St. Mary’s Nutrition Center
St. Mary's Nutrition Center to host Business After Hours
LEWISTON — St. Mary’s Nutrition Center, 208 Bates St., will host the LA Metro Chamber’s Business After Hours from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16. The event is free. Uplift LA will collect school supplies during the evening to help with the United Way of Androscoggin County’s Backpack Project, which provides much-needed school supplies […]
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 […]
Androscoggin Bank awards $25,000 to St. Mary's Nutrition Center
Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation recently awarded $25,000 to St. Mary’s Nutrition Center as the 2017 recipient of the foundation’s annual $25K for Kids Grant. The presentation occurred at an awards ceremony Nov. 15 in Lewiston.
St. Mary’s Nutrition Center plants sunflowers to celebrate new garden
LEWISTON — Nearly 50 people gathered at St. Mary’s Nutrition Center recently to celebrate the upcoming creation of a new learning garden on-site at the Bates Street location. Last fall, the nutrition center cleared the lot behind the building and planted a cover crop to prepare the land for a garden. When soil tests revealed […]
SeniorsPlus opens new dining site for Somali community at St. Mary's Nutrition Center
LEWISTON — SeniorsPlus has announced the launch of a new dining site in the St. Mary’s Nutrition Center at 208 Bates St. that is designed to cater to the Somali community The public is invited to attend lunches presented there on Mondays (except holidays) at 11:30 a.m. A $3 donation is suggested. The launch of this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]