Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
IRONWOOD FOOD Service Director Mary Hampston gives MaKenzie Marshall a pudding mustache Wednesday after the girls soccer team received a grant that will provide milk after their games and practices. For another photo, see page 8. IRONWOOD FOOD Service Director Mary Hampston gives MaKenzie Marshall a pudding mustache Wednesday after the girls soccer team received a grant that will provide milk after their games and practices. For another photo, see page 8. IRONWOOD FOOD Service Director Mary Hampston gives MaKenzie Marshall a pudding mustache Wednesday after the girls soccer team received a grant that will provide milk after their games and practices. For another photo, see page 8.
IRONWOOD - Members of the Ironwood girls soccer team were sporting some unusual facial "hair" Thursday as the team celebrated receiving a "Chocolate Milk: Nature's Sports Drink" grant by posing for a photo with their "milk mustaches."
The $1,000 grant from the United Dairy Industry of Michigan will provide chocolate milk for the team after their practices and games this season. The team will also receive a cooler bag to transport the milk, various other prizes as well as posters of the team's "mustache photo" according to the grant's website.
The goal of the grant is to promote milk as an alternative to sports drink.
"It's a (program) to teach students to drink milk instead of some of the different energy drinks," said the district's Food Service Director Mary Hampston, who actually used chocolate pudding for the girls' mustaches.
The team was one of 18 spring teams in the state that were awarded grant funds to purchase milk according to the website.
