This Snack’s On Us!

Altrusa of the Seacoast wanted to give back to the First Responders at York Hospital in York, Maine and its satellite facility in Wells, Maine, by providing all employees; all shifts with a healthy snack as a way of thanking them for their service. All members of our Club took part in some way. We secured a budget; decided on healthy individual drinks and snacks; shopped at BJ’s for items and had 3 groups of 4 women each, gloved and masked, and outside at the Chairperson’s home, fill 300 snack bags with these snacks and drinks, adding an Altrusa sticker and thank you on each bag. The local Lindt chocolate company donated many, many hundreds of chocolate treats to add to each bag as well as enough left to make five large baskets of chocolates for the Fire, Police, Ambulance, EMT departments and two local retirement and rehab communities. It was an extremely rewarding and, we believe, successful project, reaching probably close to 400 people with snacks; chocolates, and Altrusa information.