MARQUETTE, MI-- National Guard personnel and the president of a park friends group were recently
honored by the Michigan Recreation and Park Association for their community service efforts in the U.P.
Members of the 107th Engineer Battalion in Ishpeming were honored for helping to build a new playground at Van Riper State Park last June. More than half of the roughly 60 volunteers on the project came from the National Guard unit.
Also honored during an April 19 ceremony was Sally Berman, current President of the Friends of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Park Supervisor Jeff Gaertner says Berman is passionate about the park and its needs, and she donates time to several causes throughout the Ontonagon County area.
