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LIturkeydrive1122

The holiday is getting closer. There's a push today to make sure that every Long Islander has a turkey on their table. The 16th annual, that page Turkey Drive, it is going on right now and the turnout has been so great. That's where we find our very own meteorologist, Alex Cal and Alex, you know, Long Islanders, they are typically generous and we have seen so many turkeys coming in and out through all these drive throughs. I don't know if you can see my genuine excitement right now, Jen, I'm here talking with Randy Shubin Dresner, who is the president of Island Harvest. We literally just seconds ago, got the morning numbers in for the number of turkeys donated, Randy. Share the good news. How many turkeys are we at? We need a drum roll. 4860 turkeys right now, which is already over what we did last year. So we're really because that means that 4800 families are going to get a good holiday meal this year. That's unbelievable. It's more than 400 more than last year and the Turkey drive continues until six tonight. So, what other donations are you accepting? Which, by the way, it is cold out here. So it's a drive by, you know, you just drive here right off of South Oyster Bay Road and you bring your donations, whatever gifts can people bring to help support, you know, certainly frozen turkeys, but canned and packaged foods. We also accept gift cards and contributions and by the way, if you can't contribute, but you want to stop by and say hello, we'd love to have you and, and see you. So thank you very much. Please come by and support us. I love that. Thank you, Randy in between commercial breaks. We are dancing. There is a fantastic DJ out here too. So come out, enjoy it. This is what Thanksgiving is all about. And speaking of Thanksgiving.

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LIthanksgiving81122_2024-11-22-08-39-07

All right. We're back here at the Beth Page Turkey Drive. Always great to be joined by our next guest Long Island Zone, the former governor, David Patterson representing Sands International governor, $10,000. The big check here on display again today. Why is it so important? Well, it's just as important as when we did it the past few years that unfortunately, while we're all celebrating Thanksgiving, there are too many people that don't even have food on day. And so we thought we could chip in and try to make sure that everybody has a happy Thanksgiving and you know what, you know, how much of a need this is for so many and sometimes it's people that you may not recognize are dealing with food insecurity. Sure. And part of the insecurity is not just that they don't get the food, but they feel so bad about it that they don't speak out and let people know that they need to be fed governor. Good to have you. Thanks so much. Thank you Friday before Thanksgiving. It wouldn't be the same without you, Richard. All right, let's bring in a special group. The county PB A come on over. There's a lot of you guys come on, pack it in and we love big check. This may be the biggest check. Wow. Look at this 1 $5000. Bring on here two checks and make that. Let's make that $7500 to give the island harvest and the turkey drive today to make sure that long Islanders have food on their table. And honestly, no people than you guys who are out in the community who knows these people need help. It could be your neighbors. It could be someone you work with. We don't know. Absolutely. This is what we do. We're police officers, we risk our lives. We help people, not just when we're working, but this is our communities. Like you said, our neighbors, we're joined with the Nassau Detectives Association. We work together and this is what we need to do. Get back. So please everybody out there help us on our mission. Island Harvest is believable organization and we need you to come by before work during work, take a break and please donate because everybody deserves a hot meal and a turkey on Thanksgiving. It really resonates when you hear a story of maybe someone who couldn't get that extra side or that bigger turkey. And when you hear that you go, wow, anything I can do to help, I'm going to get down there. Of course, this is Thanksgiving is all about family, friends, community and put a smile on people's faces. So we, we're so happy and proud and honored to be here today. Thank you so much for giving back. Again. We got two checks, 2500 5000 $7500 to get back. There we go. We are pumped up. The DJ is going, you can come down all day long and ends at six o'clock and again, just roll down your window. That's right back to you. Jim says that. Let's go. Thanks guys.

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LIBethpage7301122_2024-11-22-07-40-49

