Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Ironwood Area School celebrates Thanksgiving

By IAN MINIELLY

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IRONWOOD - Mary Hampston Kusz, food service director for the Ironwood Area K-12 School District, arranged to feed parents of Ironwood's K-5 students Tuesday.

She expected 85 parents, but would feed more than 700 people total.

Kusz had over a dozen volunteers from grades 6-12 to assist serving.

Kusz prepared a traditional Thanksgiving meal with turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce and her very own home-cooked pumpkin pie.

It is the first year Ironwood has done this and Kusz said she "wanted a chance to show the changes in the...