Maine Acts of Kindness: Feeding the frontline workers is as important as ever
With COVID-19 cases surging, local restaurants are once again providing meals to health care workers and first responders – and keeping their lights on.
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Birch Shambaugh, owner of Woodford Food & Beverage, delivers burgers to the staff at Portland’s Barron Center on Wednesday. Shambaugh has been delivering meals to front-line health care workers as part of the Feeding the Frontline campaign throughout much of the pandemic.
Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer
As the coronavirus pandemic became a national emergency last March, the Feeding the Frontline initiative was born in a small Boston restaurant called Penquin Pizza. Local restaurants provided meals – paid for through donations – to workers on the front line of the pandemic, while also receiving badly-needed funds to keep afloat.