The People Loving People organization, created by Doc Jones, is planning its fourth annual free Thanksgiving Day dinner. The first meeting will be next week (Oct. 16) at 6pm at the Hawkins County Memorial Hospital cafeteria. Additional meetings will be held on Nov. 6 and Nov. 20 — all at 6 p.m.
This year the meal will be held at Joseph Rogers Primary School in Rogersville and will be held Nov. 27 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. for a traditional home-cooked Thanksgiving meal. All are invited.
Although anyone is welcome, the dinner is intended to benefit people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford a special Thanksgiving meal and people who don’t have anyone to share this holiday meal with.
Jones told the Times-News, “Organizers do not want anyone to be alone on this special holiday and ask that as many as can come to the school for the meal. A big-screen TV will be set up for the traditional parades and football games on Thanksgiving Day. Activities for kids are being planned as well. That is not to say that deliveries of the meal will not be available. Meals will continue to be delivered, but persons can make arrangements for transportation to the meal if so desired.”
Donations of food, money and time will be needed. Anyone who would like to help out with a monetary donation may do so by sending it to People Loving People, P.O. Box 91, Rogersville, TN 37857. All funds collected will go toward food and supplies for the meal.
Volunteers are needed to cook, clean, decorate, serve, deliver meals, transport guests to and from the meal, and clean up after the meal. Anyone interested in volunteering can call Cary Lewis Barton at 345-3743.
Anyone who needs to arrange transportation to and from the meal or schedule to have a meal delivered can contact Liz Woolridge at 272-2954.
