{"id":60684,"date":"2025-11-25T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/60684\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:01:07","slug":"businesses-chip-in-for-2nd-annual-carlai-cares-thanksgiving-grocery-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/60684\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses chip in for 2nd Annual Carlai Cares Thanksgiving Grocery Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHEAST TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 Local businesses collaborate for the sake of feeding 100+ Leon County neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Annual Carlai Cares Thanksgiving Meal Giveaway took place on Tuesday at Yummy&#8217;s restaurant off of Capital Circle Southeast.Due to support from various businesses in the area, the groups were able to triple the amount of families they could feed.Watch the video below to hear from organizers about how much the event has grown in just one year.<\/p>\n<p>Local business collaborate for the 2nd Annual Carlai Cares Thanksgiving Grocery Giveaway<\/p>\n<p>BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p>Local businesses pulled together to make the Thanksgiving holiday a little easier for families.<\/p>\n<p>Tax Savant Tax Services and Crabs on the Run partnered yet again for their 2nd Thanksgiving Meal giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of neighbors checked into Yummy\u2019s restaurant Tuesday, leaving with a warm meal and hands full of groceries.<\/p>\n<p>Karlai Pender and Shanya Green told us how much this initiative has grown in just a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt literally tripled overnight, last year, our mission was to feed 30 plus families, we did around 40. This year we did 120.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair says this event wouldn\u2019t have been possible without help from Barnhart Farms, Power Injury Law, and other businesses in the area.<\/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":"SOUTHEAST TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 Local businesses collaborate for the sake of feeding 100+ Leon County neighbors. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,36676,23536,36677,36678,36679,7365,232,234,233,36680,1189,36681],"class_list":["post-60684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-crabs-on-the-run","tag-free-food","tag-grocery-giveaway","tag-karlai-pender","tag-shanya-green","tag-southeast-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tax-savant-tax-service","tag-thanksgiving","tag-yummys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60684","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=60684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}