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.

Jeff from Food Basics was instrumental in helping to organize the dinners.

“I put a call into Jeff at Food Basics Leamington and when he heard what we were doing, he offered to donate the five turkeys,” 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 brought the draw total to 60 turkey dinners.

Wigle and Dos Santos were touched by the response from the community.

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.

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“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.