{"id":31403,"date":"2025-11-03T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31403\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:16:09","slug":"abc-27-second-harvest-team-up-for-12th-annual-turkey-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31403\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 27, Second Harvest team up for 12th Annual Turkey Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 Since 2014, ABC 27 &amp; the Second Harvest have teamed up to collect frozen turkeys and monetary donations for Thanksgiving meals. With SNAP benefits now on pause for the foreseeable future and Thanksgiving approaching, the need for donations is more dire than ever. Nearly 3 million Floridians depend on food assistance, including 33,000 in Leon County alone. <\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to collect 1,000 turkeys and raise $50,000 in monetary donations. <\/p>\n<p>Online donations begin today, November 3rd, with the Turkey Drop off on Thursday, November 20th. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to donate, you can do so by clicking <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/give.fightinghunger.org\/campaign\/740292\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkeys can be dropped off from 6:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. at two locations: Bannerman Crossing (just look for the signs) or Ponce de Leon Park in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762186569_424_\" alt=\"WTXL_Turkey Drive_FS_2025.png\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SCRIPPS NEWS<\/p>\n<p>The Thanksgiving Distribution will be held on Saturday, November 22nd. <\/p>\n<p>We appreciate any and all donations given. Thank you for helping us feed families in our region during such a time of uncertainty. <\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 Since 2014, ABC 27 &amp; the Second Harvest have teamed up to collect frozen turkeys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,2914,14786,232,234,233,22441,562],"class_list":["post-31403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-donations","tag-second-harvest-of-the-big-bend","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-turkey-drive","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}