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Volunteers stuff 800 bags for food bank’s Thanksgiving

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, November 20, 2019

By Matthew Nash

Volunteers stuff 800 bags for food bank’s Thanksgiving
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Volunteers stuff 800 bags for food bank’s Thanksgiving
Amy Jo Bolon with Trinity United Methodist Church helps pass out yams on Nov. 19 to volunteers as they prepared bags for families during Thanksgiving. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash
Food bank volunteer Isabelle Dunlop places two of the 800 bags for Thanksgiving meals at the Sequim Food Bank. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash
Dozens of volunteers made short work of preparing 800 bags of Thanksgiving meals at the Sequim Food Bank on Nov. 19. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Community members came together Tuesday morning to make short work of Thanksgiving dinner for hundreds of Sequim residents at the Sequim Food Bank, 144 W. Alder St. Volunteers with Sequim Seventh-day Adventist Church, Trinity United Methodist Church, Mountain View Christian School, Sequim Sunrise Rotary and Sequim Noon Rotary packed 800 bags of food on Nov. 19 in 29 minutes. Thanksgiving baskets will be distributed from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, and Saturday, Nov. 23, and from noon-4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25. For more information, contact the Sequim Food Bank at 360-683-1205, sequimfoodbank@olypen.com or visit www.sequimfoodbank.org. Look for donation bags at local grocers, too.

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