[1] Share Your Love, one of the two annual events of [2] Share Our Strenth in the Seacoast area, is coming up on Wed. February 9th from 6:30-10 at RiRa.  It will be an amazing evening featuring the 100 Club, Wentworth By the Sea, Massimo’s, Mombo and RiRa.

Thanks to the generosity of the volunteer chefs/restaurants and corporate sponsors, Trade Wings & Green Pages, 100% of the proceeds from the Share Your Love dinner go to support [3] Cooking Matters, a hands-on cooking-based nutrition education program.
Volunteer chefs, nutritionists and financial advisors work with host agencies to teach at-risk adults, teens and kids how to prepare simple, healthy meals with very limited budgets & resources.

Right here in our community there are still many families living on the edge, depending on free/reduced meals at schools and getting groceries at food pantries. Just for example, the Seacoast Food Pantry in downtown Portsmouth actively serves 520 families and 384 children under 18.

The Cooking Matters classes are hosted by agencies here in our communities such as: Portsmouth - New Heights, Greenland - New Generations, Dover - Head Start/Housing Authority,  Newmarket - Lamprey HC, Exeter - New Outlook Teen Center.

So, if you’d like to treat yourselves to a memorable night out, you’ll be enjoying great food while supporting an effective program having a real impact right here in our neighborhoods. Even if you can’t make it, please forward along to help spread the word.

You can purchase your tickets by going to:[4] http://www.strength.org/portsmouth and clicking the “Buy Tickets Here” on the right side of the page.