The five-pound bag of potatoes
U.S. SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R-Maine) made good on her promise to present the first potatoes harvested from The Aroostook Medical Center’s Centennial Potato Plot to the White House.
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Collins, a native of Caribou, presented the potatoes to Ed Pagano, deputy assistant to the president, outside the East Wing at the White House Oct. 2. Officials from TAMC and project partners Cavendish Produce and Northeast Packing Co. originally presented the five-pound bag of potatoes to Collins when she visited the hospital in late September. The TAMC Centennial Plot project was launched in June as part of TAMC’s 100th anniversary celebration to serve as a tribute to Aroostook’s rich agricultural heritage and its ties to the efforts to open Presque Isle’s first public hospital.
