Free Thanksgiving Dinner 2005

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="9ee285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>PERRY VALLEY GRANGE #1804, INC.</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |    H</B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PERRY VALLEY GRANGE 1804, INC."><B>ome</B></A><B>       |     </B><A HREF="id356.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="index"><B>index</B></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="9edd2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="id363.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Service">Community Service</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id368.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daffodil Sales">Daffodil Sales</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id369.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Deaf Essay Poster Contests">Deaf Essay & Poster Contests</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id370.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FFA Support">FFA Support</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id371.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Free Thanksgiving Dinner">Free Thanksgiving Dinner</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id550.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Safe Driving Course">Safe Driving Course</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id372.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="High School Awards">High School Awards</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id373.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Holiday Cheer Baskets">Holiday Cheer Baskets</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id374.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Major Annual Project">Major Annual Project</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id375.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Operation Shoebox">Operation Shoebox</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id376.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recycling ">Recycling </A></div> <div> <A HREF="id378.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Summer Reading Programs">Summer Reading Programs</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id377.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Senior Citizen Dinner">Senior Citizen Dinner</A></div> <div> <A HREF="thanksgiving_dinnerba.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="007 FREE COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER">007 FREE COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id946.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christmas in Millerstown 2006">Christmas in Millerstown 2006</A></div> <div> <B>Free Thanksgiving Dinner 2005</B></div> <div> <A HREF="from_the_perry_county_times_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="From the Perry County Times online">From the Perry County Times online</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id1096.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Benefit Dinner 2008">Benefit Dinner 2008</A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>From the:</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.perrycountytimes.com/news/120105b.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.perrycountytimes.com/news/120"><B><IMG SRC="13b6344b0.gif" border=0 width="308" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> Publication date: 12.01.05 </div> <bR> <div> By CORB STRAWSERCorrespondent</div> <bR> <div> <B>Grangers serve to the thankful</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="445" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 151 WIDTH="441"><bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Some good folks would rather share their abundance, as well as their time and talent with others, than to sit down at their own table and think that there might be others who are eating without friends or family on Thanksgiving.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="450" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 496 WIDTH="219"><bR> <div> One of the organizations that never forgets its “service to others” creed is Perry Valley Grange. As others are contemplating their Thanksgiving meal, with all the chatter and company of friends and family, members of Perry Valley were setting the table to provide a meal and companionship to others. </div> <div> Granger Doug Bonsall is not sure of the longevity of the tradition, but he thinks it to be about 20 years. “It is a way of giving back to a very generous community, and it provides a meal to those who find it difficult cooking, as well as those who have few to cook for,” he said.</div> <div> When a request for volunteers to help serve was issued, the response was “more volunteers than (we) could practically use,” he noted.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="496" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="6" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="215"><div> <IMG SRC="13b5d8a20.gif" border=0 width="216" height="162" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> SERVICE TO OTHERS — Fernando Madero and Osmany Martines, cadets at Carson Long Military Institute in New Bloomfield, and Gracen and Megan Schilling of Thompsonton (from left) were among the volunteer servers at Perry Valley Grange’s Thanksgiving meal. (Corb Strawser photo)</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="445" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 228 WIDTH="441"><bR> <div> The Grange provided 60 meals for takeout, and served another 60 meals at the Grange near Millerstown.</div> <div> Before the meal was served, Bonsall asked if people would stand and introduce themselves and tell of a special memory from Thanksgivings past. Many recounted gatherings with family and friends and tables full of Thanksgiving fare.</div> <div> Attending the dinner and helping to serve were two cadets from Carson Long Military Academy, Fernando Madero of Mexico and Osmany Martines of the Dominican Republic. Both said it was their first Thanksgiving and that they were enjoying it, as well as the opportunity to help the Grange serve others.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>