Can collection to fight domestic violence

The McLeod Alliance for Victims of Domestic Violence is displaying a can-do attitude toward fundraising this month.

Through the end of October, the group is collecting aluminum cans in a bin off Main Street, in the southwest corner of the ShopKo parking lot. The bin was donated by McLeod County Solid Waste Management in honor of October being National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Proceeds from recycling the cans will help families affected by violence in their homes.

Year-round, the McLeod Alliance is one of many nonprofits you can support by dropping cans off at the county’s recycling center at 1065 Fifth Ave. S.E., in Hutchinson. Anyone can choose to forgo their can-recycling refund and have it sent to one of many local charitable groups.

(Jorge Sosa is a staff writer for the Hutchinson Leader. He can be reached at sosa@hutchinsonleader.com)