Helping feed the community: OST Food Distribution event – Rapid City South Dakota news, weather, sports [Video]

RAPID CITY, S.D. — During the food distribution, over 500 forty-pound boxes filled with a variety of cuts of meat were distributed to community members. Assisting with the effort were 22 young men from the Sacred Storm Buffalo Workforce Development Group, who worked to cut the steaks and hand out the boxes.

Chris White Eagle, Executive Director for the Wambli Ska Society and part of Sacred Storm Buffalo, highlighted the importance of the event.

“Everything we do is for our people,” White Eagle said. “Feeding our people over the holidays is huge. You know we’re here on the north side of Rapid, we’re in a food desert…”

White Eagle says that this is the perfect time for the distribution event, with the LNI Tournament in town and the upcoming holiday season.

He also wanted to reiterate that the event was organized through the OST Food Distribution Group’s Commodity Program, with …