NEWARK - Thousands of Newark residents lined up outside Weequahic High School on Monday as Mayor Ras J. Baraka joined HelloFresh, nonprofit Table to Table, Sunrise ShopRite of West Caldwell and Italian dessert company Bindi North America to distribute full Thanksgiving meal packages.

Boxes containing 13-pound turkeys, bell peppers and apples were stacked high and filled Weequahic High School gymnasium, with police officers, firefighters and Newark high school students all volunteering to package Thanksgiving dinners and load boxes with food onto delivery trucks.

“I think that if you look at the line outside, you see that people need this food, that food is important,” Baraka said. “Access to food is serious in our community, and we do what we can to make sure that people have a joyful h

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