UTICA FOOD PANTRY GIVEAWAY

HUNDREDS CAME OUT FOR UTICA TURKEY GIVEAWAY AT THE CENTRAL UTICA FIRE STATION

Giveaway.

A record 800 turkeys were given away.

And as news channel two's gary liberatore shows us, it was a record breaking year for another reason.

Tc : 04:43 "you can see what the need is..."

Bleecker street could have been renamed the street of love on friday... tc : 09:30 "do i believe in divine intervention, absolutely..."

The turkeys came in (((wildy((( over the past week to utica's main fire station... (rev.

Dr. mary webster, first baptist church in new hartford) .

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None tc : 23:16 "you can feel the gratitude& i can feel it.....you see all these turkeys, we got more than we expected."

(russ brooks, president, utica food pantry) tc : 20:44 "the line is enormous they were out here when i arrived here at 8 oclock this morning they had already been in line."

(sandy zagorski, utica resident) tc : 13:20 "and how are your legs holding up?

Pretty good.

Youve been standing for more than three hours already."

(rev.

Dr. mary webster, first baptist church in new hartford) tc : 23:27 "i mean look at it and look at the line and theyre still coming.

I think either be enough for everybody, nobody will go hungry."

Tc : 11:30 "many people push these carts that youre seeing across the city and you know its a struggle but it just means so much to them, and theyre asking me since july are we going to go to have a turkey."

Tc : 35:00 "thank you so much thank you happy thanksgiving thank you so much thank you appreciate it thank you thank you..... if you werent counting that was seven thank youse in the span of 9 seconds.

(sandy zagorski, utica resident) tc : 13:33 "me and my family will appreciate everything that these organizations and his food banks do for us.

I mean its a big help because i lost my job and im waiting to hear back from them because of covid yes."

And chief, you were mentioning you received a huge donation.

"we had an enormous donation, a gentleman, mr. gary thurston from syracuse caught it on your show when it was there, he's a former utican, i actually knew his wife and family 50 years ago it's was a tug at the heartstrings and he called up an unsolicited and said i'd like to donate $10,000 which is a windfall for us.

(gary thurston, syracuse business owner) tc : 05:45 "i grew up on downer ave.

In west utica and got my college education at utica college and then moved away.

And how did you hear about the story?

I read it on your webpage...and said to my son who is the president of the company, we got to do something in utica so he said how about $10,000 and i said absolutely will do that."

Tc : 06:38 "well the chief said that they can buy six times what the donation is so $60,000 of food that they can provide to these families after thanksgiving."

"who is next...."

And a big thanks...is well deserved...for that....giving.

In utica, gary liberatore, news channel 2.> it's been introduced on the federal level....