Its a good day when you can bring some of Michigans Best food to deserving people, with the help of incredible sponsors in order to help feed the front lines. That is just what happened on Monday December 14, as MLive partnered with businesses to bring meals to hard working health care workers around Michigan.

One of our sponsors, Womans Life Insurance Society, was happy to help this effort to acknowledge the work that our front line medical workers are doing every day. Womans Life Insurance Society greatly appreciates the dedicated healthcare workers at McLaren Port Huron and everything they are doing to help keep our community strong and healthy during these especially challenging times, said Karen Deschaine, manager of communications for Womans Life. We are inspired by their strength and grateful to have this opportunity to express our gratitude.

Our generous sponsors for this initiative were:

Womans Life Insurance Society-Port Huron

The Iles Schropp Group at Merrill Lynch-Saginaw

Rotary Club of Saginaw-Saginaw

Community Foundation of Greater Flint-Flint

As Rotarians we take great pride in playing a small part in honoring and supporting our frontline heroes, said the Rotary Club of Saginaw via an email. They collaborated with two other local clubs, the Rotary Club of Saginaw Valley and the Rotary Club of Saginaw Sunrise to sponsor meals. Getting involved with this great initiative, not only allowed us to support health care, but at the same time, also support the small business meal provider, Sombreros Mexican Restaurant, owned by Sunrise Rotarian Joseph Stricker. Thank you to our health care super heroes, Saginaw Rotarians salute you.

Thank you again so much for this opportunity, said Stricker. You have no idea how much it means to me.

Another sponsor, The Iles Schropp Group at Merrill Lynch in Saginaw, also expressed how happy they were to have the opportunity to be able to give back to the Saginaw community.

This is the fourth time that MLive has worked on feeding the frontlines together with our sponsors. In May, over 2,000 meals were provided for National Nurses Day, and throughout July, health care workers in Detroit and Grand Rapids were fed with the help of Founders Brewing Company. We also did a special Thanksgiving meal drop off in November.

A hearty thank you to all of our sponsors who have made it possible not just to provide a hot meal to our front line health care workers, but to also provide some much needed business to some of our locally owned restaurants. If you can, consider ordering take-out from your favorite spot, and support these places that are struggling to stay open.

Our participating restaurants for this round of Feeding the Frontlines were:

Caseys Pizza and Subs-Port Huron

That Guys BBQ-Bay City

Sombreros Mexican Restaurant-Saginaw

Hoffmans Deco Deli & Cafe-Flint

That Guys BBQ owner Greg Buzzard delivered some of his award winning barbecue to Ascension St. Marys in Saginaw today thanks to sponsorship from The Iles Schropp Group. Thank you so much for your continued support, because without you there is no us, he said. A reminder that we are all in this together, even when we are apart.

This was one of those win-win-win scenarios that we couldnt be more excited about, said Jamie Dionne, vice president of sales at MLive Media Group. Michigans Best and our amazing partners have been looking for ways to pay it forward to the front line healthcare workers in our state, and Michigans Best cares deeply about our local community restaurants. This project married both of those things together in a way that serves our business partners, our community restaurants and our healthcare heroes.

You can see some of the photos below from todays deliveries.

Thank you to the Iles Schropp Group at Merrill Lynch in Saginaw for sponsoring Feeding the Frontlines.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Smoked chicken and beans from That Guys BBQ was delivered to Ascension St. Mary's in Saginaw thanks to sponsorship from The Iles Schropp Group at Merrill. Lynch.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Health care workers at Covenant in Saginaw enjoyed lunch delivered by Sombreros Mexican Restaurant, sponsored by the Saginaw Rotary Club.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Health care workers at Covenant in Saginaw enjoyed lunch delivered by Sombreros Mexican Restaurant, sponsored by the Saginaw Rotary Club.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Chickens smoking on the grill by That Guys BBQ. They got delivered for lunch on December 14 to Ascension St. Mary's in Saginaw.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Lunch from Casey's in Port Huron getting ready to be delivered to McLaren Port Huron on December 14. This delivery was sponsored by the Woman's Life Society.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Sombreros Mexican Restaurant delivered some of Michigan's Best food to Covenant hospital on December 14, as part of MLive's Feeding the Frontlines initiative. Special thanks to the Saginaw Rotary Club.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Woman's Life Society Insurance sponsored meals today from Casey's Pizza and Subs. The meals were delivered to McLaren Port Huron.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Cake from Sombreros Mexican Restaurant in Saginaw was delivered on December 14 for MLive's Feeding the Frontlines.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Casey's Pizza and Subs in Port Huron provided lunch on December 14 for our Feeding the Frontlines initiative.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Sombreros Mexican Restaurant owner Joseph Stricker, shown, and his team of chefs made and delivered lunch on December 14 for MLive's Feeding the Frontlines. He was sponsored by the Saginaw Rotary Club, of which he is also a member.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Hurley Hospital in Flint received lunch on December 14 from Hoffman's Deco Deli. They were sponsored by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

A delivery being made to Covenant Hospital in Saginaw, made possible by the sponsorship of the Saginaw Rotary Club.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

Another delivery made to Covenant in Saginaw by Sombreros Mexican Restaurant. Thanks to the Saginaw Rotary for sponsoring Feeding the Frontlines.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.

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Feeding the Front Lines: See behind the scenes on a day of giving - MLive.com