Moved by tragedy, veteran gives turkeys, potatoes

By Mollee Francisco

With a trunk full of frozen turkeys and a back seat stacked high with bags of russet potatoes, John McGinnis pulls up in front of the CAP Agency on Village Road in Chaska.

The 75-year-old Chanhassen resident, accompanied by a broad smile and dressed in a respectable pair of gray slacks and a red-striped sweater, slowly ambles out of his car to open the trunk. It isn’t long before CAP Agency Volunteer Coordinator Julie Falkenstein appears with a big blue cart to help haul the goodies into the busy food shelf.

“This is great,” Falkenstein says to McGinnis, who continues to smile as he pulls a cardboard box containing the turkeys out.

Chanhassen Villager