To the editor:

The Brunswick Democratic Committee was thrilled and humbled by the enthusiastic turnout for our first annual Martin Luther King Day nonpartisan benefit supper.

More than 100 friends and neighbors gathered to share a meal and help us provide more than 300 pounds of food and more than $900 to the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program.

Our energetic crew of Democratic partiers cooked and served up a frenzy of pasta, focaccia, salad, desserts and laughter. It was a good time in and out of the kitchen.

Our heartfelt thanks to First Parish Church for contributing the use of Pilgrim House, Hannaford and Shaw’s for donating ingredients for our homemade feast, and Gemma Laurence and Josephine Sehon for providing free babysitting, allowing families to linger and visit while their children played.

Thanks as well to Dawud Ummah, of the NAACP and the Center for African Heritage, for coming to Brunswick and speaking that night about commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through community service.

We hosted this event so that members of our community could gather together on behalf of values that transcend political parties. We are already making plans for next year’s supper, so hold the date: Jan. 21, 2013!

Meantime, it’s back to the partisan side of politics, so we invite fellow Democrats to join us for this year’s caucus, which will take place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Brunswick Junior High School on Columbia Avenue. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Andy Cashman chairman,
Brunswick Democratic
Town Committee

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