Elks and Holt Ministries volunteers Wayne and Sue Zamora, Toni Hench, Renee Punzel and Charlotte Myers load a complete Thanksgiving meal with a Butterball turkey and pumpkin pie to a happy family’s car Nov. 18 at the Elsinore Community Annual Turkey Giveaway. Valley News/Tony Ault photo
On Saturday, Nov. 18, the Lake Elsinore/Wildomar Elks Lodge was the site of hundreds of family cars being ushered through its parking lot to pick up fully stocked boxes of Thanksgiving holiday meals with Butterball turkeys and all the trimmings.Families welcomed the efforts of more than 50 volunteers handing out the 1,000 boxes of Thanksgiving holiday meals to families across the Valley. The volunteers from Holt Ministries, Centerpoint Church, the Elks and others were rewarded with the smiles and a sincere “thank you” from those receiving the boxes and their own personal feeling of the true thankfulness in giving.The Thanksgiving meal giveaway is perhaps the largest in the valley and the result of a message from God, says Evangelist Davis Holt, Holt Ministries, who for the past
