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It's a Thanksgiving tradition here in Denver. The Saturday before the Thanksgiving holiday is Delivery Day of hundreds of grocery sacks containing some of what we've come to know as the tradional fixin's to families or individuals who could use a little extra help. COMPA is responsible for organizing this annual event--food collection, bagging, sorting, loading and delivering are what the hundreds of volunteers do to make this event come together. Sarah, Austin and I headed down to the National Western complex this morning (thankfully is was sunny unlike the past two snowy years!) and loaded 26 bags into the minivan.
Recipients of the bags have been nominated by friends, then we're provided with names, addresses and a map, and sent out to the city to bring a bag of food (which also includes a gift certificate for them to purchase a turkey) to the person(s) listed. We encountered all sorts of things when out and about--parking issues, grateful people, one-way streets, angry people, weather, construction, names not matching the mailboxes, no one home, etc. But most of the time we were successful in getting the correct bag to the correct person, and we feel the outreach is well worth the effort. To those people we met today--blessings to you this holiday....