Organizations in Juneau are starting to prepare for the holidays by giving back to those who are in need.<\/p>\n
Every Sunday leading up to Thanksgiving, the Empire will publish a list of ways for people to donate food this holiday season. The list will grow as more organizations reach out.<\/p>\n
The Glory Hall Shelter<\/strong><\/p>\n • What they’re doing:<\/strong> Preparing between 150 and 200 Thanksgiving boxes for families to be given out in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n • <\/strong>What they need: Turkeys, pies, canned corn, canned beans, canned peas, stuffing, potatoes, butter, canned milk, any other Thanksgiving-themed foods<\/p>\n • <\/strong>Where you can donate: The Glory Hall, 247 S. Franklin St., or at Saturday’s Ski Sale<\/p>\n • <\/strong>When you can donate: Any day of the week between 7:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. People attending Saturday’s Ski Sale will also be able to donate. If people donate a food item there, they’ll get a free drink from Heritage Coffee. The first boxes will go out Nov. 17.<\/p>\n Southeast Alaska Food Bank<\/strong><\/p>\n • <\/strong>What they’re doing: Two large food drives, including their largest of the year on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n • <\/strong>What they need: Nonperishables, particularly peanut butter, canned fruit and soup. They will also need volunteers to help collect food on Friday and deliver it on Saturday. Volunteers can call Darren Adams at 209-7801.<\/p>\n • <\/strong>Where you can donate: Super Bear and Foodland IGA stores<\/p>\n • <\/strong>When you can donate: At Super Bear, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10. At Foodland, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16.<\/p>\n • Any local organizations that would like to add their names to this list should contact reporter Alex McCarthy at alex.mccarthy@juneauempire.com. This list will be updated throughout the week with any changes, and will be republished in next Sunday’s newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 Any local organizations that would like to add their names to this list should contact reporter Alex McCarthy at alex.mccarthy@juneauempire.com. This list will be updated throughout the week with any changes, and will be republished in next Sunday\u2019s newspaper.<\/b><\/p>\n Find out how to donate this holiday season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":38049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[204,491,492],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-charity","tag-donations","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38048"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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