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Thanksgiving Food Drive 2024 – Preliminary Report

 

Fellow Lions, family members and volunteers

Time again to say THANKS to all the folks participating in our annual Thanksgiving food drive which took place over the weekend of  Nov 23 – 25, 2024.

Two boxes of food per family for 177 families in the community were able to be filled with holiday dinner items and a sizeable turkey.

The weather held out on the days of collection and shopping, but Monday morning it started drizzling again. This did not prevent about 25 volunteers to show up at the Odd Fellows Hall to help with final filling of the boxes and transporting them to the refer truck for delivery. Additional 50 turkeys and a number of other foods were delivered to the Farm Workers in Watsonville. This comment was received hours later

OMG!! Thank you for delivering all the turkeys today, Claire!    We were shocked and more than pleasantly surprised!     E. and T. are calling FWs in both the Oaxacan and the Michoacan/Jalisco communities to come and pick up a turkey!     How can we EVER thank-you for this enormous gesture of kindness in the face of the threats now faced by undoc FWs.     Goddess bless you and your associates!  This means the world to us and to the FWs!!     Have a lovely holiday and thank-you for providing a lovely holiday and holiday meal to FWs who can’t afford to buy a turkey!    Ann Lopez  👍😃🩷

Lion Dave Kaplow, 2nd Vice District Governor, Lions District 4-C6, made this short video about our Food Drive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RUC0GewHLhvAitdUT7vgHQVogEWuRx57/view?usp=sharing
More to come.
Meanwhile a heartfelt big THANK YOU to all who participated, including students of Bellarmine, and to Lion Don, for securing the Odd Fellows Hall for 3 days for our project.