POOLER, Ga. (WSAV) – A group of seniors in Pooler said they were worried they might not be able to pull off a Thanksgiving food giveaway for their neighbors on Friday after it was disrupted by building management.
“They just don’t have the money, and it takes every little penny they’ve got to stretch as far as they try to stretch it,” Ellen Corley, a Pinewood Village resident and event volunteer, said. “So, any food that is donated to them is certainly a help. It’s a very big help.”
Seniors lined up in their cars parking lot of the Pinewood Village apartment complex, waiting to pick up their Thanksgiving turkeys.
“We do food distributions at least once a month. This time we’re doing it twice a month, and they were telling us we could not use the community facilities, ” Revardale Middleton, another Pinewood Village resident and the event organizer, said.
Middleton works with the GP3 ministry, the group that organizes the giveaways.
She said the property manager claimed the space had already been reserved for that day.