{"id":5203,"date":"2020-04-23T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:35:09","slug":"supporting-our-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2020\/04\/23\/supporting-our-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Our Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/04\/MarcelTJCStaff.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/04\/MarcelTJCStaff.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2020\/04\/MarcelTJCStaff-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever  wonder what happens to Commons leftovers? For years, Bates has donated the food that doesn\u2019t get eaten to the Trinity Jubilee  Center in downtown Lewiston. Trinity, directed by Bates alum Erin Reed \u201908,  serves meals to the hungry and makes excellent use of a wide variety of food that  would otherwise go to waste. In regular circumstances, Trinity serves a hot  meal six days a week to 100-200 people each day. During the pandemic they are  busier than ever, having shifted their operations outside and to bagged  lunches in order to support physical distancing. In the last couple of  weeks, Bates has donated sandwiches, cereal, fruit, cookies, and other items they can no longer  use. Marcel Deschaines, a recently retired Bates employee shown here with  some Trinity staff members and volunteers, makes deliveries from Bates to  Trinity whenever Dining Services has food they no longer need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trinity Jubilee Center was recently featured in a CBS\nSunday Morning story outlining the increasing demands upon food banks due to\nCOVID-19.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-increasing-demands-upon-food-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click\nhere<\/a> to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what happens to Commons leftovers? For years, Bates has donated&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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","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=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}