Annual Daddy Bruce Thanksgiving meal feeds 5,000 families

By 6:30 a.m., people were lining up along Bruce Randolph Avenue outside the Epworth United Methodist Church, despite temperatures in the 20s, so they could get a box of food for Thanksgiving.
The Epworth Foundation has been running the Daddy Bruce Thanksgiving meal distribution since 2003. The annual tradition was started in 1964 by restaurant owner and humanitarian Daddy Bruce Randolph.
More than 5,600 families, seniors and veterans signed up for meals. Some meals were picked up outside th