Help the Pigeon Donate Turkeys to Local Food Bank
A world of holiday hurt: Charities far short of turkeys, trimmings needed to help the needy for Thanksgiving
THE GAZETTE: Charities that give food to needy people for holiday dinners are reporting severe shortages just six days before Thanksgiving. “We still need turkeys and pies, big time,” said Walter Lofton, food services manager for the Springs Rescue Mission.
Lofton is trying to put together enough food for 6,400 plates at a banquet at the City Auditorium on Thanksgiving Day and 350 food boxes for area families. So far, he has just 180 turkeys and 43 pies, he said Thursday.
Care and Share hopes to distribute about 6,000 Thanksgiving turkeys through about 400 local food banks, but Wednesday it had only about 100 turkeys on hand, said spokeswoman Susan McConnell. CONTINUED
I read this in the local paper this morning, and was pretty damned shocked! It's hard to give thanks over an empty plate.
So here's the straight dope: next Wednesday I'm going to finish up my Thanksgiving shopping and plan on buying extra turkeys to donate to Care and Share, the food bank featured above. That said, if any of my readers would like to help me buy even more foodstuffs, please consider donating some birdseed using the below PayPal button.
I just might just have to post a public thank you list next week!
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Posted by: The Mad Pigeon | 17 November 2007 at 20:56