Homeless shelter helps local business during the holidays
and last updated 2020-12-24 16:20:06-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Every year during Thanksgiving and Christmas we air stories about companies giving back to those in need. From kids getting free toys to meals for the less fortunate, several local businesses and donors make it all possible.
This year with the pandemic, some of those same companies are the ones needing help themselves.
Jessica Ann Tyson is ready for the holidays. She and her staff at the Candied Yam in Grand Rapids are slicinâ and dicinâ for a big meal. Actually, a few hundred meals to help local families.
became the samaritan center, she just wrote big checks all the time to the samaritan center to make sure people were being fed. but the big thing was, for three days every year she would have what is called cl franklin revival. and she would have quartets singing, which he father loved. she would have preaching, which her father did, but she would have eating from 4:00 p.m. until some time till 1:30, 2:00 in the morning. she supplied all of the food. i m talking about soul food, no hors d oeuvres or anything like that. i m talking about fried chicken, ribs, candied yam, ox tails, just something she enjoyed reaching out to other people and seeing other people happy. she has given so much to so many, millions of whom have never met her but are so grateful for the gifts she has shared. is there a favorite song, a favorite recording of hers that you like to listen to?