Published on May 01, 2025
Cape Elizabeth Police Department is participating in a Tri-Community Food Drive this Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 10 AM to Noon. CEPD, South Portland Police and Scarborough Police will be accepting donations to benefit each town’s food pantries: Judy’s Pantry, South Portland Food Cupbard, and Scarborough Food Pantry.
Donations will be accepted at the Cape Elizabeth IGA, as well as at the South Portland Police Department on Broadway, and Scarborough Public Safety Building on Route 1.
In a April 29, 2025 Portland Press Herald article, Dwayn Hopkins of the Food Cupboard said, “Dropping off a couple of extra canned goods might not seem like a big deal or all that impactful, but if each of our 55,000 neighbors in South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and Scarborough gave a couple of extra cans or boxes of food, you’re talking 100,000 items that our three pantries can distribute to hundreds of neighbors in need. This is super impactful.”
According to Drew Johnson of the Portland Press Herald, “The drive comes at time when pantries are facing cuts in federal funding. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last month that it is cutting the amount of food distributed through The Emergency Food Assistance Program, which provides U.S.-grown food to participating states.”
The Tri-Community Food Drive is hosted in partnership with the three police departments and the Scarborough-based nonprofit organization Project GRACE.
