Major food drive is next week

Havre firefighters will be busy Tuesday and Wednesday. So will a host of volunteers working with them.

Their effort will not involve firefighting or other emergency services. For about the eighth straight year, the department will hold the Everybody Loves Firefighters food drive, escorting volunteers as they go door-to-door collecting nonperishable food items for the Havre Food Bank and the Salvation Army.

"As a single donation, it is the largest we have," said Don Bleak, manager of the food bank.

Volunteers will gather at the Havre Fire Department Tuesday and Wednesday evening to be divided i...