DENVER—From Denver to Colorado Springs, groups that provide Thanksgiving dinners to the needy are looking for a few thousand good turkeys to make sure plates aren’t empty on the holiday.
The Denver Rescue Mission tells The Denver Post that 12 days into its annual turkey drive, only 212 have been donated. Staffers say by this time last year they had received about 4,000 turkeys toward the goal of 6,000.
The Rescue Mission in Colorado Springs is also issuing a plea. Staffers tell The Gazette that there are only 15 turkeys in the freezer and they need hundreds more to fill holiday meal boxes and feed more than 3,000 at the Thanksgiving meal.
The organizations work with other area groups to provide holiday dinners.
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Information from: The Denver Post, and The Gazette,
