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Maine Community Offers Help to Victims of Sandy
11/06/2012 8:45 AM ET  

The business community in the picturesque Maine coastal town of Ogunquit is offering families hardest hit by superstorm Sandy a break from their troubles.

OGUNQUIT, Maine (AP) _ The town's Chamber of Commerce has recruited local innkeepers, restaurant owners and other business operators willing to donate their services for a free five-day vacation for 50 families displaced by Sandy.

So far more than a dozen inns, 10 restaurants and close to 20 other businesses, have offered to pitch in.

Chamber President Karen Arel told WCSH-TV the goal is to offer families who have lost their homes a warm bed, a hot meal and "the basics of life" for a few days so they can clear their heads and forget their troubles.

The task now is reaching the families in need.

 

Ogunquit Chamber of Commerce

(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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