EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Salvation Army handed out close to 1,000 Thanksgiving meals in South Central El Paso.
As part of its traditional Operation Thanksgiving, The Salvation Army in El Paso said it distributed over 800 Thanksgiving meals Thursday morning a the Red Shield Family Center located at 4300 E. Paisano Dr.
Joanna Estrada, the director of development for the Salvation Army in El Paso, explained that the drive-thru event began as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but then it stuck because the organization realized they could hand out more meals this way.
“We realized we were able to do more than four times the amount of meals that we were doing previously,” Estrada said…