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A8 Local Rapid City Journal Saturday, May 9, 1998 Mettwoirk to opera office, hoftlirae an ma! Rushmore Mall will donate the telephone and space. Volunteers will staff the hotline. A small room behind the mall security office will provide privacy for one-on-one tutoring, although Olson said not all tutoring sessions will have to be in that location. "I can even see that if the tutoring is ongoing, they can meet and have coffee somewhere," Olson said. "There really are a lot of nooks and crannies and spaces for this to happen in the mall.

"For many people, the mall is a comfortable place," Olson said. "For someone living in the darkness of illiteracy, libraries are intimidating places." Traditionally, libraries are where many tutoring sessions take place. Since its inception, the Literacy Network, made up of community volunteers, has searched for a way to reach people who cannot read or want to read better. Many people coping with illiteracy treat it as a shameful secret even hiding it from close family members. Complicating the problem is that most literacy efforts require people to know how to read to some extent to find out about the help available.

Olson said a hotline with a yet-to-be-chosen, easy-to-remember phone number will enable people to call for help. Public service announcements will make the number widely known. And the central location of the mall will not draw attention to people seeking reading help. Many people can combine literacy with a shopping trip, Olson said. "The original and main focus is to reach out through the hotline and identity people who cannot read at a functional level and provide them with help.

That most likely will be adults and adult tutors," Olson said. "But the bigger picture includes all kinds of issues. "It may include English as a Second Language candidates. It may include people with certain specific reading problems. We can answer questions about how to help your studentchild.

Also, we will encourage the book stores to take an active part promoting the newest, the latest and whatever the current-issues books they have. I think we will be resource for everybody. And 1 expect to get calls from people saying, 'How can I Olson said. Every call will be logged. Literacy Network volunteers will follow up with callbacks to make sure people's questions have been answered and needs have been met.

Volunteer training will begin In June. To volunteer or for more Information, call Olson at the Career Learning Center. 394-5120. By Erin Andersen Journal Staff Writer After a two-year search, the Rapid City Literacy Network will have a home base and a hotline. And it will be in Rapid City one of the city's most-HMraBn traveled locations Rushmore Mall.

"This is so remarkable," said Judy Olson of the Literacy Network. "We needed a place that was nonthreatening and safe. This is it." Olson estimated the hotline will not be up and running until August. literacy Planning Commission members sought Hunhoff unveils state tourism plan For more information, call the city-county planning office at 394-2186 in Rapid City. To be considered, submit a background statement to: Pennington County Board of Commissioners, 315 St.

Joseph Rapid City, SD 57701. Deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, June 8. The Pennington County Board of Commissioners invites applications from individu- Rapid City als to serve on mm nun in mm the county's Planning Commission. The seven-member group advises the county commission on long-range growth and development requests.

had promoted tourism as a four-year member of the state Senate Appropriations Committee. In 1995, he teamed up with the late Sen. Les Kleven of Sturgis to se Hunhoff features and historic renovation needs. As govenwr, Hunhoff said, he would participate in town meetings and help communities set goals and make plans. Energize state efforts to capitalize on the Lewis and Clark bicentennial slated for the year 2004.

Hunhoff will help communities along the river attract the thousands of tourists who will retrace Lewis and Clark's historic trek. Challenge the tourism industry to focus on the real America that thrives in South Dakota. Hunhoff said he would work with the industry to attract more Americans and foreign guests to the state, then keep them here long enough to experience the historical and cultural diversity of the state. Protect the quality of life that sets South Dakota apart from other regions, especially the state's clean water and air. Hunhoff said he would Gubernatorial candidate warns industry over sluggish travel numbers.

Bernie Hunhoff says sluggish tourism numbers for South Dakota are a red flag that state Rapid City leaders must pay HMamnnaB more attention to the fledgling travel industry. Campaigning in Rapid City Friday, he outlined a five-point tourism plan. "Our challenge is the same as that Ted and Dorothy Hustead faced in the 1930s when they saved Wall Drug how to slow down all the people who are zooming by us so they'll stop and take an interest in South Dakota," said the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Hunhoff, 46, founder and publisher of South Dakota Magazine, said he cure passage of an enhanced tourism-promotion fund. But Hunhoff said the state still advertises less than competing states.

Hunhoff said his five-part plan would try to keep tourists who visit Mount Rushmore or Crazy Horse Memorial in the state long enough to discover the real South Dakota. He said his plan would: Assist communities that want to develop their tourism potential with serious self-assessment of unique 1928 1998 SEVfcNlY YfcARS OF BmW EXCELLENCE Istoric Hotel Landmark Restatirit press for Missouri River management that will maximize fish and wildlife production and recreation. He will work to preserve family farms and ranches, and small-town life that adds to the tourism experience. Expand the traditional summer tourism season with greater year-round promotion of conventions and winter recreation, including hunting and fishing and expanded opportunities for snowmobiling, cross-country and downhill skiing, and other winter sports. Hunhoff also said the steady tourism growth of the 1980s and early 1990s has stagnated.

An inflation-adjusted University of South Dakota study shows a 2 percent drop in tourism revenue in the past two years. As the state's second largest industry, tourism is a $514 million industry, which contributes $1.2 billion to the state's economy, Hunhoff said. Hines tree planting ceremony Tuesday A tree planting ceremony to honor Bill Hines, the late Rapid City principal of mhhmwb Southwest Middle School, will be at 8:05 a.m. Tuesday, May 12, at the school. Hines, who is considered the architect of the middle school system in Rapid City, died last December.

His widow, Susan Hines, is expected to attend the ceremony, along with staff and students of Southwest Middle School. Parents are also invited. All Seasons Property Care of Rapid City has donated a Colorado blue spruce to be planted in his memory. IVAV JT Foundation receives $80,000 grant Adults: W4Wh Smmi il0.95 Funds for state Air and Space Museum at Ellsworth. The Ellsworth Heritage Foundation has received an $80,000 state grant to complete renovations on the South Dakota Air and Space Museum Ellsworth at Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Show your Mothsf just K6w much she means to you. energy savings within 14 years. Work has already begun and will be completed this fall. A grand opening for new displays is planned in spring 1999. One bay will be devoted to state aviation history, another to Ellsworth AFB, a third to missile and space stories of the region and a fourth to unique artifacts that do not fit those categories.

"The success of the South Dakota Air and Space Museum is directly linked to the cooperative efforts of Ellsworth Air Force Base and the community through the Ellsworth Heritage Foundation," Roetter said. The grant will be formally presented at the museum at 9 a.m. today in conjunction with the museum's annual open house. The public is invited. CajL342-I210 for Rehis Comer of Sixth lws4w.alexjohnson.com The money will be used to seal, insulate and repair display bays, which will double year-round display space and improve energy efficiency.

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