Fortine wood bank volunteers help keep neighbors warm
Volunteers with the St Michael & All Angels Wood Ministry in Fortine, Montana are seen at the Wood Ministry on Satuday, Jan. 20, 2024. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
Ethel White, former mayor of Eureka and a volunteer at the St Michael & All Angels Wood Ministry in Fortine stands next to her family's delivery truck on Jan. 20, 2024. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
A pile of wood, covered in snow, at the St Michael & All Angels Wood Ministry in Fortine. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
The volunteer hut at the St Michael & All Angels Wood Ministry in Fortine, Montana is seen on Jan. 20, 2024. Every Saturday, the hut is filed with warm drinks and cookies for volunteers. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
In an open field just past Grave Creek Road in Fortine, on a winter Saturday volunteers are loading wood into trucks, clearing snow off of wood piles and splitting lumber into burnable logs. Some volunteers are heading out to deliver loads to community members who need it.
It’s all part of the work that goes into the St. Michael & All Angels Wood Ministry. The wood bank provides supplemental firewood to low-income veterans, the elderly, the disabled and families.
“We want to give, we want to serve, we want to help, and this is just a wonderful way to do that,” said Pattian Bennett, former priest of St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church in Eureka and the organizer of the wood bank.
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