SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Wednesday night’s meal at The Banquet in Sioux Falls is going to look a lot like other meals shared on Christmas Eve.
“Tonight, we’re serving turkey, ham,” Chris Jacob, volunteer and marketing coordinator at The Banquet, said Wednesday. “We’ve got twice-baked potatoes. Sweet potatoes, I think. There’s a couple different dessert options. We’ve got tons of cookies.”
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Among the volunteers was Lawrence Diggs, who is a Buddhist chaplain at the South Dakota State Penitentiary.
“My reason for coming is that a lot of the guys when they get out of prison, they have no place to go,” Diggs said Wednesday. “They have no family, and a lot of them end up on the street and sometimes back in the prison. We want to stop that revolving door, and so one of the few things, or the small things, that I can do is help the people who help them.”…