Originally posted by: 5to1baby1in5
I think I would go down to the local homeless shelter before spending Turkey Day alone.
Too bad
Daddy Bruce died.
Bruce then began telling me about his father?s Thanksgiving and Christmas tradition. It was inspired by Jesus and began in 1960 when Daddy Bruce would feed thousands of homeless and poor people on 34th Avenue in Denver outside of his restaurant. It wasn?t just for the hungry; he would say, but for the lonely too. This Denver-tradition continued for roughly 30 years until Daddy?s death in 1994.
For 10 years after Daddy died at age 94, the Rev. Gill Ford, his former pastor, continued the tradition with help from Bruce. But, instead of cooking meals, Ford and his team of volunteers distributed food baskets with turkey and trimmings. But a rift between Ford and the Rev. King Harris, whose Epworth United Methodist Church helped with last year?s giveaways, has ended the tradition.
Ford, who now lives out of state, says Harris was trying to take over the event without authorization from himself or the Randolph family. If the family couldn?t account for how the money raised in Randolph?s name would be spent, the event had to be cancelled, Ford said. On November 25, 2004, the tradition officially ended, a day Daddy never would have thought possible.
