It’s peanut butter and jelly time

FA’s International Food Night helps
Bangor Savings Bank stock D-F Area Food Cupboard

By Stuart Hedstrom
Staff Writer

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy, Bangor Savings Bank and the Dover-Foxcroft Save-A-Lot partnered to help provide area families in need with a food staple as proceeds from the school’s annual International Food Night helped cover the cost of 600 jars of peanut butter and jelly from the grocery store that were given to the Dover-Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard.

Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom

INTERNATIONAL FOODS FOR PB&J DRIVE — Proceeds from Foxcroft Academy’s International Food Night and a contribution from the Dover-Foxcroft Save-A-Lot resulted in a donation of 600 jars of peanut butter and jelly to the Dover-Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard through the annual Bangor Savings Bank peanut butter and jelly drive. Posing by a bank van used to move the jars from the grocery store to the food cupboard storage space at the Morton Avenue Municipal Building on March 29 are front, from left, Bangor Savings Bank Assistant Vice President and Dover-Foxcroft and Greenville Branch Manager Marilyn Hartford, Foxcroft Academy Director of Residential Life Andrew Wright, students Toan Bui, Maria Cedeno and Elena Russo, Dover-Foxcroft Congregational Church Pastor Chad Poland and George Barton of the Dover-Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard and Save-A-Lot owner Scott Pangburn. Back, students Anton Iusupov, Dasha Melikhova, Sue Kim and Alice Russo.

On March 5 Foxcroft Academy’s sixth annual International Food Night gave attendees the chance to sample foods from the home countries of many of the school’s boarding students with nearly 50 dishes from 20 countries and five continents represented. International Food Night, which had over 250 diners pass through the doors, raised over $800.

Those involved in the evening opted to donate the funds to Bangor Savings Bank’s annual peanut butter and jelly drive. The March collection event is aimed at fighting hunger in Maine with jars of the sandwich contents collected at the 57 Bangor Savings Bank branch locations and then distributed to local food pantries and statewide hunger relief programs.

Bangor Savings Bank Assistant Vice President and Dover-Foxcroft and Greenville Branch Manager Marilyn Hartford said Dover-Foxcroft Save-A-Lot owner Scott Pangburn contributed some additional funds to bring the peanut butter and jelly drive total up to an $900. “It all goes to the local food cupboard and stays in the community,” Hartford said on March 29. That day 260 jars of peanut butter — both creamy and crunchy varieties — and 240 jars of grape jelly were loaded into a Bangor Savings Bank van at Save-A-Lot for transportation across town to the Morton Avenue Municipal Building where the Dover-Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard stores some of its items.

Seven members of Foxcroft Academy’s international community helped unload the 600 jars on Morton Avenue. Rev. Chad Poland of the Dover-Foxcroft Congregational Church, which provides the food cupboard with additional storage and distribution space, said peanut butter and jelly are common items given to those served by the Dover-Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard.

Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom

600 JARS OF PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY — Seven members of Foxcroft Academy’s international community helped unload 600 jars of peanut butter and jelly for the Dover-Foxcroft Area Food Cupboard at the organization’s storage space at the Morton Avenue Municipal Building on March 29. Proceeds from the school’s 2016 International Food night were donated to the Bangor Savings Bank peanut butter and jelly drive. Sitting are Toan Bui, left, and Dasha Melikhoava. Standing are Dover-Foxcroft Congregational Pastor Chad Poland and Maria Cedeno, Anton Iusupov, Alice Russo, Elena Russo and Sue Kim.