COEUR d’ALENE — The Red Hot Mamas will be talking turkey to help feed the needy.

Turkeys For All, a local nonprofit, announced the Red Hot Mamas will perform at the organization’s annual fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 23 at the Best Western Plus Coeur d’Alene Inn.

The evening will kick off at 5:30 p.m. with live music, a performance by the RHMs and live and silent auctions. The fundraiser benefits Coeur d’Alene’s largest food bank, Community Action Partnership. In 2014 Turkeys for All donated more than $18,000 worth of food to the food bank.

“Turkeys For All collects year-round with a goal that everyone has enough to eat at Thanksgiving,” said Jim Myers, TFA organizer. “We try to make sure the food bank doesn't run out during the holiday season.”

Carolyn Shewfelt, food program manager at CAP, said last year, with the donation from TFA, the foodbank was able to provide 2,600 families with Thanksgiving dinner.

“It has completely changed our program,” Shewfelt said.

Shewfelt said Myers showed up several years ago to donate food and asked what he could do to further help the food bank. Myers returned the next year to volunteer his time during Thanksgiving.

“He was out there directing traffic and he was having to turn people away on the first day,” Shewfelt said. “We just didn’t ever have enough turkeys.”

She said Myers told her he was worried about the families he had to turn away for Thanksgiving dinner that day.

“He couldn’t sleep over it,” she said. “So he thought up the Turkeys For All program in the middle of the night and made it happen on his own.”

Through the support of Super 1 Foods, TFA is able to order and purchase turkeys in bulk. Shewfelt said Super 1 works with the nonprofit to provide the birds that are worth much more than TFA is charged by the locally owned grocery store.

“It’s actually about $30,000 to $40,000 worth of turkeys to do this program,” Shewfelt said. “This year, with the price of turkeys going up, it could be over $60,000 in value.”

Myers said they hope to meet and beat the funds raised in previous years.

The fundraiser will provide for the turkeys but Shewfelt said the food bank is always in need of food donations to complete the Thanksgiving dinners.

“Our pantry is very low right now,” Shewfelt said. “We hope the community doesn’t wait until the week of Thanksgiving to start giving.”

Tickets for the Oct. 23 benefit are $25 and are on sale now. For more information or to purchase tickets contact Myers at (208) 651-6921. Donations to TFA can be made by calling Myers, mailing a check to 2151 N. Main St., No. 208, Coeur d’Alene 83814, or at any Mountain West Bank.