Free, traditional Thanksgiving meals are being offered to anyone in need across Mid-Michigan. Hundreds of pounds of donated food items and volunteer hours make them possible.
More than 20 years ago, a group of volunteers came together on behalf of Catholic Charities of Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties to provide a fresh turkey dinner with all the fixings, according to Yvonne Sampson, the organization’s chief operating officer.
“Catholic Charities has a commercial kitchen and a dining area that can feed between 150 and 200 people,” Sampson said. “This group has continued to recruit new volunteers year after year, so there are some that have been doing it for a long time.”…