Community Thanksgiving Dinner a success
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POLSON — Last-minute preparations for Thanksgiving dinner at the Polson Senior Citizens Center were underway Nov. 23.
“Fifteen frenzied teenagers,” according to Cathy Corrigan, who laughed and said they were good kids from the Lutheran Youth Organization, peeled at least 100 pounds of potatoes in the center’s kitchen gathered around two huge garbage cans.
In the cooler, Jo Durand had 25 turkeys ready to roast on Thanksgiving Day. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes donated the turkeys. Durand planned to be at the center by 5 a.m. to pop the fowl into the ovens, 18 at the center and the rest at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church across the street.
“You have to be careful not to blow the breakers,” Durand said, adding that the first year she cooked the birds she had her flashlight in hand determining which fuses had blown. Community members dropped off homemade rolls and pies for the next day’s dinner as volunteers, such as Mariah Corrigan, Elise Plaiss and Katie Rowald, set up chairs. Linda Greenwood, Tracy Plaiss, Misty Prescott and others shook out tablecloths, placed centerpieces and filled salt and peppershakers making the dining room ready for the onslaught of diners.
And an onslaught it was, with more than 350 people attending the sixth annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner. The number of home deliveries of meals was up, according to Plaiss, with not as many pies and salads donated, but they didn’t run out of food.
With a warm atmosphere, good food, entertainment and people to visit with, the dinner and the community were reasons to be thankful.
