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PublishedNovember 25, 2020
Oxford’s food pantry gets help to give help
Helping Hands Food Pantry expects to provide Thanksgiving meals to 75 families today. The help they receive from the community propels the help they give.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2020
The Good Samaritans at Good Shepherd
Auburn's Good Shepherd Food Bank provides millions of meals, with the help of thousands of volunteers. After a massive donor outpouring, it navigated 2020 and is braced for 2021.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2020
Thanksgiving holiday looms large at Harrison Food Bank
Operations Manager Sandy Swett projects Thanksgiving meals needed for at least 500 families this year.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2020
First-grader stocking shelves for food pantry
Liliana Tripp of Oxford is learning about community volunteerism as part of her home schooling.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2020
More Mainers struggle to feed their families as agencies fear worst to come
Before the pandemic, the state already had an elevated level of hunger compared to the rest of the nation. Now, relief programs are adapting to an intensifying crisis.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2020
Hunger may kill more people than COVID this year
As many as 132 million more people than previously projected could go hungry in 2020.
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PublishedAugust 6, 2020
Large turnout for Augusta food giveaway highlights need in central Maine
Augusta Food Bank Executive Director Bob Moore said more than 150 cars were lined up for a food giveaway at the Augusta Civic Center an hour before it began Thursday.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2020
Maine organizations step up to help feed people in need during pandemic
Growing to Give, a farm-based nonprofit in Brunswick, is ramping up production to help feed more people, while local farms and the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust are distributing seedlings to help people grow their own food.
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PublishedJune 11, 2020
No school feeding program in Oxford Hills this summer
The kitchen at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School has to close while its refrigeration and freezer units are being replaced.
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PublishedMay 6, 2020
New Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program offers cash to help feed Maine’s children
Families whose children get free or reduced-price meals will get $382 per child to compensate them for what they missed after schools closed.
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