Opinion piece in BDN lauds Black Bear Exchange
Julia Hathaway included the University of Maine Black Bear Exchange in her opinion piece in the Bangor Daily News about grassroots activism renewing a shared sense of community. “The Black Bear Exchange helps University of Maine students, many of whom are single parents, stretch their meager budgets by providing dietary staples,” she wrote, adding that some of the organization’s funding results from a large annual yard sale “that also provides bargains for the not-so-affluent and keeps the goods abandoned by college students out of landfills.”