Turkey giveaway by Cal Water, local lawmakers
By: Jennifer Baldwin, Contributions Editor
Topics: turkeys, thanksgiving, DONATIONS, Volunteering, needy families
Posted by jbaldwin Wed Nov 30, -0001 00:00:00 PST
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0 responses 0 comments Turkeys were flying off the trucks at Planz Park Monday morning — well, as fast as a frozen turkey could go.
It was the annual "Operation Gobble Program" organized by California Water Service Company. The company asked local lawmakers — Jean Fuller, Dean Florez, Nicole Parra and Roy Ashburn — to choose organizations in their areas of representation to receive the turkeys. Those organizations will in turn give the turkeys to needy families. Volunteers lined up at Bakersfield's Planz Park in vans and trucks to pick up the turkeys Monday morning and make their deliveries.
According to Tim Treloar of Cal Water, 820 turkeys were to be delivered to about 75 organizations throughout Kern County. One volunteer, Steve Williams, on behalf of Jean Fuller's office, headed out with 55 turkeys in the back of his pickup truck to deliver to the Ridgecrest Salvation Army, Kern River Valley Rotary, Kern River Valley Hospital, Family Life Center in Wofford Heights, and Family Resource Center in Lake Isabella.
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