Brunswick-based artist Maria Castellano-Usery helps spread joy and light to children in need by donating half the proceeds raised by her 85th Paint-a-Thon to the Press Herald Toy Fund.
Sharon Campbell Grant grew up in Portland’s East End in the 1950s. Her single mother relied on state assistance to support the family and never had money to spare. But Grant has vivid and happy memories of unwrapping Christmas gifts as a little girl, especially one favorite doll. She would later learn it was the […]
After sorting and packing gifts for weeks, volunteers have begun handing some of the toys and books off to the social service agencies that will distribute them to families.