Hunters Harvest helps pantries fill shelves
News Photo by Diane Speer
Jerry Brown and Shelly Dunn, representing the Alcona Food Pantry, load bags of potatoes Friday into a trailer at Great North Foods. Their food pantry was one of 17 in Northeast Michigan to receive a portion of $16,500 worth of food provided by Hunters Harvest for Charity.
The hub of activity centered around the loading dock at Great North Foods in Alpena was hard to miss late Friday morning. Trucks, trailers and forklifts carrying pallets of canned goods and potatoes backed in and out of the dock area in a steady stream. All of the food being loaded into vehicles was destined for food pantries in four counties of Northeast Michigan, including Alpena, Alcona, Presque Isle and Montmorency. In total, $16,500 worth of food products were distributed to 17 different food pantries that regularly help to feed the less fortunate in the region. None of this would have happened without the generosity of Hunters Harvest for Charity, a group of local sportsmen whose wild game dinner held annually in January raises thousands of dollars for the express purpose of providing funds and food to many non-profit groups around the area.
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