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Crazy Horse Memorial hits $5M Sanford match goal

SIOUX FALLS (AP).- Fundraising for the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota has hit the $5 million goal set by a philanthropist who agreed to match donations to speed progress on the mammoth mountain carving, officials said. Work on the project has been going on since 1948. While Crazy Horse’s face had been peering across the southern Black Hills since 1998, retired South Dakota banker T. Denny Sanford said he wanted to see work on the famed Oglala Lakota leader’s horse completed in his lifetime. Sanford pledged the $5 million match in 2007. The memorial hit the fundraising mark Oct. 21 — the anniversary of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski’s 1982 death — with a $170,000 donation from San Diego investment consultant Richard Woltman, memorial spokesman Pat Dobbs said. Dobbs said the memorial has had its share of large donations but there also have been numerous smaller gifts ranging from kids’ lemonade