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Good Shepherd Food Bank Partners With Bangor & Brewer Nonprofits to Sponsor Three Summer Lunch Sites

Good Shepherd Food Bank Partners With Bangor & Brewer Nonprofits to Sponsor Three Summer Lunch Sites

Sites will offer free meals to youth throughout the summer.

Good Shepherd Food Bank will once again sponsor Summer Lunch sites where Bangor and Brewer children can receive free nutritious meals throughout the summer.

Through partnerships with the Bangor Boys & Girls Club, Brewer Housing Authority, and The Rock Church meals will be offered at the following sites:

  • Brewer Housing Authority
    Rinfret Drive Pavilion, Brewer
    Open Monday – Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
    June 21 to August 24
  • The Rock Church
    1195 Ohio Street, Bangor
    Open Monday – Thursday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
    June 26 to June 29
  • Bangor Boys & Girls Club
    161 Davis Road, Bangor
    Open Monday – Tuesday and Thursday-Friday
    Breakfast: 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
    Lunch: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
    July 3 to August 11

“We are excited to once again sponsor the Summer Food Service Program in Bangor and Brewer,” says Kristen Miale, president of Good Shepherd Food Bank. “More than 80,000 Maine children depend on the National School Lunch program during the school year. Despite the availability of funding from the USDA, only about 25 percent of those students receive meals during the long summer break, due to a variety of obstacles such as lack of awareness and accessible sites. With our partners in the area, we’re working to make sure more kids in the Bangor region have nutritious meals this summer.”

Meals are provided to all children under age 18 without charge.

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Updated 1/13/2020