For the 28th year the community of Williams Lake is once again invited to a very special Festive Feast.
On Wednesday December third the Cariboo Chilcotin Child Development Centre (CDC) in collaboration with the Society of St Vincent de Paul will be putting on a Yuletide Dinner.
CDC Executive Director Vanessa Riplinger said if you are lean on funds this Holiday Season, or all alone, you are welcome to join us for a free traditional turkey dinner with all the fixings.
“The Society is amazing, they do all the cooking and organizing and Dave the chef from the Loon comes in and oversees the food, orders it all, then does the plating. It’s a full turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy, buns and desserts. It’s a wonderful dinner for people who may not get a Christmas dinner. We also have the men’s choir performing and Santa will be there as well handing out stockings.”
Riplinger said if anyone who would like to donate to this annual event can sponsor a family of four for just $50.
“The community and our businesses are incredibly giving to our (CDC) Christmas events. Year after year places like 150 Tire give every year, Johnston Meir is a huge sponsor of the Yuletide Dinner, aso we’re really grateful to all the businesses that step up and say they want to sponsor families and individuals during the Holiday Season and we’re going to help with this meal.”
Last year the Yuletide Dinner served over 640 meals which Riplinger says every time they hold it a great deal of volunteer hours goes into preparing for it.
“The St Vincent de Paul Society will be cooking probably from the first of December on getting things ready and Chef Dave is in and out helping which is amazing. We started preparing this event a couple of months ago. We sat down with Dave, the ordering was done, so this isn’t something we do like a week or two ago, this is something we’ve been doing for a a couple of months.”
The 28th Annual Yuletide Dinner will be served between 4 pm and 7 pm on Wednesday December 3rd at the Sacred Heart Hall in Williams Lake
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