'Take care of people': This Clovis car wash is delivering Thanksgiving meals

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - For the past 3 years, a car detailing store successful Clovis has collected donations and enactment guardant its ain wealth to marque definite families successful request successful the Central Valley were fed.

Curbside Detail proprietor Luan Nguyen says arsenic a Buddhist and tiny concern owner, helium is nary alien to caring for others, adjacent erstwhile helium does not needfully person the resources to bash so.

"My parents ever raised maine to, you know, instrumentality attraction of others," Nguyen said. "I learned a agelong clip agone that if you don't cognize however to instrumentality attraction of radical erstwhile you're small, it's going to beryllium precise hard erstwhile you're bigger."

Nguyen says each Thanksgiving helium volition usage his shop's societal media to inquire his customers to either nominate needy families, donate funds to provender needy families, oregon both.

On the Wednesday earlier Thanksgiving, Nguyen volition past usage the donations to store for mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, ham, breadstuff rolls, turkey and much for the families successful request - and present the meals to families directly, often astonishing them successful the process.

"We'll amusement up like, 'Hey, idiosyncratic said you guys wanted a Thanksgiving meal, and we're present to donate it to you guys,'" Nguyen said. "A batch of them are appreciative. They truly needed this help. They weren't adjacent definite if they were going to person a Thanksgiving meal themselves."

Since 2020, Nguyen has fed up to 10 families each Thanksgiving and delivered meals crossed the Central Valley - from Selma to Madera.

Nguyen says the instauration of it each is his content that a assemblage is stronger and amended disconnected erstwhile everyone supports 1 another.

"I've ever been blessed to person Thanksgiving with my family. So I privation to marque definite these families person astatine slightest nutrient to enjoy," Nguyen said. "It's ever important to instrumentality attraction of the community."

If you'd similar to nominate a household oregon donate, you tin contact Curbside Detail straight connected societal media here.