The Mitchell Food Pantry’s annual Thanksgiving turkey giveaway was a hit once again.
Karen Pooley shared the numbers during Monday’s Mitchell City Council meeting. She says they planned to give away 200 Thanksgiving meals. “So then the community decided to give us some more turkeys,” said Pooley. “So then we planned for more boxes of food, and we had all the way to 261.”
It took an hour and seven minutes to complete the distribution. “So the 261 households, that has 309 kids, 384 adults, and 146 seniors,” Pooley told the Council. “So that’s 837 people who got a Thanksgiving meal.’
Pooley says while the majority of the meals went to Mitchell residents, a number of outlying community members were served as well. An estimated $17,000 worth of food was given away.