The show must go on: Meet and Eat Thanksgiving Dinner reinvented amid pandemic
A Thanksgiving tradition at Kealakehe Intermediate School will still be held, albeit in a different format than in previous years.
Volunteers from around the Big Island typically serve up free turkey and all the traditional trimmings to a couple hundred people at the annual Meet and Eat Thanksgiving Dinner in Kailua-Kona. This year, however, the 28th annual event will conform to COVID-19 guidelines with dinners being distributed via drive-through at Kealakehe Elementary School.
The Meet and Eat program expects the turnout to be large amid the ongoing pandemic that’s hit Hawaii Island’s economy hard with 13.6% of Big Islanders still out of work in September. And they’ll need help meeting that demand, said volunteer Jeannie Kutsunai.
The show must go on: Meet and Eat Thanksgiving Dinner reinvented amid pandemic
