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St. Mary's awarded $60,000 grant

LEWISTON — Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation recently announced a $60,000 grant to St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center and Cultivating Community, Good Food Bus Mobile Farmers’ Market. The foundation has given grants to more than 900 nonprofit organizations in more than 300 communities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 2017. In 2017, more […]

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New dining site opens for Somali community

LEWISTON — SeniorsPlus, the designated Western Maine Agency on Aging, announces the launch of a new dining site designed to cater to the Somali community. The dining site is in the St. Mary’s Nutrition Center, 208 Bates St. The public is invited to attend lunches presented there at 11:30 a.m. Mondays (except holidays) starting March […]

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Youth serve healthy food

LEWISTON — St. Mary’s Nutrition Center’s Youth-Powered Cooking participants served spinach salad with walnuts and dried cherries and walnut cherry oatmeal cookies to food pantry guests on Jan. 5. The taste tests aim to highlight different uses and recipes for some ingredients guests will be receiving in their food boxes. It’s also a way for […]

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Eating healthy for a cause

LEWISTON — Gale Hart smiled after taking a bite of Pad Thai at The Peasant Pantry Cafe at 97 Blake St. on Thursday. “It’s awesome!” the United Way employee and a Pad Thai fan said. “I have it a lot. This is very fresh.” She took a class at the center on how to make the Asian […]