Charities, churches providing free meals for Thanksgiving
In 2002, after having lost his own business, family, home and car, Reggie Tanner came in for a meal at Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission and entered its recovery program. This year Tanner is responsible for all Thanksgiving Day meals served at the mission.
Thursday, the recently promoted cook supervisor will organize 650 breakfasts and serve 500 traditional turkey dinners.
Breakfast will be served from 7-8:30 a.m. and dinner will be offered at 5, 6 and 7 p.m. at the mission’s men’s shelter at 318 Second Ave.
Among other charities and churches planning to provide free meals for those in need:
• Seattle’s Millionair Club Charity will serve meals from noon to 1:30 p.m. today and Thursday at the charity’s main location, 2515 Western Ave.
• Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske will join other volunteers serving Thanksgiving dinner from noon to 2 p.m. at the Salvation Army’s William Booth Center, 811 Maynard Ave. S., Seattle.
• The Hall at Fauntleroy (in the school building), 9131 California Ave. S.W. in West Seattle, will serve dinner from noon to 3 p.m.
• In Tacoma, the Emergency Food Network will host a free dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.at Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall, 2727 East D St.
• Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1634 19th Ave., Seattle, will serve a dinner after the 10 a.m. service.
• ElderFriends, a Seattle/King County volunteer group, will deliver meals and spend an hour visiting seniors in their homes from 9:30-11:30 a.m. For more information on ElderFriends, see www.elderfriends.org.
• Today, chef Lisa Dupar of Lisa Dupar Catering will deliver Thanksgiving meals to families spending the holiday with their newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Swedish Medical Center.
Downtown Seattle’s holiday-parade street closures begin at 7:30 a.m. Friday and involve Pine Street between Boren Avenue and Seventh Avenue and Seventh, Eighth and Ninth avenues between Olive Way and Pike Street. The southbound Interstate 5 offramp at Union Street also will be closed.
The holiday parade begins at 8:45 a.m. from Seventh Avenue, heads west on Pine Street, turns south onto Fifth Avenue to University Street, west to Fourth Avenue, and north on Fourth Avenue, ending at Macy’s. The parade returns to the staging area using the south side of Olive Way. All streets should be open by 11 a.m.
At 5 p.m. Friday, crowds will gather outside Westlake Center to watch the lighting of the holiday tree and Macy’s star, along with a fireworks display.
Here & Now is compiled by Seattle Times lead news assistant Lynne Berry. To submit an item, e-mail herenow@seattletimes.com or call 206-464-2226.
Nov. 18, 1969: Chuck Conrad and Alan Bean land on the moon while Seattle native Dick Gordon orbits in the Command Module Yankee Clipper. The 10-day mission, called Apollo 12, was the second to achieve a landing on the moon; it was Gordon’s second space mission. Gordon, a University of Washington graduate, piloted Gemini 11 in 1966 while it orbited Earth and achieved a high-altitude record of 850 miles.
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