Community Donates 200 Turkeys To South Bay Charity: Report

GILROY, CA — Three families and a local business have partnered to donate 200 turkeys to help those in need in this South Bay city in time for Thanksgiving, The Gilroy Dispatch reports.

Rocca’s Market General Manager Dan Keith helped coordinate the donation to the Gilroy-based St. Joseph’s Family Center, the report said.

Three families from San Martin, a southern Santa Clara County unincorporated town near Gilroy started the donation drive according to the report.

“It’s more of a donation from the community,” Keith told the newspaper.

“All of us are big on the community of San Martin.”

The donation is impactful according to a spokesperson for the charity who told The Dispatch that food insecurity has increased significantly amid the coronavirus crisis.

St. Joseph’s Family Center Director of Community Engagement Vicky Martin said her group serves between 500 and 600 food boxes to families each day now, compared to around 100 before March, the report said.

“This allows families to have a holiday that they would not normally be able to afford this year,” Martin told The Dispatch.

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