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State employees support annual Turkey Drop for holidays

November 15, 2012   Office of Public Affairs

The annual California State Employees Food Drive is underway and, today, the traditional Turkey Drop occurred at CDFA headquarters. Each year, state employees team with California Emergency Foodlink to sponsor the event, with donors providing frozen turkeys that are immediately loaded on a truck for prompt transport to a food locker. Next stop – Thanksgiving dinner! Nearly 1,400 turkeys were donated, totaling more …

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Holiday Spirit: Frozen Turkeys, Warm Hearts at CDFA

November 16, 2011   CDFA Staff

The back alley at CDFA headquarters hosted a parade of cars and trucks this morning, as drivers filed through to take part in the holiday “Turkey Drop.”  Chilly temperatures couldn’t keep folks away as the California Foodlink refrigerated truck steadily filled up with crate after crate of frozen turkeys – 447 turkeys in all, well past last year’s total of 351.  …

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