BRUNSWICK
Foundation helps pantry
The People’s United Community Foundation has awarded a $2,500 grant to the food pantry of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, which provides food assistance to more than 1,200 families each year.
The nonprofit organization also offers seven programs that ensure clients receive the skills needed to live self-sufficient and healthy lifestyles.
“We are so grateful for the support of the People’s United Community Foundation,” said Karen Parker, executive director of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. “The winter season can be very difficult for many of the clients we serve.”
SANFORD
Key Club busy serving
Members of the Sanford High School Key Club have had a busy fall serving and conducting fundraisers that will benefit the community.
In early October, club members raised $324 with a car wash event to fund its scholarship program for graduating seniors.
Key Club members later worked alongside the Sanford McDonald’s employees in the restaurant for a few hours to raise money for the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
Club members also visited residents of the Newton Center, a nursing and rehabilitation facility, to help make holiday crafts.
Next month the students will return to the Newton Center to sing Christmas carols.
GORHAM
Register dog, or pay extra
Residents can register their dogs for 2016 at the town clerk’s office or online until Dec. 31.
Effective Jan. 1, 2016, a $25-per-dog late fee will be charged at the time of registration. A current rabies certificate is required to register your dog.
For more details, call 222-1670
SOUTH PORTLAND
Cancer ‘Buddys’ sought
The Cancer Community Center is seeking volunteers to participate in the Maine Buddy Program to provide peer-to-peer emotional support for people working through a cancer diagnosis.
Ideal candidates are cancer survivors, those who have been a caregiver to someone with cancer or those who have lost a loved one to cancer.
The Maine Buddy Program is a statewide service that pairs trained volunteers with individuals dealing with cancer – their own illness or the cancer diagnosis of a loved one.
Anyone interested in applying should contact Molly Stewart at the Cancer Community Center, at 774-2200 or by email at mstewart@cancercommunitycenter.org. The volunteer application is available online at cancercommunitycenter.org.
LINCOLN COUNTY
Pet food drive underway
A pet food drive will be held through Friday to fill Thanksgiving pet care packages that will be distributed to participants of the Meals on Wheels Animeal program on Nov. 25.
Spectrum Generations, Central Maine Area Agency on Aging and the Aging and Disability Resource Center are overseeing the drive.
Donations may be dropped off at 521 Main St., Damariscotta. Checks may be made out to Spectrum Generations, with an LC Animal Program notation, and sent to the same address.
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