LACONIA — Volunteers were busy downtown on Thursday morning, preparing to serve a traditional Thanksgiving meal, takeout-style, to any community member in need of food, no questions asked.

It’s a big ordeal, and is run out of the Congregational Church of Laconia United Church of Christ each year. Some volunteers are members of the church, and others aren’t, but they’ve all got the same goal: feed the hungry a dignified meal so they, too, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

Hollis Thompson is one of those volunteers, and Thursday morning was managing a large team there. Downstairs in a hall next to the industrial kitchen, Thompson flitted back and forth between stations and among volunteers, orchestrating what would be a rather large meal service through the afternoon.

“It evolved over the years

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