Dianne S. Jones is visually impaired and relies on a walker, but those things weren’t going to stop her from hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for sanitation workers and first responders in Camden on Monday.

For 26 years, Jones has organized the free Thanksgiving dinner at the Camden County Council on Economic Opportunity on Broadway as a way to honor the workers and bring community members together.

“As long as breaths in my body, I’m going to make this happen,” said Jones, 81, who was determined to hold Monday’s dinner because of the federal pause in SNAP benefits . “We must do it this year.”

Jones was raised in Camden by a mother who instilled the virtues of public service.

“My mother taught me as a young person to make sure that whatever I do in life, that it’s helping somebody

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