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MARQUETTE Police and fire departments from across Marquette County held a friendly competition for a great cause last week.
Police officers and firefighters squared off in a four-hour Red Kettle challenge benefiting the Salvation Army’s “Rescue Christmas” initiative.
Spearheading the competition were Marquette County Sheriff Greg Zyburt and fire chief Ian Davis of the Marquette Fire Department, both members of The Salvation Army Advisory Board.
Agencies joining in on the fun with the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office and MFD were the Marquette, Negaunee and Ishpeming police departments, the Michigan State Police, the Marquette Township Fire Department, the Negaunee Fire Department and the Forsyth Township Fire Department.
Dec 19, 2020
Scouts Thomas Matthews and Ian Galbreath help take donation bags from collection vehicles into St. Vincent DePaul’s Pantry. (Courtesy photo)
MARQUETTE While the pandemic has changed the way we do things, it hasn’t stopped a local Boy Scout Troop from helping the community. BSA Troop 372 in Marquette conducted a “Socially Distanced Food & Necessity Drive” to benefit St. Vincent De Paul’s Food Pantry and The Harbor House.
Thanks to a generous donation of paper grocery bags from Tadych’s Econofoods of Marquette, the scout troop members dropped off paper shopping bags with an attached event flier a week before the scheduled date of collection.
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