Urgent: Thanksgiving Donations Needed for Families

Town of Chevy Chase officials say they need about $1,425 more in donations to provide bountiful food baskets to all 80 Montgomery County Public Schools families being served this Thanksgiving.

Grocery shopping for the food baskets starts on Friday.

All donations are welcome: $25 purchases a turkey; $50 purchases groceries; $75 purchases an entire Thanksgiving basket.

If you would like to be part of this neighbor-to-neighbor effort, drop off a check (made payable to YMCA-YFS) or Giant/Safeway gift cards to the Town Office or Georgia Guhin at 4006 Rosemary St. Georgia’s mail slot is available if she is not home.

Stop by the Town Hall on Saturday, Nov. 21, between 1 and 3 p.m. to help decorate the boxes.

Thanksgiving provides much loved days off for kids, but for many parents the holiday strains family food budgets, organizers said. The Town’s contribution of 80 dinner baskets, now in its seventh year, is part of a larger county effort that helps MCPS families with groceries, not only for a Thanksgiving meal, but throughout the long holiday weekend.