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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Posted inTimes Record
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.
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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.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
MaineHealth buys Portland shopping center for $16.8 million
The purchase adds to MaineHealth’s real estate holdings near Maine Medical Center. The properties include a former Greyhound bus station that is being converted into a community food pantry.