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Marianne Pinkham Wed, 01/13/2021 - 7:45am
Rotary District 7780 grants are small grants awarded each year on a competitive basis to Rotary Clubs in Southern, Midcoast Maine and New Hampshire in support of a humanitarian projects either in a Rotary Club’s home community or internationally. Last spring the Rotary Club of Damariscotta-Newcastle applied for and recently received a COVID-19 Feeding Our Community - Lincoln County Food Initiative - Community Navigation District 7780, Rotary year 2020 – 2021, grant in the amount of $4,500. The club made an additional contribution of $500 bringing the total award to $5,000, the sum that was needed to staff the backbone of the Lincoln County Food Initiative (LCFI), the hot, community navigation help-line from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2020. On the 11th of January Kate Martin, executive director of Healthy Lincoln County, LCFI’s fiscal agent, accepted the funding support checks on behalf of LCFI from D/N Rotary Club President Ro