Thanksgiving Dinners 2012
Again this year T&E Care prepared Thanksgiving dinners for local families at The Kitchen Workshop in Paoli. The plan was to help out 8 local families, but due to last minute emergency requests, we ended up giving dinners to 11 local families! Thanks to Cindy Gilroy and Danyll Lockett for overseeing this special event, and of course our special thanks to Art Roman at the Kitchen Workshop for organizing the cooking. The Hayden family (over 500 cookies and tons of pies!!) and The Amana Foundation (bags of fresh produce for EVERY family) also deserve a huge shout out! And of course - many thanks to all those who shopped, baked, cooked, sorted, and/or delivered the special meals. Below are some thank you notes from some of the families we supported. It's clear that this assistance is very much appreciated!
I wanted to thank you for a wonderful Thanksgiving. Due to your generosity and help, we were able to provide for our family and extended family this season (7 of us!). Once again, you blew me away. We had tons of food, both prepared and unprepared. On top of that, we had three bags of fresh produce! Being on a extremely tight food budget, it is hard to purchase fresh ingredients for my family. This was a great treat! Thank you TE Cares, Art and all the hands that went into this project!
I'd like to show my gratitude for all you have done for my family, in particularly this past Thanksgiving holiday. It was such a pleasant surprise walking in the house and seeing all the food in the doorway! It's amazing what you guys do for us! Thanks you so much! P.s the pumpkin cookies are amazing!
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you, the cooking club and the Hayden family for the Thanksgiving dinner and drop off. It was such a wonderful meal- complete with two types of dessert! To still be able to have a turkey with all the trimmings when we probably would have gone without- meant a lot to my family. Since my husband has been working only a few days a week for the last month and money has been very tight- we were especially thankful for this.
In addition to those folks mentioned above, our special thanks to those families who helped out: The Bird's, the Marinakos', the Mintz's, the Stevenson's, the Emel's, the Maynard's, the Fratamico's, the Lawton's, the Pratt's, the Bauman's, the Ladden's, the Kleppe's, the Hay's, the Becket's, the Gallen's, the Sajed's, the Fialko's, the Reardon's, the McGillis', the Ward's, the Bundage's, Kim Smeadly from the Paoli Presbyterian Church Food Pantry, and Dee Bilotta and Vince Caprio of Our Lady of Assumption Church. What an incredible team effort! (We regret any omissions - if you offered help and are not listed here - please say so and we'll add you on!)
Questions? Contact us at turkeys@tecare.org.
