MUSKEGON, Mich. — More than 200 volunteers will be spending the first part of their Thanksgiving Day preparing meals for 2,000 families in need.
The annual Turkey Run event is put on in partnership with the Salvation Army and the Reeths-Puffer school district.
Food service employees make the meals while high school students help pack them.
Organizers said this event really is a community effort that brings everyone together for a good cause.
"It takes a village to take care of our neighbors who have a need," said Lynetta Poff with the Muskegon Salvation Army. "So just the outpouring of the community, the donors who donate monetarily to cover the cost of the meal, the volunteers that just come out of the woodwork that day and just show up at the school to take these meals out the cafeteria and the students. It's all of them. It's all of us together meeting the need in our community."
Poff said that volunteers only need to donate an hour or two of their Thanksgiving Day to help out.
Any extra meals will be taken to hospitals in the Muskegon area for nurses who are working the holidays.