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Thanksgiving Dinner at Isabella Community Soup Kitchen provides festive meal

By Kendra Happy on November 20, 2011 10:00 pm in Business/Nonprofits, Featured, Isabella County / 5 comments

 

Mount Pleasant residents Ariel Hinmom, 7, and Andrea Hinmom, 3, watch as a volunteer gives their grandmother one of the plates that they will be eating for the Thanksgiving dinner offered Sunday night at the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen, 621 S. Adams St. (Charlotte Bodak/Staff Photographer)

Anyone in need of a warm meal could walk through the doors of the soup kitchen Sunday and be handed a plate piled full of food.

Sunday marked the second Thanksgiving dinner held at the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen, 621 S. Adams St.

“This is a great time to remind people you care and it’s like an extra gift for them,” said Danielle Ismirle, assistant service director for Aramark at Central Michigan University.

Ismirle said the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen did not require a proof of income or Isabella County residency. The meal was also provided at no cost.

Volunteers served about 175 patrons a traditional meal of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and green bean casserole. Raffle tickets were also handed out upon entrance to each guest. The prize for each number called was a turkey.

“This is one of the best things we have in Mount Pleasant. The food is good and all the turkey they’re giving away is great,” said Shepherd resident Ken Norton.

People from the Mt. Pleasant Community Church, 1400 W. Broomfield St., donated and prepared all of the food with the help from 43 volunteers that contributed to the event.

“I have never volunteered here before, but seeing them hand out all this food is incredible,” Temperance graduate student Amanda Laney said.

Many people attended not only for the sharing of food, but for the company of others.

“I’d be spending Thanksgiving alone if it weren’t for my friend who brought me here,” said Mount Pleasant resident Linda Hudak.

Ismirle said soup kitchen patrons are provided with two meals, breakfast and dinner, on an average day. Having this Thanksgiving dinner is an extra meal and an “extra gift” for them, she said.

Volunteers for the event said it was a memorable time and enjoyed helping others.

“This is a real giving experience, handing out food. I really like seeing people’s smiles when I do (volunteer), especially the little kids,” said Tawas City junior Lauren Dzierbicki.

 
 

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  • Michmediaperson

    CM LIFE, in its Thanksgiving coverage, should question CMU’s Office of Institutional Diversity and find out why they don’t have Thanksgiving on their calendar.  They have all these muslim holidays and events on there, but no Thanksgiving.

    I realize there are multicultural and diversity people across the country who still have a 300 and some years feud with the Pilgrims. 

    It’s good to see the Mt. Pleasant community and CMU students volunteering their time.  It’s good to see that they had these folks on their calendars.

  • Is Glenn Beck A Terrorist?

    I’ve explained it to you before, moron. It’s the “Office of Institutional Diversity”, not the “Office of Holiday Calendars.” Considering that 90+% of people here already observe it in a roughly equivalent fashion, and everyone else is aware of it if they’ve even paid the slightest attention to the world around them, highlighting Thanksgiving does nothing to promote diversity.

  • Is Glenn Beck A Terrorist?

    Hey Pedo, check a calendar; this isn’t 300+ years ago.

    (And Thanksgiving isn’t a religious holiday, so comparing it to Muslim holidays is massively ignorant. So you’ve got Christmas; there’s your parity. Choke on it, bigot.)

  • Michmediaperson

    So, now the Diversity office isn’t putting non-religious on their holiday calendar???   That’s what you’re saying about Thanksgiving vs. muslim holidays. 

    So, how do you explain Gay Pride Week, MLK Week.  They’re not religious holiday. 

    So, why can’t Thanksgiving if Gay Pride, MLK Week are on there????

  • Is Glenn Beck A Terrorist?

    You’re really, really stupid and really, really dishonest. You keep saying that I’m saying things that I have not said.

    There’s more of a difference between Thanksgiving and Gay Pride Week and MLK Week than that you like one and dislike the others, a difference that I’ve already pointed out. Go ahead and keep playing the part of an ignorant bigot; you’re a natural.