Gobble! Gobble!The Turkeys have landed! The Grand Glorious Gratifying Turkey Food Drive of 2025 is in the books!
- Rosemary Cleaves
- 12 minutes ago
- 2 min read
This year we shared our “horn of plenty” with 220 families – a 20% increase over last year. Since we canceled our Winter Break food drive, we added some much needed basic food needs to our food list - rice, beans, flour, sugar, cereal, milk, masa and oil. The average price of each Thanksgiving Food Basket this year was about $80 which is equivalent to a total value of $18,000!
Where does one begin to express gratitude at this time of the year for all the people who made this project successful, especially at this time of the year. We start by thanking our formidable project manager, Kristin Bertsch Heenan, and our calm and courageous shopper, Marcella Gelman, both of whom are new board members this year. A huge THANK YOU to Robin and Jim Pisz, who offered their “barn” for us to stage the big event for the week! Since it rained all week we were more than grateful to be out of the rain.
Our agencies and the clients are ever so grateful to the over 75 people who bought or ordered food plus another 20+ people who sent in monetary donations. A shout out goes to the SLO Foodbank who gathered the turkeys and turkey breasts and some of the sides at very low prices. Another shout out to TACO WORKS of San Luis Obispo for donating 220 bags of chips for our “horn of plenty”, a family favorite.
Kudos to our drop off locations around south county – they collected and then dropped off all the food at “the barn”. Over 60 volunteers, smiling and happy, helped out over the 5 day “manufacturing” period! They dropped food off, sorted, counted, organized, packed, loaded and delivered all that food all in the rain!
KSBY came to film our event and put us on the air! Here’s the link:
We’ve received wonderful feedback that the families are thankful that people who don’t even know them gave them so much food!
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