Sanford to Receive Award

         SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Retired South Dakota banker T. Denny
Sanford has been selected to receive the 2012 Award for Outstanding
Philanthropist.
     The award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals
honors an individual with a proven record of exceptional generosity
who demonstrates outstanding civic and charitable responsibility.
     Sanford will receive the honor during a March 31 ceremony at the
association's 49th International Conference on Fundraising in
Vancouver.
     Sanford has given more than half a billion dollars to the former
Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System that became Sanford Health
in 2007. Sanford Health is based in Sioux Falls and Fargo, N.D.
     He has also contributed $70 million to the science authority
that is turning the former Homestake Mine into an underground
laboratory.