West Seattle Food Bank followup: One-third of the way to 500 turkeys

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The West Seattle Food Bank team shared that photo from the Wednesday afternoon turkey-donation drive in The Junction (WSB coverage here) – that charitable West Seattle was their first of 51 turkey donors. More followup in this report from WSFB’s Judi Yazzolino:

Thanks all in our West Seattle community your help with our 1st Annual Turkey Drive last night at Easy Street Records; we so appreciate it! We were able to bring in 51 turkeys and over $1,200, which is equivalent to approx. 170 turkeys. If the community wasn’t able to stop by last night, they still have an opportunity to donate turkeys or funds by stopping by the West Seattle Food Bank at 3419 SW Morgan St. (corner of 35th & Morgan) on Friday from 9 am – 3 pm or Sat. from 2 – 5 pm or going to www.westseattlefoodbank.org and donating.

They hope to have 500 turkeys (small-ish is best, around 10 pounds) for next week’s holiday food distribution, so the drive put them a third of the way there.

JayDee November 21, 2013 (6:24 pm)

Repeating an earlier comment:
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As usual, QFC has the best turkey deal though it didn’t come out until today–$30 grocery spend and 0.59 cents/lb (with card, natch). Safeway is second best (0.69 cents/lb with a $50 spend with card).
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I usually buy one $1.49/lb turkey at 16-20 lbs and then throw in some groceries to make the $30 buy and then end up donating 4 birds. Oddly enough Freddie’s doesn’t offer the same deal, only QFC. Both are owned by Kroger.

West Seattle Food Bank November 22, 2013 (7:21 am)

Thank WSB, you are such a fabulous partner. Anyone who brings a turkey to the food bank will be entered into a raffle for a trip for 2 for 2 days/nights to Red Mountain Resort in Canada including lift tickets and lodging. Drawing will be on Monday.

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