ORONO, Maine, April 23 -- University of Maine issued the following news release:
On a recent rainy April day, Luke Valleli and other University of Maine Honors College students pushed a cart filled with cupcakes, whoopie pies, brownies, cookies and other desserts from building to building to raise money for tackling food insecurity. That effort, coupled with other fundraising and partnerships, paid off when they secured enough money to purchase the ingredients for 80,000 meals for food pantries across the state.
Those meals will be assembled during the Maine Day Meal Packout (MDMP) on Wednesday, April 29, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the New Balance Field House.
"Hundreds of volunteers - spanning individual students and faculty, community partn...