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Staff of Food City of Bridgton show healthy food bags for the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club.
BRIDGTON Food City of Bridgton partnered with the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club to deliver 80 bags of healthy food for the Southwest Oxford County Nutrition program, formerly the Brownfield Food Pantry.
Included in the bags were whole winter squash, a bag of apples, a rustic bread, butter, chocolate chip cookie mix and cranberry sauce. Those items were packed in a reusable shopping bag from Key Bank-Bridgton with a holiday greeting and support on washing hands, wearing masks and watching distances, which Rotary has been sharing with other pantries.
Inside Bridgton: Jan. 1
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The complications of the pandemic have hit fundraising efforts for animal shelters particularly hard. The Magic Lantern Theater is hoping to help out by “stuffing the truck” with much-needed items to deliver to Harvest Hills Animal Shelter in Fryeburg.
A donation box has been set up outside the Magic Lantern entrance and volunteers will be in the parking lot to accept items for the shelter from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 2, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 3.
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BRIDGTON Food City of Bridgton partnered with the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club in the delivery of 80 bags of healthy food for the Southwest Oxford County Nutrition program, formerly the Brownfield Food Pantry.
Previously Food City had been instrumental in the Rotary Club being able to deliver 800 3.12 quarts of laundry detergent, enough for each of the food pantries’ clients in our immediate district, including Bridgton, St. Joseph’s, Naples, Sweden and Harrison food pantries. Food City ordered more than their normal delivery spaced out over a month so that we would have product to deliver in time for pantry days, explained Rotarian Carol Madsen who oversees the Rotary Club’s work with food pantries. “We have a grant from the Rotary District that we’re part of, made up of Clubs in southern Maine and coastal NH”, she said, “which provides support for distribution of Health & Wellness packets to local food pantries. The Br