Methodists offer up free Thanksgiving

A free Thanksgiving dinner cooked and served by the United Methodist church members will be held Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25.

Volunteers are putting together a turkey extravaganza complete with mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, pie and stuffing.

“We’ll probably have three or four kinds of pie,” said Donna Thompson, the church member who is organizing the dinner.

Thompson and other church members began cooking and serving free community dinners once a month at the start of this summer. Attendance at those dinners has grown from eight people at the first dinner to 55 at the most recent d...