By RALPH ANSAMI

ransami@yourdailyglobe.com

Ironwood - For the second straight year, a Feed the Hungry van arrived Monday to bring 21,000 pounds of food to the Lighthouse Faith Center Church on Ironwood's Ayer Street.

Pastor Tom Rouse said the free food products will be distributed to the needy on the Gogebic Range on Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m.

"Whoever comes, comes," he said of the would-be recipients.

Rouse said from his conversations with area food shelter operators, like the Union Station pantry, the need is as great or greater than ever for the food supplements on the Gogebic Range.

The semi-truck and trailer arrived for unloading on a rainy, cold Monday morning from "Feed the Hungry," of South Bend, Ind., and there were about a dozen volunteers on hand to help out.

Forslund Building Supply of Ironwood offered a forklift for the church to use to remove the large boxes from the truck.

Rouse said some of the food items were to be transported to the companion church in Calumet.

Included in the food items are sausages, oatmeal, apple juice, granola bars and cereal.

The church has been feeding hungry people in Africa for more than a decade. "We've fed 43,000 people in Africa," Rouse said.

The food distribution here is available to anyone in need. They should bring bags or boxes for the food.

The church is at 777 E. Ayer St., near the high school baseball field.

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