READING, Pa. – As with any holiday meal prep many hands make light work.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been volunteering my whole life,” says Sharee Maffetone, who is volunteering at the Lighthouse. “I was raised to give back.”<\/p>\n
Dozens of volunteers came out to help serve Thanksgiving meals to people at the Hope Rescue Mission and at the Lighthouse Women and Children’s Shelter.<\/p>\n
“This is our first time ever doing it on the holiday, so it was a really good experience, considering a lot of people here don’t have a lot of people to be surrounded by with smiles and cheer so it’s nice to be able to provide that for them,” says Talia Falcon, a volunteer at Hope Rescue Mission.<\/p>\n
Falcon brought her siblings along with her to volunteer.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s really important because not everyone has the same privileges, but everybody deserves the same love and food and everything on holidays like this,” says Mila Falcon.<\/p>\n
Maffetone says while volunteering isn’t new to her, this is the first time she’s helped out at the Lighthouse.<\/p>\n
“We are handing out this delicious meal that somebody spent a lot of time preparing and giving it out to the families, the women and children who are staying here,” says Maffetone.<\/p>\n
“When you don’t have a family of origin, you have a family of choice, and I choose these people to be my family today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – As with any holiday meal prep many hands make light work. “I’ve been volunteering my…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9419,27428,12972,27427,128,130,129,1274,15881,27429],"class_list":["post-46537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-community-service","tag-holiday-meal","tag-hope-rescue-mission","tag-lighthouse-thanksgiving-meal","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-thanksgiving","tag-volunteering","tag-women-and-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}