The Kenai City Council enacted an ordinance accepting and appropriating a donation from Hilcorp Energy Company to assist with the Annual Area-Wide Senior Thanksgiving Dinner in the amount of $3,500. This donation has made this Thanksgiving Dinner possible by providing the necessary funds for food and supplies.
The Kenai Senior Center will host the Thanksgiving Dinner on Friday, November 18, as they have done years prior, and the meal is open to seniors from all over the Central Peninsula.
Kenai City Council member, Henry Knackstedt;
“I really appreciate seeing this donation come every year and frankly they’ve been doing for so long, I do not remember how many they’ve actually done. But, it’s certainly appreciated down at the Senior Center and by other members of the public.”
Hilcorp has shown their continually support for this event by funding for the past nine years.
The Areawide Senior Thanksgiving Dinner became a tradition when a homemakers club provided and served the first meal in 1976. Since then, it has grown with the help of Unocal, Agrium, and Marathon Oil. Since 2012, Hilcorp has been helping continue the tradition by providing the funding and volunteers.
