{"id":31976,"date":"2025-11-03T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31976\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:13:07","slug":"second-harvest-of-the-big-bend-prepares-for-12th-annual-turkey-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31976\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Harvest of the Big Bend prepares for 12th Annual Turkey Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, Second Harvest of the Big Bend has ensured families have meals in time for the Thanksgiving Holiday through their Turkey Drive.This year, the nonprofit has a goal of $50,000 in monetary donations and 1,000 frozen turkeys during drop-offs.Watch the video to hear from Second Harvest of the Big Bend&#8217;s CEO talk about the importance of a drive of this magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers packaging items ahead of the distribution<\/p>\n<p>BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:<br \/>WTXL has teamed up with Second Harvest of the Big Bend for the 12th Annual Turkey Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this year\u2019s drive? Collect 1,000 turkeys and raise $50,000 in monetary donations.<\/p>\n<p>Each donation goes toward ensuring each family has a meal for the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Monique Ellsworth, CEO of Second Harvest of the Big Bend shares how vast the need currently is for Leon County neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year the turkey drive is more important than ever. What we know is that in Leon County alone there\u2019s 33,000 people that don\u2019t have SNAP benefits currently so if they\u2019re not utilizing the food bank or a network of partner agencies its likely that they\u2019re digging into savings that they might\u2019ve been putting aside to prepare for the holiday season so they won\u2019t have the fund so maybe they had been saving for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turkey drop offs will take place Thursday, November 20th at Ponce De Leon Park and Bannerman Crossing from 6 AM to 6 PM.<\/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":"For over a decade, Second Harvest of the Big Bend has ensured families have meals in time for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,28,3535,14786,1665,232,234,233,1189,22441,562],"class_list":["post-31976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-florida","tag-food-insecurity","tag-second-harvest-of-the-big-bend","tag-southwest-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turkey-drive","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31976","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=31976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}