Grateful Gobbler

We talk to a decked out official with the Grateful Gobbler walk about the changes this year because of the pandemic.

He was 12 by your needs as well now and 30 yesterday and beginning in the mild preparing for the great gobbler what they can that each year on thanksgiving and joining now an that they make ride that evenin that they did evening thank you for joining us a little bed that was going to be a little this year but now very important because it's raising money for very important cause ... yes as we been paying the pandemic will one day go away but homelessness and which we will probably not on so this year we obviously couldn't brin 5000 people to coolidge park like we usually do so we decided to do a 100% virtual lot we encourage families to identify friend family members mall groups to walk together en route to the jews in the community in the neighborhood limited like to they still look at the longsleeved t-shirt which is very popular and the best news is it every single penny that they raise will go to the mcclellan shelter for family which is so important that the and make such a difference righ here and the tennessee valley for folks, don't know exactly what does will show you is merely one-of-a-kind it allows families to stay together while they seek permanent housing in most shelters use separated by gender so if your mom with 15- year-old son and a nine-year-ol daughter you send that on to an all-male shelter at the mcclellan shelter you stay together and the funds that we raise support physical shelter but in recent years with also been able to on allocate funding for transportation and childcare so while you staying there you can go and look for a job and have your child watch b nine care givers lately that's what made you decide that you want to help with this in our community and make a difference in family peoples life and i both work in the section 8 housing industry and the director the change in housing authority it would seem the effects of homelessness and tha one day i saw a woman with six kids unload her two children out of the back of u-haul truck and just realized that parents were electing to live in cars in try because of that gender split it was happening and so this is extremely important in our community will continue to try despite the pandemic we are going to move it forward raise the funds the so very important as so very important that the iraq folks and like to register tell them where they do that sure he can go to great gobbler walk.ward and you can register on to get your t-shirt with the hand kind of got the drive to pick up on saturday before thanksgiving and the day before thanksgiving or alternatively you can elect to have us mail you the t-shirt if you don't want to get in any kind of a crowd is great information that can a lot of folks i can participate in this event we participate in it every year and make such a difference right here in our community and you know what that will live here anywhere if you rely that and so fine i love the hat each year and come out with something new and it's just the cutest thing right around thanksgiving willing to some nice studios yo can have the money but if we can't be together well have a w will be together and we met in you in person and anything about the thanks for joining us this evening as for having us we appreciate your support always some