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Goodman Center Thanksgiving Basket Update 11-16-23 · Ask The Experts

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  We've got one week until Thanksgiving, and that means we are at crutch time
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  when it comes to rounding up food and getting everything ready for the Goodman Community
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  Center Thanksgiving basket drive. And joining us this morning from a Goodman Community Center
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  is Amy. Oh, Gamy, how you doing this week? Doing well?
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  Thank you? We've got a fan. You're going to share a fantastic
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  story about a very ambitious youngster, which I can't wait to hear. But
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  first, UH, let's play a little game, shall we. Sure,
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  we'll play a game called needed or completed? How about that? Oh?
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  I love it? I love it. We'll go through. We'll go through
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  all the items on the shopping list, of course, which you can get
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  as well at Goodmancenter dot org. That's Goodmancenter dot org. You can get
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  this list and uh and you can play along as well. And of course
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  the things that are needed head to the grow Restoring get those donations all right.
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  Starting with the first item, four thousand frozen turkeys needed or completed needed,
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  We still need about seven hundred and fifty and a little asterisk on all
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  of these, even the completed items, we're expecting to hand out more than
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  four thousand baskets this year. So if you're at the store and you're inspired
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  by one of those completed categories, go ahead and pick it up and bring
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  it to us. Well, glad we take it. There's always somebody out
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  there. So okay, so we need turkeys, turkey, canned vegetables needed
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  or completed needed. We are about halfway on those ones. Have a four
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  thousand to go there. Mac and cheese, boxes of mac and cheese needed
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  or completed, amy wells are completed. We had a huge donation come in
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  from the Kroger Corporation, so they gave us a great head start, and
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  then our community loves to donate that mac and cheese. But again, we
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  will take more. That's another one that if it doesn't go in a Thanksgiving
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  basket, it will go on the shelves of our pan and you know,
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  families love it, so we will gladly take more. There is something about
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  that's kind of that great that in pizzas that's absolutely prim household. We're like,
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  we got to run to soccer practice. What can we whip up a
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  box of mess It's a quick and easy dinner. Absolutely Talking with Avy Hog.
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  Of course, some good community center online Goodman Communitycenter dot org. That's
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  Goodman Communitycenter dot org. Playing needed or completed the list of items needed for
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  the Thanksgiving baskets. Of course, they serve four thousand plus Dane County families
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  on Thanksgiving. It's a fantastic program. How about gravy needed or completed on
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  the gravy front needed, We need a lot of it. That's one of
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  our lower categories. So if you bring anything, bring some gravy. Any
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  kind of gravy definitely important. You can't have Thanksgiving without gravy. How about
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  how about a Wisconsin staple? Of course, the cranberry state here in Wisconsin,
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  kans of cranberry sauce needed or completed needed? We're in about the same
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  state we are with the gravy. We need lots of cranberry. Oh my
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  goodness, so we got to get gravy, turkeys and canned cranberry sauce.
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  What about broth? Any kind of broth are we needed or completed on that
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  front? Still need somewhere about halfway on broth, halfway on broth. What
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  about stuffing? Oh my goodness, for Thanksgiving? What is Thanksgiving without stuffing?
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  Needed or completely needed? We need, we need a bunch of that
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  one too, a little more than great. We're like, we're a little
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  higher than gravy, but we still have a ways to go on that one,
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  all right. So what about vegetable oil, which is such an important
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  staple especially around the holiday. Yeah, that is actually completed. This is
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  a new one for us. Last year and this year we had a wonderful
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  donation come in from Ancora Coffee Shops and Sprinklin Realty. Together they donated four
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  thousand, eighteen bottles of oil. And then the community is turning out too,
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  and again that is another one. We're going to hand out more than
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  four thousand baskets. We will take more oil. We can always use it.
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  That is fantastic. And the final item is just a necessity for the
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  holiday and something that that's not edible, but aluminum roaster pans needed or completed.
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  Amy those are completed, Sean, this is the first time. Those
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  are one of the first things completed. And we're so excited. So just
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  a quick run through what is needed, especially everything is needed could be used
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  right now, but it's things that are especially important. Frozen turkeys, canned
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  vegetables, gravy, cranberry sauce, canned broth, and stuffing are the really
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  big things. Yes, those are the main things. Absolutely, folks need
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  to need to pick up and get donated. And let's talk about the donation
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  process and the drop off. I know obviously this weekend is going to be
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  a busy weekend for you guys. There's still time today and tomorrow to swing
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  by the gym. Is there to drop this stuff off? Yeah? Absolutely.
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  Our gym is open from ten am to seven pm. You know,
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  if you drop off, there's good chance I'll be there. I've been working
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  from our gym all week this week. It's so great to see the donations
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  come in. We also will have you know, volunteers there sorting the donations
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  as they come in, counting them so we can update that canned food countdown.
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  So yeah, well from ten to seven today, ten to seven tomorrow,
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  and then if we still need some of those category bills, which you
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  know we might over the weekend. We'll also be accepting donations on Saturday and
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  Sunday as well. We're just hoping to get as many as we possibly can
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  by the end of the day tomorrow. Today is the day, and today
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  and tomorrow are the days. And through the weekend. If if that's what
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  works best for you to get those get those things rounded up. And speaking
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  of getting things rounded up, Amy, one of the things that is amazingly
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  impressive is you talked about some of the area businesses that have really come through
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  so far on getting things like mac and cheese and those bottles of vegetable oil.
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  Very very great to see. We're also seeing just folks saying, you
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  know what I'm gonna I'm gonna get together some people and do my part.
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  And you've got a fantastic story about a very ambitious youngster. Yes, there's
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  a young lady named Louise who has hosted. This year was her fourth food
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  drive for US, and I believe she's twelve. So she started when she
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  was about eight, and her first year she set a goal of collecting one
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  hundred items and she hit that goal, and then each year she's gone up
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  one hundred items. So this year, being her fourth year, she set
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  a goal of collecting four hundred items from her family and friends and neighborhoods.
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  She went door to door sean like she was really committed to like hitting that
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  four hundred goals. She threw out a little fundraising thermometer that she filled in
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  as she counted the items, and it was amazing because I think it was
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  Tuesday evening. She delivered over four hundred items to it, so she hit
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  that goal. Great job, Louise, very proud to hear that stuff.
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  Little applause for as well, and it should be an inspiration for others.
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  As you're getting into the office this morning, send out a company wide all
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  emails, say hey, have folks share the list. You can get to
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  go to Goodmancenter dot org. Goodmancenter dot org. You can download the grocery
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  list, share that throughout the office today, have everybody bring it in tomorrow,
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  drop it off then on your way on your way home after work tomorrow.
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  There are still plenty of things in need. Everything could be used,
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  but especially as Amy pointed out, frozen turkeys, canned vegetables, gravy,
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  cranberry sauce, the can variety, broth stuffing. Those are things especially needed,
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  but anything on the lead a list could definitely be used. Again,
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  just head on over to Goodmancenter dot org. That's Goodmancenter dot org for all
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  the details, and again, share that list with your coworkers today and do
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  a round up tomorrow morning. If you haven't done that already, Amy,
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  we're gonna check in on Monday. Make sure everything went fantastic. I can't
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  wait to get the get the full recap. Thank you so much for all
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  the great work you do, and we will talk very soon. Sound great.
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  Thanks Don, And again that website Goodmancenter dot org. That's Goodman g
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  o O d m A N Center dot org, Dan O'Donnell. He has
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