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Photos on a series of panels at the Maine MILL help tell the story of Maine’s labor force in the early 1900s.
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Photos on a series of panels at the Maine MILL help tell the story of Maine’s labor force in the early 1900s.
Sarah Griffin, right, and Cindy Foss pick up Thanksgiving meals-to-go from Marc Nadeau at Hope Haven Gospel Mission in Lewiston on Thursday. Volunteers delivered about 120 meals to those in need, Pastor John Robbins said. Thursday was the first time for Griffin, Foss and Nadeau, all of Lewiston, helping out at Hope Haven on Thanksgiving. "It is an opportunity to give back for all the blessings that I have received," Nadeau said.
Joselyn Griggs cooks Thanksgiving meals at Hope Haven Gospel Mission in Lewiston on Thursday. Griggs put the first of 20 turkeys in the oven at 3 a.m. Tuesday, cooking steady for the next several days, to get ready to feed the less fortunate. "No chance of going on auto pilot here," Griggs said. "I have had a pot and a half of coffee and I still have my Mountain Dew." Griggs had been in the kitchen since 2:30 a.m.
Mykyla Hall and Ryan Aubin of Sabattus carry Thanksgiving meals-to-go down the back steps at Hope Haven Gospel Mission in Lewiston on Thursday. Hall and Aubin volunteered to help deliver meals to those in need that could not get the shelter on their own.
Thanksgiving meals-to-go are reflected in a window at right at Hope Haven Gospel Mission in Lewiston on Thursday. Meal deliveries Thursday as well as people eating at the homeless shelter is down by about one-third since the COVID-19 pandemic swept in Maine in March, Pastor John Robbins said.
Danielle Owens of Auburn and her three children, Kingsley, 10, Serephina, 6, and Corbyn, 13, listen as Pastor John Robbins says "thank you" to the volunteers who came to Hope Haven Gospel Mission to deliver Thanksgiving meals on Thursday. Robbins said the only thing that has changed between this Thanksgiving and last is the number of meals-to-go being delivered is down this year. "We will be delivering a warm Thanksgiving meal," he said. "And it will not be hot dogs and cold beans."
Marc Nadeau, left, Amanda Christman of Lewiston and Diane Anderson of Lisbon Falls serve Thanksgiving meals at Hope Haven Gospel Mission in Lewiston on Thursday.
Kingsley Owens, 10, of Auburn crosses Lincoln Street in Lewiston with Thanksgiving meals she will help deliver to those in need on Thursday. Owens, her mother Danielle Owens and her brother, Corbyn, and sister, Serephina, helped deliver meals prepared at Hope Haven Gospel Mission.