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Robert Bender, seam squirrel of Pup Tent No. 12, Yankton, presentsa $500 check to Brenda Teunissen, office manager/team leader ofthe Vet Center in Sioux Falls. The Vet Center, located at 3200 W.49th, assists all veterans with health, clothing, gasoline and hous-ing needs of the veterans. The Vets Standdown will be held at theSioux Falls VFW Post on Sept. 19. For more information, contactthe Vet Center at 605-330-4552.

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BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Dear Tom and Ray: Remember those Datsun mini-trucks

that used to be around? Where did thatclass of trucks go? It seems like all youcan get now is a full-size F-150 or similar.Is there anything like those old Japanesemini-trucks still on the market, or shouldI start shopping for a classic El Camino?What happened to the small trucks? —Bryant

RAY: People stopped buying them. TOM: There still is a class of pickup

truck smaller than the full-size F-150s,Silverados and Ram 1500s. But they’renot much smaller.

RAY: Toyota still makes the Tacoma.Nissan still makes the Frontier. AndChevy is coming out with a redesignedColorado for 2015.

TOM: But these are not mini-trucks.The trucks you remember were, essen-tially, compact Japanese cars withpickup-truck beds. They were cheap,lightweight and utilitarian.

RAY: Not enough people want thatanymore. Pickup trucks have becomelarge, luxury cars. The smallest two-doorToyota Tacoma these days, for example,is only about a foot and a half shorterthan the smallest full-size Toyota Tun-dra. And that Tacoma is still 208 incheslong — only a little shorter than the oldLincoln Town Car land yachts that usedto ply the airport terminals.

TOM: And even though you canorder it with a four-cylinder engine andget a little better mileage than the full-

size Tundra, it’s a cheaper and less-capa-ble vehicle. So unless maneuverability orparking is an issue, most buyers choosethe larger, more comfortable, more up-to-date Tundra.

RAY: The problem for manufacturersis that, once you design and build asmaller pickup truck and equip it witheverything a modern vehicle needs tohave, it doesn’t cost much less than afull-size pickup. And the mileage isn’tthat much better. So most people go forthe bigger truck.

TOM: You should have a look at theChevy Colorado when it comes out.That’ll be the most modern and up-to-date of the less-than-full-size pickuptrucks out there.

RAY: You can look at the HondaRidgeline (which is more carlike thanother pickups, but not much smaller).

TOM: You can look for a used SubaruBaja, which was the most recent El

Camino-ish vehicle that failed to sell andwas killed off. It was last made in 2006.

RAY: You can look for a used Ford Ex-plorer Sport Trac, which was last madein 2010. That’s a Ford Explorer with apickup-truck bed. Again, not small, butsmaller than a full-size pickup.

TOM: You can look for a classic ElCamino, or even a really old Toyota orDatsun truck, if you’re willing to give upsafety and reliability.

RAY: But what you’re really lustingafter just isn’t for sale anymore, Bryant.At least not in the United States.

TOM: If you’re willing to relocate,then we can help you out. Go to anythird- or even second-world country, andyou can have your pick of cheap, smallpickup trucks. Just don’t look too closelyat the body panels, because you may seethe words “Hungry Man Dinner”stamped into them.

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book, “Ask Click and Clack: Answersfrom Car Talk.” Got a question aboutcars? Write to Click and Clack in care ofthis newspaper, or email them by visitingthe Car Talk website atwww.cartalk.com.

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Where Have All TheSmaller Pickups Gone?

CAR TALKTom and Ray Magliozzi

BY TED KOOSERU.S. Poet Laureate

We’re at the end of the gardening season here on the GreatPlains, and the garden described in this poem by Karina Borow-icz, who lives in Massachusetts, is familiar to tomato fanciers allacross the country.

SEPTEMBER TOMATOES The whiskey stink of rot has settledin the garden, and a burst of fruit flies rises when I touch the dying tomato plants. Still, the claws of tiny yellow blossomsflail in the air as I pull the vines up by the roots and toss them in the compost. It feels cruel. Something in me isn’t readyto let go of summer so easily. To destroywhat I’ve carefully cultivated all these months.Those pale flowers might still have time to fruit.My great-grandmother sang with the girls of her villageas they pulled the flax. Songs so oldand so tied to the season that the very soundseemed to turn the weather.

