Bradley Food Pantry hosts annual Thanksgiving food distribution – Star News Group


BRADLEY BEACH — The Bradley Food Pantry, 605 Fourth Ave., held its annual Thanksgiving food distribution at the oceanfront gazebo on Nov. 17. The Bradley Beach Food Pantry provided 750 families with a turkey and all the trimmings this holiday season.
Linda Curtiss, the pantry director, said that she and the 92 volunteers who prepared for the event for two months refer to the Thanksgiving distribution as a “bird and a box.”
A group of volunteers arrived at the oceanfront gazebo at 7 a.m. to unload delivery trucks and transport food from the pantry to the beach. Another group of volunteers came at 8:30 a.m., including 19 members from the Avon Elementary School Junior Honor Society (seventh- and eighth-graders), and prepared and filled the boxes to be handed out.
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The families began to arrive at 10 a.m. to the oceanfront gazebo where families popped the trunk of their vehicle and volunteers loaded the “bird and a box” into their vehicle. Families pre-registered for the drive to ensure that they would receive food.
Each family received a turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy, cornbread mix, canned vegetables and fresh vegetables including sweet potatoes, yellow potatoes, lettuce, onion, apples and carrots, dessert, milk and eggs.
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