Ninety volunteers from church groups, labor unions, and the general community gave up their morning Saturday recently to go outside in the cold rainy weather and lend a hand to neighbors in need around the county.

The project, Neighbors Strengthening Wright Communities, included minor home maintenance for elderly and disabled Faith in Action care recipients at 18 homes around Wright County (including one in Rockford).
 

Wright County’s historic Kreidler Cemetery,  located just north of Montrose, hosts the gravesites of several generations of local residents, including veterans of the U.S. military going back to the Civil War. Over time, however, many of the older flat grave markers were sinking into the ground and becoming overgrown with grass. The voluntary association maintaining the cemetery needed help, the Wright County Labor Council learned.