Miller Foods in Avon Takes in Donations for Foodshare

Submitted by Barbara Thomas

On-air celebrities from Lite 100.5 WRCH, a supporter of the Jack Bannan Memorial Turkey Trot for Foodshare, took donations Nov. 19 at Miller Foods in Avon, one of the drop-off spots for the food drive.

Mitchell Auto Group, headquartered in Simsbury, purchased 35 turkeys from Miller Foods to donate to the Turkey Trot, Foodshare’s largest one-day Thanksgiving food drive. Started by the late Jack Bannan, Farmington Valley’s Turkey Trot is now coordinated by his daughter, Marianne Bannan, who stopped by Miller Foods to say thanks.

Standing in back, from left, are Cal Miller-Stevens and Cam Miller-Stevens of Miller Foods, Alan Camp of WRCH, Marianne Bannan, Mike Stacy of WRCH, Jill Mitchell and husband Aaron Gettinger from Mitchell Auto Group, and Capri Frank of Miller Foods, with turkey in hand. In the bottom row, from left are: Patrick Horne of Miller Foods, Beth Ferrari, a Turkey Trot volunteer, and Deborah White and Mary Ellen Gosselin, volunteers for Christmas Wish, another WRCH charity.