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November 25, 2015
Thanksgiving at Union Gospel
Union Gospel Mission will be host-
ing a Thanksgiving meal for the home-
less and anyone in need on Thanksgiv-
ing Day, Thursday, Nov. 26 from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. in a large tent in front of
the downtown mission.
Close to 200 volunteers will be in-
volved in the preparation and serving
of the free Thanksgiving dinner. In ad-
dition to the traditional holiday meal,
guests will receive cold weather gift
bags, which contain hats, gloves and
scarves. Union Gospel Mission will
also have snack packs for guest to take
with them after the event which con-
tain cookies, chips and a soda.
A big vat of gravy gets stirred by a
Union Gospel Mission volunteer for a
Thanksgiving meal for the homeless
and anyone in need. The mission
serves this year’s traditional holiday
meal on Thursday, Nov. 26 from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Food Cart
Opens to Needy
Holiday Meals for Homebound
Meals on Wheels to serve isolated seniors
Nola’s Southern Cuisine , a food
cart located across from Wells Fargo
Bank in the 5800 block of Northeast
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
will be giving out free Thanksgiving
dinners to those in need on Thanks-
giving day, Thursday, Nov. 26, from
1 p.m. until 3 pm.
“We are trying to get the word out
to people who may be interested,”
said Nola’s Southern Cuisine repre-
senatives.
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Volunteers make deliveries to seniors for Meals
on Wheels at Thanksgiving last year.
Meals on Wheels People will deliver more than 1,000 hot turkey
dinners to homebound seniors on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov.
26. The organization will also host community Thanksgiving dinners
the next day at some of its locations in the Portland metro area.
“A traditional holiday meal with turkey and all the trimmings will
be delivered by volunteers to our most frail and isolated seniors on
Thanksgiving Day,” said Meals on Wheels People Executive Director
Suzanne Washington. “We are so grateful for the community volun-
teers who spend part of their holiday making the day brighter for these
seniors.”
The next day, Thanksgiving dinners will be served between 11 a.m.
and 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27 at the Elm Court Center, 1032 S.W. Main
St., downtown, and the Meals on Wheels sites in Beaverton, North
Plains and Tigard.
The menu includes roast turkey and gravy, cranberry relish, bread
stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, peas and carrots, cranberry gelatin
salad, potato rolls, and pumpkin pie with whipped topping.