READING, Pa. – Inside a neighborhood bar in Reading, the usual sounds of conversation were replaced by boxes being packed and families picking them up.<\/p>\n
Among them was Aubrey Tonsil.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a single mother of four,\u201d Tonsil said. \u201cSo, you know, it is hard. I do go to school.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tonsil says she saw a post on Facebook asking people in need to share their stories. She sent a message.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, oh wow,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, I messaged her back and she told me, yeah, come this day\u2026 and I told her how much I appreciated it, me and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Behind the bar was owner Chris Fisher, whose family has run the business for 35 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were sitting around the Thanksgiving table with my family,\u201d Fisher said. \u201cAnd I made the proclamation that we\u2019re gonna do something now. Our house is paid, our business is paid, our kids are through college. It\u2019s time to give back and this is the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n
The request was simple: send a message, share your story. In the end, 15 families received full holiday meal boxes, while 35 others were given gift cards to help get through the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the stuffing,\u201d Fisher explained, pointing to the boxes. \u201cYou need potatoes, macaroni and cheese, gravy, cans of string beans, cans of corn, brownies\u2026 and the turkeys are down in the cooler.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Aubrey, it means one less thing to worry about this holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Inside a neighborhood bar in Reading, the usual sounds of conversation were replaced by boxes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36005,36004,28,736,36006,128,130,129,1274],"class_list":{"0":"post-68024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-aubrey-tonsil","9":"tag-chris-fisher","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-reading","12":"tag-reading-bar","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-thanksgiving"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}