OLD TOWN – At a ceremony held on Dec. 1, Maine’s credit unions announced that the fourth annual Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour raised a record-setting amount of $13,000 to support ending hunger in Maine. It surpassed last year’s total by $1,000.

In addition, for the first time on the tour, Maine’s credit unions donated $100 to a food pantry in each of the 46 communities it visited, for a total of $4,600 directly to food pantries across Maine, including 12 eastern and northern Maine communities.

During the ceremony, held at the Maine Credit Union League, Brenda Davis, executive director of Cross Roads Ministries who heads up the walk, was presented with a monetary donation of $725 from the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger.