Community Corner
Do the Turkey Drop ... and Help a Family in Need During the Holidays
The Plainfield Moose Lodge will be collecting frozen turkeys from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, and is serving a free brunch for anyone who makes a donation.
Members of the and Plainfield’s Ford family are hoping to make Thanksgiving a little happier for those in need.
The Moose Lodge, which collected 723 turkeys last year to help feed hungry families, is hoping to surpass that number this year in its 12th annual Turkey Drop on Saturday.
“This is going to be another good year for us,” said Bob Provo, who along with Barb Thompson and the Ford family is helping organize the event.
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About 25 volunteers will be collecting frozen turkeys from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Plainfield Moose Lodge, 16310 S. Lincoln Highway. In exchange for a frozen turkey, the lodge will offer a free brunch. Cash donations will also be accepted that will go towards the purchase of additional turkeys.
Already, the Moose Lodge has collected enough donations to buy 644 turkeys, putting it on pace to surpass last year’s collection, Provo said Wednesday.
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The number of donations speaks to the generosity of the people in the Plainfield area, he said.
“It’s unbelievable with these hard times, people find money to help us out,” he said.
With these hard times, there is also a larger need to help feed the hungry.
All donations are going to the , We Care of Romeoville Pantry and the MorningStar Mission in Joliet to include in their Thanksgiving baskets. Wheatland Township and a few parishes have also contacted the Moose Lodge to receive help serving their needy families.
“MorningStar Mission is key to our success,” Provo said. “They’ve provided us a refrigerated truck to store the turkeys.”
For more information, visit www.plainfieldturkeydrop.com. The Web site will post the number of frozen turkeys collected on Saturday.
(Editor's note: We can't hear the name Turkey Drop without thinking of the famous episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati," in which they did a literal "turkey drop." Here's a YouTube link to let you relive it -- or see it for the first time: http://youtu.be/ST01bZJPuE0. To watch the show in its entirety, go to: www.hulu.com/watch/322/wkrp-in-cincinnati-turkeys-away.)
