From today’s Tennessean:

The Nashville Rescue Mission reports it is seeing lower-than-average contributions for its annual Thanksgiving banquet for the city’s homeless this year.

With less than two weeks left before the holiday, the Nashville Rescue Mission is in need of donations of fresh and frozen turkeys, canned vegetables, fresh produce, cranberry sauce, paper plates, plastic cutlery, aluminum foil and foil turkey pans, a news release said.

Food gifts are accepted at the Mission’s Donation Center, 616 Seventh Ave. S., from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Monetary donations can be made online at www.nashvillerescuemission.org.