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<div><br></div>Dear Members & Friends:<div><br></div><div>The recent edition of the Confluence contained a short mention of a possible UU Thanksgiving meal at the church for members and friends who would like to participate. Since that mention, however, we have been called upon to look beyond our just own enjoyment of the day, which is the reason for this email. </div><div><div><br></div><div>The downtown Community Resource Center currently serves a hot lunch to 30 to 40 needy </div><div>people, five days a week. Many of you already take turns preparing and dropping off food on Thursdays, which is the designated UU volunteer day. </div><div><br></div><div>The Center is closed on Thanksgiving Day. We were asked last week whether we might find it within our resources (and hearts) to prepare and serve a Thanksgiving meal for these people in our fellowship hall on Thanksgiving Day. Shari Ballantyne answered that she was fairly certain we could manage it, but that we’d get back to them. </div><div><br></div><div>If we put together a sign up sheet with a set menu featuring Thanksgiving meal basics, we think we could accomodate this request fairly easily. There are already a few of us available to set up, cook, serve and clean up on Thanksgiving day, plus we could have the fellowship hall open on the day before for food donation drop off. Everyone who donates food or is able to help would be more than welcome to stay and eat. </div><div><br></div><div>What we want to know is whether this is something our UU Congregation wants and is willing to do. </div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Please share your thoughts once you’ve had a chance to give it some thought. </span></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nancy Lee</div><div>Shari Ballantyne</div><div><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature"><a style="font-size:12px" href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br></div></div>
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