Volunteers from Celebration Community Church will be collecting non-perishable food items on Saturday at both Dillons locations and Walmart from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The food collected will be bagged and handed out at the Ellis County Ministerial Alliance’s Thanksgiving Day Feast on Thursday, Nov. 27, at noon at the Rose Garden Banquet Hall on East Eighth Street.

Celebration Pastor Kyle Ermoian said that, with the cooperation of a generous public, last year ECMA provided 367 bags of food for people in need not only on Thanksgiving Day, but for the weeks ahead.

If you would like to contribute to this event, make your tax-deductible donations payable to ECMA, P.O. Box 173, Hays, KS 67601. Memo your checks “Thanksgiving Dinner.” Any extra proceeds will go into ECMA’s Second Mile Fund, which assists Ellis County residents in need.

More than 150 volunteers are needed for the feast. If you would like to volunteer, call First Call for Help at (785) 623-2800.