Excerpted from Orange County Register
By Mark Rightmere
A cheerful and well-caffeinated Bre Piantanida, volunteer engagement supervisor at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Irvine, spoke her instructions through her glitter-covered, personalized bullhorn to the first shift of 40 volunteers.
The crew from the Honda Center and Anaheim Ducks arrived on Thursday morning, Nov. 19, to begin packing the 7,000 boxes of Thanksgiving meals that will be given out at a drive-thru distribution on the holiday at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The Thanksgiving day distribution is expected to feed an estimate 29,000 people.