Thanksgiving charity highlights holiday need
News 8 Austin Thursday 24th November, 2011
People gathered in Round Rock to eat, chat and make up hundreds of meals to deliver to people across the region.From Taylor to Austin to Bastrop, and cities in between, anyone who needed a hot, home-cooked meal on Thanksgiving were able to have just that thanks to
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