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Police, Union Rescue Mission Deliver Thanksgiving Meals To Wichita Families

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The Wichita Police Department is partnering again with the Union Rescue Mission to deliver free Thanksgiving meals to families in the community.

Denny Bender, executive director of the Union Rescue Mission, said Monday that the department has nominated about 100 families that officers have identified as being in need.

"They may have experienced a financial setback, they may have been the victim of a crime, they may have a loved one incarcerated, struggling to put decent meals on their table," Bender said.

The Union Rescue Mission is a faith-based ministry that provides shelter and other services to homeless men in Wichita. Men from the mission will accompany police officers as they deliver the meals Tuesday morning.

This is the 14th year that the mission and the police department have worked together to distribute holiday meals. They will also deliver free meals this Christmas.

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Nadya Faulx is KMUW's Digital News Editor and Reporter, which means she splits her time between working on-air and working online, managing news on KMUW.org, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She joined KMUW in 2015 after working for a newspaper in western North Dakota. Before that she was a diversity intern at NPR in Washington, D.C.