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Project JOY feeds nearly 300 at Gainesville Masonic Lodge
Group also delivers 200 meals to shut-ins
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Steven Malloyd eats Thanksgiving dinner Thursday afternoon inside the Masonic lodge on Lakeshore Drive. Project JOY made the event possible.
As aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents covered the trays full of stuffing or the platters littered in turkey with tinfoil and made their way to the site of their family’s annual Thanksgiving meal, dozens of volunteers around the county were doing similar work. But instead of cooking for a small gathering, more than a dozen volunteers set up at the Gainesville Masonic Lodge for Project JOY — an annual community dinner — to share Thanksgiving with the hundreds who came to eat. Project JOY (Jesus, Ours, & Yours), the brainchild of Rose and Eugene Moon, is in its third year in Gainesville.