CALUMET — The Michigan State Police Calumet Post recently assisted with a local food drive.

A nonprofit organization, 31 Backpacks, needed help with the transport of a large quantity of food supplies for children. Sgt. Edward Zawada and Trooper Colin Pennala, both from the Calumet Post, assisted with the pick-up and transport of bulk food from the Western Upper Peninsula Food Bank in Houghton to the Glad Tidings Church in Hancock.

Patrol cars and volunteer vehicles were used to transport boxes of food. Zawada and Pennala also helped with unloading about 6,000 pounds of food into the church. Volunteers divided the food into bags. Food was to be distributed to local schools to be discreetly handed out to children who were identified by school staff as in need.