<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2jGQWD_0wDdLXuN00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2jGQWD_0wDdLXuN00" width="1763" height="1175" ><figcaption>Last year’s Great Turkey Countdown benefited families throughout Union County, Matthews and Mint Hill. If your family needs a Thanksgiving basket, fill out an application online by Oct. 31 at Turkeys.CommonHeart.org or call 704-218-9060 between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Photos from last year’s event courtesy of Common Heart.</figcaption></figure>INDIAN TRAIL – Common Heart is seeking donations to provide 1,500 frozen turkeys with all the fixin's to 1,500 families facing food insecurity so they can prepare their own meals to share with family and friends. The 18th annual Great Turkey Countdown serves as Common Heart’s biggest delivery day. So far this year, volunteers have provided groceries to 11,861 people at Common Heart’s evening food pantries. That’s 1,462 more individuals than were served at these pantries during the same time period last year. Many of these food pantries have seen record-breaking weeks with the number of families needing groceries. The pantry at Benton Heights Presbyterian Church in Monroe on Monday evenings has seen the biggest growth so far this year with an average of 115 families served each week in August and September compared to an average of 57 families served during the same months last year. “It’s getting harder to make sure we have enough canned and nonperishable food to serve these neighbors,” Executive Director Keith Adams said. A $50 donation provides a frozen turkey and the fixin's for one family. Donate online by going to Turkeys.CommonHeart.org or mail a check (payable to Common Heart) to: PO Box 2761, Indian Trail, NC 28079. Write “Turkeys” in the memo line.Nonperishables like canned green beans, stuffing mix, cranberry sauce, boxed macaroni and cheese, dessert mixes, cornbread mix, and jello can be dropped off at the nonprofit’s main office, 116 Business Park Drive, Suite A in Indian Trail, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. People can drop off frozen turkeys beginning Nov. 15. Visit FoodDrives.CommonHeart.org for a list of food drop-off locations.At least 500 volunteers will be needed Nov. 23 to deliver the 1,500 Thanksgiving dinner baskets and work onsite in Indian Trail to load vehicles. Volunteers can sign up at Turkeys.CommonHeart.org.“This event absolutely wouldn’t happen without volunteers – literally hundreds of them,” Adams said. “This day is all about neighbors serving neighbors and promoting a small revolution of kindness in our community.” </div></body>

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Common Heart preparing to deliver 1,500 Thanksgiving feasts

INDIAN TRAIL – Common Heart is seeking donations to provide 1,500 frozen turkeys with all the fixin's to 1,500 families facing food insecurity so they can prepare their own meals to share with family and friends. The 18th annual Great Turkey Countdown serves as Common Heart’s biggest delivery day....