‘What does it mean? Everything’: San Jose nonprofits are food lifeline for Thanksgiving

Each year, the lines are long at Sacred Heart Community Service in San Jose, as people and cars queue up for nutritious boxed holiday meals.

From Monday to Wednesday, the nonprofit distributed approximately 3,500 free boxes of food. Each box, valued at $150, included a chicken, ham or turkey and all the fixings for the holiday meal, such as stuffing, potatoes and green beans.