To the Editor:

As we pause to reflect on our blessings over this Thanksgiving holiday, we once again find the generosity of the community overwhelming. Hundreds of individual volunteers and volunteers from businesses and congregations collected and delivered the makings for a traditional festive Thanksgiving dinner to over 6,000 needy parents and children in our community. Over the years, this uniquely American holiday has retained this sense of not only family, but also community. It is a day for all of us, rich and poor, of all races and religions, to symbolically join hands around a bountiful table of wonderful food.

Our community does care about and care for our neighbors, a concept at the core of all major religions and fundamental to our traditions. I want to take this opportunity to thank our neighbors and friends who gave time, money and food to help our client families give real meaning to this great American tradition.

Connie Mercer

Executive Director,
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