<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/bc3-to-provide-57-plus-with-thanksgiving-meal-packages.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>11/20/2023 01:21:14 PM</pubDate><title>BC3 to provide 57-plus with Thanksgiving meal packages</title><subtitle>Distribution to Pioneer Pantry patrons follows record fundraiser in 2023</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) She’ll slide the round, dark-wood table from the living room, where she and her intellectually disabled 24-year-old son will have watched the morning parades on television, into the dining room.</description><author/><image-caption>Butler County Community College student Marci Lockhart, left, watches as her Thanksgiving meal package is prepared by Valerie Fennell on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township. Lockhart, of Butler, is a student in the college’s associate degree career program in office administration-medical. Fennell, of Butler, volunteers at BC3’s Pioneer Pantry through AmeriCorps. At least 57 patrons of BC3’s Pioneer Pantry have registered to receive Thanksgiving meal packages in 2023.</image-caption><tags><tag>Year in Review 2023</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2023/bc3-lockhart-marci.jpg" alt="This is a photograph of women in pantry."/></image></item>