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Thanksgiving for Thousands reaches 40,000 people
Hundreds of volunteers join to support annual Mountaire-sponsored event
In a scene repeated each November near Thanksgiving, hundreds of volunteers man an assembly line to pack food boxes. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
November 20, 2018
More than 350 volunteers gathered Nov. 19 in Mountaire Farms’ Selbyville warehouse to pack 8,500 boxes for distribution to feed 40,000 people during the 24th annual Thanksgiving for Thousands.
A food drive has been ongoing since Nov. 10 in Sussex and Kent counties to collect donations for the boxes, which also contain a Mountaire chicken roaster. Boxes were distributed Nov. 20 to area churches and community organizations.
Mountaire also sponsors food drives around the Christmas and Easter holidays.
In a scene repeated each November near Thanksgiving, hundreds of volunteers man an assembly line to pack food boxes. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
Boxes and birds are flying as volunteers unload frozen chicken roasters from a nearby tractor-trailer.
The first step of the process is making boxes for packing.
Virginia Flood of Millsboro is into the season as she helps unload chicken roasters.
Kevin Odell, representing the Delmarva Shorebirds organization, unloads a box of frozen roasters.
Autumn Petersen of Greenwood passes a box full of canned corn to volunteers on the assembly line.
Boxes pile up on a pallet at the end of one of two assembly lines in the Mountaire warehouse.
Volunteers are ready to start packing food.
Boxes of Mountaire chicken roasters are waiting to be packed for distribution.
Roger Marino, Mountaire’s director of communications and community relations, is founder and organizer of the annual event.
Lord Baltimore Lions Club member Paul Bolton takes a short break as he waits for the assembly line to catch up.
Rep. Dave Wilson volunteers each year for the effort.
