Father and sons walk to Western North Carolina to raise $40,000 for food insecurity

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – One Wilmington family took the trek to walk over 1,100 miles to support relief efforts in Asheville.

Lucien Ellison and his two sons, Jack and Archie, began their walk in the Outer Banks at Jockey’s Ridge on May 10, walking to the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains, and finishing the journey in Asheville in early July.

They named their journey “Miles for Manna”, with money raised benefitting the Manna Food Bank…

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