PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Tue, 04/06/2021 - 8:30am
The Woolwich select board on Monday declined Bath Area Food Bank’s request to increase the town’s 2021-22 contributions from $1,000 to $1,500. In the request, food bank officials stated their client visits have doubled this past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Woolwich residents have visited the food bank 175 times, they noted.
David King Sr., select board chairman, recommended keeping all donations at the same amount as last year. All of those were approved by voters at the 2020 annual town meeting.
“We adopted a policy of freezing charitable donations a number of years ago,” he said. He added, selectmen could change this if they so desired.
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Bath Area Family YMCA and its branch in Brunswick, the Landing YMCA, support the health and well being of the community through programs that promote youth development, social responsibility and healthy living in over 14 communities in midcoast Maine.
Strengthening community has always been at the heart of the Y. When schools shut down in March, we provided child care for essential workers and grab-and-go meals for children and their families. We’ve since partnered with local school districts to provide hybrid learning environments to school age children and meals to remote learners via the Y Veggie Van.
regards to the most important and crucial and i think at times when you saw mueller on his game, moments and the exchanges that volleyed back and forth with in particular with schiff and it begs the question and i ve been wondering this since we knew the schedule, why it wasn t reversed and why intel committee wasn t in the morning and why we didn t have judiciary in the afternoon. intel was clee was clearly th area where robert mueller was most passionate and attacking the elks and he was nervous coming into the judiciary panel and had we started the other way around with the arc of a story telling maybe things would have gone different. but he s very different from donald trump. he s not an attack dog. there were plenty of opportunities where he could have fought back and could have answered in response to some of the attacks that were coming from the republicans, he chose not to. i think donald trump, the president smelled blood and that is why you heard what we did from him.
be smart as government, need to focus on prevention. so i ve been looking at some folks talking about, for example, how we can work with the actuaries who make decisions about the insurance companies and how much they re going to charge you based on the risk they think you present. and looking at where are the higher risk areas based on their calculations, and then going in to those areas on the front end and on a prevention side and looking at where we can put the resources into building up the infrastructure in those communities so they are not vulnerable to those natural disasters. can you imagine, for example, during katrina if we had, ahead of time, known, one, predictable those levees are going to broadcast. let s figure out what is the structure of the noehomes in th area. can we reinforce those homes structurally in advance so people aren t left homeless for
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