BETTENDORF, IOWA (April 27, 2023) — Last year, Rock Island’s Martin Luther King Center set an ambitious goal for its annual Thanksgiving celebration: serve 5,000 meals to community members.
For many years, the MLK Center had served about 200 meals the Sunday before the holiday. After adding Saturday delivery and, during COVID-19, a curbside pickup option, they watched that number tick up and up, from 1,000 meals in 2018 to 2,200 in 2020 and 3,500 in 2021.