SNYDER COUNTY, Pa. — Wendy Apple and some of her friends formed an assembly line around her kitchen table in Mount Pleasant Mills. The group is preparing Easter meals and baskets for 500 people.
"I call it 'Feed America,' and everybody's laughing at me, but when you're feeding 500 people, it feels like it!" said Jodi Good of Middleburg.
"It's a lot of meals, and we even had some that we had to turn down," added Connie Burge of Middleburg.
Newswatch 16 introduced you to the Apple family in November, as they prepared more than 150 Thanksgiving meals and again at Christmas when they cooked even more food for families in need.
"Now it's even higher. People need to eat. Bottom line," Good said.
Apple says the giveaway became so large that it was almost canceled. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said she did not have the proper license to prepare food for the public from her private kitchen. That's when Apple's church offered its kitchen.
"It just grew so big with the community helping and the people giving and the donations we got," added Ben Delp of Mount Pleasant Mills.
On Saturday, the group will prepare 26 hams, 23 gallons of corn, and 30 boxes of mashed potatoes, all of which were donated. Quite a few volunteers are helping, including 11-year-old Garrett Snyder.
"Putting fruit cups in bags and giving them to kids, making Easter bags for kids and other stuff," said Garrett Snyder of Middleburg.
"There's a dire need of people who are hungry, and we want to see a lot of people happy, and we want to see a lot of kids with smiles on their faces," added Delp.
After that, Wendy Apple will prepare an Easter dinner for her own family!