Overview
- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Senator Ed Markey, and Bruins defenseman Nikita Zadorov joined volunteers in an assembly line to prepare meals and essentials.
- Organizers shifted from on-site turkey carving to packing outreach bags for distribution across the city on Thanksgiving night.
- Pine Street Inn readied roughly 2,000 meals, including 120 turkeys, 1,000 pounds of mashed potatoes, 140 pounds of stuffing, and 250 pounds of cranberry sauce.
- Wu praised the organization as a national model and said the effort provides nourishment along with a warm human connection.
- Former guest Philip Hall, now employed at Brigham and Women's Hospital, shared his recovery story as Inn officials voiced hopes that holiday meal lines will no longer be necessary.