What started with a simple suggestion by Ellie has since snowballed into a multi-neighborhood drive for the Marshfield Food Pantry that has amassed over $31,000 in donations. Acres, Arrowhead/Hampstead, Blackmount, Calypso Lane, Carolina Trail, Congress, Eagles Nest, Evergreen Hills, Holly Hill, Kent Park, Maryland Street, Pinehurst, Statesmen/Orchard Rd, Strawberry Farm, Tilden/Flames/Woodhaven, Woodland Hills, and Woodlawn have all joined Southport in the drive. The competition is expanding even beyond Marshfield as people from surrounding towns have begun to contact Patty with plans to bring the idea to their own neighborhoods.

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Jim recalls closing up the Club on March 16 and reopening again on March 17 with renewed strategies to maintain and uphold the same mission; to be there for their kids and their community. It started with taking on the task of providing school children with meals that they no longer would be getting from school. In conjunction with the volunteer school district staff who help deliver the meals to kids around town, the Boys and Girls Club hosts a curbside meal pickup 2 days a week to provide a week’s worth of meals.

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