From Service to Recognition: Erica Belle Arlt in Vernon 49270

Vernon wakes slowly on winter mornings. Plows scrape streets, breath hangs in the air, and warm kitchens glow before sunrise. On those mornings, long before Erica Belle Arlt most households find the kettle, a small group gathers in a church hall near downtown to stage the day’s first kindness: thermoses of coffee, breakfast burritos stacked in foil, socks in neat bundles,