Stomping grapes to feed and educate

A local service group is bringing a tradition thousands of years old to Havre to benefit the hungry and to help bring students to the local university.

The Xi-Tau Chapter of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority, one of three of the sorority's chapters in Havre, is holding a grape stomp at the Montana State University-Northern campus Aug. 20, with the proceeds to be split between the Havre Food Bank and a scholarship fund for Northern.

Chapter member June Hesser said that while she was at a business meeting in California, she and fellow Xi-Tau member Stacey Baldwin participated in a grape-stomping co...