More than 5,000 meals packed Wednesday at Easter for Thousands
Selbyville, Del. – Easter is right around the corner and community organizers are gearing up to lend a helping hand.
This morning, hundreds of helping hands came together to provide easter meals for thousands. “It’s a lot of planning more than anything else you can see the boxes in there all the retailers who support us by giving us different vegetables canned vegetables and so forth the box company who supports us, it’s really a team effort lot of planning good execution,” Philip Plylar, President of Mountaire Farms said.
It’s called Easter for Thousands and with the Holiday just days away volunteers Wednesday set a new record helping put a meal on Delmarva families’ tables. “Our goal today is this event is not as big as our Thanksgiving event but this will be a record Easter for us, maybe 5,000 cases today maybe more each box feeds a family of 4 so roughly 20,000 people. You can see the trucks in line here, they were lined all the way around the block all the way back to Food Lion so there just piling in parking forward abreast then we’re loading them up just as fast as they come all kinds of organizations from all over the eastern shore” said Plylar.
Working with Mountaire Farms, volunteers with the First State Marine Detachment came back for their second year to lend a helping hand. “We feel really good that we’re helping to support the community and we really appreciate what the Mountaire folks are doing for families that need assistance,” Commandant Bob Broderick, of the 1st Marine Detachment on the shore.
During tough economic times, community leaders say putting these meals on the table will help countless people. “The food is a vital part of people’s lives if we and the town and Mountaire can provide these services and the food that they’ve tremendously donated supports thousands and thousands of people around Delmarva,” said Selbyville Mayor Richard Duncan Sr.
He says events like these also help bring people into the town to visit shopping centers and explore Selbyville. Now that the packing day is complete, the community organizations that picked up the meals will deliver them to families in need.
