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South Dakota high school working to combat food insecurity in a creative way

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1 year ago

December 11, 2023

South Dakota high school working to combat food insecurity in a creative way

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – According to Feeding America, at least one in five children worry about where their next meal is coming from. One South Dakota high school says they’ve found a solution towards combating this issue as well as the stigma surrounding it.

In October of last year, Mitchell High School opened the doors to their very own food pantry for students, they said their goal that first week was to have at least 5 students take advantage of the service. They said that now they’re averaging at least 30 students a week and last week even had 52 students stop by.

Jodi Reiners who created the Mitchell School District Caring Closet, said she’s been working closely with Mitchell High School and the Snack Pack Program towards helping students achieve their academic goals. The most recent endeavor being the Mitchell High School Food Pantry.

“We’re open after school, and we have volunteers here who then supervise students,” stated Jodi and when explaining how the food pantry works she said, “[Students] can come in and get eight food items, two cans of vegetables, a can of fruit and six snack items for over the weekend.”

Since the start of the food pantry a little over a year ago, Jodi said she’s received countless messages from parents sharing what an impact it’s made to their food budget and gives them a chance to stretch the dollars more than they could before.

Jodi went on to state, “You don’t know the difference that this is really making between the food pantry, and also the caring closet, and just helping the kids be able to focus on their academics, that’s what they should be focusing on.”

Dean of Students, Kimberly Max, said that with help from people like Jodi and her volunteers at the MSD Caring Closet they’ve even been able to offer students who don’t have the essentials to cook a meal the proper utensils needed to do so. Kimberly said this in turn helps set the students up for success in the future.

Kimberly expanding on this by saying, “Making it a learning opportunity for them to expand on their own knowledge of things and to be able to care for themselves to become better citizens as they go out into the world.”

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Sunday will be warm and breezy

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7 hours ago

December 22, 2024

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RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Partly cloudy skies are expected. A stray shower or two will be possible, but chances aren’t great. Highs will be in the 40s and 50s for much of KOTA Territory.

Wind gusts could range from 30 to 40 mph at times – especially across western South Dakota.

We’ll remain mild all Christmas week with highs in the 40s to near 50°. Mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies will be likely all week long. It could get a little breezy on Christmas Day, but nothing too crazy.

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Montana State vs. South Dakota: 2024 FCS semifinal highlights

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December 22, 2024

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Montana State vs. South Dakota: 2024 FCS semifinal highlights

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Dec. 21, 2024

Montana State vs. South Dakota: 2024 FCS semifinal highlights

Dec. 21, 2024

Montana State defeated South Dakota 31-17 to advance the FCS finals, led by Walter Payton Award finalist Tommy Mellott. Watch the full game highlights here.

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NDSU into FCS title game after edging past SDSU

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December 21, 2024

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NDSU into FCS title game after edging past SDSU

Dec 21, 2024, 03:46 PM ET

FARGO, N.D. — Bryce Lance caught three touchdown passes from Cam Miller, including a one-handed game winner, to give North Dakota State a 28-21 win over two-time defending national champion South Dakota State on Saturday and a berth in the FCS title game.

The second-seeded Bison (13-2) will take on the winner of top-seeded Montana State and No. 4 seed South Dakota, played later Saturday, for the championship on Jan. 6 in Frisco, Texas. NDSU, winner of nine FCS titles with its last coming in 2021, won its 20th straight home playoff game and beat the Jackrabbits for the second time this season. Those two teams and South Dakota tied for the Missouri Valley Football Conference title.

After the third-seeded Jackrabbits (12-3) tied the game at 21-all, the Bison drove 75 yards and scored with 4:18 remaining when Lance snagged a pass with his right hand and managed to get control and a foot down in the right corner of the end zone. The play was initially ruled as incomplete but overturned on review.

On South Dakota State’s final possession, Mark Gronowski was sacked on fourth-and-17 at the Jackrabbits’ 31.

The teams traded touchdowns in each of the first two quarters before both punting three times in the third quarter.

Miller found Lance deep for a 47-yard score early in the fourth and the Jackrabbits tied it midway through the period on Gronowski’s 14-yard pass to Grahm Goering.

Lance, brother of NFL quarterback Trey Lance, made six catches for 125 yards, his other TD coming on a 21-yarder. Miller was 13-of-19 for 179 yards and also rushed for 93 yards and a TD.

Gronowski was 14-of-25 passing for 204 yards and he also ran for a score. Amar Johnson rushed for 77 yards and a touchdown.

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