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A University of Missouri-Kansas City senior woke up at 3 a.m. the day before Thanksgiving to smoke turkey, make mashed potatoes and grill beans for hundreds of people in need of a good meal.

Dominick Love, founder of the nonprofit Love's Village and a UMKC student, organized a Thanksgiving meal distribution in Kansas City's Ivanhoe neighborhood. His organization gathered 900 pounds of food through donations to create hot meals for anyone who needed one.

Attendees could also pick up fresh produce, a hygiene kit and hats and gloves.

"Everything that your heart could desire for Thanksgiving," Love said. This is one of the best things we could do during this season."

The initiative came in response to SNAP benefit cuts in Missouri and Kansas City. Love

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