4A- Southpoint Sun
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Three local businesses team up for turkey dinner By Mark Ribble What started as a conversation between the broker of record and the administrator, ended with Sun County Realty partnering with Food Basics and Pinnacle Acres to bring Christmas cheer to 60 local families. “We felt we needed to do more to give back to this community,” said Deiba Wigle, Broker of Record for Sun County Realty. “Christmas is a difficult time for a lot of
people and resources are often stretched too thin.” Wigle and office administrator Helena Dos Santos decided to do a draw and give away a full turkey dinner to five local families. That idea, much like the Christmas spirit, began to grow with each person that got involved. “I put a call into Jeff at Food Basics Leamington and when he heard what we were doing, he offered to donate the five tur-
keys,” said Wigle. Wigle decided to still buy the initial five turkeys, so they were now looking at giving away 10 turkey dinners. Food Basics also donated dinner rolls and provided optimum pricing for Sun County on anything else needed. But it didn’t stop there. Andrew and Lisa from Pinnacle Acres got wind of the idea and offered to donate to help 50 additional families, which
Bruce Mee and Trina Margos, both of Sun County Realty, wait for winners to pull up to be loaded with turkey dinners. The local real estate firm teamed up with Food Basics and Pinnacle Acres to provide 60 complete turkey dinners to local families. Sun photo
brought the draw total to 60 turkey dinners. Wigle and Dos Santos were touched by the response from the community. “The response from the draw has been humbling,” said Wigle. They heard things like,
“You don’t know how much I needed this,” and “This has put happiness in my heart.” “More than anything, we were told Thank You,” said Wigle. Through a Facebook draw held on December 18, sixty lucky families
won the opportunity to stop in at Food Basics on Monday to pick up their meals. Several of Sun County’s team were on hand to load the winners’ cars up with all the fixings.
LEAMINGTON — When the Leamington Mersea Goodfellows
were forced to cancel their annual Christmas Basket drive as Windsor-Essex
moved into lockdown, members were searching for a way to still give to families in need. After delivering Christmas baskets to the community since the 1970s, the Goodfellows were faced with a very difficult decision and they were unable to continue the tradition this year. In place of the Christmas baskets, the Goodfellows recently made a decision to mail a letter of explanation and a grocery store gift card to each of their nearly 200 recipients. If not for the generous donations of the rest of the community, this would not have been possible, however, once again, the community stepped up and the Goodfellows were able to provide a happy Christmas for many individuals and families.
Goodfellows find a way to give Jeff from Food Basics was instrumental in helping to organize the dinners.
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We wish to extend our thanks to the many companies and individuals who have helped us feed and clothe members of our community this year. Our most profound thanks to those who anonymously say, “do you need this” and drop of food, clothing and donations so we can help. May God bless us all.
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