SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — "We're all in this together" is what everyone is saying to get through the COVID-19 crisis. One South Portland neighborhood is showing the true meaning of those words.
Over the weekend on the Highland Meadows Facebook page, the call came out for everyone to put a stuffed bear in a window so neighborhood children could walk around and look for and count the bears.
Not long after came a request to "show a little love" to one little girl named Addie who was celebrating her 7th birthday.
So bears were "hid" in windows and birthday signs posted to bring a little joy and excitement on a sunny March Sunday.
Nikki Dube was so thankful for everyone's efforts to cheer up her daughter who otherwise would have had a very lonely birthday.
But it didn't end there. On Monday, neighbor Amy Brier had an idea to paint rocks.
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