LATHAM, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) – The Regional Food Bank is taking over the annual Thanksgiving Community Dinner, which was run by Equinox for 54 years. The food bank leadership and volunteers, restaurant and food partners, distribution site partners, donors, and local and state elected officials joined together Thursday to kick off preparations for distribution day taking place on November 23.
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The Regional Food Bank is planning this year’s Thanksgiving meal service program to be the area’s largest, with the addition of dozens of pick-up and drop-off locations. Tom Nardacci, the CEO of the Regional Food Bank, said this year will serve an unprecedented amount of people.
“We are going to feed 30,000 people,” Nardacci said. “We are going to provide about 150,000 meals. This will be the largest single food distribution in the history of the Capital Region, and we need to do it because the need this year is really high.”