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Spirit Challenge filming set for Jay school

JAY — More than 400 Spruce Mountain High School students and teachers, along with parents and community members, will gather in the school gym at 5 a.m. Thursday to be filmed for the Spirit Challenge food drive. Spruce Mountain challenged Mountain Valley High School in Rumford to see who would bring in the most donations […]

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‘You can’t learn if you’re hungry’: USDA’s Concannon tours Auburn schools, food bank

AUBURN — On Monday morning, U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Kevin Concannon ate breakfast with preschoolers: Frosted wheat flakes, juice and skim milk. He poked his head into a high school food pantry and stopped in at the Good Shepherd Food-Bank. He called the Auburn schools pioneers and praised the food bank for its efforts. […]

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Local food pantries receive $80,000 in food items from Good Shepherd Food-Bank

FARMINGTON — Nine area food pantries received about $80,000 worth of food Wednesday as a Good Shepherd Food-Bank truck distributed food at the Mt. Blue Shopping Plaza. The truck comes every three months, Judy Frost of Western Maine Community Action said after the delivery. Community Action programs across the state coordinate the allotments and distributions, […]

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Good Shepherd food mobile coming to Farmington

FARMINGTON — Once again, the Good Shepherd Food-Bank food mobile will visit the local pantry, bringing 7,000 pounds of products for needy people in the Farmington area. The distribution will be from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, March 12, at the Care and Share Food Closet at 508 Fairbanks Road. “Anyone in need of emergency […]

Posted inRiver Valley

Good Shepherd Food-Bank to bring ‘Food Mobile’ to Rumford

RUMFORD — The Good Shepherd Food-Bank and the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition will be teaming up to bring the food bank’s Food Mobile to the River Valley area from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 24, at Marden’s in Rumford for all senior citizens in need. The Food Mobile, according to a news release […]

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LePage to host Blaine House food drive, offer tour of mansion

AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage is inviting Maine residents to the Blaine House next month off to drop off food donations and receive a tour of the governor’s mansion. The Republican governor and First Lady Ann LePage are hosting the third annual food drive on three consecutive Saturdays in October, starting on the 12th. […]