UAW members in Grand Rapids, Mich., help fix up a foster home

Front row, from left are Shay Ortego, Carol Ringelberg, Lisa VanderHeide, David Otto, Doug Apol and Marcus Ambrose. Second row: Benita Brewer, Charles Singleton, Lisa Lowe, Rhonda McKinney, Scott Lillie, Donna King, Eskia Johnson and John Dandridge.

Alot of paint and a little TLC equals a full day of caring for members of UAW Local 167 in Grand Rapids, Mich. A dozen Local 167 members, along with two managers from North American Fuel System Remanufacture recently teamed up with Grand Rapids United Way to help spruce up a foster home in Wyoming, Mich.

They painted the whole house and a shed out back, fixed loose bricks around the flowerbed and cleaned of the overhang on the front porch.

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