The Giant Company has joined with Helping Harvest to provide 1,500 turkeys to area families for the Thanksgiving holiday.
“Giant is probably one of our best corporate partners,” David C. Delozier, chief development officer for Helping Harvest, said after a tractor-trailer from Giant was unloaded Wednesday at the food bank’s Spring Township warehouse.
He noted that the company recently donated $100,000 to Helping Harvest in honor of the grocery chain’s 100th anniversary.
The turkeys will go a long way to help fill the 6,000 Thanksgiving food boxes that Helping Harvest will be distributing in the coming weeks, he said.
”The first boxes are going out the beginning of next week,” said Deborah Mest, chief operations officer at the food bank, “and then they’ll go out until right before Thanksgiving.”
The food bank has a total of 6,500 turkeys that will be distributed.
“All the turkeys that are coming in here are already spoken for,” she said. “We will get turkeys right up until the day before Thanksgiving, whether it be companies or people just walking in the door with one.”
Kim O’Hara of Exeter Township, the center store manager for the local Giant Company stores, was working on the conveyor line Wednesday with 20 other volunteers from the area stores.
“We have a history of giving back to the community,” she said as she pushed a row of boxes down the line. “We frequently come in to Helping Harvest to volunteer. Making a difference by helping out our community because we are a local grocer makes a big difference to us.”
O’Hara added that the company has donated 15,000 turkeys to area food banks throughout the region.
“We don’t want anybody to have food insecurity,” she said.
Source: Berkshire mont
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