About 30 area families had better holidays, thanks to Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City employees, who collected and later distributed food items purchased to provide Christmas morning breakfasts and dinners and assorted goodies and toys for children.
The program has taken place for some 30 years. Shown with some of the gifts, from left, are Gail Shaw, Franciscan Alliance regional administrative director of materials management; Yettia Gause, hospital purchasing buyer-materials management; Trisha Wroblewski, regional purchasing manager; and Amy Meschede, hospital inventory control supervisor.