DIXFIELD — Barbara Lane learned from her parents that it's good to give. So this year, for the third consecutive time, she is conducting a nonperishable food and cash drive for two local food pantries.

Lane, who owns a screenprinting business in Norway, plans to give one of her colorful Christmas-collage T-shirts to the first 100 people donating three food items or $5 cash.

The food drive will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 18, in the parking lot of Log Cabin Craftworks on Main Street. A white van, staffed by Lane and several family members and friends, with a banner, “Food Pantry Drive,” will accept the donations.

All food and cash from the drive, as well as money raised from the raffle of an American Girl-type doll and two handmade outfits, will be evenly split between the food pantries at the Peru Baptist Church and the Dixfield Common Road Baptist Church.

Lane's mother, Elizabeth, created the doll and the outfits. The name of the winner will be drawn at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Lane said all food and other nonperishable items, along with the cash, will be distributed to the two food pantries that afternoon.

Lane said she's not sure how many items or how much cash was collected during the past two drives, but the totals are always more than she had expected.

“Food pantries are wonderful,” she said.

Norine Clarke, owner of Log Cabin Craftworks, said she is also accepting donations of pet food, litter, pet toys and cash to help out a shelter for feral cats on Pine Street in Dixfield operated by Brenda Jarvis and Caddy Smith. The pet items drive, known as Christmas for Kitties, will be accepted at Clarke's business until Dec. 24.

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