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Contributed by: Margaret Pontius on 11/17/2006

For Immediate Release
For additional information: Margaret Pontius, Center Director 818/340-2050.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and many valley residents will be cooking the traditional feast for their family and friends. Some dinners will be for just one or two, others for 10 or 20.

For more than 17 years, Dara Laski and her mother Marcia Goldstein have been cooking the Guadalupe Center Thanksgiving dinner for a 1000--sometimes more! With the help of Center staff and volunteers, they begin to plan weeks in advance, so that when the big day rolls around, there will be delicious turkey, pies, and all the fixings for a sit-down dinner for people from the community who, for whatever, reason, find themselves unable to cook a traditional Thanksgiving feast.

Instead of football games and family chat, the families in attendance at Guadalupe Center will enjoy clowns, musicians, and puppeteers who help provide a unique fun family atmosphere as well as an unforgettable warm holiday experience.

In the recent past, service organizations such as the Woodland Hills Optimists and the West Valley PALS have helped defray the cost of feeding more than 1,000 people. For the last several pears Pratt and Whitney/Rocketdyne (formerly Boeing/Rocketdyne) has been the major contributor to the dinner.

This year, Guadalupe Community Center will be hosting its annual Thanksgiving Day dinner on Thursday, November 23, 2006 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Many West Valley residents have made volunteering for the dinner a tradition for their own families. Calls start coming in as early as September from prospective volunteers who say it just isn't Thanksgiving if they don't come to Guadalupe Center first to help serve dinner that day.

If you wojld like to volunteer for Thanksgiving Day dinner, please call Dara Laski 818/883-8996 and leave a message that you would like to volunteer.

Guadalupe Community Center is located at 21600 Hart Street, Canoga Park. We have a tradition of serving a big "family"! Over the past year alone, Guadalupe Community Center has worked with over 13,000 individuals through our various programs including our Food Pantry, Store, ESL classes, Children and Youth Sports andCultural Programsand Senior Programs. If you would like to know more about the Center and the many services that are provided, please call Margaret at 818/340-2050. She will be happy to share our story with you.

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