Volunteers log hundreds of hours cooking the annual community holiday meal. They started the Sunday before Thanksgiving, flipping on the kitchen lights most mornings around 7. They cooked batch after batch of birds, baked tray after tray of pies, warmed sheet after sheet of rolls. By Turkey Day, Elks Lodge No. 1713 had 100 birds to offer at its Thanksgiving Day dinner, a feast that’s become an annual tradition since the Elks took the reins of the event in 2014. Before that, Teton Steakhouse hosted the community dinner, which sizzled once the restaurant went out of business several years …
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