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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. - The station food locker, sponsored by the Navy Wives Club of America Miramar #122, rallied volunteers to help in the creation of approximately 650 Thanksgiving meal boxes aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Nov. 18.
For more than 20 years, the food locker has been providing free meals for families in need aboard the air station. E-5 and below service members as well as their spouses are offered frozen food items, milk, eggs and a variety vegetables monthly. Bread is also available daily. All groceries are supplied by donations from the local community.
The food locker is a volunteer-run organization led by Peggy Brandenburg, who founded the food locker in 1990. It provides two-week supply food baskets for any military family aboard MCAS Miramar who needs assistance.
“We make sure and provide for anyone who needs help,” said Brandenburg. “People in San Diego bring in food and cash donations to me sure everyone is taken care of, and we make sure it goes to people that don’t have enough on their plates.”
This year’s donations were able to supply more than twice the amount of Thanksgiving meals of 2010. While only 300 Marines and sailors signed up for assistance last year, 650 families requested a Thanksgiving meal basket this year.
“I was shocked to see so many people on the list this year, but we actually ended up having more than what was requested,” said Brandenburg. “Someone donated an additional 200 turkeys at the last minute.”
The meal boxes were designed to create a complete traditional Thanksgiving dinner including a turkey, vegetables and a pumpkin pie.
Marines, airmen and civilians from across the air station gathered at the food locker to create the multitude of meals.
“I came out here because I think it is important to help people that may not have as much as some others do,” said Sgt. Vieto V. Salas, a food service technician with Marine Wing Support Group 37 and a Los Angeles native. “The food locker helps out a lot of people on base. It is great to see everyone working together to help those who need a little extra during the holidays.”
Many of the volunteers who created the meal packages returned Nov. 21 to aid the food locker staff with the distribution process.
The volunteer staff was able to break the record for largest amount food distribution from the food locker this Thanksgiving holiday.
The food locker staff and service members who give their time to maintain and distribute groceries continue to feed families across MCAS Miramar.
To volunteer, contact Peggy Brandenburg at 858-577-6550.
| Date Taken: | 11.18.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 11.22.2011 19:07 |
| Story ID: | 80450 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, CALIFORNIA, US |
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