At least 75 Summit Hill families in need will have a bountiful Thanksgiving table this year.

The Sons of American Legion Post 316 recently donated $2,000 to the borough’s food pantry to help local families celebrate Thanksgiving.

The money will be used to purchase frozen turkeys and the sides, which will be distributed by the pantry.

The group has been donating money for frozen turkeys on Thanksgiving since the 1990s, and according to Joe Zubek, SAL finance officer, this donation brings the total given to the pantry by the group to nearly $30,000.

The donation is the organization’s annual community project.

“We are happy to do this,” he said. “People need help more than ever right now with this pandemic so we continue our donation to help our neighbors. Everyone deserves to have a Thanksgiving meal.”

Rose Marie Armon, director of the Summit Hill Food Pantry, told Zubek that any leftover money will be used for any other needs of the Summit Hill food bank.

To raise the money for this donation, the group holds various fundraisers throughout the year.

The Summit Hill Food Pantry is a division of Shepherd House, an entity that contracts with government agencies to receive state and federal funding to help the needy. Shepherd House provides some nonperishable food items, but the majority of food distributed in the borough is donated by Summit Hill residents.