UHS’ 38th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner

On November 26, the actual day of Thanksgiving Day, Urbana High School will be hosting a free dinner from 5 p.m to 7 p.m. at the school’s cafeteria. The school’s student council took part in organizing the dinner and were the ones who made it possible.

“We met during the school days in the past few months to organize the Thanksgiving dinner,” says senior and student council president, Mariah Burgess. “People that have businesses around the area donated a lot from food, napkins to pumpkins. They all were very willing to help out with making the school’s Thanksgiving dinner happen.”

Burgess says that the main purpose of the school hosting the Thanksgiving dinner is to provide food for the people who couldn’t afford to make a meal for the Thanksgiving. When the student council president was asked about how this dinner would be different from the last years, she says with a chuckle, “We have better turkey, and we hope that we’ll have more people and more families to come and join us. ”

This is the 38th annual Thanksgiving dinner the school have hosted so far. “I consider this event as one of the school’s traditions because this started even when I wasn’t born yet, and this has been going on for about 40 years. It’s something the whole community takes part in,” says Burgess.

“This Thanksgiving dinner provides families from around the area an open and fun atmosphere to celebrate the holiday together,” says Burgess.