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BRIDGTON — Carol Madsen, of the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club delivered 1,200 masks to Lake Region High School on Wednesday, March 24, the third delivery of masks the club has made. The delivery included 1,000 adult masks and 200 children’s face coverings.
Linda White, LRHS’s adminostrative assistant said that with students returning full-time March 29, “these masks are very much appreciated.”
The same day, 250 masks were delivered to the Bridgton Fire Department, 250 to the Bridgton Police Department, 150 to the Bridgton Public Library, 100 to the Bridgton Community Center and 400 children’s masks to the Stevens Brook Elementary School.
Public entities and nonprofits in Denmark, Harrison, Naples and Sweden in need of masks, please reach out to the Rotary Club at LakeRegionRotary@gmail.com.
In late March officials of the Rotary District representing the 40-plus clubs in southern Maine and coastal New Hampshire, drove to East Hampton, Conn., to collect 164,000 adult surgical masks, children’s masks, and N-95 masks for distribution throughout the district.
This was the third and final phase of the Million Mask Challenge. In all, because of the phenomenal contribution of Rotarian Ted Rossi of Connecticut and The Rossi Foundation, five million masks have been distributed in the six New England States, as well as New York and New Jersey. The district that the Bridgton club is in distributed nearly 400,000 masks between October and March. The Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club has distributed approximately 10,000 masks, many to food pantries in the region.
“This is a great time to be a Rotarian,” Madsen said. “We have an opportunity to contribute to our communities in many ways.”
For more information, visit LakeRegionRotary.org, find the club on Facebook or email LakeRegionRotary@gmail.com.
