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Minnesota Now with Nina Moini
Nina Moini and Alanna Elder

Duluth volunteers prepare to serve, deliver thousands of Thanksgiving meals in 35th annual event

Volunteers gather in a kitchen peeling potatoes
Volunteers peel potatoes for the 2016 Thanksgiving Day Buffet at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center.
Courtesy of Monica Hendrickson via College of St. Scholastica

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For some Minnesotans, Thanksgiving is a community event. Volunteers in Duluth have spent Monday and Tuesday peeling and cooking 2,000 pounds of potatoes — that’s about the weight of a small car — as part of the work behind the College of St. Scholastica’s free Thanksgiving Day Buffet.

The event is 35 years running and now takes place at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. Organizers this year expect to serve more than 3,000 people and deliver 1,000 meals to homebound Duluthians.

MPR News host Nina Moini talks with Monica Hendrickson, who has led the effort for about a decade, and Kala Pederson, who coordinates meal deliveries.

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