LCAC Talks Turkey At The Lakewood Arts Festival

Alison Breckel LHS Teacher and LCAC Board Member
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Lakewood Charitable Assistance Corporation (LCAC) made their Lakewood Arts Festival debut this year with a booth featuring information about how we serve families here in Lakewood as well a cut out of a turkey that allowed people to have their picture taken as a turkey. Over 100 attendees participated in the Turkey Shoot photo opportunity. To see some of the fun photos and learn more about our organization, please visit our website www.lcac.info.

The LCAC (better known as “the food drive people”) is a 25-year-old organization known throughout Lakewood for the food baskets that are delivered to 600 needy families and seniors over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Each recipient gets all the makings for a complete holiday meal - a 10 pound turkey and all the fixin’s, as well as a week’s supply of food staples. “We just try to make the holidays a little bit brighter for those in need,” explains Dave Rothhaas, Board Member and 20-plus year veteran of the organization.

“LCAC’s goal for the Arts Festival was to get more people in and around Lakewood to understand who we are and what we do...plus have a little fun!”  states Jeff Worron, LCAC president. And that they did!

Besides taking pictures of residents as turkeys, LCAC board members were on hand to answer questions, raise money for our holiday food drives, and hopefully gain some new volunteers to help us this holiday season. To learn more about how to help, please visit www.lcac.info.

“We were ecstatic about the response we received at the Arts Festival,” comments Worron. “We were able to distribute over 1000 coupons for our FIVE GUYS Burgers and Fries Dine and Donate Fundraiser (thank you FIVE GUYS!!), talk to hundreds of Art Festival participants about what we do and how they can help, plus we raised over $300 in donations from people who just wanted to help their fellow Lakewood residents.”

Many thanks to Holly Launch for helping us get into the Festival as well as all of our volunteers and sponsors who make what we do possible!

Watch for the LCAC Turkey Shoot at next year’s Lakewood Arts Festival and until then check out our website www.lcac.info for more information. In the meantime, remember that our holiday food drives are always the weekend before Thanksgiving and the weekend before Christmas. We hope to see you there!