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All right, we're just two weeks away from Thanksgiving and Long Islanders are already jumping into action to make sure everyone has food on the table. This holiday today, the first annual Turkey Drive at Station Yards is taking place in Ronan Kama New. So Jen Selig is there right now, Jen. They're starting a new tradition. They are in a beautiful location too. This is a community center opening up their doors just a few weeks ago, residential living, local businesses and you guys are doing a lot to help out Long Islanders in need. This is Chris, you are the president of the Arthur Business Alliance and we are having the first Turkey Drive here. Yeah, we're so excited to be a part of this as the Macarthur Business Alliance. We, we just love what station Yards and the tr to community is brought to this area. I mean, this basically took an area that was kind of down trodden and put a whole new town out here and they've become a heart of this community already. Um And uh from an organization that just loves to give back. And so Macarthur Business Alliance and our business groups that are part of that. Just want to be a part of this great organization, this Great Turkey Drive that's going on. I know my company, we're gonna have boxes and boxes of stuff coming and we love the fact that we're supporting that. There's so many and we don't understand this on Long Island. Sometimes there's so many people in need that need food or food deficient. A lot of Children. And we're just so happy to be a part of that. And, you know, our group just loves what they're doing down here. So, so much. It's just, it's just a great, great organization, doing great work and we're happy to support it. I see you guys are helping out Long Island cars. We have boxes here. I know the truck is going to be here later. How can Long Island help out? They can come by and drop off a donated item. Yeah. So, you know, it's, uh, it's basically like your other food drives, but they're also, you know, turkeys, anything that people would need for the holidays, um, any kind of canned goods just come down and, uh, you know, come down and support the drive and then they're gonna have a great event afterwards around three o'clock. It's a, it's a wonderful place to hang out. Um, it's just a, it's a really cool vibe here now down at station yard. So we're just, it's exciting. I think you should just come down and see it if you haven't been here and understand what if you do if you have been here before and understand what the community looked like before and what it looks like now, it's two different worlds. But if you haven't been here at all, the great restaurants that are coming down the food trucks, all that stuff that they do here is just so wonderful. Now, there's a lot going on here from 730 to 6 p.m. We'll be here all morning long, going to send it back to you in the studio. Rich. All right, Jen. Thanks so much. We'll check back in just a little bit.

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Hey, good morning, Rich. And the Long Island Cares truck is parked here. We're ready to go kick off at 730 where Long Islanders can come down and bring in a donated item to help our neighbors in need. And with me, I'm with Ed mcnamara. You are the president of the Ron Kona Chamber of Commerce and it's all about volunteer work that you guys are doing here. We got a lot of people coming down this morning. Exactly. You know, it's no surprise in Ronconcoma that we have the volunteers from the high school macarthur Business Alliance across the chamber and uh station yards uh because this is what it's all about. Long Island. Long Island is taking care of each other and particularly in this case from con residents, taking care of uh other, other people in the community and the business community. They've been generous throughout the year. So we're asking everyone to come down with uh nonperishable goods uh and bring it down here if you can't do it today, get into contact with the chamber and we'll make sure we can pick it up for you. But we want to thank everyone for helping us out today, in particular, the business community and all the volunteers. It's so important and it's the first annual Turkey Drive for you guys. We're hoping for many more. So, why is it so important to do this? Well, obviously, uh we're concerned about food insecurities on Long Island. Uh We don't want anyone to go hungry and I know the business community is, is involved in that. And so this is a small step. I know. Uh for example, the one Conquer Rotary does a uh food pantry every Wednesday. We're trying to take steps to ensure that the community uh is being taken care of. It's not just about, uh you know, the beautiful buildings, it's about families that we deal with family and friends for sure. So you can come here 730 to 6 p.m. You guys will be here all day long and of course, we'll be here throughout the morning too. We're gonna send it back to you guys in the studio. All right, Jen. Thanks so much.

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In 30 minutes or so. From now, officially kicks off the first annual Turkey drive here at station yards and we got Long Island Care here, the truck and we got Bob the Barbara here here with Long Island Care. Good morning to you too. I know you guys have been so busy leading up to Thanksgiving and now to be part of another annual Turkey Drive, this is very special for you guys is, it's tremendous for us for Long Island. Chaos to be here this morning at station yards and to be part of this Turkey Drive, we hope to collect a lot of food. Our goal is to feed over 20,000 families for Thanksgiving this year. And you know, there's so many members of the community that need help right now. So this is a really important day for us, you know, food insecurity here on Long Island. We've done several stories on it. It's real, it's here, right? Um Long Island cares distributes over 15 million pounds of food annually, right? And um when we get help from the community like this, it makes such a difference. So we're hoping people will come down and bring turkeys, uh, frozen chickens, um, canned goods and traditional food like uh stuffing mix and so on. So we can get that food back out of the next few weeks. I love it and let's just pan over to this big check here. $7500 feeding over 4500 meals. This is such an honor, so special. And for Long Islanders to help out watching right now, you can come down from 730 to 6 o'clock will be here all day long. You guys will be here all day long, collecting a bunch of donated items. So come on down and that the late here I send back to you in the studio, which all that is a great thing. They're doing their j Thanks so much.

