Donating shoes can send veterans on honor flight

MINOCQUA - Cleaning out your closet could help local veterans visit the memorials that stand in their honor.

Students at Lakeland Union High School hope you'll donate any shoes you don't need to their shoe drive. A shoe recycling company pays them 50 cents per pound of shoes.

"Once the shoes are donated to us, we just pack them in here and ship them off," said Charles Eades, one of the drive's student organizers.

Full story: WJFW

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