Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Camy Lake, right, a Bessemer high school junior and member of the National Honor Society, hands a box of food up to Ironwood freshman JROTC member Richard Green as they pack a truck Tuesday afternoon with food for a local food pantry with items collected by the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post's annual Harvest Gathering program.
By IAN MINIELLY
WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield State Police Post, for the second year in a row, hosted a Harvest Gathering food drive to support local food pantries as part of a statewide effprt.
Area youth from the Bessemer Honor Society and Ironwood Reserve Officers Training Corps assisted in packing charitable food donations for St. Vincent's DePaul in Bessemer and Ironwood and the food pantry in Watersmeet.
The Wakefield office, in 2015, was recognized with the highest weight in food donations, coming in at 13,771 pounds. Surprisingly, this year the total came out t...
