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Show "The potential good that can be banks. This does not include food be donated. K-Morf donates Thanksgiving baskets the trimmings to over 44,000 needy families. "Thanksgiving is traditionally a time to give thanks. K-Mart's Thanksgiving Food Basket Program helps to carry out that tradition for those less fortunate,' said Joseph E. Antonini, K-Mart's chairman of the board and chief executive officer. offi-cer. "This program has proven to provide a memorable holiday for everyone associated with it and symbolizes the spirit of Thanksgiving," Thanksgiv-ing," Antonini added. K-Mart Good News Committees are organized by employee volunteers vol-unteers in each store and are actively active-ly involved in year-round programs in the communities surrounding their K-Mart store. According to Burrow, the plans for the next project have already been slated for the early part of December. K-Mart will invite 20 to 30 needy children to have breakfast and go on a shopping spree in the local store. Some of the tentative plans also include that Santa Claus will come to the store in a helicopter and the kids will go "shopping with a cop" with a $20 certificate. For the last two years, Burger King has gone in on the program and furnished the breakfast for the participants. The date and all the plans have not been finalized for this Christmas project yet. Burrow said. Good News programs have received national recognition for their overall community relations programs and honored with service awards. By PAULCHALL1S WOODS CROSS-The K-Mart store in Woods Cross is furnishing 30 local families with Thanksgiving dinner through the efforts of the K-Mart K-Mart Thanksgiving Food Basket Program. According to store manager Randy Ran-dy Burrow, K-Mart is working with Social Services, who will distribute the baskets to needy families in Davis County on Monday, Nov. 19. K-Mart employees have donated time and money to the project to help poor and needy families in Davis County. Burrow said it takes about 15 people to do the leg work which includes grocery shopping and individually preparing and stocking of the laundry baskets. When the volunteer service is all totalled, about 40 hours will have been donated by the employees in getting the baskets ready. Burrow added that K-Mart has worked with Social Services for the last two years on the Thanksgiving project and it has been very successful. suc-cessful. The food baskets will consist of a turkey, potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, bread and pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce and apples and oranges. or-anges. "It is a very nice basket when it's completed,' he said. For the sixth consecutive year, K-Mart K-Mart Good News Committees will provide nutritious Thanksgiving meals to families in need. Since the program was initiated, K-Mart associates as-sociates have provided over 254,000 families across America with a Thanksgiving meal. This year the 4,000 K-Marts across the country will provide turkeys and all |