Will be done to keep the traveler safe. We are live here in Beth Page, the Beth Page Turkey drive and we're in full gear and guess what? We brought the sun out all of a sudden the sun came out maybe just for a little bit, but we love it. We also brought Lessing out giving back in a big way. Look at this check, $10,000 guys. Why is it so important to you? So we've worked with Island Harvest on this for a number of years and Long Island is our home and we think this is a great way to support the communities that we call home and I love this. This is a prop. We got turkey. Let me see the turkey or whatever it's called 439. So we can add these two will make it 441 now. Great job blessings. Thanks so much for all. You do. Thanks so much. Let's bring in zh. Also from, come on here. He's on the board of Island harvest, major contributor and 200 turkeys again this year. Your kiosk, by the way, is very popular with the coffee. Thank you. Why does this mean so much to heart is giving 200 turkeys donating to island harvest to support their feeding, the hungry and 100 of the profit of the Pintail coffee goes to island harvest and we have over 45 0 Children hungry on Long Island. So please drink Pintail coffee so that all the profit goes to them and they can end hunger one cup at a time. Such a great mission. Always great to see you year in year out. Thank you. Thank you so much. All we want to bring in Amazon Fresh now. Thank you so much, Amazon Fresh here donating. We love big checks. I love this $5000 from Amazon Fresh and of course, you guys partner with island harvest to give back to people who are less fortunate. That's right. And this is our second partnership. We are one month old in the community. So we're really excited to be in this community growing together and we're also donating 100 turkeys for island harvest. So really excited about this partnership and thank you for having us here today. You know, it resonates when you think about, you know, it could be your neighbors who are maybe not have that big thing, Thanksgiving dinner and just this little bit can make a difference. It's those stories that really get people down here. Absolutely, everything helps. And again, this is a continued partnership as we grow through next year. So we really love having being here in this partnership with Alan Harvest and Beth Page so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right, we want to fill that truck. We're going to keep on going all morning long. Right. Rich. Yeah, we got to keep it rolling and we know those turkeys are rolling in general. Yeah, all the cars behind you guys. Ok. We'll check back in the bed. Thank you.

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LI7amturkey1122_2024-11-22-07-09-53

We are live here. And that at that page Federal Credit Union, accepting donations, trying to raise as much money and accept as many turkeys as we can today here. I want to talk to get right to these guests, to architects. You actually bought, brought Human Turkey today. You also brought a whole lot of turkeys, I think 1000 turkeys. So we're up to 1000 turkeys. We're still going to be collecting more today. So hopefully we are going to come here with 1200 turkeys. That's our goal for today. Unbelievable. We say something here at the drive every year. It's called Fill that Truck. Turkeys. Can you give me a fill that truck? All right. Thanks so much for H two M architects and all the turkeys you brought here today a great job. And Dave Lyons with PSG Long Island is here as well. Dave come right around here. Good to see you once again. And another big day for PSG G $10,000 right? How many Turkeys? 141 Turkeys, our employees, they are here to support. And uh you know, this is something that we love to do every year. I think this is our 10th year doing it. And uh we, we, this is our way of giving back to the community. It's good to see you guys here, year in year out, especially tough conditions, but it's starting to get nicer out there and certainly a lot of smiles today. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. And uh this is uh this islands island harvest. That's what it's all about giving back to the communities. All right, let's get the landsman family here because they are a family that raises so much money for this effort. And it's incredible because their daughter, Sara actually was a huge provider in this drive trying to get that money and I, we got to keep check. That's what we love to see, talk to me about what you did to help uh what I did. So like I posted like the um online link on like Instagram and like other social medias to have like my friends and other people like donate to island harvest. That's what it's all about and understanding what just either a simple turkey, even a simple couple of bucks, how it could affect families here on Long Island. Yeah, I did it for her by coming up. So congratulations. And thanks to you so much and all the giving that you give $25,000. We are very pleased to be able to give this check to Randy and I harvest this year, on behalf of prior Cashman and our family, $24,927. You got it. Thanks so much for this. Yes. Yes, we're very proud of for embracing our tradition that Barry started so many years ago. And it's always to work with Randy. I work with her throughout the year. So it's not just this event, but this is a very important event to our family and to help our less fortunate neighbors on the island. Always good to see you guys every year. Thanks again. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you guys. All right, we're going to send it back to the studio again. We want to fill that truck. Come on down. You don't have to get out of your car, just hand it right out the window. Heck, we'll go out and get it from out the window guys, Jen, we're going to send it back to you. I love to see it. Ok. We'll check back in a

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LIBethpage6301122_2024-11-22-06-40-59

All right, we are at the back page Turkey Drive. We brought the whole show down. They got me, Rich, Rich Hoffman is behind us doing the weather forecast. And of course, we have the volunteers and the people donating to make sure that this drive, we make all the money and collect all the turkeys. We can, we have Mike from Premier Payroll. Let's look at this. Wow, 400 Turkeys you're donating this morning. Yes. Can I get it? Why do you do this every year? This is your 10th year. I think this is our 10th year and there's just so many unfortunate people in need here on Long Island and we feel it's just right to get back. That's what it's all about. And knowing that this even just one turkey can make such a difference. 400 Mike. Let's get a, let's go for Mike. We also have other volunteers and Aaron Hargis and Mike as well from Rosenberg and Glove. Good to have you both here and $10,000 are a really significant donation. What does it mean to you to be a part of this? Why do you do it? Well, we you know, we like to get back to the community. It's near and dear to our heart in our business. We help people. And so we're just so grateful to be able to do it. And we've been doing this for a number of years and we're just so happy to be here. It's such an important. Thank you both and thank you to everyone who contributed. It's very significant. Thanks so much. All right, let's get our last guest on, come on. You know, I love big checks. I love a big check and this one is a big one. We have Fran and Don here from Leviton, $5000 that you guys are contributing today. I love these. Why is it important to you? We have Leviton cares and our employees are very concerned about the entire Long Island community. We volunteer with Long Island Harvest. We have donated non perishables. We have a lot of turkeys coming later. We want everyone to have a wonderful Thanksgiving again. What it's all about this is what we should be doing. We got to support those people who aren't as lucky as we couldn't have said it better myself. So that means you got to come on down if you could give anything or even just a couple of bucks, you don't even have to get out of the car. You can see we have a whole race way here. We have volunteers ready to grab anything out of the window. It is so easy is from 6 to 6 here in that at that page Federal Credit Union said it back into JJ. We're doing good over here. I love to see all the love and generosity and the big checks.

