<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/bc3-distributes-record-83-thanksgiving-meals.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>11/21/2025 12:58:06 PM</pubDate><title>BC3 distributes record 83 Thanksgiving meals </title><subtitle>College’s food security team responds to low-income students </subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) Without the meal package she received from Butler County Community College’s food security team, Thanksgiving “would have been a hardship,” said a 39-year-old BC3 student from Crawford County who plans to spend the holiday with her husband, three children and brother-in-law.</description><author/><image-caption>A portion of a record 83 Thanksgiving meal packages for low-income Butler County Community College students is shown Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in the hospitality kitchen on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township. The Thanksgiving meal packages were requested by students attending BC3 @ Armstrong in Ford City, BC3 @ Brockway in Brockway, BC3 @ Lawrence in Shenango Township or BC3’s main campus.</image-caption><tags><tag>Holistic Support</tag><tag>Pioneer Pantry</tag><tag>Student Support</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2025/BC3_Thanksgiving_111825_a.jpg" alt="This is a photograph of Thanksgiving meal packages"/></image></item>