COMPTON, Calif -- They showed up at MLB Urban Youth Academy at 3 in the morning Tuesday and waited seven hours to get their free turkey at the 11th Annual Healthy Family Update and Turkey Giveaway, a community event that started in 2004 with 300 turkeys given out to low-income families. In 2015 the number has risen to 11,000. So members of the local community and politicians joined with the Dodgers and the baseball community to help hand out the turkeys.
"It's a wonderful thing, but at the same time it's also a sad thing," said California State Senator Isadore Hall III, who originally created the event and whose 35th District represents Compton.