A cafeteria worker prepares a Thanksgiving meal to feed hundreds

By JEFF ROBERSON
REEDS SPRING, Mo. (AP) — The first year Shirley Mease cooked up a free Thanksgiving feast in the Reeds Spring High School cafeteria, icy weather kept most people away. But when her family knocked on doors to offer the meals, the gratefulness they found confirmed the need in her Missouri community.
“When you work with the school system you know the families that are in need because there are a lot of babies that come to school and that’s the only meal they get,&