The Community Table in Eau Claire will again be providing Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners this year for members of the community in need.  The dinners will take place at The Community Table, 320 Putnam Street in Eau Claire.  Here’s a quick chat with Rachel Keniston from the Community Table about the upcoming dinners:

What is served at the dinners?

Thanksgiving lunch will be turkey and all of the fixings.  In the past Festival foods has donated turkeys, Gordy’s gave potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, and dinner rolls, broccoli for salad from Mega, and pie from Northwoods/Norske Nook. We hope to have the same again this year but it hasn’t been confirmed yet. Christmas breakfast will be French toast and eggs, pancakes, ham, sausage, milk, juice, and coffee. 

About how many people do these dinners usually serve?

Last year we served 110 guests for Thanksgiving Day, with 18 volunteers also eating lunch here.  For Christmas we served 259 guests last year.

How can people volunteer to help out?

For Thanksgiving we don’t turn volunteers away.  We set up two work shifts, 8:30 to 11:15 a.m. for food preparation and 11:15 to 2 p.m. for serving and clean up.  We don’t turn volunteers away but I do ask that they contact me by e-mail ahead of time so I have a sense of how many volunteers we have: Rachel@thecommunitytable.org.  It is best if they don’t just show up.  For the Christmas dinner, the motorcycle club takes care of everything.