Local food drive tradition returns this Thanksgiving to feed thousands

Community-made, home-cooked meals are back to adorn hundreds of tabletops this Thanksgiving, marking the revival and celebration of a local tradition that has spanned more than three decades.
For 37 Thanksgivings, local restaurant owner Frank Garcia has fed thousands of families with a food drive that started in 1984 in the parking lot of the resort-area strip mall where his restaurant, La Casa Garcia, is located. The event later grew to pack the Honda Center parking lot with dozens of tables, w