Camp Out Hunger is taking record donations for a local pantry
The eighth annual radio-station campout at Sam's Club on Marketplace Drive is collecting food and money through Friday at 3 p.m. Everything stays in central Maine for the Capitol Region Salvation Army pantry.
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Camp Out Hunger, an eighth annual radio-station campout at Sam's Club on Marketplace Drive in Augusta, is collecting food and money through Friday at 3 p.m., WABI reported. This year's donations are a record.
Everything collected stays in central Maine for the Capitol Region Salvation Army pantry. The record is the size of the giving during the campout, and Friday at 3 p.m. is when the collection stops.
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In Augusta, Maine, a radio station is camping out for the eighth year to collect food and money before Thanksgiving. The campout is at Sam's Club on Marketplace Drive, and it runs through Friday at 3 p.m. Donations this year are a record. All of the food and money stays in central Maine for the Capitol Region Salvation Army pantry. A campout food drive means people stay on site and keep asking neighbors to give until the clock runs out.
- Why would a food drive have an end time on Friday?
- What does it mean that the donations stay in central Maine?
- Why do pantries ask for help right before Thanksgiving?
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