Thanksgiving dinner for everyone

Linda and Lee Young share their Thankskgiving meal with others at the long-standing annual Thanksgiving Dinner at the Americal Legion. Linda said she is from Louisana and "they didn't do things like thie there." Yvone Jenkins, president of the Legion Women;s Ausiliary, oversaw the annual event from start to finish Jenkins said the auxiliary members starated preparing the tradidional dinner at 7:30 Thursday morning and were delivering 40 meals to homebound Nevada area residents by 10:30. Serving at the Legion began at noon and ended at 2 p.m. Other people involved in the project include: Natalie Hernandez, Jimmy Jenkins, Kris Cox, Don Stonebreaker and Berta Widdle. Photo by Rusty Murry/Daily Mail

If Nevada area residents were in need of a place to eat a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner, or just did not want to spend the day alone, there were two organizations providing a free Thanksgiving dinner. The American Legion, 402 E. Cherry St., and the Nevada R-5 school district at the high school, 800 W. Hickory St.

The Legion has been serving Thanksgiving Dinner for many years and until the R-5 School District began providing a meal, was the only organization to provide this service to the community in recent years. One of the services the Legion provides is home delivery of meals to people who are homebound.

This year, the Legion delivered about 40 meals prepared by the American Legion Auxiliary, beginning at 7:30, Thursday morning, and ready to deliver by 10:30, and serving at the Legion, beginning at noon.

The Bouser-Flowers family enjoys the traditional Thanksgiving dinner served in the Nevada High School cafeteria on Thursday. Left to right, Tiarah Bouser, Aderaegnnah Bouser, Andrew Flowers, Tiffany Flowers, Angel Bouser and Kaniah Bouser. Photo by Amanda Miller/Daily Mail

This year the project was supervised by auxiliary president Yvone Jenkins and assisted by Natalie Hernandez, Jimmy Jenkins, Kris Cox, Don Stonebreaker and Berta Widdle.

On Christmas Day, the Legion will provide toys to needy children as well as provide a meal. The Christmas toy program dates to the early days of the local Legion post, shortly after the end of World War I.