Project GRACE, companies and volunteers in Scarborough get together each year for a Fuel Rally to support families in need of heating assistance. Courtesy photo Project GRACE
SCARBOROUGH — Project GRACE and friends will be hosting their 10th Annual Fuel Rally to raise $25,000 for the Project GRACE Fuel Fund. The rally will be held on Feb. 19 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Oak Hill Public Safety Building/Town Hall on U.S. Routes 1 in Scarborough. Food and books will be available for sale.
“Our good friend Eddie Woodin,” president of Woodin & Company Store Fixtures, Inc. in South Portland, “has challenged us to raise $25,000 on Saturday,” according to the Fuel Rally website. “We’ve done it before, and can do it again. … Stop by the Rally. If we all give a little, together we can do a lot. Can’t make the rally, consider an online gift today to help us get to goal.”
You can donate to the fuel assistance program at the rally or online.
Food choices include quarts of smoked brisket chili and haddock chowder, prepared by Bread & Butter Catering Co, and served with a side of cornbread. Pick up to two quarts with a suggested $10 donation per quart. Pre-order by Feb. 10 at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ej052lll0980cd19&llr=f8lkpglab or call 883-5111. All food orders will be delivered curbside.
The Scarborough Library will be hosting a “grab bag book sale” which will be happening curbside at the Food Rally. A $5 donation to the library buys an entire bag of books. Each bag has been packed by genre with fiction, non-fiction, children’s, young adults, biography and more.
The Lions Club will hold a curbside bottle and can drive to help benefit the fuel fund. If interested in having your bottles pick up, you can sign up online. Just provide your name, contact information, and street address. Make sure to put it in a bag or box by the curb on Saturday morning for the Lions’ volunteers to pick up. All proceeds will help those in the community in need keep warm this winter.
Partners include Scarborough Public Safety, Scarborough Public Library and Friends of the Scarborough Library, Scarborough Lions Club, Volunteers in Police Service, Scarborough Sustainability Committee, and the Town of Scarborough. Sponsors and donors include Woodin & Co, Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial, KCV Trailer Rentals/AB Ledue Enterprises Inc, Town & Country Federal Credit Union, BlueWave Solar, Caterina-Maclean Group, West Scarborough United Methodist Church, and friends of Project GRACE.
For more information about the event check out the Fuel Rally website at fuelrally.org or call 883-5111.
Project GRACE, according to the organization’s website, is a Scarborough-based nonprofit with a mission of improving the lives of Scarborough neighbors by identifying both those in need and those willing to share their gifts, and coordinating the interchange in a compassionate, confidential manner.
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