Unions help provide food to families in Brooklyn Park

MAPE  joined other local union members to provide food to families in Brooklyn Park last weekend. The free food giveaway was hosted by IBEW Local 292. 

Several cities in northern and central Minnesota received truckloads of fresh food, vegetables and milk from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families program.

“What was special about this opportunity was it was put on by several local union organizations. It was great to show that MAPE members support it, too – and show our solidarity and desire to help,” MAPE Region 11 Director Jessica Raptis said.

Education Minnesota will host the third free food giveaway beginning at 10 a.m.

on Saturday, April 24, at Brooklyn Center High School, 6500 No. Humboldt Ave., Brooklyn Center. 

If you’d like to volunteer for the April 24 Farmers to Families food giveaway event or the one being planned for May, please email KerryJo Felder, Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, at kerry@minneapolisunions.org.