City streets, call 394-4101, Ext. 200, or go to www.thedahl.org, where applications for scholarships and financial assistance can be downloaded.

The classes offered during the Veterans Day holiday break are:

* ”DaVinci Inventions” with Mary Wipf and Victoria Ledford. This class on Monday will be a tribute to the art and science of Leonardo DaVinci, featuring invisible ink, home-made paint and flying machines.

* ”Can You Dig It?” with Mary Wipf and Susan Wenzel. This Tuesday class will explore unique ways of working with traditional things.

— Journal staff