CAMDEN — The Camden Area Christian Food Pantry serves the hungry in its eight town service area: Camden, Rockport, Lincolnville, Hope, Appleton, Union, Searsmont and Washington.

As Maine and the Midcoast move towards reusable bags instead of paper and plastic, Hannaford Supermarkets has come up with a solution that not only addresses this issue but helps those in need as well.

During the months of May and again in September, the Camden Area Christian Food Pantry will benefit from a special program sponsored by Hannaford Supermarkets, which will be supporting 10 food pantries in Maine, with their "Every Bag Feeds Someone in Need" Reusable Bag Program.

How it Works: With every specially designed bag priced at $1.29 and sold at any Hannaford location, a donation of 25 cents is automatically generated and credited to the Camden Area Christian Food Pantry account at the Good Shepherd Food Bank.

As a result of this Hannaford Program, in addition to the own food pantry here, nine other food pantries in Maine will receive a direct credit in their Good Shepherd account.

Last month this amount was $316 for each food pantry.