{"id":30565,"date":"2023-11-21T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/requests-for-annual-community-thanksgiving-meal-close-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:21:06","slug":"requests-for-annual-community-thanksgiving-meal-close-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/requests-for-annual-community-thanksgiving-meal-close-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Requests for annual Community Thanksgiving Meal close Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e18a4c0a-23ca-4d38-a796-79924207866e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1581\" alt=\"Judy Osterhoult and Jim West debone turkeys as they prepare for the 15th annual community Thanksgiving dinner at St. Barnabas Church. The church is still looking for food, financial and volunteer donations for the free dinner, open to everyone in the community. This year, there will be two seatings, 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Last year over 400 people were served. Homebound people will have dinners delivered to them. To donate or request a homebound meal, call 565-7865.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Judy Osterhoult and Jim West debone turkeys as they prepare for the 15th annual community Thanksgiving dinner at St. Barnabas Church. The church is still looking for food, financial and volunteer donations for the free dinner, open to everyone in the community. This year, there will be two seatings, 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Last year over 400 people were served. Homebound people will have dinners delivered to them. To donate or request a homebound meal, call 565-7865.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Area residents have until noon on Wednesday to order a Thanksgiving Dinner from St. Barnabas Episcopal Church and Grace\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Meals can be placed online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbarnabascortez.org\/events\" id=\"link-483ea736e7ee6bccb35a9ac31802ddf7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.stbarnabascortez.org\/events,<\/a> as well as by calling (970) 565-7865 or emailing <a href=\"office@stbarnabascortez.org\" id=\"link-b15c1199ac2d88774e9a237fe4864733\" target=\"_blank\">office@stbarnabascortez.org <\/a>to arrange a pickup time, which will be between noon and 2 p.m. on Nov. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Over 500 meals are being prepared for the for the 21st annual Community Thanksgiving Meal, according to Rev. Doug Bleyle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe increased purchase orders for potatoes and sweet potatoes, cranberries, things like that,\u201d he told <em id=\"emphasis-732af6d5c58bcb63bac99e2b08a1b494\">The Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The church has enough volunteers for the Thanksgiving meal preparations, according to Rev. Bleyle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this moment, we\u2019ve got pretty much everything else that we requested,\u201d he said. But  there are \u201calways needs for the financial assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Barnabas Episcopal Church and Grace\u2019s Kitchen expect to prepare about 400 dinners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81117,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30565\/revisions\/81117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30565"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}