Businesses, groups team up to donate food for 250 for holiday
Lehighton Ford’s General Manager Bill Klepeiss helps Carol Long of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church load a van with frozen turkeys. KELLEY ANDRADE/TIMES NEWS
On Friday afternoon Christopher Anthony, owner of Palmerton’s Country Harvest, delivered pallets of holiday dinner fixings to Lehighton Ford for the seventh annual turkey giveaway.
Representatives from 16 Carbon County churches gathered at the dealership to load vans and transport food for 250 families.
Country Harvest joined forces with the Bo Tkach Foundation and partnered with the dealership’s General Manager Bill Klepeiss for the annual event.
“It’s a pleasure to have this outreach,” Klepeiss said.
“Our heart is to help the people. We are just giving back to the community.”
According to Klepeiss, this year the program expanded in participating churches thanks to the help of the grocery store and foundation.
“Chris just came through for us,” Klepeiss said.
Every family on the list will receive enough ingredients for a full dinner, turkey, potatoes, vegetables, sweet potatoes, a king-size loaf of bread and, of course, cranberry sauce.
“It’s just a blessing to the families who receive it, especially this time of year,” said Grace Lutheran Church’s SALM Emma Weaver.
