Despite Challenges, OC Community Provides Thanksgiving Meals to Low-Income Families
As a line began to form in front of the Orange County Foodbank in Garden Grove, California, Mayor of Stanton David Shawver looked over elderly residents holding grocery bags that would soon be filled with free and discounted food items.
“This is one of the many reasons I do public service,” Shawver told The Epoch Times with a smile on his face at a regular giveaway Nov. 21.
To ensure local families in need can celebrate Thanksgiving, which marks the start of the holiday season, food pantries in Stanton and the foodbank have been working together, Shawver said.
Mayor of Stanton Calif., Dave Shawver stands next to boxes of hand sanitizer and cooling bags to be handed out to low-income families in Stanton, Calif. on Nov. 21, 2022. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
For the past few years, he and George Grachen, founder of Buena Park-based nonprofit Friends of Families, work to provide turkeys at food distribution. But Grachen said this year’s preparation—for his organization’s Nov. 19 giveaway in Stanton—had been particularly challenging….