Hitman Talks to Bobby Rodriguez HEB Feast of Sharing

H-E-B Feast of Sharing is a series of festive gatherings that serve more than 340,000 meals served at 34 dinners throughout Texas and Mexico. Filled with food, music, and good cheer, these free holiday feasts are open to the public and bring together family, friends and neighbors. Launched in 1989, H-E-B Feast of Sharing gives the company an opportunity to give thanks to its loyal customers and invites everyone to our holiday dinner table. In the more than three decades H-E-B has held the celebrations, more than 375,000 volunteers have helped serve nearly four million meals. Happening Dec. 23rd at the American Bank Center.

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Corpus Christy's Classic Kids Big ninety threeto nine? How are you tipming with
you? And I've Bobby from HBon the phone with me talking about Feast
of Sharing. Bobby, how areyou today? We're doing well. Thank
you so much for having me.So you're coming to Corpus CHRISTI hib will
be doing the Feast of Sharing onDecember twenty third at the American Bank Center
for people who've been living under arock. Because I know you've guys been

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doing this since even I was akid. Tell people about Fista Sharing.
Yeah, so we're actually celebrating ourthirty fifth annual Fiace of Sharing Dinner on
the twenty third at the American BankCenter. It's one of thirty four dinners
that we host across the state ofTexas and Mexico. And it's a place
where families and friends can come together. They can have a hot meal,

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they can come out and volunteer,they can enjoy some entertainment, some kids
activities. But it's the opportunity forthose who may need a hot meal for
the day can come by, theycan enjoy some festivities and just have a
great time in a safe as well. Yeah, now, I also read
on a report recently that besides thisis all part of the HIB hunger relief

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program and that you're also sending outholiday care packages to some military folks.
Yeah. So you actually work withour Operation Appreciation and we've been able to
send care packages and cross overseas throughthat. So even our own partners who
have worked with HIV and are currentlyare serving across seas will also receive a
care package with some of their favoriteHIB owned brand items. So anywhere you

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are, you know that you willalways love to see an HIB product product
with you. So it's just anadditional thing that we're doing every holiday season
just to really give people a senseof home and a sense of warmth.
Wow, that's great. You knowHib's feces sharing. Like I said,
it's been going on for many manyyears. It's been a great tradition.

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Now, are you guys still askingfor volunteers right now for coming up on
the twenty third Yeah? So actually, well, anyone that's interested to volunteer
can visit our website at voluntexas dotorg. There you can see the list
of roles that are available and thetime slot. So we really couldn't do
this about volunteers at dinner of thismagnitude, we're feeding over ten thousand people,

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requires a little bit over fifteen hundreddifferent unique opportunities for volunteers to come
out. We have plate builders,servers, pie deliveries, drink prep anything
and everything is needed to make thisevent really possible for us, and we
really couldn't do it about the helpof our volunteers and really the community.
This is the Community Dinner, andwe invite you to come out. If

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you can't volunteer, we invite youto come out and have a warm meal.
It's a Texas barbecue, so allthe fixtions included with it, so
we just want everyone to be ableto come out and have some fun with
us. Wow, that's really reallycool. People can also find out about
the feasis sharing happening on the twentythird here at the American Banks. They
could find that out also on agb'swebsite. Right, that's correct. They

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can go to HIV dot com,backslash Feast, or visit our newsroom atahibnewsroom
dot com. All right, Bobby, thanks a lot for giving us all
this great information. Yep, it'shappening on the twenty third American Bank Center.
It's the their annual Feast if Sharing. Man, it's hard to believe
how many years again, thirty thirtyfour, thirty five years. This will

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be our thirty fifth annual Piece ofSharing dinner. Wow, thirty fifth.
Congratulations on that. That's such agreat program. I know you guys have
been doing it for such a greata long time. It's helped out lots
of great people. Again, they'restill looking for volunteers. You can also
find out more details about that onHib's site. You could also find it
on our site. Any last thingsyou'd like to pass on about the Feast
of Sharing, No, we justhope everyone can come out and enjoy it,

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and we will want to wish everyonea safe and happy Christmas.