CHERRYFIELD, ME — Thanks to the Hannaford Helps Reusable Bag program, when people purchase a $2.50 reusable bag at the Machias Hannaford, the Mission Food Pantry receives one dollar.
Thank you for your help.
Wendy Harrington
Maine Seacoast Mission
Service Program Director
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Hannaford Helps Reusable Bag Program
Hello,
It’s GO time! Today kicks off your month in the Hannaford Helps Reusable Bag Program!
In order for Seacoast Mission Pantry to receive the most donations possible, we encourage you to use the free marketing materials available in the Fight Hunger Bag Marketing Toolkit. It contains customized social media graphics, email drafts, press releases, images of the bag, and more – all ready for you to promote.
As a reminder, Seacoast Mission Pantry will receive a $1 donation for every $2.50 Fight Hunger Bag sold during the month of September at the Hannaford store located at:
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Last weekend was a “big weekend” at our Downeast Community Campus for Down East magazine’s Great Maine Scavenger Hunt volunteers, said Mission Service Program Director Wendy Harrington.
The Hunt’s purpose is to send “Down East readers out to explore all 35,385 square miles of Maine — from mountains to sea, from potato fields to city streets — in pursuit of the best Maine summer ever.” One item on the Hunt’s list is to be at a “Community Supper in Cherryfield.”
“We had nine participants help prepare and serve the meal on Sunday,” said Director Wendy Harrington. “Teens and staff from Healthy Acadia’s Teen Ag Summer Program harvested, prepared and served a delicious spaghetti supper with lots of delicious salads and vegetable stir fried dishes,” Harrington said.
Learn how you can attend and/or sponsor a Table of Plenty Community Supper. Click here.
Wendy Harrington (center) with Cathy Ames and Valerie Hill.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Mission Service Program Director Wendy Harrington sends a note and news of the arrival of two ladies taking part in Down East magazine’s The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt.
“Cathy Ames and Valerie Hill were awesome helpers and wowed our diners with four homemade pies and a big pot of baked beans,” writes Wendy Harrington.
The Hunt’s purpose is to send “Down East readers out to explore all 35,385 square miles of Maine — from mountains to sea, from potato fields to city streets — in pursuit of the best Maine summer ever.”
One item on the Hunt’s list is to be at a “Community Supper in Cherryfield.” What better than our Downeast Campus’s “Table of Plenty” Community Supper?
Learn how you can attend and/or sponsor a Table of Plenty Community Supper. Click here.
Jillian shared this photo, adding “The Women’s Health Resource Library and Coordinator Briana West’s EdGE Journey group co-hosted last Sunday’s Downeast Table of Plenty (DETOP) public supper at the Weald Bethel Community Center.
“They all fed us in style!” said Jillian.
The Table of Plenty takes place in the Weald Bethel Community Center on the Downeast Campus every Sunday from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. About 75 to 100 people attend each week. Meals are provided by volunteers who sign up in advance.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Director of Service Programs Wendy Harrington writes, “Videographer Galen Koch made a short video of Nancy Neu and her VISTA work with the Mission. We finally received the okay to post it publicly and Nancy would like to see it posted on the Facebook page.
Nancy Neu’s VISTA video profile includes this paragraph:
Meet Nancy Neu, an AmeriCorps VISTA serving in Cherryfield, Maine with the Maine Seacoast Mission. The Maine Seacoast Mission has been working in Downeast Maine for over 116 years. In 2017, their food pantry and meal programs for children and seniors provided 187,936 meals in Washington County. With only 3 ? full time staff members, these Maine Seacoast Mission hunger prevention programs rely on volunteers and an AmeriCorps VISTA.
