Community Thanksgiving dinner held at Boys and Girls Club in Springfield

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Sunday between the hours of 12:00 pm and 5:00 pm, the Boys & Girls Club Family Center will be hosting the annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner.

The event will take place in the gymnasium at 100 Acorn Street, Springfield, MA. This event is free and open to the public.

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On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border. Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India set out on foot to meet a waiting van. Coordinating things in Canada, federal prosecutors say, was Harshkumar Patel, an experienced smuggler nicknamed "Dirty Harry."

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