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LITurkeydonations11122_2024-11-22-05-41-03

Live here at the Beth Page Federal Credit Union Turkey Drive. We are going to be here, live all morning long and we're starting to get those donations coming in. We want to talk to Brian Frolik first because you give back every single year and it was 300 turkeys that Brian has here. Now to give to this event, you do it every year. How many pounds is that? 4000 pounds of Turkeys for Long Island families? And for Thanksgiving, me and Kenny are blessed to be able to do this. It's 11 year in a row and it's just a great feeling that we're able to give back for people watching. Why do you do this every year? You got to get back to your community, you got to give back, you make it, you got to give it back because there's a lot of families that need Thanksgiving dinner. What aside all those turkeys so true. Let's bring in Cameron here. Cameron step on in. Ok, Cameron's from office furniture direct and everybody focuses on the turkey. You make sure this is a well-rounded meal for everyone. Tell us what you've done here today. We're donating 170 cases of fresh fruits and vegetables to go along with the turkeys at the end of the day, a meal is not just the turkey itself, it's all the fixing. So there's fresh fruits and vegetables that are being provided for the families to go along with their turkeys. What does it mean for you to be able to contribute to this? You know, we, we've been here for a few years now and each year I think the feeling gets, gets better and better because you see that you're putting food on the tables of our neighbors, people that we work with, people that we live with that. Maybe we take it for granted that everyone has Cameron. Thank you. So we got turkeys, we got produce. But, you know, we love some money coming on down, come on down and David $10,000 you're presenting a check to island harvest today. Why is it so important to you? Well, this is part of the firm's culture at Mal Lippi is giving back to the community and it's one of the reasons I think that our employees have voted us Long Island best places to work two years in a row. So it's a wonderful event really quickly for people who don't have time to go get a turkey and come on down or produce or come on down money also helps because an island harvest can go by them. Exactly. You know, I'd be remiss if I didn't thank all the hard working volunteers and the employees of island harvest and all the other donors who make this event such a special event. And we're proud to be part of it for our fifth straight year. All right, we're going to send it back to the studio. But I think we have this huge check here. I just want to show everyone because it's so cool. A huge check. Right. Come on in. We're going to send it back to the studio J but first look at that. Here we go. We want to fill that today guys. So come on down the best Federal Credit Union is all morning long J. Love to see all that love and support there and rich. Thank you.

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LIBethpageturkey1122_2024-11-22-05-14-11

All right. Joining us. Now, here at the Turkey Drive is the President and CEO of Long Island Harvest, Randy, Supen Dresner, Randy. It's always good to see you. We are just blown away at the set up here. We're a little worried about the conditions. I don't think it will play a role today. You know, with a partner like Bethpage Federal Credit Union. This is going to be an absolutely incredible day. We have tents all over the place, but we have cones set up so people could just drive right through. We have an electronic tote board. So we know how many turkeys we've collected and we have just hundreds of volunteers that are going to be here today. A special thing that I see every year with you is how many people may turn on the TV. See us here have never given before and want to come down because it resonates to people that maybe their neighbor is struggling and something little they can do, can help someone on their holiday who would imagine that in a community where we have some of the wealthiest zip codes in the country, there are 221,000 people who are struggling with food insecurity. That's why we're here today because every turkey we collect is going to change a life for a family. And so we're here to hopefully collect well over 4400 and 50 turkeys so we can help thousands of our neighbors, our friends, our family this year, Randy. What's the key point for someone who's never come down before? They're thinking about it today? What do they need to know? Listen, bring frozen turkey. If you can bring a couple of cans of food or a case, bring a gift card, you can make a contribution here but just come by and show us your support. We all need to come together to help our neighbors in need this year. Um, so just come on by, couldn't have said it better. All right, we're going to be here, live all morning long again. It's so easy. Right on South Oyster Bay here at Bethpage Federal Credit Union. Come on by. Let's fill that truck and we'll send it back to the studio. Do it. Hopefully there's a big turnout. Thanks guys.

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News 12’s Erin Colton and Rich Barrabi were at Bethpage Federal Credit Union to kick off the drive.

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