Students and staff from After School Lounge collected nearly 300 food items during the March FoodShare drive. Students also sewed placemats and made fleece blankets with fabric donated from Crystal’s Quilt Shop. All items were delivered to the Cook County Food Shelf for distribution to needy families. (L-R) Katy Campbell, Caleb Phillips, Molly Sietsema, Jessica, Sophie Eliasen, Sam Sietsema, Jackson Fenner, Zack Stirewalt, Dominic Wilson, Skyler Wilson, Clara Weitz, Kaitlin Erpestad.
Students and staff from the After School Lounge at Cook County Schools joined the Minnesota FoodShare March campaign and collected nearly 300 food items.
More than a dozen students in grades three to six spent some of their afterschool hours learning about and discussing poverty and hunger. They bagged groceries at the food shelf, learned how to cook tasty meals using basic food shelf ingredients, and, thanks to fabric donated by Crystal’s Quilt Shop, made fleece blankets to distribute to food shelf clients.
One of the organizers, Clara Weitz said, “Thank you to everyone in the community who donated.”
The food shelf can always use assistance, so if anyone missed the March campaign, they can still help out. Financial donations are happily accepted and may be mailed to Food Shelf, P.O. Box 95, Grand Marais 55604.
The Cook County Food Shelf is located in the First Congregational Church at Third Ave. W. and Second Street. It is open 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. every Monday. There are also food distribution sites in Grand Portage and at Zoar Lutheran Church in Tofte.
Abbey Stoddard, Brownie Girl Scout from Troop #401,1recently helped deliver over 80 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to the Cook County Food Shelf, thanks to several organizations that purchased cookies from Abbey for the Food Shelf. Abbey and her parents, Diane and Jeff Stoddard, expressed appreciation to Lutsen Resort, East Bay Suites, Caribou Highlands Lodge, and Grand Marais Hotels – Aspen Lodge. Thanks to them there will be an “extra Brownie smile” in Food Shelf packages.
For more information or to volunteer with the Cook
County Food Shelf, contact
Bill Lenz (218) 387-9860.
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