Ending Hunger Walk Tour reaches northern Maine
On Wednesday, Nov, 2, at The County FCU in Caribou, representatives from Maine’s credit unions will welcome Brenda Davis, executive director of Cross Roads Ministries, an Old Town-based hunger agency that serves thousands in eastern Maine, with a donation for the 10th annual Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour.
While in Aroostook and Washington counties, participants in the Walk will also visit and accept donations from The County FCU in Caribou, Houlton and Fort Fairfield, NorState FCU in Madawaska, Presque Isle and Van Buren, St. Agatha FCU in St. Agatha, Acadia FCU in Fort Kent, and Down East CU in Calais and Machias.
This year’s Tour will be visiting the most communities and covering the most miles in its history. The event is expected to encompass a record of more than 1,500 miles, with approximately 700 of that on foot, and visit a record-setting 75 communities from Kittery to Madawaska. Tour members will visit every Maine county for the sixth consecutive year. At each of the 84 credit union branches Davis visits, she will pick up a contribution from the Campaign as a way to support her cause.
This year, the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger will also make a $110 donation to a food pantry in each of the 75 communities that Davis will visit. The Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger will contribute nearly $30,000 to help end hunger through the Tour, part of the larger initiative by credit unions to end hunger in Maine which has, to date, raised and distributed more than $3.9 million.
The Walk, in its 22nd year, is an effort on the part of Maine’s credit unions and Davis to build awareness about the problem of hunger in Maine during the month of November, which has been designated as Ending Hunger Month. The Walk will conclude with a ceremony at Maine Savings FCU in Hampden on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
