Ellis County Ministerial Alliance
A tradition at each year’s annual Community Thanksgiving Feast is each person attending may take home a free bag of groceries.
This year’s free feast will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 26, at the National Guard Armory, 200 Main St. Once again, the event is being sponsored by the Ellis County Ministerial Alliance.
A food drive to fill those sacks of groceries will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at both Dillons stores in Hays. Volunteers will hand out lists of suggested items for donors to provide. Each distributed sack will have recipes inside for dishes that can be made with the donated items, said Pastor Ben Houchen, who is helping to coordinate the food drive.
Volunteers are needed, both to staff the food drive and to help sort donated items and fill the sacks. The sorting and filling of the sacks will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 21, at First Presbyterian Church, 2900 Hall St.
Those wanting to volunteer for either day may call First Call for Help of Ellis County at (785) 623-2800.