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Helping hands

Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry distributes Thanksgiving meal bags

Bernie Clarke, a volunteer at the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry, mans the stuffing station in the Thanksgiving bag assembly line Monday, Nov. 20. (News photo — Sydney Emerson)
Chelsea Rockhill, a volunteer from FCI Ray Brook, adds jars of gravy to Thanksgiving food bags at the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry Monday, Nov. 20. (News photo — Sydney Emerson)
Anthony Grieves, a volunteer from FCI Ray Brook, sorts canned goods at the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry on Monday, Nov. 20. (News photo — Sydney Emerson)
Organizer Linda Young, standing, talks to volunteers at the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry at St. Agnes Church on Monday, Nov. 20. She said that demand for the pantry’s services is “greater than ever” this year. (News photo — Sydney Emerson)
Martin Paris and Bernie Clarke fill bags with all of the trimmings for Thanksgiving dinner at the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry at St. Agnes Church on Monday, Nov. 20. When the pantry started to run out of stuffing and gravy, Paris suggested that organizers “do a water-into-wine thing” to get more food to give away. (News photo — Sydney Emerson)
Briana Davis, left, a volunteer from FCI Ray Brook, and Suzann Fay unfold tote bags and break down boxes for recycling at the head of the Thanksgiving food bag assembly line on Monday, Nov. 20. (News photo — Sydney Emerson)
Anthony Grieves selects some canned veggies to add to a Thanksgiving food bag at the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry Monday, Nov. 20. (News photo — Sydney Emerson)
Volunteers stuffed more than 200 bags of Thanksgiving food on Monday, Nov. 20 at the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry in the basement of St. Agnes Church. Organizer Linda Young anticipated that they would run out of bags before the day ended. (News photo — Sydney Emerson)

LAKE PLACID — Around a dozen volunteers stuffed more than 200 cloth tote bags with all of the ingredients necessary for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry in St. Agnes Church on Monday, Nov. 20.

“The need is greater than ever this year,” organizer Linda Young said. She expected that the food pantry would run out of Thanksgiving bags by the end of the day.

The bags included boxed stuffing, gravy, canned fruits and vegetables and potatoes. Those who picked up a bag would also receive a pie and either a turkey or chicken, which were kept in coolers upstairs.

Many of the volunteers — a group which included parishioners, FCI Ray Brook employees and community organizers — said that they helped at this event every year as a way to give back to their neighbors.

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