Ellsworth YMCA seeking donations for annual care package drive

The Ellsworth YMCA is gathering items for our 4th Annual Valentine’s Day Care Package Drive for Meadowview Apartments.

 Our 2025 goal is to fill 100 care packages with fun and useful items for the residents of Meadowview apartments. (If we fill extra, they will be given to others in need.) Representatives from the Ellsworth YMCA will deliver the care packages on February 14th.

Donation ideas: 

Toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Canned soup
Canned vegetables
Hard candy/mints
Tea bags
Pasta
boxed mac n’ cheese
Valentine candy
Cough drops
Deodorant
Tissues
Snack size cheese and crackers, pretzels, Cheez It, graham crackers 
Crossword puzzle books
Tissues
Hand lotion
Socks
Mittens
Valentine Cards! (Home made or store bought)

Donations can be dropped off or shipped to:

Ellsworth YMCA
238 State Street
Ellsworth, ME 04605

 

On February 14th, 2024, CEO, Matt Montgomery, Fitness Director, Robin Clarke, and Teen Representative to the DEFY Board, Elise Sargent delivered 90 care packages to the residents of Meadowview Apartments.