HOUGHTON (AP) — An Upper Peninsula library is accepting food donations instead of cash for overdue book fines.
The Portage Lake District Library in Houghton will waive up to $10 in fines this winter if a borrower donates non-perishable food. The food goes to The Salvation Army, St. Vincent De Paul and Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly.
The Daily Mining Gazette reports that people with overdue fines can also write a check to the organization.
Library director Dillon Geshel says $360 was raised that way in 2017.
- Posted February 05, 2018
- Tweet This | Share on Facebook
Food donation is as good as cash at Upper Peninsula library
headlines Macomb
- Leadership role
- State officials issue statements on the death of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
- Court orders EES Coke Battery to comply with clean air act and pay $100 million civil penalty
- Public health, green groups sue EPA over repeal of rule supporting climate protections
- Judge grants hearing, expresses concerns ex-Michigan coach Moore may have had rights violated
headlines National
- A wave of lawsuits has resulted from online comments after Charlie Kirk’s assassination
- Goldman Sachs top lawyer resigns after emails show Jeffrey Epstein friendship
- Failed indictment of 6 Democratic lawmakers blamed on Jeanine Pirro-picked prosecutors
- Federal judges may address ‘illegitimate forms of criticism and attacks,’ according to new ethics opinion
- Senate GOP aims to reveal companies funding lawsuits
- Bad Bunny’s ‘love conquering hate’ message at Super Bowl reiterated by judge sentencing assaulter
