Service Nation events in Freeport...
No Empty Plate
September 20, 2008 12:00PM to 02:00PM
Hosted by Jonas Werner
Sponsoring Organization: Azure Cafe
Event Description:
"No Empty Plate" is a hunger awareness project that will raise contributions for the local food pantry. The FCS pantry saw 20,000 visits last year, with greater expectations of need this year. Jonas, owner of Azure Cafe, already a caring and creative community services activist, will take the lead in this program creating a visual reminder to folks, in a prominent place in his cafe, that poverty and hunger is alive and well in most American communities. A place setting, featuring an empty plate, will accept donations that will be used by the local food pantry to purchase food at Good Shepherd food bank. All Azure Cafe receipts will remind folks to contribute to the cause - and all donations will be generously matched by an caring anonymous donor!
Location: 123 Main Street
Directions: Just a few doors down from LLBean on the same side of the street. Look for the beautiful outside cafe setting!
Antoinette B. Jackman Memorial Trail Clean-up Day
September 27, 2008 08:00AM to 12:00PM
Hosted by Robin Hetzler
Sponsoring Organization: Freeport Conservation Trust
Event Description:
Help us keep this special part of Freeport trails clear and safe for public use! Wear sturdy boots, long pants and bring work gloves. Also useful: chainsaws, hedge trimmers, clippers, and hand saws.
Location: Windpointe
Directions: From Freeport center, take Bow street to Flying Point Road. Turn left on Litchfield Road and go to end until Windpointe on left. Park along Litchfield road. Trailhead is on the left at beginning of Windpointe. We will meet there at 8am and plan to work until 12noon. Hope to see you on the trail!
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Food Drive
September 27, 2008 09:00AM to 03:00PM
Hosted by Sue Mack
Sponsoring Organization: Freeport Community Services
Event Description:
The food pantry at Freeport Community Services served over 20,000 visits by hungry families in 2007; this year we expect to reach and perhaps exceed 28,000. Keeping the shelves stocked with healthy food is always a challenge. Our event will invite caring citizens to join us in a community-wide food drive during Service Nation's Day of Action.
Location: 53 Depot Street (Community Center)
Directions: From Maine Street Freeport, take Grove Street (right if traveling north. The FCS driveway is directly across the road from the stop sign. Our office is first on the right inside the building.
Happy Toes and Sweet Dreams
September 27, 2008 12:00PM to 02:00PM
Hosted by Lynn Hannings
Sponsoring Organization: Freeport Community Services
Event Description:
We will be collecting donations of new socks and pajamas from size newborn to teen to be given to childen in foster care and Maine homeless shelters. From your hearts to their precious little toes, the warmth shared could make the difference of a lifetime. All donations will be happily received at the Clothes Tree thrift shop. Thank you.
Location: 53 Depot Street (Community Center)
Service Nation events in Freeport (cont)...
Keeping Communities Warm and Safe
September 27, 2008 12:00PM to 02:00PM
Hosted by Johanna Hanselman
Sponsoring Organization: Keep Us Warm
Event Description:
In answer to tremendous need, the Keeping People Safe and Warm group was formed of local caring volunteers. This committee has an immediate mission of winterizing as many homes as possible before the cold season begins. Drafty mobile homes, century-old houses and all dwellings needing attention will be the focus of this group's service during the Service Nation Day of Action and beyond. Volunteers will do everything from filling gaps and cracks with foam insulation to sealing outlets, windows and doors with caulk and sealers. They will insulate pipes, weather strip doors, replace shower heads and lightbulbs with new energy-efficient ones for those families who cannot do it themselves. This project promises to become an ongoing initiative, and invites all interested citizens to become involved.
Location: 30 Main Street (Town Hall)
Because We Care
September 27, 2008 12:00PM to 02:00PM
Hosted by Carol Piecuch
Sponsoring Organization: The Freeport Elders
Event Description:
The Freeport Elders are a talented group of involved seniors who love a challenge and respond to community needs all year long. On Service Nation's Day of Action, the Elders will be involved in a number of helping projects, including the following: A Case for Smiles: Beautiful, colorful, smile-inducing pillowcases will be sewed, washed and packaged to be given to children suffering with cancer and other devastating illnesses. Just knowing that they are cared about will help make any child feel better. Prayer Shawls: Those Elders who knit and crochet will have fingers flying creating warm, handcrafted shawls and lap blankets to be lovingly given to terminally ill patients in homes, hospitals an hospice organizations in the area. Shopping Green: The creativity and ingenuity of the Elders is never ending and the proof will be in the creation of "green" shopping bags for patrons at the food pantry. Replacing plastic grocery bags, the elders will take donated tee shirts, cut the sleeves away, open up the neck of the shirts a bit, and sew up the bottom to create the coolest shopping bags you could ever imagine. The bags will then be given to the food pantry for use by every patron. Donations of yarn, tee shirts, thread and fabric will be happily accepted and used for these great projects. Come join the Elders....the more, the merrier!
Location: 53 Depot Street (Community Center)
