On Christmas Day, while many families in Starkville were gathered around dining tables at home, another kind of meal was being prepared – packed into foil pans, loaded into car trunks and delivered across town.
For the 16th year, “Almost Like Home” brought home-cooked Christmas meals to the essential workers who keep Starkville running when the rest of the city slows down. Firefighters, law enforcement officers, dispatchers, hospital staff and animal care workers all received full holiday dinners – not because they asked, but because the community wanted them to have one.
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Dining and Cooking