WATERVILLE — Volunteers from the Friends organization at The Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers recently announced the group raised $3,900 as part of the third annual Lobster Roll Lunch. Funds from the event will be used to support the organization’s annual Christmas program that provides boxes of gifts and clothing to approximately 1,600 financially disadvantaged children throughout the state.

The funds from the event were generated in large part by a donation from Cozy Harbor Seafood in Portland of 100 pounds of lobster meat. Other local businesses such as Hannaford and Shaw’s provided supplies as well.

As part of the fundraiser, volunteers helped prepare more than 400 lobster rolls to fill the orders from local schools, businesses and organizations in the area. Each year, the event takes place in October to raise money to support the program in conjunction with Maine Lobster Month.

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