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Post date December 2, 2024

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Small Business Saturday can be a great way to support the community and their businesses, the Sturgis Public Library also used it as a teaching opportunity for local youth with their first youth craft market.

The event was for local youth artisans to show off their skills, and make a bit of extra holiday spending money. Eight vendor stands sold their homemade clay earrings, wood art, books, sweet treats, and more.

The library’s program coordinator, Sierra Frazier-Riggs, planned the event to fall on Small Business Saturday to help bring more support from the community who would have already been out shopping. She also thought it would be a great teaching opportunity for the kids.

“For our younger youth in our community, it’s not something that they really think about and so for most of the kids here today, it’s their first experience ever or selling …

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