All Saints Volunteers Ensure Seniors Have Thanksgiving Meal

iBerkshires.com  reports the parish hall at All Saints Episcopal Church was filled with  activity of more than two dozen volunteers of all ages on Wednesday evening.

All the potato peeling, pie packaging and cranberry sauce portioning was in preparation to ensure nearly 200 local seniors would have a Thanksgiving feast this Thursday.

"Over 35 years, you just figure out a way to make it happen," coordinator Shannon Daugherty said, snapping her fingers. "We've got this down to a science."

The annual event is hosted by the church and plenty of parishioners volunteer, but many of them are also related so it's become something of a family affair.

Daugherty's mother, Diane Bleau, spearheaded the effort and she has worked her way up through the ranks in a way, starting at the kids' table scooping out cranberry sauce into plastic cups.

The effort involves a host of volunteers who show up on Thanksgiving morning to sweep away the pre-served, homemade meals to people who have registered for a visit.