Deadline Wednesday for Thanksgiving meal requests

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November 19, 2009

From staff reports The Union-Recorder Thu Nov 19, 2009, 08:00 AM EST

The deadline for meals for next week’s annual Ranch Park Homes Thanksgiving feast is next Wednesday.

Ranch Park volunteers are preparing for the 10th annual Thanksgiving feast, which will be held Thursday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Walter B. Williams Park.

The menu for the feast this year will include turkey, gravy, dressing, corn, green beans, rolls and an assortment of desserts. Drinks are donated by Coca-Cola, but they are not included in delivered meals.

Since 2001, working off an idea introduced by volunteer Rusty Bresse, Hugh and Ennise Burke, owners of Ranch Park Homes, have made it their goal to provide a Thanksgiving meal to anyone and everyone. Sharing in their goal is a group of employees, volunteers and people hungry for a Thanksgiv-ing feast that features turkey and dressing and all the sides, even dessert.

The first year, Bresse and the Burkes teamed together and fed 400 people. The previous year, Bresse and Catering by Crockett’s teamed up and fed 200. In 2007, the family meal grew to include 1,500.

Ranch Park Homes Executive Assistant Sheree Bozeman said recently that more volunteers are needed this year to take charge in preparing plates, serving meals, fixing to-go plates, driving to locations where meals are needed and cleaning up.

“There’s so much work to do, but it’s so rewarding in the end,” Bozeman said. “There’s such a need here. Once Ranch Park started the feast, it just kept growing and growing.”

Anyone interested in having a meal delivered, the cutoff time is noon Wednesday. To have a meal delivered, call (478) 452-4538.

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