SFP Volunteers (l-r) Pam Pettingell, Miriam Gibely, Claudia Blondell, Laurel Cole, Jane Gibbons, Gilda Medeiros, Frank Medeiros, Linda Bradley, and Arnold Stevens.

SWEDEN — The Sweden Food Pantry (SFP) is excited to announce that, for the entire month of January 2025, it has been selected by store leadership at Hannaford’s in Bridgton to receive a $1 donation from every purchase of the $2.50 Fight Hunger Bag Program. Executive Director of the SFP Linda Bradley remarked, “The beginning of the year is a great time to replace those old bags for new ones. And for every $2.50 bag purchased, SFP receives $1. Hannaford has been very good to us.  Not only do they donate food to the pantry twice a month, but this is the second time we’ve been selected as part of the Fight Hunger Bag program.”

To learn more about this program, visit hannaford.2givelocal.com.

The Sweden Food Pantry is open on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The pantry presently serves participants from the towns of Bridgton, Harrison, Fryeburg, Lovell, Stoneham, Stow, Sweden, and Waterford. However, no eligible family or person is turned away. For more information, check the website https://www.swedenfoodpantry.org/ or the Facebook Page, https://www.facebook.com/foodpantries/about. The phone number is (207) 647-5735.