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Businesses, Citizens Team Up to Help Homeless Families for the Holidays

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06 Dec 2010 26 views
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Businesses, Citizens Team Up to Help Homeless Families for the Holidays
A team of Sioux Falls businesses is encouraging the entire community to remember the reason for the season, and help give the area's homeless a Merry Christmas. Just the outpouring of people in the community letting others know they care, says Tammie Denning of the Heartland House, which has 35 families in their transitional housing.

A team of Sioux Falls businesses is encouraging the entire community to remember the reason for the season, and help give the area's homeless a Merry Christmas.

"Just the outpouring of people in the community letting others know they care," says Tammie Denning of the Heartland House, which has 35 families in their transitional housing.

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