Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Employee Benefit Plans [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Note 15.  Employee Benefit Plans

The following table provides the components of net periodic benefit cost for our pension plan and postretirement benefits plan for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011:

	Pension Plan		Postretirement Benefits
( Amounts in Thousands)	Three Months Ended March 31,		Three Months Ended March 31,
Components of net periodic benefit cost:	2012	2011	2012	2011
Service cost	$           164	$           136	$             13	$               22
Interest cost	357	368	130	143
Expected return on plan assets	(497)	(475)	-	-
Amortization of prior service cost	(1)	(1)	(3)	(3)
Amortization of Net Loss	192	83	71	55
Net periodic benefit cost	$           215	$            111	$           211	$             217

We contributed $400,000 to our pension plan for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and anticipate making approximately $1.2 million additional contributions for the remainder of 2012.