Despite Challenges, OC Community Provides Thanksgiving Meals to Low-Income Families

Volunteers prepare to hand out boxes of donated food for the Thanksgiving holiday at the local nonprofit Friends of Families' food distribution event in Stanton, Calif., on Nov. 19, 2022. Courtesy of George Grachen

As a line began to form in front of the Orange County Food Bank in Garden Grove, California, Stanton’s Mayor David Shawver looked over elderly residents holding grocery bags that would soon be filled with free and discounted food.

“This is one of the many reasons I do public service,” Shawver told The Epoch Times with a smile on his face at a regular giveaway Nov. 21.