You make the walk down the supermarket aisle. The store-brand
turkeys are loss leaders in this week’s flyer. You ponder purchasing an extra
turkey at these bargain prices.
You’ve heard turkeys make really cost-effective gifts (okay,
maybe this is the first time you’ve heard that). But to whom—and how do you
gift wrap them?
Here’s the bottom line: your gift of one turkey can help one
family in need through the holidays by providing an average 33 meals’ worth of
protein to that family. It’s a gift that allows them to put a portion of their
food budget toward something else – like medicine, utilities, health and
hygiene items, needed clothing.
And you don’t need to gift wrap those turkeys. Just drop
them by Springs Rescue Mission during business hours in the next week or so, or
bring them sometime late Saturday morning November 10 to The Gobble Gobble Turkey Wobble at America
the Beautiful Park. (If you want to, you can leave a modest cash donation.
Between $5 and $10 can cover at least one turkey purchase, along with storage
and distribution.)
We have a community goal with Care and Share Food Bank to
raise 10,000 frozen turkeys through actual turkey donation combined with cash
donations targeted for turkeys this week, November 10-16. But you
can start bringing those turkeys now—like today—if you like.
Your turkey donation will help meet the goal to provide
protein for 330,000 meals in the Pikes Peak Region and southern Colorado. It's an aggressive goal to meet a growing need among our neighbors, 1 in 6 of whom live in households at or under the poverty line right here, right now.
Turkeys: the gifts that keep on giving. Now you know.
Brother, sister, can you spare a turkey? Today?
