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Darlings Auto Group Gives Warm Welcome to the Neighborhood!
March 25, 2022
Our new home has the best neighbors ever -- Darling's Chevrolet! We are grateful for their presentation of a $60,000 gift to the pantry's capital campaign! The Darling's name and logo will appear on the community garden, the kitchen and boardroom. We are excited to forge this partnership and to have Darling's right next door!
Pasta Drive Success!
March 23, 2022
Our gratitude to Chris Popper, the team at Townsquare Interactive, Hannaford and the community for the two TONS of pasta collected at the annual pasta drive on March 21st.
Ellsworth Elks Lodge #2743 Donates to Building Campaign
March 7, 2022
Exalted Ruler Eric Hoard from Ellsworth Elks Lodge #2743 presented Ken Hoogerhyde, Loaves & Fishes' Pantry Manger and Board Memver the Spotlight Grant of $2000.00 for Renovations in their new building. We are incredibly grateful to for their generous support of our new building campaign.
First National Bank Donates to New Building Campaign
March 1, 2022
We're delighted to announce that First National Bank has made the first major contribution to our More Food, More Families, More Often capital campaign with a $75,000 donation. The bank's contribution will be recognized by naming the 3,200-square-foot market, where families will be able to shop as often as they need to, rather than just once a month.
"We are incredibly grateful to Tony and First National Bank for their generous support of our campaign, and in turn the Hancock County families we serve. This project is truly a community wide effort and our success depends on the support from individuals, businesses and foundations alike," shares Andy Matthews, Loaves & Fishes Board President.
Loaves & Fishes February Newsletter
February 15, 2022
Our winter newsletter is hot off the presses. Learn about exciting projects planned for the year and how you can get involved. Please subscribe if you don't already.
Stories from the Road
February 1, 2022
We were delighted to have Megan Crowder from Good Shepherd Food Bank come visit last November as part of their Stories from the Road series which highlights the work of their partners. You can find Megan's entire blog post about her visit here.
Making News!
January 25, 2022
Loaves & Fishes Announces Plans for New Home
January 25, 2022
Loaves & Fishes is kicking off our first ever capital campaign - More Food, More Families, More Often - to support the purchase and renovation of our new building, which we purchased this past summer. The property, located at 137 Downeast Highway in Ellsworth, aligns with our vision for providing more food to more hungry people in Hancock County.
Our campaign goal of $850,000 will let us retire our loan from the Genesis Community Loan Fund, make the necessary renovations, outfit the building and move into the new space. It's our hope and goal to raise the required funds and open at our new location by the end of 2022. To do this, we need the community's help.
Learn about our capital campaign and ways you can help here.
Volunteer Highlights!
January 23, 2022
As an all-volunteer organization we could not possibly accomplish all we do without our volunteers. We want to acknowledge three of our stalwart volunteers who have become an essential part of our operations. All three started off volunteering a day or two to try things out and before long they became an integral part of our team. They each go out of their way to support our vision and mission for this work - sharing their time and talent whenever asked!
Dave Schnebeck is from Highlands Ranch, CO where he had a 43 year career in retail (sporting goods) before retiring to to Ellsworth, Maine.
Cherie Longo, after finishing a long career in hospital administration, retired to Trenton from Gardiner to be closer to one of her children and her grandchildren.
Tom Berglewicz, a native of Connecticut, was stationed in Southwest Harbor in the Coast Guard and chose to make Maine his permanent home.
If you see Dave, Cherie or Tom around town we hope you'll take a moment and thank them for their help!
Loaves & Fishes Launches Newsletter!
November 24, 2021
We have launched our first ever newsletter!
We look forward to sharing more news with you in the year ahead. Please subscribe if you haven’t already.
Saturday's Food Drive a Great Success!
November 23, 2021
Thanks to the Rotary Club of Ellsworth, Ellsworth Hannaford, Star 97, the Interact students and of course our stalwart volunteers for making this event a big success! We collected a substantial amount of food, as well as $2,400 in donations at last Saturday's food drive at Hannaford. This is an increase over last year's event-onward and upward!
We launched our first-ever annual appeal in October. Thanks to your generosity we are half way to our goal of raising $25,000 by December 31! We need your help to make it over the finish line!
November 30 is #GivingTuesday. We invite you to join in supporting Loaves & Fishes this #GivingTuesday, November 30. When you make a donation to Loaves & Fishes where you can be assured that your gift will have an immediate impact.
Donating online is easy!
FOOD DRIVE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
We'll be putting on our annual food drive in partnership with the Rotary Club of Ellsworth on Saturday, November 20 at the Ellsworth Hannaford from 9-2. Look for the Loaves & Fishes van outside the entrance! Food and cash donations welcome, or just stop by and say hello! Listen to Star 97 (97.7 FM) for updates throughout the day.
