ILWU provides hundreds of families with Thanksgiving dinner baskets

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The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

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The ILWU held its annual Thanksgiving giveaway on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The event gives holiday dinner fixings for 1,500 families with volunteers helping folks load items in their cars. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

For more than two decades, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have provided Thanksgiving groceries to hundreds of families — and they did so again this year.

ILWU members gathered on Tuesday, Nov. 26, to box the goods and pass them out, some delivering the dinner fixingd — including turkeys — to recipients’ cars outside the ILWU Memorial Hall in Wilmington. ILWU Locals 13, 63 and 94, along with the ILWU Southern California Pensioners and ILWU Federated Auxiliary No. 8, typically participate in the volunteer effort.

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Provisions include a turkey, cornbread, fresh fruit, vegetables and other holiday dinner items.

Volunteers were on hand to help the approximately 1,500 families — who go through a pre-registration process — load the groceries into their cars.

The “Feed the Community” event has been sponsored by the union for 27 years.

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