American Life in Poetry is made possible by The PoetryFoundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetrymagazine. It is also supported by the Department of English atthe University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright © 2013 byKarina Borowicz, whose most recent book of poems is Proof,(Codhill Press, 2014). Poem first appeared in the journal ECO-TONE and is reprinted by permission of Karina Borowicz and thepublisher. Introduction copyright © 2014 by The Poetry Founda-tion. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as UnitedStates Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Con-gress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

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Last Gasp Of ASummer Garden

CONNIE KERNS-GRAMSHAYS, Kan. — Connie Sue

Kerns-Grams, Irene, was one of337 graduates of Fort HaysState University, Hays, Kansas,in the summer 2014 term.

Kerns-Grams earned a Mas-ter of Liberal Studies with anemphasis in political science.

Fort Hays State, one of sixstate universities in theKansas Board of Regents sys-tem, announces only verifiedgraduates. The process of veri-fying that all requirementshave been met for all gradu-ates takes several weeks afterthe end of the term.

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WAYNE, Neb. — WayneState College (WSC) in Wayne,Nebraska, will host the nation’sthird LGBT Rural Summit onFriday, Sept. 19. The U.S. De-partment of Agriculture’s Of-fice of the Assistant Secretaryfor Civil Rights will host the Ne-braska Summit, in partnershipwith the National Center forLesbian Rights, The True Col-ors Fund and Wayne State Col-lege. The event will be held atWayne State’s Gardner Audito-rium in the Gardner BusinessBuilding on the WSC campus.

The daylong conferencewill feature nationally recog-nized speakers discussing im-portant topics ranging from“Life in Rural America,” “TheFuture of the LGBT Move-

ment,” “Legal Issues andNondiscrimination in RuralLGBT Communities,” “LGBTHealth Disparities” and “LGBTYouth in Rural America.” Theluncheon speaker will beMichael Barth, with his speechon “Gender Stereotypes.” Barthrecently graduated from Gor-don-Rushville High School andwas a state champion at thisspring’s Nebraska High SchoolSpeech Tournament.

Federal government leader-ship, LGBT rural communitymembers and interested com-munity partners will be avail-able for attendees to sharetheir stories and learn moreabout the programs and serv-ices that exist to strengthenthe lives of LGBT individuals in

rural communities across thecountry.

After the 4:30 p.m. adjourn-ment, attendees are invited tostay for the screening and fol-low-up discussion of the movie“Out in Silence.” The documen-tary captures the remarkablechain of events that unfoldwhen the announcement offilmmaker Joe Wilson’s wed-ding to another man ignites afirestorm of controversy in hissmall Pennsylvania hometown.“Out in Silence” is an EmmyAward winner for Achievementin Documentary.

To RSVP, visit http://Ne-braskalgbtruralsummit.eventbrite.com/.

For more information, con-tact

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One of the project’s mainproponents from the start hasbeen South Dakota Gov. Den-nis Daugaard.

While Daugaard was onhand for the wagon trainsend-off in Yankton earlierthis month, the governor hadhigh praises for the project’sprogress and designation as alegacy project.

“I was on the grounds ofthe Mead Building (thismonth) and met with the his-torical society to see theprogress they’ve made andit’s just extremely impres-sive,” Daugaard told the Press& Dakotan. “Not only are theymaking good progress, butthe progress they’re makingis first-rate. They’re steamingthe old windows, throwing

away the bad parts, installingnew parts to the windows,they’re repainted and they’reliterally like new. It’s going tobe a first-rate job.”

Mead project managerGreg Homstad said, at the mo-ment, the focus is on maintain-ing the outside of the buildingin anticipation of winter.

“What we’re working on isaddressing some maintenancethat had been deferred for 40-plus years on the exterior ofthe building,” Homstad said.“We’re doing waterproofing tostop the intrusion of water inthe structure. We’ve got theroof pretty well taken care of,but with the masonry aroundthe building, (we’re) trying toget that as weather-tight aspossible before the weathermakes it impossible to workoutside.”

As 2014 winds down, theplan is to hook the building upto utilities such as sewage,electricity and water; thebuilding has not previouslybeen on the city grid for theseservices. Volunteers will alsobe re-stenciling the ceiling asthe winter months go on.

Homstad said the focuswill then shift to the interior ofthe building.

“As we move into thecolder weather, we’ll be start-ing to move inside again andtrying to get to plasterrestoration - things that aremore visually significant tovisitors,” he said.

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