With food insecurity becoming more urgent amid the federal government shutdown and benefit delays, more and more families are left wondering where their next meal may come from.

Those factors are contributing forces behind the Ken Stempowski Memorial Food Drive, a decades-long food collection program organized by the city of Sterling Heights Department of Public Works (DPW).

The 47th annual food drive effort is named in memory of the late Ken Stempowski, a DPW worker who founded the event as a simple act of kindness in the 1980s.

“Ken’s legacy reminds us that one person’s compassion can create lasting change,” DPW

Director Mike Moore said in a news release. “This food drive has always been about neighbors supporting neighbors, and this year, that support means more than ever.”

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