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Pandemic Creates Food Need

Pandemic Creates Food Need

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In the past year, Feeding South Dakota has moved more than seventeen million pounds of food to provide hundreds of thousands of meals.

C.E.O. Matt Gassen says they continue to expand their services..

Gassen says people were just recovering from the recession of 2008…

Gassen says those on the fringes will continue to struggle….

Gassen has announced he will be retiring from the agency at the end of August. He has been with Feeding South Dakota for twenty two years.

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