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Tickets for the 6th annual Share Your Love dinner SOLD OUT!
On Wednesday February 10th at the beautiful Rudi’s Portsmouth restaurant, five of the hottest chefs on the Seacoast will gather to prepare a gourmet extravaganza that will be sure to warm your heart. Each chef will prepare a signature course for this must-attend sit down dinner, and each course will be specially paired with the perfect wine. There will also be a specialty martini reception featuring noted local barman Paul Russell from Blue Sky at York Beach, and live dinner music with Dimitri Yiannacopulus on the piano and Danny Harrington on the sax. This gala event has become the highlight of the winter season for food lovers over the last five years— and the best part is that 100% of the proceeds go to support local classes of Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline, a groundbreaking cooking-based nutrition education program that teaches families on limited budgets how to prepare healthy, tasty meals.
There are no more tickets available for this year’s Share Your Love dinner. The board of Share Our Strength Seacoast wishes to thank all those who are helping in the fight against childhood hunger!
Now is the time to mark your calendars for the 16th annual Taste of the Nation Portsmouth, to be held on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Tickets will go on sale on this site in May!
Proceeds from 6th annual Winter Wine Festival going to help Share Our Strength Seacoast
On January 15, 2010, the sixth annual Winter Wine Festival kicked off at the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel and Spa and will run until February 27th with wine dinners, tastings, and musical events. This year the organizers of the festival have generously donated $5 per every ticket sold to Share Our Strength. Please click here for more information!
An alarming increase in childhood hunger
On Thanksgiving Day 2009 the volunteer members of the board of Share Our Strength Seacoast received the following message from Billy Shore, the founder and executive director of Share Our Strength:
You’ve likely seen the news this week about the dramatic rise in the number of children struggling with hunger. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its annual report, which showed a record 49 million Americans in 2008 struggling with whether they would have enough to eat. In just one year, 4.3 million more children are facing hunger in the United States — that’s nearly 17 million kids. Experts say the sharp increase mirrors the faltering economy, but no one predicted the numbers would be so bad. And just this morning, Share Our Strength released a survey, prepared by Lake Research Partners showing that this year, 62% of public school teachers are seeing children who regularly come to school hungry because they don’t get enough to eat at home. The problem is serious enough that a majority of the teachers responding to the survey report that they use funds from their own relatively low salaries to buy food for hungry kids in their classroom.
For the past 15 years the board of Share Our Strength Seacoast has relied on the incredible generosity of the people of Portsmouth and surrounding towns— you, our friends and neighbors who year-after-year have responded to our requests for support. You have made the Taste of the Nation Portsmouth one of the most successful events of its kind in the nation. Your compassionate support has helped ensure that our annual Share Your Love gourmet dinner, which helps to fund Share Our Strength’s nutrition education program here on the Seacoast, has sold out every year since its inception five years ago.
And because of the sobering statistics that Billy Shore referred to above, we are asking for your help now more than ever. The reality is that your consistent willingness to “give until it helps” is what keeps our local grant recipients in the business of making sure that every child has access to nutritious food here on the Seacoast.
Thanks to all of the patrons, sponsors, volunteers, and generous residents of the Seacoast, we are making a difference every day in the lives of hungry children.
