Foodshare Turkey and a Twenty

Thanksgiving is next week!

Connecticut Foodshare has received requests for 14,600 turkeys to help families in need celebrate the holiday. These turkeys will be distributed over the next 12 days leading up to Thanksgiving. As of right now, Foodshare only has 3,000 turkeys on hand. :o(

In addition to securing the remaining 11,600 turkey donations, Foodshare also needs to raise $460,000. These funds help ensure that the regional food bank can assist hungry families during the winter months ahead.

“We ask everyone to lend a hand this season. Hundreds of local hunger-fighting programs are counting on us to supply them with turkeys and all the usual trimmings needed for Thanksgiving,” says Gloria McAdam, Foodshare President and CEO.

Please help your hungry neighbors...

A turkey provides a traditional holiday meal for a hungry family in our region, and that's important. Yet giving $20 along with a turkey does so much more. Your financial gift allows Foodshare to provide another 20 days worth of food for a person in need this winter.

Time is short. Please visit http://www.foodshare.org/ today to find info about collection sites and special drive events near you... or to make a secure online donation.

Turkey and a Twenty drop off locations (updated for 2009):
http://site.foodshare.org/site/PageServer?pagename=TurkeyandaTwenty1

Avon
Big Y Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)
Miller Foods Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)

Bloomfield
Geissler's Supermarket Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)

Canton
Discount Foods Outlet Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)
Shaw's Supermarket Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)

Coventry
Highland Park Market Monday - Saturday (8:30am-8pm); Sundays (8:30am-5pm)

Farmington
Highland Park Market Monday - Saturday (8am-9pm); Sundays (8:30am-6pm)

Glastonbury
Highland Park Market Monday - Saturday (8am-9pm); Sundays (8:30am-6pm)
Stop & Shop Sunday, Nov. 22 (1pm-3pm)

Granby
Geissler's Supermarket Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)
Stop & Shop Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)

Hartford
Turkey Tuesday - Bank of America Tuesday, Nov. 17 (5:30am-10am)
Gordon Bonetti's Florist Monday - Friday (9am-5pm); Saturday, Nov. 21
(9am-1pm)

Hebron
Ted's Supermarket Monday - Thursday (8am-8pm); Friday (8am-8:30pm); Saturday
(8am-8pm); Sunday (8am-6pm)

Manchester
Big Y Friday, Nov. 13 (Time TBD). Hosted by Country 92.5 and Big Y.
Highland Park Market Monday - Saturday (8am-9pm); Sunday (8:30am-6pm)

Rocky Hill
Gordon Bonetti's Florist Monday - Friday (9am-5pm); Saturday (9am-1pm)
West Side Market Place Monday - Saturday (8am-9pm); Sunday (8am-8pm)

Simsbury
Andy's Supermarket Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)
Fitzgerald's Foods Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)
Kane's Market Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)
Stop & Shop Wednesday, Nov. 18 (8am-8pm)

South Windsor
Highland Park Market Monday - Saturday (10am-9pm); Sunday (10am-6pm)

Suffield
Highland Park Market Monday - Saturday (8am-9pm); Sunday (8:30am-6pm)

West Hartford
Waldbaum's Super Foodmart Monday - Saturday(7am-10pm); Sunday (7am-9pm)
Town Center Building Monday, Nov. 23 (10am-4pm)

Wethersfield
Eblens Monday, Nov. 23 (6am-2pm). Sponsored by Aetna Better Health and Hot
93.7.

For more information on dates, times and locations of various collection sites or events, visit Foodshare’s website at http://www.foodsahre.org/ or call (860) 286-9999.