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The McGregor Squirettes of Mary have been hosting an annual community turkey dinner for 24 years and they refused to let the COVID-19 pandemic get in their way this year.
Instead of the traditional sit-down meal at the McGregor Columbian Club, the event morphed into an order-ahead, drive-up and take-out dinner.
Coordinator Laura Belanger said the event, offering a free meal of a complete turkey dinner with all the trimmings and dessert, sold out.
“This is probably our biggest year,” Belanger said. “We always make enough dinners for about 700. Anything that was extra we’ve donated to the (Downtown) Mission.
“You have to order the turkeys in advance. In the last 10 days, I’m going to say, the orders went up by about 40 people a day. We’ve gone over 700 and we had to run out and get (more) turkeys.
“So we had to cut it off. We hate doing that. It’s the worst thing to do but we had to do it.”
About 30 volunteers began preparations Friday for the Sunday meal pickups.
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