From the moment she steps into the Press Herald Toy Fund Workshop in South Portland, Mary Cavallaro doesn’t stop moving. She greets other volunteers, tracks down needed supplies, bags gifts and checks on lists of recipients. She does it all with a smile on her face. The annual work of the Toy Fund to provide […]
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 […]