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Billings YWCA receives $1M surprise gift for new shelter courtesy of YWCA Billings and last updated 2020-12-19 11:07:45-05 YWCA Billings is a big step closer to its $3 million project to house the homeless and victims of domestic violence. The nonprofit announced Wednesday that it had received a $1 million grant from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, which will go toward construction of a 24-unit complex. The YWCA has space on its campus at 909 Wyoming Ave. for the building but no money. That's when Scott stepped in with the surprise, no-strings-attached grant, which officials at the YWCA didn...

Grant Olson and Jack Egan were the closest of friends from the Class of 2010 at Wayzata High School. Olson had continued the tradition of tremendous linebacking for the Trojans, and Egan was an outstanding hybrid as an outside linebacker and defensive back. Wayzata coach Brad Anderson lobbied with the Gophers to sign Olson. "They told me that they didn't recruit middle linebackers — that they moved players to that position in college," Anderson said Tuesday. "That was a mistake in Grant's case." Olson went to North Dakota State and became a tackling machine on three FCS champions. He was an...

December 15, 2020 | 5:22 pm Advertisement AAA A LIM Kim hoists the championship trophy after winning the US Women’s Open golf tournament at Champions Golf Club. — REUTERS A LIM Kim wanted to have a good tournament experience in her first appearance in the US Women’s Open. She ended up with much more than that. Kim notched birdies on the final three holes to surge to the lead and ultimately win the weather-interrupted championship Monday at Champions Golf Club’s Cypress Creek course in Houston. “Because first experience it’s more about learning...

Photo Credit: Jamie Squire/Getty Images  Written By: LPGA Communications @LPGA  In her major debut, A Lim Kim has become a major champion. The 25-year-old from the Republic of Korea birdied her final three holes on Champions Golf Club’s Cypress Creek Course on Monday to surge to -3 and win the 2020 U.S. Women’s Open. Lim is the seventh player to make a five-stroke comeback in the final round to win the U.S. Women's Open, and the first since Annika Sorenstam in 1995 at The Broadmoor. She is also the ...

Written By: Ron Sirak @ronsirak Ron Sirak is recipient of the PGA of America Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award and the LPGA Media Excellence Award. He's covered more than 150 major championships for The Associated Press and Golf World magazine and co-authored three Vision54 books with renown teachers Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson.  Amy Olson’s life has always been about more than  just herself. Family and faith are her north stars. On Olson’s hat is the logo of Golf Fore Africa, the humanitarian eff...