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How this local caterer feeds 800 less fortunate on Thanksgiving

Carol J. Leverette checks a pan of macaroni and cheese in the oven Friday, June 15, 2018 at M & M Down Home Catering on Athens Street. The loss of black-owned businesses is a sore that older African-Americans have grown to lament in Gainesville, but a new generation is looking to rekindle this legacy. - photo by Scott Rogers

11102018 THANKS 4.jpg — Carol J. Leverette checks a pan of macaroni and cheese in the oven Friday, June 15, 2018 at M & M Down Home Catering on Athens Street. The loss of black-owned businesses is a sore that older African-Americans have grown to lament in Gainesville, but a new generation is looking to rekindle this legacy. - photo by Scott Rogers

Martha Randolph, owner of M&M Down Home Catering in Gainesville, certainly knows a thing or two about feeding people. But the demand for her annual Thanksgiving Day meal this year keeps growing and growing — so much so that it’s beginning to take a village to feed the village.