Volunteers handed out Thanksgiving meal boxes to people in need them at St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. Nearly 800 boxes were distributed, in addition to some single turkeys, feeding around 4,000 people in the Lakes Region. Volunteers held two pickup days, Nov. 23 and Nov. 25. Saturday was busier day, accounting for more than two-thirds of their entire count, with traffic backed up on Union Avenue all the way down to Stark Street.
Volunteers Henry Weatherbee, left, and Mel Ingalls load a turkey and its accompanying Thanksgiving meal box into the trunk of a car at the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. The food pantry distributed 791 boxes of Thanksgiving meals, as well as some single turkeys, feeding an estimated 4,000 people throughout the Lakes Region. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
Volunteer Ernie Liakas, center, places a turkey in the cart of Edward Watzel, left, and Kim Morgan, at the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. Watzel and Morgan don’t have a car, so they walked to pick up food with their cart. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
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Volunteers Henry Weatherbee, left, and Mel Ingalls load a turkey and its accompanying Thanksgiving meal box into the trunk of a car at the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. The food pantry distributed 791 boxes of Thanksgiving meals, as well as some single turkeys, feeding an estimated 4,000 people throughout the Lakes Region. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
Volunteer Mel Ingalls greets a pitbull named Oreo McFlurry as he hands out Thanksgiving meal boxes at St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
Volunteer Lena Nirk, above, hands a can of green beans to volunteer Denise Liakas at St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
Volunteers build Thanksgiving meal kits at the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
Don Laflam opens a package of onions at St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
Volunteer Ernie Liakas, center, places a turkey in the cart of Edward Watzel, left, and Kim Morgan, at the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. Watzel and Morgan don’t have a car, so they walked to pick up food with their cart. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
Volunteers hand out Thanksgiving meal boxes at St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
A line of cars forms to receive Thanksgiving meal boxes at the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Laconia on Monday afternoon. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo)
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