Damariscotta, Newcastle rotary club receives grant
Gift helped staff the Lincoln County Food Initiative from July 1 to Sept. 30, 2020.
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DAMARISCOTTA — Last spring the Rotary Club of Damariscotta-Newcastle applied for and recently received a COVID-19 Feeding Our Community — Lincoln County Food Initiative — Community Navigation District 7780, Rotary year 2020-21, grant in the amount of $4,500. The club made an additional contribution of $500 bringing the total award to $5,000, the sum that was needed to staff the backbone of the Lincoln County Food Initiative, the hot, community navigation helpline from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2020, according to a news release from the rotary club.
On Jan. 11, Kate Martin, executive director of Healthy Lincoln County, the food initiative’s fiscal agent, accepted the community service funding support checks on behalf of the food initiative from Rotary Club President Roberta McLaughlin, Marianne Pinkham, Club Foundation Chairwoman and Past President Jane Gravel, owner of Main Street Grocery, whose initial delivery of meals to families in need during the last week of March quickly morphed into the food initiative.