St. Peter's Community Food Pantry gives 430 Thanksgiving meals to Clifton families

St. Peter's Community Food Pantry provided Thanksgiving turkey dinner to hundreds this holiday weekend and also refilled its emptying shelves.

Clifton's only food pantry located on Clifton Avenue was able to provide 430 families with a Thanksgiving turkey dinner last year, along with gravy and cranberry sauce, thanks to donations made by local residents, said Rev. Peter DeFranco, priest at St. Peter's Episcopal Church and a director of St. Peter's Community Food Pantry.

"We anticipated 330 turkeys coming in," said DeFranco, explaining some were provided and some were donated. "The variable was donations. We anticipated 100 and we got 200. We were overwhelmed by that."