PortSports + Wassail = <3

You are cordially invited to PortSports First Annual Holiday Wassailing Party!!

Please check out the link for event information and help spread the word!

http://www.portsportsmaine.com/events/portsports-first-annual

The Wayside Soup Kitchen has provided some facts about the local hunger problem:

• The typical American eats an average of one dinner per week at a restaurant at an average cost of $25.00 per meal.
• The average cost per meal at the Wayside Soup Kitchen is $1.77.
• Almost one in ten people in Maine is either hungry or worried about going hungry.
• From 2000 to 2005, Maine had had the highest increase in the country in the percentage of people who go hungry.
• One third of people in Maine on food stamps are working.
• A third of Maine workers do not earn a living wage.
• To avoid having to accept handouts, adults in many families go without food so their children can eat.
• 94,000 children in Maine are living in homes at risk of hunger.

Can’t attend but would like to donate food/money? Just contact Dave & Morgan Surkin:

Dave- dave@portsportsmaine.com

Morgan- morgan@portsportsmaine.com