10,300 Gallons Of Milk For Hungry Families

Hundreds of local families who stock their kitchens with help from Feeding South Dakota can now add milk to their cereal. That’s thanks to a drive that motivated individuals and businesses to donate 10,300 gallons of milk. People filling their carts during September paid extra to send milk to Feeding South Dakota. Their donations are now out for delivery. Monday a refrigerated truck backed up to the Feeding South Dakota building. Four hundred gallons rolled out of the cooler and into the warehouse. The milk is the first installment of more than 10,000 gallons. Matt Gassen is executive director of Feeding South Dakota. "I don’t know the last time you’d go to the store and buy a gallon of milk, but it’s not cheap, really," Gassen says. "It’s got a cost to it. So when you’re on a budget and you’re looking at those things, I think that’s one of the things that maybe, as you’re going through a grocery store, that you probably walk past, right? Because you think, ‘Well, I don’t need milk. I