Grapevine Center serves nearly 100 at annual Thanksgiving meal
The Grapevine Center has hosted an annual community Thanksgiving dinner for years, and on Monday, Nov. 20, some of the attendees of this year’s dinner helped return the favor.
“We had consumers who brought their own dessert to share with everybody,” said Rich Blews, program director at the Grapevine Center. “That was pretty cool; we didn't ask anybody to bring anything, but they just did.”
According to Blews, the Grapevine Center partnered with Catholic Charities to give a Thanksgiving meal to more than 90 people on Monday. He said the organization has collected more than 2,000 turkeys over the past two years, so no one leaves the annual Thanksgiving meal at the Grapevine Center empty-handed.
Partnering with Catholic Charities also helped get even more food to the people in attendance.
“Catholic Charities had 16 boxes of stuffing, gigantic things of mashed potatoes, green beans, the whole nine,” Blews said. “It was really cool that they wanted to do something outside of the realm and collaborate to do something like this.”
Blews said many clients of the Grapevine Center also help cook and serve food anytime the agency has a meal, and staff of the center and Catholic Charities helped with it Monday. Serving clients of the Grapevine Center and Catholic Charities meals like the one the center hosted Monday also helps the agencies’ get their messages out to people who may need their services, Blew said.
“It's just a wide variety of folks,” Blews said. “A lot of folks last night we had never seen at the Grapevine Center before.”
