DLA News Archive

Tag: Adopt a family

A young boy pulls a hand cart with packages of food and gifts stacked on it towards a door going into a building

Dec. 14, 2020

HDIFC employees continue holiday tradition of helping neighbors

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center employees once again played Santa to benefit families in Battle Creek, Michigan, area in December through the Salvation Army’s Adopt-a-Family program.

Three women check packages and a list for donation.

Dec. 13, 2019

Federal Center adopts 72 families of Veterans for Christmas

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — DLA associates at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek, Michigan, support the US military all year, but as Christmas time draws near, they extend that support to their neighbors. Working with the Salvation Army, groups of HDIFC employees adopted 135 local individuals, providing food and gifts for the holidays.

Don Phillips (left), DLA Installation Support at Battle Creek’s acting site director, and DLA Disposition Services Director Mike Cannon (left center) and Logistics Information Services Director Ray Zingaretti join Tiffany Schmidt, a DLA marketing specialist and the DLA coordinator for the Adopt a Family campaign, as agency employees help the Salvation Army distribute the food and items collected.

Dec. 14, 2015

Agency employees continue Christmas tradition

Battle Creek, Michigan — For more than 30 years, Defense Logistics Agency employees and others at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center have donated time and money to make Christmas a little brighter for their community.