South Tucson community groups are seeing increased demand for food assistance this Thanksgiving as their annual food drive enters its final days.

The month-long food drive, organized by Barrio Restoration and hosted at Moroso Medical Center, is still collecting side dishes, desserts and non-perishable items to complete Thanksgiving meals for local families.

Those items include:

Stuffing

Mashed potato mix

Gravy

Cranberry sauce

Pie and desserts

Canned veggies

Dinner rolls

Any other favorite Thanksgiving sides.

While turkeys have been secured, organizers are making a final push for other holiday essentials.

"A lot of people are hungry these days. You know, we just wanna give back to the community," said David Garcia, founder of Barrio Restoration.

Garcia said donations came in qu

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