The Saturday morning before Thanksgiving at the Rappahannock Food Pantry is busy. Really busy. Dozens of volunteers show up every year to assemble meals for many more of their neighbors.
This busyness has become ordinary. But it’s extraordinary: The pantry expects to provide yummy, healthy Thanksgiving meals to about 195 local families this holiday — about 521 neighbors, moms, dads, kids.
Here’s a look at Saturday’s effort, through the lenses of Luke Christopher, Autumn Liner and Chris Doxzen:
In photos | Prepping for Thanksgiving at the food pantry
The Saturday morning before Thanksgiving at the Rappahannock Food Pantry in Sperryville is busy. Really busy. Dozens of volunteers show up every year to assemble meals for many more of their neighbors.
There are big things ahead for the food pantry in 2024: A new building, vastly expanded, is scheduled to open in May. Foothills Forum contributor Patty Hardee tells the story of how it came to be in this week’s paper, available now in print and in our e-edition. (Check rappnews.com, Rapp News Daily and Facebook for the story on Friday.)
