Hi Team – For the week ending 8/1 your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 67 families and provided groceries to a total of 132 people.  Four new households joined the food pantry this week.

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 3,341lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Amy & Jake, Angie, Dennis, Gary, Kelly, Laura, Karlene, Martha & Al, Michelle, Wayne L, Zack and myself.

We closed out July as the second busiest month for food processed so far this year; 20,064lbs – 10 tons of food distributed, with 2 ½ tons of it going to Washington County.  Thank you everyone who volunteered this month in a Herculean effort that lifted the welfare of meal insecure families in southern and central Maine! — Doug

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Hi Team – For the week ending 7/25 your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 61 families and provided groceries to a total of 113 people.  Four new households joined the food pantry this week.

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 7,424lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Angie, Gary, Jake, Jean, Kelly, Laura, Karlene, Martha & Al, Tammy and myself.

Thank you everyone who volunteered this week! — Doug

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Hi Team – For the week ending 7/18 your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 144 families and provided groceries to a total of 409 people. 

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 3,110lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Angie, Dave T, Deirdra, Elise & Gary, Jake, Jean, Jim J, Kelly, Laura, Martha, Michelle, Stefan, Zach, and myself.

On Friday the 16^th your Stroudwater Food Pantry ran two grocery box assembly lines simultaneously. The first one built boxes for our Last Mile home delivery; while those boxes were going out on delivery, the other assembly line ran in the pantry shed and built 30 boxes of non-perishable groceries for Washington County. These were loaded into our cargo van, along with additional pantry food supplies, including 990lbs of solidly frozen meat that was packed into 7 large coolers.

By the time we stuffed the van, and the trailer, to capacity, we had 2½ tons of food that was ferried up to Washington county on Saturday. 

Thank you everyone who volunteered, inside and outside, to prepare and distribute grocery boxes, both here at home and in Washington County! 

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Hi Team – For the week ending 7/11 your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 63 families and provided groceries to a total of 195 people. 

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 3,023lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Deb & Greg, Deirdra, Gary, Jean, Karlene, Laura, Martha & Al, Michelle, Roy, Tammy, Tom G. and myself.

Thank you everyone who volunteered this week!

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Hi Team – For the week ending 7/04 your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 49 families and provided groceries to a total of 113 people. 

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 3,166lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Amy & Jake, Angie, Deirdra, Gary, Jean, Karlene, Laura, Lila and Tom, Roy, Tammy, and myself.

Thank you everyone who volunteered this week! — Doug

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Hi Team – For the week ending 6/27 your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 49 families and provided groceries to a total of 104 people. 

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 6,394lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Al & Martha, Albert, Angie, Deirdra, Gary, Jake, Jean, Karlene, Kelly, Laura, Tammy, Zach, and myself.

On Friday the 18^th our new walk-in freezer became operational, and today it is used exclusively for the storage and management of all pantry frozen product.  It is filled with food, and we are now able to distribute more frozen meat than ever before! 

As we close out June we assess our progress on the half-year mark; your Stroudwater Food Pantry is on pace to serve more than 4,100 banana boxes of groceries to families this year, a pace that will exceed 107 tons of food distributed this year.  10 tons of that will go to Washington County. More than 60 tons of it will be home delivered to client’s doorsteps.  These numbers are on pace to exceed everything we accomplished last year, and, by year end, your Stroudwater Food Pantry volunteers will have worked more than 3360 hours to make all of this happen. 

Thank you everyone who donated food, or made a financial contribution, or sacrificed time from their personal lives to volunteer to bring your Stroudwater Food Pantry to this point. The blessing you have been to those in need has been beyond measure… and we are only half way through the year.  May God Bless you and strengthen you, and may His blessing continue upon the families whom we serve in His name! – Doug

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Hi Team – For the week ending 6/13 your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 62 families and provided groceries to a total of 170 people. 

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 3,322lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Amy & Jake, Deirdra, Gary, Jean, Karlene, Kelly, Laura, Stefan, Tammy and myself.

Thank you everyone who volunteered this week!

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Hi Team – For the week ending 5/28 your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 75 families and provided groceries to a total of 199 people. 

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 2,315lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Al & Martha, Albert & Lois, Angie, Deirdra & Dennis & Stefan, Gary, Jean, Karlene, Kelly, Laura, Tammy and myself.

Thank you everyone who volunteered this week!

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Hi Team – This week your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 127 families and provided groceries to a total of 338 people.  78 of the families we served were in Washington County.

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 3,060lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Al, Amy & Jake, Pastor Charlie, Deirdra & Dennis & Stefan, Gary, Jean, Karlene, Laura, Michelle, and myself.

On Sunday, pantry volunteers loaded the van with non-perishable food, 4 ice chests full of frozen meat, and loaded an upright freezer onto the trailer.  On Monday 5/24 Pastor Charlie and myself drove the van and trailer up to Washington County with the delivery.  The total donation consisted of 3,924 lbs. of food, and the freezer to hold all the frozen meat.  So far this year we have donated 4.4 tons of food to Washington county; thank you everyone who continues to volunteer and support your Stroudwater Food Pantry’s commitment to reduce meal insecurity, in southern and central Maine!

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Hi Team – 

This week your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 67 families and provided groceries to a total of 159 people. 

Our supermarket food rescue pickups, food donations and purchases totaled 2,543lbs.  Volunteers for this week included Adam, Amy & Jake, Angie, Deirdra & Dennis & Stefan, Gary, Jean, Laura, Michelle, Tammy and myself.

Thank you everyone who volunteered this week! — Doug

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