Townsquare Media is a media, entertainment and digital marketing solutions company that owns and operates market leading radio stations, live events and digital, mobile, video and social media properties principally focused on small and mid-sized markets. Their hours are Wednesday, 2:00pm to 5:00pm and Saturdays, 10:00am to 1:00pm. They are always in need of peanut butter, canned meats, pasta, tomato products, and taco kits. They can always use help with “food runs.” Poland accepts all kinds of donations, cash or checks. To volunteer to help at Poland Community Food Pantry, call 20. Pam August said that the donation of $15,000 will be implemented, “to help maintain our food budget, utilities, and some building maintenance we are looking to complete this year.” They also have a pet section to assist area folks in caring for their pets. Poland Community Food Pantry serves between 95 and 125 families each month in Mechanic Falls, Poland, and Minot. A pick-up of donations can be arranged by calling 20. We will certainly increase our food purchases of fish and produce.”įood and money donations can be arranged via, by mail or personal visits to the food bank at 426 Bridge Street, Westbrook ME 04092. We plan to buy gift cards to Hannaford in April as well as November. We are looking at purchasing carts for our many walkers to carry their monthly food pickup. Jeanne Reilly, Volunteer Organizer, said, “This wonderful donation will be discussed at a special board meeting on February 6, 2020. Families are reregistered in January and July. The Westbrook Food Pantry serves close to 500 families during each of their 6 month periods. If anyone has an emergent food situation or would like to volunteer to help, call 20. They are always happy to receive donations of money, hard goods, or produce from local gardens in the summer. The food pantry is located at the Oxford Town Office at 85 Pleasant Street in Oxford. We truly try to live up to our name of, ‘Helping Hands.’” The families that we serve are our friends and neighbors. We never turn anyone away and we, as volunteers, realize the need is so great in our area. We serve, on average, 35 to 40 families a week some of these families have several children, parents or grandparents living with them. The first thing that we did was make a list of foods that we have needed to stock our shelves. “You cannot imagine what a huge help this is to us and, rest assured, every penny will be put to good use. Karen Miller, President of Oxford Helping Hands Food Pantry was very surprised by the $15,000 she received. Giving back to the community is an important component of what we do.” I couldn’t be prouder of the substantial donations we’ve been able to collect and provide to local food pantries.” Brian Lang, Townsquare Northern New England Regional Market President, explained,”Townsquare Media is proud to partner with Oxford Casino Hotel & Event Center to help raise hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for local non-profits. Our partnership with Townsquare Media has proven that when given the opportunity, our guests step up to make a difference. Jack Sours, Vice President and General Manager of Oxford Casino Hotel & Event Center said, “food insecurity is a serious problem in Maine, and particularly in Oxford Hills. Feed the Need, a team effort of Townsquare Media and Oxford Casino Hotel & Event Center, raised and collected donations made by guests during fundraising events throughout 2019. 16% of Maine seniors and 1 in 5 children are food insecure.Ī recent donation of $45,000 to three Maine food banks resulted from a year-long campaign to raise funds for food security in the state. 14.4% of Maine households are food insecure. The UMaine Extension – University of Maine states that Maine ranks 9th in the nation for food insecurity. The remaining 11.1 percent of households were food insecure at some time during the year, including 4.3 percent (5.6 million households) that had very low food security. households were food secure throughout the year. $45,000 Raised for Three Maine Food BanksĪccording to the USDA’s Economic Research Services, in 2018, 88.9 percent of U.S.
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