Spruce Mountain Primary School in Livermore will be featured during NBC’s Red Nose Day program from 8 to 11 p.m. Thursday, May 25. Principal Kevin Harrington was given 500 Red Noses to distribute to students and staff. Second-grader Dominic Webster, front, received the first Red Nose at a recent assembly. Standing behind him are, from […]
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MAINE EGG FARMERS DONATE MORE THAN 100,000 EGGS JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER Donation Supports Good Shepherd Food Bank’s Efforts to Fight Hunger AUBURN — Hillandale Farm is helping in the fight against hunger by donating 9,000 dozen eggs to Good Shepherd Food Bank. “Hillandale is proud to be partnering with Good Shepherd Food Bank […]
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Hillandale Farms donates 9,000 dozen egs to Good Shepherd
AUBURN — Now that would make a really big omelet. Maine’s egg farmers are donating more than 100,000 eggs to people in need of food assistance just in time for Easter. Hillandale Farms — which runs an egg farm in Turner — says it’s giving 9,000 dozen eggs to Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn. […]
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Hannaford Supermarkets to receive JoAnn Pike Humanitarian Award
AUBURN — Good Shepherd Food Bank announced it will award the 2017 JoAnn Pike Humanitarian Award to Hannaford Supermarkets in honor of the company’s exceptional service to the community. The award will be presented at a celebratory dinner open to the public at the food bank’s warehouse at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 6. The facility […]
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Food Mobile in Rangeley Wednesday
RANGELEY — Good Shepherd Food Bank will distribute food to Rangeley-area families with six Food Mobiles in 2017. The first one will take place from 10:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Feb. 22, in the lower level of Rangeley Health and Wellness at 25 Dallas Hill Road. Members from the local police department will volunteer to bring boxes […]
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Good Shepherd wins safety award
PORTLAND — Good Shepherd Food Bank of Auburn received an award for workplace safety from workers’ compensation specialist MEMIC. Only nine other employers, out of more than 20,000 MEMIC policyholders, were honored during the MEMIC annual meeting of the policyholders with a recognition award for outstanding safety performance. Good Shepherd Food Bank solicits, secures, collects […]
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Good Shepherd Food Bank welcomes cool expansion
AUBURN — Good Shepherd Food Bank had a Goldilocks problem. Its warehouse shelves were too warm for fresh-picked potatoes, carrots, apples and cabbage; its refrigerator, too cold. A new $1.2 million root crop storage project means being able to accept more fresh fruits and vegetables, store them at ideal temperatures and make them available for […]
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Elizabeth R. Larsen
1924 – 2015 WATERFORD — Elizabeth R. Larsen, 90, of Waterford, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at her home. Affectionately known as Betty, she was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Oct. 31, 1924, the daughter of Dennis W. and Frances E. Leeper Ryan. In 1941, she graduated from East Haven High School in Connecticut […]
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Alvira ‘Vi’ Caron
1927 – 2015 LA MESA, Calif. — Alvira “Vi” Caron, 88, of Lewiston and La Mesa, Calif., passed away peacefully on Sunday Oct. 4. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of Antoinette Slavinski Loewer and Conrad Daniel Joseph Loewer, Vi grew up in southern California, where she met Bob Caron while he was stationed there […]
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Harold A. Parsons
1928 – 2015 AUBURN — Harold A. Parsons, 87, of Minot died Tuesday, Aug. 4, at Clover Manor Health Care with his family by his side. Born in Auburn on June 22, 1928, he was a son of the late Howard and Ruth Boothbay. Harold was a member of the Frances Lodge of West Minot […]