GRAY – The Gray/New Gloucester PTSA teamed up with the Good Shepherd Food-Bank to “Fill the Bus and Feed the Hungry” on June 2. Children from Russell, Memorial, Dunn and the middle schools joined and donated more than 1,500 pounds of food for the food bank.

The bus load of food was delivered to Good Shepherd at 11 a.m. Thursday. Middle Schoolers Tory Martin, Kaitlyn Rokowski, Ben Miklovich and Eric Stewart unloaded the bus (after loading all of the food onto the bus at each school). The official weight came in at 1,542 pounds, translating to more than $2,300 in groceries. The agencies that use the food bank pay 16 cents a pound, a shared maintenance fee, to purchase the groceries to distribute locally.

A middle school class also participated in selling hunger awareness bracelets. With only a couple of weeks left of school, the kids sold 70 bracelets. Since each bracelet sold can provide more than $25 in food, the sales equate to more than $17,500 in food for Maine’s hungry. For more information, contact JoAn Chartier at 782-3554.