Culinary arts students at Mansfield Senior High School fill Thanksgiving dinner boxes with donations of food Monday morning.
Eighty local families will receive Thanksgiving dinner boxes, thanks to the generosity and hard work of several groups.
The project is the sixth annual Feast of Love, a joint effort of students and staff of Mansfield Senior High, North Central State College and the NCSC Urban Center, with support from several others.
“Each family will receive a 10 to 12-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes or au gratin potatoes, gravy, stuffing mix, canned corn and green beans, cranberry sauce, cake mix and icing,” said Chef Linda Golden, the Senior High culinary arts instructor. “Another 145 miscellaneous donated food items will be distributed.”
Families were selected on the basis of need.
In addition to food items, Golden said, $1,700 to purchase turkeys was donated by the Mansfield School Employees Association and Senior High and NCSC students and staff.
The Tyger Booster Club donated 80 boxes of cake mix and 80 tubs of icing.
Staff from the schools will deliver the boxed dinners on Tuesday. Boxes used for delivery were contributed by Lock It Up West and Mansfield City Schools.