NY Jets, ShopRite Deliver 14 Tons of Thanksgiving Turkeys To Food Bank

HILLSIDE, NJ — New York Jets alumni Marty Lyons, Tony Richardson and Fred Baxter, along with New York JetsFlight Crew Cheerleaders, joined ShopRite to make a holiday donation to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.

The players and flight crew were on hand on Nov. 14, when ShopRite delivered 2,300 frozen turkeys, 2,000 bags of carrots, and another 2,000 pounds of potatoes to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.

The supermarket’s annual holiday donation is a longstanding ShopRite tradition that enables families to sit down to a traditional Thanksgiving meal.

Volunteers from ShopRite, the food bank and the New York Jets helped unload the donations for distribution to food pantries, soup kitchens and other organizations that help get the food to people in need.

Through its year-round hunger-fighting initiative, ShopRite Partners In Caring, ShopRite has donated more than a million pounds of holiday turkey over the last 17 years to food banks in the region. This year’s donation of 60 tons of turkeys has been loaded onto ShopRite trucks and is on its way to local food banks in six states.

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Photo 1: Cheerleaders from the New York Jets Flight Crew flank, from left to right, New York Jets alumni Marty Lyons, Tony Richardson and Fred Baxter during a ShopRite holiday meal donation at the Community Foodbank of New Jersey on Monday, Nov. 14. Karen Leies, vice president of resource development for the food bank, and Christine Magyarits, community relations manager for ShopRite, also pose for the photo. The New York Jets were on hand at the Community FoodBank of New Jersey Monday to help unload turkeys, carrots and potatoes donated by ShopRite.

Photo 2: Tony Richardson tosses a turkey to fellow New York Jets Alum Fred Baxter while Jets Alum and ESPN Jets radio analyst Marty Lyons unloads more food donated by ShopRite to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. New York Jets alumni teamed with ShopRite and food bank associates to help unload the Thanksgiving donation from a ShopRite truck on Monday, Nov. 14. ShopRite donated 2,300 frozen turkeys, 2,000 pounds of carrots and 2,000 pounds of potatoes to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.

Photo 3: Left to right: New York Jets alumni Marty Lyons, Tony Richardson and Fred Baxter team with ShopRite to make a holiday meal donation to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey in Hillside, NJ.

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