{"id":56820,"date":"2025-11-22T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/56820\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:11:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-turkey-giveaway-helps-families-ahead-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/56820\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale turkey giveaway helps families ahead of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 As Thanksgiving approaches, families in Fort Lauderdale lined up early Saturday morning to receive turkeys and groceries during a holiday giveaway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 first spoke to recipients Kimbele Edwards and Thelma Coates, who praised the event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLast year they didn\u2019t have the funding to provide food for needy families,\u201d said Edwards. \u201cI know that the line can go from here tall the way out to beach. I wanted to beat the rush and I\u2019ve been out here since 4:45 a.m. this morning.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coats added, \u201cIt means the world to me. I don\u2019t have to go and stand in line trying to find this and trying to find that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Organizers distributed Butterball turkeys along with produce, encouraging anyone in need to come by and fill their cars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have plenty of surplus, plenty of produce, plenty of turkeys,\u201d one volunteer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The giveaway aims to help families facing food insecurity in Broward County enjoy a full Thanksgiving meal.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jolena Esperto\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/4c492fdc-471c-4ae6-a004-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jolena Esperto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jolena Esperto joined the Local 10 News team in July of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 As Thanksgiving approaches, families in Fort Lauderdale lined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-56820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56820","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=56820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}