Courtesy Photo Pictured are staff members at Wolverine State Credit Union who helped distribute food and Thanksgiving turkeys recently to local families in need in this 2019 file photo.

News Photo by Julie Goldberg Kids at the Boys and Girls Club of Alpena hold their annual Thanksgiving dinner in this 2018 file photo.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Mike Fisher, assistant director at Sunrise Mission in Alpena, shows a sampling of food that will be used by mission residents to make their own Thanksgiving meal on Thursday.

News Photo by Julie Riddle At the Sunrise Mission Educational Center in Alpena, mission director Barbara Matheran reads a card from area children who donated money to the mission to help residents enjoy their holidays.

News Photo by Julie Riddle At the Sunrise Mission Educational Center in Alpena, mission director Barbara Matheran displays a room ready for a Thanksgiving dinner to be cooked by mission residents.

News Photo by Julie Riddle At the Sunrise Mission Educational Center in Alpena, mission director Barbara Matheran displays pictures colored by children in a room set up for a Thanksgiving dinner to be cooked by mission residents.

Beckett Granata winks at the camera as he helps shop for food to donate to Trinity's Thanksgiving meals program.

Scarlett and Eli Krawczak hold cans of cranberry sauce to donate to Trinity's Thanksgiving dinner program.

Courtesy Photo Isabella McCrimmon happily displays the goods she and her mom bought to donate to Trinity Episcopal’s Thanksgiving meals program.

Courtesy Photo Pictured are staff members at Wolverine State Credit Union who helped distribute food and Thanksgiving turkeys recently to local families in need in this 2019 file photo.

News Photo by Jonny Zawacki Members of the Alpena High hockey team celebrate after scoring a goal against Sault Ste. Marie during a consolation game in the Wildcats' Thanksgiving Classic at Northern Lights Arena in this 2019 file photo.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Aboard the snow train, bundled cuties and cheerful adults wave to the crowds lining the sidewalks at the 2019 Bolenz Jewelry Holiday Parade.

News Photos by Julie Riddle Cheered by adoring crowds, Santa arrives in town to end the annual Bolenz Jewelry Holiday Parade in 2019.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Volunteer Shauna Losinski helps Tammy Kish pack a box with a Thanksgiving meal at the donation center for the Vietnam Veterans Chapter 583 Feed a Family food distribution in this 2019 file photo.

News Photo by Steve Schulwitz Assistant Coordinator for Operation Holidays Tammy Kish stacks cases of canned food which will be distributed to struggling families in Northeast Michigan for Thanksgiving in this 2018 file photo.

McKenna Moulds, whose grandparents reside in Alpena, is a member of the award-winning Rockford Marching Band that will perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. She is pictured above in this 2017 file photo.