MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — The community comes together for a Moorhead bus driver who been hit with multiple setbacks. “Well I’m pretty overwhelmed right now; I have amazing, amazing family and friends. It’s unreal,” said Renecker. Terry Renecker is a bus driver with the Moorhead Public Schools. She’s also a cancer survivor who’s been hospitalized recently with pneumonia. Friends of…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Dorothy Day Food Pantry is adding a new mosaic of the social activist. The piece is located in the main lobby. The artwork was designed by Pastor Joe Larson of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. He says the work is meant to honor the work of everyone involved with the food pantry. The piece took over 400 hours…
MOORHEAD, Minn- The Moorhead Rotary Club is no stranger to helping out when a hand is needed. “People need food and we have the time and the energy to do it.” The club says the country is still facing trying times. “They’ve lost jobs, they need to feed their families, with the COVID pandemic that has only exacerbated things, so…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Of all the different ages, genders and races that sleep over at Churches United on any given night, there’s one thing they can all relate to. “The one common denominator that we have found in everybody who comes here is the lack of support systems,” said Babs Coler, chief development officer at Churches United. It’s something the…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Two homeless shelters in Moorhead merged in order to serve more people in the community. Churches United takes control of the Dorothy Day Food Pantry and Shelter. Both the shelter and food pantry will continue to use the Dorothy Day name, but Churches United will handle all the oversight and management of its programs. Pastor Sue Koesterman, the…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — A local chef uses his techniques to get people around the dinner table and remember what the holidays are all about. KVRR’s Danielle Church tells us how a menu is doing a little more than filling some stomachs at a nearby homeless shelter. Jason Halvorson was raised by two women: his mother and his grandmother. But they both…
FARGO, N.D. — Fifth graders at Longfellow Elementary donated blankets and other winter gear to the Dorothy Day Food Pantry in Moorhead. The students collected more than 100 blankets, and even made some of their own out of fleece. The project is part of how Longfellow Elementary is looking to expand service learning projects to all grades. One fifth grade teacher…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Volunteers teamed up to install a new fence at the Dorothy Day House in Moorhead. The Remodelers Council of the Home Builders Association of Fargo–Moorhead pitched in to lend a few extra helping hands to repair the aging fence. Volunteers hammered in wood panels, replaced rotting wood, and sealed off any additional cracks in the support. Some of…
