I would like to thank everyone who helped make our Thanksgiving dinner giveaway a success.
I’d like to thank God for giving me the gift to want to feed people; my Shinnecock Nation; Hamptons United Methodist Church and Pastor Joanne Utley, for her services; Heart of the Hamptons, Molly Bishop and her amazing crew; Julie Hopson from Southampton Town Hall; the crew from Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming’s office; Carmelo and Peter from Slice; Donessa Walker and Virginia Pritchard; Claudia from the library; Nancy Kane; Zac Erdem; my new friend Amolina from Wainscott; Joy Pak, Sun River Health; Kimberly Allan and her amazing son; O’Shea, Marcincuk and Bruyn; Stop & Shop; Briermere Farms; Ramona Ward; Maude the nurse; Bianca and those amazing Boy Scouts; Bonnie and Gloria Cannon of the Bridgehampton Childcare Center; and Tabatha, Ron and Joanne Kelly, Casio Norwood Jr., Miss Dorothy, Kenny Smith, Jessie Kellis, Lewis Meacham, Miss Betty, Rebecca the photographer, Simone the reporter, and all the new volunteers whose names I can’t remember! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Save the date December 25, free Christmas dinners.
Denise Smith-Meacham
Southampton
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