The mood was celebratory on Oct. 24 as the Regional Food Bank hosted a press conference, with more than a dozen enthusiastic speakers, to announce it would launch a Thanksgiving food program in the wake of Equinox no longer holding its Thanksgiving Community Dinner — a tradition for more than half of a century.
“Close your eyes,” Tom Nardacci, chief executive officer of the Regional Food Bank, urged the crowd, “and just think about your favorite Thanksgiving memory or tradition personally. Just take a minute and think about that.”
For Nardacci it was “busting chops” with a favorite uncle, who has recently died…