PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Thanksgiving is nearly here, and in celebration of the upcoming holiday, Pinellas Park is giving back through its 3rd annual Thanksgiving Giveback.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Pinellas Park hosted its third annual Thanksgiving Giveback
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The event included a free community meal and to-go bags with supplies
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Organizers say this year’s efforts take on a bit more meaning with the recent government shutdown<\/p>\n
Dozens met at the Broderick Community Center for a free community meal, but without volunteers like Newton Tren, the event could not be the success it is.<\/p>\n
“I support Pinellas Park (as a) city, so whatever they have … I come up to do it,” she said.<\/p>\n
Community center Project Manager Richard Rock said the idea for the giveback began three years ago.<\/p>\n
Growing each year, he’s thrilled the community can sit down and have a meal as a city.<\/p>\n
“Families can sit down, have a meal on us, and then at the end of it, we do a pay-it-forward event where we have food items that they can either take for themselves or pay it forward to somebody else,” he said.<\/p>\n
Rock said this year’s efforts take on a bit more meaning with the recent government shutdown.<\/p>\n
Despite the shutdown’s end ending, he said it’s put a lot more stress on families than in past years.<\/p>\n
That’s why he’s happy they provide a to-go bag with supplies people may need.<\/p>\n
With 150 bags available for everyone to take home for themselves or for someone in need, Rock said they’re supporting the community on all fronts.<\/p>\n
He added that some were expected to be left over and encourages anyone in need of extra supplies to stop by the community center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Thanksgiving is nearly here, and in celebration of the upcoming holiday, Pinellas Park is giving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3076,4369,1548,4628,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,1189],"class_list":["post-48200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-good-news","tag-food-insecurity-and-hunger","tag-good-news","tag-matt-lackritz","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48200","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=48200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}