Ending Hunger Walking Tour benefits local food pantries

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Recently, the 12th Annual Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour delivered contributions to food pantries in Piscataquis County. Brenda Davis, one of the state’s leading ending hunger advocates, has been partnering with Maine’s credit unions to coordinate the Ending Hunger Walking Tour for the past 12 years.

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    ENDING HUNGER — Maine Highlands FCU’s Melissa Cookson,right, welcomes Brenda Davis and the Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour to the credit union’s Dover-Foxcroft branch. Davis, one of the state’s leading end hunger advocates, is walking throughout the state until Dec. 4 to raise awareness about hunger. The tour made a stop in three different communities in Piscataquis County and a food pantry in each community received a contribution. 

    The purpose of the walk is to raise awareness and distribute some of the statewide funds raised by the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger. In 2012, the campaign raised a record-setting $471,000 and has raised more than $4.8 million since 1990.
    Local food pantries that received a contribution were Living Word Community Food Cupboard in Dover-Foxcroft, Economic Partnership Food Pantry in Guilford and Milo Ecumenical Food Cupboard in Milo.
    This year’s tour will be visiting the most communities and covering the most miles in its history. The walk is expected to encompass more than 1,500 miles with approximately 750 of that on foot, and visit a record-setting 80 communities from Kittery to Madawaska.
    The tour will visit every Maine county for the eighth consecutive year. In addition to contributing funds to Davis’ food pantry, which is one of the largest in Eastern Maine, the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger will contribute to a food pantry in each of the 80 communities that the tour visits.