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The Thanksgiving Food Distribution at People Helping People, an annual holiday ritual, is a team effort with 66 students, teachers, PHP staff, seasoned volunteers and new recruits joining together to share the bounty of the Santa Ynez and Los Alamos Valleys with the most vulnerable.
Twenty fourth-grade students from the Santa Ynez Valley Christian Academy, led by their teacher Bridget Morrell, got a first-hand lesson in giving by helping organize the can goods donated by public and private schools all over the Valley and bingo players at the Chumash Casino Resort.
Since it is no small matter to procure hundreds of turkeys at this time of year, El Rancho Market helped PHP access and temporarily store 175 turkeys. Veggie Rescue donated their refrigerated truck to transport the turkeys to the Mission Santa Ines where they were given out…