Good Samaritan Ministries recently recognized Tye and Kelley Cope of Santa Anna Custom Processing who are partners in The Deer Project. The plaque recognizes the processor’s participation since 2009.

Tye and Kelley Cope have been owners of Santa Anna Custom Processing for almost two years.

Partnering with hunters, landowners and area processors, Good Samaritan’s Deer Project provides protein to needy families via the donation of legally harvested white-tail deer during hunting season.  Hunters are able to use their extra hunting tags by simply taking their legally harvested and tagged deer to one of the participating processors.

At a greatly reduced rate of $1 per pound, the processors will grind the meat into two-pound chub packs ready to be picked up and put in the freezers of GSM.  It costs the hunters nothing but the time it takes to take the deer to the processor and tell them they want to donate to The Deer Project.

Pictured left to right are: Angelia Bostick, Executive Director of GSM, Kelley and Tye Cope, and Curtis Shults, Chair of The Deer Project.