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We are just two weeks away from Thanksgiving and Long Island is already jumping into action to make sure everyone has food on the table this holiday. And today the first annual Turkey Drive at Station Yards is taking place in Ronan Coma and New. So she cig is there right now. And Jen, we've already seen some drop offs, right? Hey, Rich. It's a team effort here. And yes, the goal is to fill up this bin and boxes and many more with Turkeys and all the Thanksgiving goods, Bob with Long Island cares. You've been here throughout the morning with us. It's really rewarding for you guys to be here and partner and to make this happen. The first annual Turkey Drive here at Station Yard, yes, we've already received several donations, which is great of turkeys and food items. And there's so many ways people can help. Certainly, you can get all our information at cares.org everything you need to know about our organization and what we do and for volunteering and for donating. The whole goal is to feed every Long Islander, especially on Thanksgiving. Absolutely. We want everyone to have a good meal on Thanksgiving and there's so many families out there that need help right now. So definitely, that's our goal. And for that to be possible, we're with Jimmy now at Tri, the real estate company here with Station Yards and for you guys to partner with all, you know, local businesses groups. It's all important. Absolutely. I think it definitely starts with Long Island Carers. They've done an incredible job of addressing food and security on Long Island. Over the years, the numbers are pretty staggering over 220,000 people that may not know where their next meal is on Long Island right now. We've been lucky enough to partner with them over the years. Um We're partnering with them today along with the macarthur Business Alliance Chamber of Commerce and the Sage and School District. Um, anything you can do if you can come down, it makes a huge difference. Um So, you know, anything you can donate, we would really appreciate it. I love it, Jimmy. Thank you so much. You guys will be here until six o'clock. Of course, we have all this information on our website as well at news.com Rich. Back to you in the studio. All right, Jen. Thanks so much.

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Alright. Thanksgiving is almost here and today Long Islanders will be helping their neighbors ahead of the big day. The first annual Turkey Drive is being held at station yards in Rank Conka. That's where we find our Jen Selig, who is there this morning, Jen, what's going on there? Well, Rich, the drive officially has kicked off. In fact, we had some people come extra early to drop off donated goods, which we love to hear that. Of course, I with Bob, you're with Long Island cares and you guys are so busy ahead of Thanksgiving and it's just an honor to be here today to help out. Great. Thanks. Yeah, we are. So we are collecting food today, Thanksgiving food. Our goal is to feed over 20,000 families this season and any help we can get from the community to come down to make a donation. Um It really helps our mission goes a long way and you guys aren't just taking the Turkeys. Are you taking everything that we have at the Thanksgiving table? Absolutely. We do this year round. So Long Island chaos distributes over 15 million pounds of food annually. More than a million pounds every month and any, any type of food we were able to use that and help insecure food, insecure members of the community. So it goes a long way, the donations we receive. So folks can come here before work during their lunch break, after work. There's a lot of fun happening here. Yes. So we'll be here all day and at three this afternoon there's going to be live music and students from state schools will be down helping us sort and collect food. So it's going to be, it's going to be a good day. It's going to be a good event. I love it. We already have someone coming in to drop off a turkey. What's your name? Kaylee? And what made you want to come out? So Early Station Yards is just a wonderful community, doing great things and it feels good knowing that I'm making a difference. I love it so you can put the turkey in the bin and hopefully we'll get many more as the morning continues in the afternoon as well. We'll be here until six o'clock back to you guys in the studio. How great is that? And a sense of community there at Station Yard. Love to see it, Jen. Thanks so much.

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With two weeks to Thanksgiving. Long Islanders are jumping into action to make sure everyone has food on the table today. The first annual Turkey Drive at Station Yards is taking place in R Panama News twelve's Jen Selig is there for us with how things are going yet. We're right by the train station at station yards and you can see Long Islanders are doing their best dropping off donated goods, bags of donated goods. I can't forget about the turkeys either. We've had so many turkeys come by already. It's all about feeding our neighbors who try the real estate company with Station Yards is partnering up with Ron Chamber of Commerce. Long Island Cares and also the Macarthur Business Alliance all to make sure that everyone has food on Thanksgiving Day. We are planning on to feed over 20,000 families for Thanksgiving, but we do this year round. So we distribute over 15 million pounds of food annually. Uh So this is something that this is our mission. This is something that we do. Anything you can do if you can come down, it makes a huge difference. Um So you know, anything you can donate uh we, we would really appreciate it and the goal is to fill up the truck. We got some turkeys making their way in the bins already. You can calm down at until six pm to drop it off. Of course, we have all the information on News twelve.com, so many generous Long Islanders. We love to see that. Indeed. Thank you Jan.

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News 12's Jenn Seelig is live from the inaugural Turkey Drive at the new Station Yards in Ronkonkoma, benefiting Long Island Cares for the holiday season.

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