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Thanksgiving luncheon
WCCCD hosts annual community
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| TAAN publisher Osama Siblani joined by fellow journalists Bankole Thompson, Vickie Thomas, Walter Middlebrook and Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey to serve Thanksgiving meals. |
DETROIT — The Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) Division of Student Services’ Student Executive Council hosted the Annual Community Thanksgiving Luncheon on Wednesday, Nov.26.
The event, entitled “Come Dine With Us”, is a fall harvest style luncheon and took place at WCCCD’s Downtown Campus.
The annual Community Thanksgiving Luncheon is a traditional way for the community to come together and offer thanks and blessings for the year. The luncheon has drawn a capacity crowd over the years since its inception.
“The Division of Student Services’ Student Executive Council, together with the our Wildcat Athletes, are honored to host this tradition program that brings together people,” said Brian Singleton, WCCCD’s vice chancellor for the Division of Student Services. “We are also honored not only as an educational institution, but a place where people can come together to fellowship with one another.”
The Michigan Chronicle’s senior editor, Bankole Thompson, led a host of volunteer servers at the occasion, including Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey; Walter Middlebrook, assistant managing editor of the Detroit News; Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News and Vickie Thomas, city beat reporter at WWJ Newsradio 950, among others.
“This is a great community service and the college should be commended for this,” Thompson said.
The luncheon is offered at no cost to participants.
AFPD distributes 6,000 turkeys to needy families in Mich. and Ohio
MICHIGAN — This fall, the Associated Food and Petroleum Dealers (AFPD) distributed more than 6,000 Turkeys to needy families throughout Michigan and Ohio as part of its annual turkey drive.
For the past 34 years, AFPD and its members have provided Thanksgiving turkeys to needy families, across metro Detroit, Lansing and now Columbus and Cleveland Ohio.
This is the AFPD Foundation’s 34th annual Michigan Turkey Drive and fifth annual Ohio Turkey Drive; and each year the list of charitable groups asking for turkeys grows.
HYPE Athletics feeds hundreds
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Wednesday, Project Dignity and HYPE Athletics Community hosted its annual Thanksgiving Day Feed Detroit Campaign, presented by Fast Splash Car Wash, which fed 1,000 Metro Detroit families.
The event was hosted from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Neighborhood Services Organization building on Third Street in Detroit.
In addition, HYPE fed 1,000 families on Tuesday, November 25 by providing families with a whole turkey, vegetables, stuffing, mashed potatoes, breads, beverages, dessert and more.
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