Tamara Juul, left, Executive Director of the Community Foundation, presents the check to Bobbie and Herb Samme. If you would like to support the troops with a donation or have the name and address of a local person serving overseas, contact Samme at 906-396-4900.

The Dickinson Area Community Foundation, along with affiliates Crystal Falls Area Community Foundation and the Norway Area Community Foundation, recently awarded a $250 mini-grant to the LCpl. Eric A. Palmisano Foundation, Inc. The funds will be used to help pay the postage to send care packages to local men and women serving in the Armed Forces overseas.