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Just before dawn Tuesday, a truck holding a thousand frozen turkeys in cardboard pallets pulled up outside the headquarters of Suburban Access Outreach in Homewood, and volunteers sprang into action.

By the end of the day, those thousand turkeys would be distributed to churches, school districts and nonprofits across the south suburbs, who would ensure they reached families in need. Along with a turkey, each family received a grocery bag with boxed cornbread, green beans, stuffing mix and mashed potatoes.

“The demand is really high,” said Nicholas Koster, Suburban Access Outreach’s director of outreach. “We’re committed to meeting the need, whatever that need may be.”

Koster was stacking cardboard pallets of frozen turkeys into piles for pic

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