BELFAST — The Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation has awarded grants to 10 Maine organizations through its Children’s Health Small Grants Program. The awards total $95,000. The list of local recipients and their children’s health projects are: • Community Clinical Services, Lewiston, $14,000.Increasing Childhood Immunizations: To partner with Healthy Androscoggin to increase immunization rates for 2-year-old children in central […]
Good Shepherd Food Bank
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Volunteering for community
Pam Fischer, left, and Susan Bell volunteer at Good Shepherd Food Bank on Aug. 2. Bell is an employee of Poland Spring and Fischer is retired.
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Cooking Matters brings nutritional lesson to APL
AUBURN — The Auburn Public Library and Cooking Matters will host a Pop-Up Tour of the pretend Grocery Store from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the Androscoggin Room of the library. Dedicated to instructing adults, teens and kids in how to get the most nutrition out of a limited food budget, the […]
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Maine Credit Unions donate to food pantries
On Dec. 18, the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger, in partnership with the Good Shepherd Food Bank, celebrated the 12th anniversary of Maine’s first Food Mobile. To mark the occasion, the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger made a contribution of $12,500. Jon Paradise, far left, vice president of public affairs and […]
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Rowe Ford donates to backpack program
Rowe Ford of Auburn presents $2,700 to the Gray-New Gloucester Backpack Program on Dec. 11. From left, front, are: Skip Winter, marketing director for the Rowe Auto Group; Donna Skilling, founder/coordinator of the SAD 15 Backpack Program; and Lily Wilson, Faith Quatticci, Alie Martell and Kyle Martell, all members of the Gray-New Gloucester High School Community […]
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Lotus gives to the hungry
Lotus Restaurant of Auburn presented Good Shepherd Food Bank with $10,000 as the result of contributions from customers and matching funds from the owners. Around $4,000 was collected, matched by owner Jimmy Wu and rounded up to an even $10,000 cash. Lotus also donated the day’s worth of expenses toward the overall fundraiser, including paying […]
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School spirit helps raise money at Mt. Blue
The phrase, “We believe that we will win,” along with drums and other instruments echoed through the halls of Mt. Blue High School on Friday morning as students and staff showed their spirit in the School Spirit Challenge sponsored by WGME Channel 13 to raise money and food for the Good Shepherd Food Bank in […]
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Corn maze celebrates Good Shepherd Food Bank
The Good Shepherd Food Bank is celebrated this year at Sandy River Farm’s eighth, annual corn maze. A design featuring the food bank’s logo has been cut in to a field of corn. FARMINGTON — The Good Shepherd Food Bank logo makes up the design for this year’s corn maze at Sandy River Farms. The […]
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Filling backpacks with food
Community Credit Union presented Good Shepherd Food Bank with a check for $1,500 for three schools. Longley Elementary in Lewiston, Washburn Elementary in Auburn and Carrie Ricker Middle School in Litchfield will each receive $500 toward their backpack program/food pantry. From left are Christina Carter, executive vice president of Community Credit Union; Jennifer Hogan, president/CEO of Community Credit Union; Michelle Gagne, […]
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Carrie-Lynne Davis
LEWISTON — Carrie-Lynne Davis, 28, of Lewiston, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, Aug. 8. She was born July 2, 1989, daughter of Cheryl Lynne Libby-Davis. She was a 2011 honors graduate of Ithaca College, where she was the writers collective founder of Spit That! She was also secretary for Spoken Word and was nominated to Women […]