Volunteers from Celebration Community Church will be collecting non perishable food items on Saturday, Nov. 19, at Dillons East, Dillons West and Walmart from 9am-5pm. The food collected will be bagged and handed out at the Ellis County Ministerial Alliance’s Thanksgiving Day Feast on Thursday, Nov. 24, at noon at the Rose Garden Banquet Hall on East Eighth.

Celebration Pastor Kyle Ermoian said that, with the cooperation of a generous public, last year ECMA provided over 400 grocery bags of food for people in need not only on Thanksgiving Day, but for the weeks ahead.

To contribute financially, make your tax-deductible donations payable to E.C.M.A., P.O. Box 173, Hays, KS 67601. Please memo your checks “Thanksgiving Dinner.” Any extra proceeds will go into E.C.M.A.’s Second Mile Fund, which assists Ellis County needy people with food and shelter throughout the year.

Over 100 volunteers are needed to sack groceries on Wednesday evening at 5:30 p.m. and serve at the meal at noon on Thursday. To volunteer to help with the event, call First Call For Help at (785) 623-2800