What Is The Importance Of Thanksgiving Dinner In Montgomery

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There are 1,448,124 people living in Montgomery and Bucks Counties, about 7% of them can not supply themselves with enough food. That means that about 90,283 people in Montgomery and Bucks counties will not get to enjoy a Thanksgiving Dinner. This problem can only be stopped if someone does something to give them Thanksgiving Dinner.
20 years ago, Terry Allebach, owner of the Franconia Heritage Restaurant, was aware of the hunger in the nearby area and started a program to cook, package and deliver meals to the people in Montgomery and Bucks Counties who couldn’t obtain their own. Last year over 100 volunteers helped prepare the meals. If not for the volunteers that helped out last year 700 people would not have been able to enjoy Thanksgiving

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