By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News

WJEZ has teamed up with the Bank of Pontiac to help children in the foster care system have more than just garbage bags to transport their belongings from home to home.

Janet Tronc, who was traveling back to her hometown from Kentucky, heard the public service announcement before she made it to Pontiac and decided to donate.

“We were in our car, heading up to Pontiac form Kentucky, because my father passed away in March and we have been cleaning out his house and going through his things. It was really strange, because all of a sudden, we could pick up your radio station part way here, and we heard on that station that they were collecting suitcases and luggage for children that had nothing but a garbage bag to put their clothes in when they moved from place to place and I thought, that was just too bad. So, when I got to my dad’s, there was a suitcase there, and I decided my dad, who believed always in helping other people, especially children, that this was what he would want me to do with his luggage,” Tronc said.

We are still collecting suitcases, duffle bags or any luggage at the station at 315 North Mill Street through the end of May, which will then be donated to local Livingston County agencies.