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Volunteer effort helps get Thanksgiving meals to area residents
'I think you should give back, whenever you’ve been blessed'
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Rhonda Whelchel gets a hug from Jerry Lee Elrod Thursday morning while holding a Thanksgiving meal at M and M Down Home Catering. Elrod walked in off the street asking for a meal and was given a plate of food prepared by a group of volunteers for area needy. - photo by Scott Rogers
Four years ago, Martha Randolph planned to deliver Thanksgiving meals just to the homeless under the Queen City Parkway Bridge in Gainesville. “But then, when I got to looking into it, there’s (a lot of) elderly people in need for food,” said the owner of M & M Down Home Catering at 996 Athens St., Gainesville. “They’ve got Meals on Wheels, but this is the day they don’t deliver.”