Community Service

Gardiner Foundation Turkey Giveaway at St. James Park

By Patrick Rocchio Posted on December 2, 2015

Gardiner Foundation Turkey Giveaway at St. James Park|Gardiner Foundation Turkey Giveaway at St. James Park

Photo by Miriam Quin|Photo by Miriam Quin

The Gardiner Foundation held a give away of 600 turkeys and fixings to needy local families in St. James Park on Saturday, November 20. Sponsored by Lawertime.com, this is the 6th year that the turkey’s have been given away. The chairtable event drew a long line of recipients from the community.

Reach Reporter Patrick Rocchio at (718) 260–4597. E-mail him at procchio@cnglocal.com. Follow him on Twitter @patrickfrocchio.

Jeff Korek (l) and Dexter Gardiner with two of the birds given away.

Photo by Miriam Quin

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