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Hannah Dieterich, left, and Katherine Slattery-Seaman fill bags with food Thursday at the Wales Town Office for the Regional School Unit 4 Community Cares Backpack Program. The two meet every Thursday to prepare bags for 117 students to take home each Friday for the weekend. The number of RSU 4 students who benefit from the program is up 54% from last year, Dieterich said. About 90% of the food is paid for through donations. “I can’t get anything accomplished when I am hungry, so I can’t expect children to get anything done when they are hungry either,” Slattery-Seaman said. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Katherine Slattery-Seaman organizes bags of food Thursday at the Wales Town Office for the Regional School Unit 4 Community Cares Backpack Program. Slattery-Seaman and Hannah Dieterich meet every Thursday to prepare bags for 117 students to take home each Friday for the weekend. The number of RSU 4 students who benefit from the program is up 54% from last year, Dieterich said. About 90% of the food is paid for through donations. “I can’t get anything accomplished when I am hungry, so I can’t expect children to get anything done when they are hungry either,” Slattery-Seaman said.  Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Daryn Slover always pulls for the underdog - what would you expect from someone that was raised in Cleveland and lives in Lewiston. He drinks cheap coffee and cheap beer so that he can afford to put his...

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