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A family from La Grange’s East Side neighborhood continued a tradition of hosting Thanksgiving dinner for area residents who were alone for the holiday.

Lacey-Hill Community Outreach served about 220 people on Thanksgiving at La Grange’s Robert E. Coulter American Legion Post 1941, 900 S. La Grange Rd.

“This got started 27 years ago,” April Hill, partner at Lacey-Hill, said while overseeing the food servers. “My mother saw a homeless man with a turkey and thought, what is a homeless man doing with a turkey? Then she thought, God told me to feed my people.”

About a year and a half later, “she said let’s do it. So we started feeding the community.”

While they normally stage their events at the La Grange Lacey Community Center, that facility i

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