GLADSTONE, MI-- Employees with the Hiawatha National Forest recently donated 6,416 pounds of food to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Feds Feed Families campaign.
The program asks employees to collect food, personal care items, pet food, and money for local food pantries from June through August. Officials say the summer months are when many families are hungry because kids aren’t eating meals at school.
Nationally last year USDA employees donated 56,059 pounds of food. This year that number was 224,478 pounds by the end of July alone.
Employees hailed from Forest Service offices in St. Ignace, Munising, Rapid River, Manistique, and Gladstone.
