By Randall Rigsbee
Siler City, NC – Deputies and staff from the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office spent Saturday morning, November 23, helping bring Thanksgiving cheer to thousands of families in need. Sheriff’s Office personnel joined Mountaire Farms employees and an army of community volunteers in Siler City to participate in the annual “Thanksgiving for Thousands” program.
The effort got underway Saturday morning in the parking lot of Mountaire in Siler City, where volunteers,
working underneath two large tents, formed assembly lines to pack 9,000 boxes of food for distribution by churches and food banks to local families.
Alongside volunteers from other agencies staff from the Sheriff’s Office worked until all the food was neatly boxed and loaded onto vehicles ready for distribution.
During the four-hour event, volunteers worked together along an assembly line, packing boxes with all the elements of a traditional Thanksgiving meal: a Mountaire roaster, corn, green beans, stuffing, yams, cranberry sauce, gravy, and dessert. The Chatham County team also helped load the meal boxes onto vehicles for transport to pre-registered churches and non-profits, who will distribute them to families in need.
Mountaire’s Thanksgiving for Thousands program, now in its 29th year (and sixth year at Mountaire in Siler City), spans four locations across the Southeast. This year’s initiative aimed to pack 38,000 meal boxes to feed more than 150,000 people.