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| Attendees of an annual Thanksgiving Dinner are seen November 26, 2013 at the Bowling Green Community Center. (Photos: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune) |
One of the community center's gyms was host to a community Thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday. Put on by two area churches, the event offered both food and fellowship to anyone wishing to ring in the season a bit early.
They turned out in droves, ultimately gobbling up all that was offered and more as Christmas music played overhead.
Christ's Church Pastor Doug McKinney said the meal reached more than 400 last year, and early indications suggest a similarly smashing success this year.
McKinney estimated that more than 550 were served, and organizers had to make a grocery run for green beans, desserts and even rotisserie chickens to substitute for turkey given the swarms of hungry guests.