Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
BRAD ERICKSON operates a forklift as Jim Cross stands next to a box of food items outside the Lighthouse Faith Center Church on Ayer Street Monday morning. A total of 21,000 pounds of food items arrived for a Thursday free distribution.
By RALPH ANSAMI
IRONWOOD - For the second straight year, a Feed the Hungry van arrived Monday to bring 21,000 pounds of food to the Lighthouse Faith Center Church on Ironwood's Ayer Street.
Pastor Tom Rouse said the free food products will be distributed to the needy on the Gogebic Range on Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m.
"Whoever comes, comes," he said of the would-be recipients.
Rouse said from his conversations with area food shelter operators, like the Union Station pantry, the need is as great or greater than ever for the food supplements on the Gogebic Range.
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