MESQUITE – As cars began streaming through the pick-up line at Buckner International’s Center for Humanitarian Aid, turkeys and all the fixings were being handed out to 300 families who otherwise wouldn’t have a Thanksgiving dinner.
Gail Borneman had been waiting for more than three hours, first in the line of cars that now literally stretched out of sight.
“At Thanksgiving, I cook for 15 people,” said the retired pension benefits specialist for the city of Dallas. “I have six kids that are not mine that are staying with me, and I have a girl that is 16 and got raped.