More than 70 local families will have firewood this winter thanks to the 15th annual Woodstock event, held on Saturday at Riverfront Park in McCall.Roughly 250 volunteers spent the day chopping, sorting and delivering about 130 cords of firewood, said organizer Linda Klind.The annual event is sponsored by the Heartland Hunger & Resource Center in partnership with local churches, businesses and volunteers.The Humanitarian Wood Work Day, known as “Woodstock” for short, provides firewood for people in need.To request a delivery of firewood, call 208-634-3037.“We have prepared wood now going into storage, and based on previous years, we anticipate several more requests in the next couple of weeks, and that we’ll be able to address emergency requests for firewood over the winter,” Klind said.“The volunteer work started in earnest about five days prior to the Saturday event,” she said, as people delivered rounds of wood prior to the event to be split into firewood.On Saturday, a well-orchestrated production took place, with volunteers moving those rounds to wood splitters, chopping each into firewood and then loading them into trucks and trailers for delivery.“Several volunteers brought their out of state visitors with them, only to be told that their guests were coming back next year as they’d never seen such a community serving together, and can’t wait to experience it again,” Klind said.The work was completed in the early afternoon, with volunteers then enjoying a well-deserved lunch break.“Each year we order 200 hamburgers and 200 hot dogs, and this year we had the fewest number of leftover burgers and dogs that I recall,” Klind said.
