Mama Liz Annual Thanksgiving Dinner [PHOTOS]
Kapali Long and Jonathan Coleman.
Forty-two cooked turkeys, even more pies, and mashed potatoes for 400 were delivered to the Hermosa Beach Kiwanis and Rotarian halls Thanksgiving morning. The donated fixings was just enough to serve the over 400 people who attended the 28th Annual Mama Liz Thanksgiving Dinner. “Mama” Liz Turner, an Easy Reader typesetter, established the dinner after she and her son Randy Turner closed their Garden Of Eden restaurant, where they had offered free Thanksgiving dinners each year.
[scrollGallery id=262]Donna Dawick headed up the volunteers and collected most of the turkeys from her fellow Prudential Realtors. Rick Hankus, of Ocean Diner and Java Man organized the kitchen and Ted Nguyen ran the kitchen crew. Sandpipers brought the pies, Manhattan Bread and Bagel brought the rolls and Anouka and Ron Spears of West Coast Catering prepared the mashed potatoes. Real Estate West Realtor Jonathan Coleman of the band Abrakadabra, with assistance fromFred Milani, organized the musicians, who preformed throughout the day.