Town Pride, which sells customized apparel, opened last weekend and raised money for local food insecurity at the same time.
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Posted inTimes Record
Fill the Firetruck donation event to benefit Bowdoin food pantry
Bowdoin Community Cares is sponsoring a Fill the Firetruck event Saturday, Nov. 4, to help fill the shelves of Bowdoin’s Friends Helping Community food pantry. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at Bowdoin Central School, 1460 Main St., Bowdoin. Participants will receive one ticket for every pound of nonperishable food they […]
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Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
New food pantry to open in Harpswell
MidCoast Hunger Prevention Program will open a satellite food pantry at the Harpswell Town Office Oct. 16. The pantry will be open Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on Thursdays from noon to 6 p.m. The mobile pantry in the town office back parking lot will open as usual […]
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Southern Maine Weeklies
Biddeford Planning Board approves site plan for community gathering space
BIDDEFORD – A “no brainer” came before the Biddeford Planning Board Sept. 6. At least that’s what Julian Schlaver, Ward 5 city counselor and member of the downtown development commission said about the final site plan application submitted by Steve Liautaud (or Freddy LLC), the property owner of 64 Alfred St. Liautaud wants to turn […]
Posted inTimes Record
The Recycle Bin: Food salvage and recovery
When I volunteered weekly at the Gathering Place, a drop-in day shelter and resources center on Tenney Way behind the Brunswick downtown Hannaford, our guests ate lunch next door at Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Center. Before the pandemic, they experienced a free, sit-down restaurant experience, with waiters bringing main course, drinks and then dessert offerings. […]
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Bowdoinham Community School to open food pantry for students
Bowdoinham Food Pantry has teamed up with the elementary school to open a school market after Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ended its backpack food assistance program.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Patten Free Library launches Teen Pantry
The Patten Free Library’s new Teen Pantry is open, offering free food, toiletries, school supplies, first aid, clothing and other items to youth in need. The Bath Area Food Bank is providing most of the supplies, but community members and library patrons have also been donating. Members of the library’s knitting circle have provided homemade […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Westbrook Families Feeding Families receives timely donation
The pantry, started in 2007 by school committee Chairperson Sue Salisbury to provide lunches for school programs, is low on supplies such as peanut butter and rice.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Buxton food pantry founder steps down after 16 years
Joann Groder’s Buxton Community Food Co-op serves about 130 families a month and now will be under the directorship of longtime volunteer Jean Harmon.
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies
U.S. Cellular makes donation to South Portland Food Cupboard
Telecommunications firm delivered food and personal hygiene items worth $5,000 to the cupboard.