Stewpot serves 300 Thanksgiving meals thanks to generous donations
Published 1:24 pm Thursday, November 26, 2020
Johonnie B. Davis oversees work in the Natchez Stewpot kitchen on Thanksgiving. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Joann Smith serves up Thanksgiving meals at the Natchez Stewpot on Thursday. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Prepared Thanksgiving meals sit ready to be distributed at the Natchez Stewpot on Thursday. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Laciva Jones works on the assembly line preparing Thanksgiving meals at the Natchez Stewpot on Thursday. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Prepared turkey donated to the Natchez Stewpot to be included in Thanksgiving meals. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Laciva Jones works on the assembly line preparing Thanksgiving meals at the Natchez Stewpot on Thursday. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Alicia Blanton prepares a Thanksgiving meal at the Natchez Stewpot on Thursday. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Jordan Coleman watches as his mother, Elrica Coleman, readies boxed Thanksgiving lunches for people at the Natchez Stewpot on Thursday. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Joann Smith looks out of the kitchen of the Natchez Stewpot where she volnteered on Thanksgiving. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
Amanda Jeansonne, director of the Natchez Stewpot, works in the pantry on Thanksgiving in front canned goods donated by the community. (Scott Hawkins, The Natchez Democrat)
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NATCHEZ — The Natchez Stewpot served up some 300 Thanksgiving meals to people in need on Thanksgiving Day Thursday, thanks to the generosity of community donors and volunteers.
Kitchen Manager Johnnie B. Davis said kitchen workers began working at 6:30 a.m. Thursday to prepare the meals in time to distribute them to the community.
Volunteers cooked 40 donated turkeys at their homes, said Amanda Jeansonne, Stewpot director, and delivered them prepared back to the Stewpot.
The turkeys were cut and volunteers prepared plates of turkey, stuffing and vegetables that were delivered to some 200 shut in and needy people and some 100 people who showed up in person to pick up the Thanksgiving meals.
“It is going smooth,” said Elrica Coleman, who works at the Stewpot, which serves some 250 meals per day to needy people in the community.
Coleman said the Stewpot had plenty of food left at 11:45 a.m. Thursday and anticipated everyone who wanted a meal would be able to get one before the Stewpot closed at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
Jeansonne said the donations were appreciated and that donated blankets were also distributed to people who needed them on Thursday.
“I can’t say enough thanks to the community for the donations,” Jeansonne said, adding the canned goods donated will help the Stewpot through the upcoming months.
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