If the Portland Adv ertiser’s baseball players will accept a challenge from Lewiston’s typo baseball players there may be a warm game on Labor Day in Portland or Lewiston. The employees on the two morning papers in this city are very anxious according to Manager Bert M. Shaw of The Sun to make arrangements with the Advertiser men for a real contest. Shaw says that he stands ready at any time to meet the Portland men half way and would like to hear from them if they have no engagements on the coming holiday. He is willing to have his men go to Portland and play the game for cigars or soda water.

50 Years Ago, 1956

•The six New England states – where 55 were dead and 1,601 stricken by polio at this time last year – today had reported a 1956 total of only 122 cases. There were no deaths reported.

•At least 11 fires were reported to the state Forestry Department today, as southern and coastal Maine woods became dangerously dry.

•EAST LIVERMORE – Old timers are predicting a heavy frost or freeze in this section on the full of this moon, Aug. 20 to 22. It was down to 34 here Thursday, something old timers say they have never seen in the past 70 years.

25 Years Ago, 1981

It’s called the Good Shepherd Food Bank, and what it does is provide food – tons and tons of food – to needy individuals and charitable organizations in the Lewiston-Auburn area.

The Good Shepherd Food Bank is run by Ray and Jo Ann Pike, out of their home at 458-460 Court St. in Auburn. The Pikes, both born-again Christians, have been doing Christian work for a couple of years with alcohol and drug programs. To support them, people began giving food, so much that they found themselves giving some of it away to people more needy than themselves.

Then, in April, they saw a front-page story in The Sun about a food bank in Kansas City. Pike wrote to the operators of that food bank, who replied with information about the program, and the Good Shepherd Food Bank was born.