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Thanksgiving comes early at UIdaho

The UI Free Thanksgiving dinner will be held 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday. (PR Newswire)
The UI Free Thanksgiving dinner will be held 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday. (PR Newswire)

Joshua McQueen, executive chef of Vandals Dining, and a few members of his staff spent Tuesday peeling about 300 pounds of potatoes, preparing 150 pounds of green beans, 30 turkeys, 14 hams and an array of sides for those unable to make it home for the Thanksgiving holiday.

McQueen and his 10 or so co-workers put in about 100 total hours of work to make the University of Idaho’s third annual Free Thanksgiving celebration at the Bob’s Place kitchen inside the Wallace Residence Center possible.

“When I was in college, I had the luxury of going home,” McQueen said. “This is our opportunity to be an extension of that. We try to create those memories for kids that don’t get to go home.”

McQueen said he’s expecting about 600 people – including many members of the international community – to fill Bob’s Place today for the dinner/Josh Babcock, Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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