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Planet Aid, Inc. collects used clothing through a wide network of donation bins placed on public and private property, donation centers, and curbside pickups. [24] The group has collaborated with local businesses and other organizations to place bins on their property, with an aim to make donations more convenient and thus increase recycling rates. [25]
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009.
Bangor (/ ˈ b æ ŋ ɡ ɔːr / BANG-gor) is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States.The city proper has a population of 31,753, [3] making it the state's third-most populous city, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121).
“Please actually donate things that people can actually use,” she said. “[They need] sweaters, T-shirts, jeans, leggings, coats, jackets, that kind of thing. Nobody wants a used bikini.”
Galen Cole (November 29, 1925 [3] – January 9, 2020) was an American World War II veteran and philanthropist. He managed the Cole Land Transportation Museum, [4] the Walking Sticks for Veterans program, and organized numerous activities and charity drives for veterans and related causes in his native Bangor, Maine.
The fair began in 1977 in Litchfield, Maine. In 1981, it moved to Windsor, Maine and in 1996, MOFGA purchased 200 acres in Unity, Maine, where the fair now takes place yearly. [3] The first fair was held at the Litchfield Fairgrounds as a fundraiser for MOFGA. It raised $22,000. [4] In 2016, a Portland Press Herald article about the fair's ...
The Great Fire of 1911 Historic District is located in downtown Bangor, Maine, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. It preserves Maine's most significant collection of early 20th century public and commercial buildings, and commemorates an urban re-building campaign matched only by Portland's following its ...
Built in 1859, it occupies a central position in the city's West Market Square at the junction of Main, Broad, and Hammond Streets. It was the state's first commercial Second Empire building, and notably survived both Bangor's devastating 1911 fire, and its major urban renewal programs of the late 1960s.