{"id":2613,"date":"2013-05-09T11:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:04:20","slug":"bates-responds-to-lewiston-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2013\/05\/09\/bates-responds-to-lewiston-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Responds to Lewiston Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Help<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Donate<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.33em;\">Given that donation needs are changing daily, some charitable organizations are currently&nbsp;encouraging the public to provide monetary and gift card donations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maine Governor Paul LePage has chosen United Way of Androscoggin County to administer the Lewiston Fire Relief Fund. Donations can be made online at&nbsp;<strong><a title=\"Lewiston Fire Relief Fund\" href=\"http:\/\/volunteermaine.org\/disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">volunteermaine.org<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;or in person or by mail at United Way of Androscoggin County, 66 Ash Street, PO Box 888, Lewiston, ME&nbsp; 04243 (hours are 8am-4:30pm M-F). Checks should be made out to United Way of Androscoggin County and indicate Lewiston Fire Relief Fund in the memo line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional avenues of support<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/charitable-donations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American Red Cross<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 United Valley Chapter is accepting monetary donations. They may be made through the website or mailed c\/o Executive Director Jennifer Gaylord, 1180 Lisbon St., Lewiston, ME. Memo line: Lewiston Downtown Fires.\u00a0 Rainbow Federal Credit Union is also accepting donations for the American Red Cross at its Main Street location, 381 Main Street, Lewiston, ME\u00a0 04240.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.use.salvationarmy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Salvation Army<\/a><\/strong> is accepting clothing donations dropped off at their thrift store location at 720 Main St., Lewiston (hours are 9am-6pm M-Sat). The Salvation Army is also accepting nonperishable items and toiletries at its facility at 67 Park St., Lewiston (hours are 9am-2pm M-F). Contact number for other items: 207-783-0801.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A Community Responds to Crisis: The 2013 Lewiston Fires<br>An exhibit put together by the students in REL 313: Human Suffering: Job, Genesis, and Revelation with Professor Cynthia Baker<br>December 3, 2013-February 13, 2014<br>New Commons, Second Floor<br>This project is sponsored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships.&nbsp; For more information, please contact Cynthia Baker at cbaker@bates.edu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Join the Discussion<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A Facebook page has been created as a follow-up to the Lewiston Unites: Community Discussion, which took place on May 22, 2013 at Longley Elementary School.&nbsp; The forum offered an opportunity for residents of Lewiston to share their concerns and seek community solutions in response to the downtown fires that took place in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lewiston Unites Facebook page offers a place to share positive things happening in the community and is a gathering spot for information, events, and activites.&nbsp; Please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lewiston.unites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lewiston.unites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Help Donate Given that donation needs are changing daily, some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10688,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/10688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}