FARMINGTON — Each year the Maine Credit Union League and longtime ending hunger advocate Brenda Davis host the Campaign for Ending Hunger Walking Tour through Maine to collect donations for local food assistance programs.

The tour has visited more than 90 communities and credit unions this year. To date, the tour has raised more than $7.2 million, with 100 percent of all funds raised distributed to food banks, pantries and other assistance programs.

On Nov. 16, Walking Tour co-founder Davis spoke to more than 300 elementary school students at Cascade Brook School in Farmington, which raised in excess of 1,258 pounds of food through a schoolwide Helping Hands challenge for the Care and Share Food Closet in Farmington.

University Credit Union sponsored the school’s Helping Hands challenge and the tour stop in Farmington. UCU Branch Manager Beth Beaudoin and UCU Campaign for Ending Hunger Representative Tonya Pickering presented the campaign with a donation of $116 for the Care & Share Food Closet and also donated $175 to the school library to fill a need for additional books.

Volunteers from UCU also helped to load the 1,258 pounds of food donated by students at Cascade Brook School and Mallet School onto a truck for delivery.

University Credit Union in Farmington Branch Manager Beth Beaudoin and UCU Campaign for Ending Hunger representative Tonya Pickering presented the campaign with a donation of $116 for the Care & Share Food Closet in Farmington and also donated $175 to the Cascade Brook School library to fill a need for additional books. For the donation ceremony were, from left, Dana Bullen, representing Care & Share Food Closet in Farmington; Brenda Davis, representing the Ending Hunger Walking Tour; Beaudoin; Nichole Goodspeed, principal of Cascade Brook School; and Pickering, executive assistant at University Credit Union.

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