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Gladwin’s Backpack Buddies (Weekend Food) Program just completed its ninth year in the schools. This program takes many volunteers to make it possible. Members from Christ the King Lutheran, St. Paul’s Episcopal and other local individuals helped unload the Food Bank truck, filled bags with food and transported filled bags to the schools. Thank you, thank you! It wouldn’t have happened without you.

This program will be back in the Gladwin schools during the 2022/2023 school year. It is a program, through the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan which sends weekend nutritional food home to 96 Gladwin children (kindergarten-fifth grade) who have little or very poor nutrition while away from school. While at school, they receive breakfast and lunch assistance. 

Studies have shown that children who receive good nutrition on the weekend, perform better in school when returning on Monday.  

It is through generous donors, grants and other fundraising efforts that this program is possible, costing about $9,600 per year. For $100, a student can receive a backpack of weekend food every Friday, October through the end of school. 

You, the Gladwin community can help. Please consider sending a donation to Christ the King Lutheran Church – Backpack Buddies Program, 600 S. M-18, Gladwin. This is a very worthwhile cause. Let’s work together to feed the hungry children in our community.

Jill Phillips

Co-chair of Christ the King’s

Backpack Committee

Helping Hands Eyeglasses

To the Editor:

Greetings to all, once again. As I have said, once again, the Beaverton Lions thanks everyone who turns in their used glasses to the Helping Hands Mission in Beaverton and the Sacred Heart Mission in Gladwin. 

Another good load of used glasses went over to Ferris State today! All the glasses will be checked over by the students in their College of Ophthalmology, with the usable pairs being taken by the students on their missions to other nations. These nations include Ukraine!  

Shalom again, 

Rev. Karen Blatt

Beaverton Lions

Quit your whining

To the Editor:

52 years ago, I had to pay 32 cents a gallon for gas, I only made $2.04 an hour at Robinson Industries. Today, I paid $5.20 for a gallon, it’s the same price then as it is now. 

Cars got 15 to 20 miles per gallon then, now they get 25 to 30, a 40 percent increase in mileage, 5.20 multiplied by 60 percent equals 3.12 gallons. Wages now are above $20 an hour. Cars at 100,000 miles were hiding from junk yards, now 100,000 mile vehicles will go a long, long ways yet. 

If the motoring public slowed down to 55 mph, we could save 10 to 15 percent on fuel, and oil companies would cut prices in a week. Lift your right foot and smile, hammer down and frown. 

Gregory H. Frye

Gladwin