Samantha Glaude, First National Bank Mon, 02/01/2021 - 2:30pm
Outside the Boothbay Region Food Pantry behind the Congregational Church in Boothbay Harbor are, from left, Alyssa Allen, Fleet Davies, Karen Younger and Brenda Blackman. Courtesy photo
From left, Monique McRae, Alyssa Allen, Gretchen Burleigh-Johnson and Brie DiPerri at Help Yourself Shelf in Wiscasset. Courtesy photo
First National Bank recently announced that it has made donations totaling $16,500 to 28 food pantries in the bank’s market area to celebrate the launch of its new program, Dream First Community.
Dream First Community supports local businesses while helping tackle food insecurity in Maine. When a customer shops using their First National Bank VISA® Debit Card at partner local merchants, First National Bank donates money to local area food banks and customers become eligible to win gift cards to their favorite local businesses.
LISA KRISTOFF Thu, 12/24/2020 - 8:00am
For 35 years, Boothbay Region Food Pantry has been helping residents in need, and the number served has grown each decade. The service includes distributing holiday meals for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
This year’s Christmas baskets were distributed at the pantry Dec. 18 and a few more on Dec. 21. Co-President Fleet Davies reported 120 families received baskets this year, each one put together based on the number of people in the household. The baskets included three side dish recipes: candied yams, split pea soup and creamed spinach, and their major ingredients.
Each family chose either ham and pineapple or chicken, with potatoes, corn, peas, carrots, raisins, brown ’n serve dinner rolls, brownie mix, trail mix, macaroni and cheese, as Davies said, “’cause everyone likes mac ’n cheese”; cans of fruit; spinach, French fried onion rings, boxed milk, applesauce, apples, onions, brown sugar and marshmallows.