BY PHIL CUSTODIO
Clarkston News Editor
This holiday season, Nick and Becky Thomas of Clarkston Food Express want to help their neighbors.
Through Dec. 23, their restaurant meal delivery service will donate a portion of every order to employees of the Lakes Grille, which burned down last week. Several local business are offering donations and job openings to help out.
“It’s great to see businesses get involved,” Becky said.
“We’ve worked with Lakes Grille since we started. The building has been a big part of this community,” said Nick. “It’s a great restaurant in a great community. We want to do what we can to help.”
They’re also helping with a blanket-collection drive by Nick’s mother, Annette Thomas, for My Brother’s Keeper emergency shelter in Flint.
“If anyone has blankets to donate, our drivers will pick them up at home,” Nick said.
For more information, email Clarkstonfoodexpress@gmail.com or check them out on Facebook.
The second annual Warm Heart Giveaway will be on Dec. 25 from 9 a.m. to noon at My Brother’s Keeper. Donations will be given away to those in need, and include new blankets, hats and gloves, boots and shoes, winter coats, sweatshirts, pants, undergarments, pajamas, bathrobes, shower shoes, twin sheet sets and pillows, blankets, toiletries, mesh laundry bags, backpacks and totes, gift cards and cash donations for men, women, boys and girls.
Annette has a collection box at Keller Williams Realty at 8031 Ortonville Road. For more information on the donation drive, email her at annette.thomas007@gmail.com or call 248-821-8911.

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