{"id":53298,"date":"2025-11-19T22:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53298\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:46:07","slug":"orlando-magic-organize-thanksgiving-meal-giveaway-for-local-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53298\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic Organize Thanksgiving Meal Giveaway for Local Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Orlando Magic are hosting their annual \u2018Give Thanks This Holiday\u2019 event on Wednesday, distributing Thanksgiving meals to underserved families in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The event will take place at the Eatonville Boys &amp; Girls Club from 6 to 7 p.m., where Magic players Jase Richardson and Noah Penda, along with community ambassadors Nick Anderson and Bo Outlaw, will hand out turkey dinners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">A total of 400 Thanksgiving meals will be distributed, including turkey and all the trimmings such as green beans, gravy, corn, potatoes, dinner rolls, and dessert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Florida Blue is partnering with the Magic to provide additional boxes of perishable and non-perishable food items as part of the Block Out Hunger program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The event is open to the public, with a select number of meals distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, while the rest will be given to preselected families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">This initiative continues a 33-year tradition of the Orlando Magic giving back to the Central Florida community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763592367_692_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Orlando Magic are hosting their annual \u2018Give Thanks This Holiday\u2019 event on Wednesday, distributing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,145,28,5802,5812,139,141,1239,140,1189,33464,33465,144,146],"class_list":{"0":"post-53298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-central-florida","9":"tag-channel-9","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jase-richardson","12":"tag-noah-penda","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-magic","16":"tag-orlando-news","17":"tag-thanksgiving","18":"tag-thanksgiving-meal-giveaway","19":"tag-thanksgiving-meals","20":"tag-wftv","21":"tag-wftv-channel-9"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53298","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=53298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}