Recycle to support scholarship

Buxton Garden Club is collecting used inkjet cartridges and cell phones to fund a scholarship for a Bonny Eagle High School senior.

Collection boxes in Buxton are located at the Buxton Recycling Center, Buxton Town Hall, West Buxton Library, and the Bar Mills Post Office. Boxes in Hollis are at the Salmon Falls Library, Hollis Town Hall and Hollis Center Library.

Clynk bags are also available for recycling returnables. For details, contact Anne at 929-6851 or annewilliams15@hotmail.com.

Plummer state bagging champ

Janessa Plummer of Plummer’s Shop ’n Save in Buxton took home first place in the Maine Grocers & Food Producers Association 2014 Best Bagger Championship held in conjunction with the Maine Food Means Business Summit in September.

She is the daughter of Troy and Cindy Plummer, who own the store.

As the state’s winner, Plummer now has an opportunity in national competition to win $10,000 and an appearance on the David Letterman TV show. Plummer will represent Maine in the February 2015 National Grocers Association Best Bagger Championship in Las Vegas, Nev., and will compete against an estimated 39 other state champions

In the Maine competition, Spencer MacLeod from the Wells Hannaford store won second prize, and Nicole Brackett from the Riverside Hannaford store in Portland third prize.

Contestants were judged by speed of bagging, proper bag-building technique, weight distribution in the bag, as well as style, attitude and appearance.

The Maine Grocers & Food Producers Association is a statewide business trade association.