Despite the recent campaign against Hannaford, I’ll still be shopping there. Maybe those who are upset with this grocery store don’t know all the good it does in our community. I volunteer at Wayside and I see all the food that Hannaford donates there. They would not be able to provide the meals they do without Hannaford’s generosity.

I also volunteered at St. Vincent de Paul, and I helped pick up food from Hannaford’s Forest Avenue store for that soup kitchen. Our SUV wasn’t big enough to hold all the boxes of food they donated.

I see the food drives every year to provide Thanksgiving dinners to those who need them. I saw an article about the Westbrook Hannaford teaming up with a local teacher to have a literacy game in the store for kids.

When I want local produce, I can always get it at Hannaford.

There are many other ways, over the years, I have seen this grocery chain being a good neighbor. I just want Hannaford to get the credit I think it deserves.

Also, if this anti-Hannaford campaign is a local effort, why do the protest signs have a website for some place in San Diego? Why don’t the locals, who have clearly spent money on this campaign, identify themselves?

One can always see the glass half empty, if that’s what they choose to look at. As for me, I try looking for the good and I almost always find it.

Kathy Beirne
Portland