 While the Red Lake community came together to celebrate the holidays with a meal made for everyone, reporter Cheryl Moore tells us about their first-ever Thanksgiving community meal and this week's community spotlight. It tastes pretty good. First time I came to one like this and I'm surrounded by family members. From the youth and the elders, to families and singles, anyone and everyone was invited to the first-ever Red Lake community meal. I just loved it because of the fact that it's not only open to the elders, it's open to everyone. So everybody has a chance to get a meal, a good, healthy, home-cooked, you know, warm meal. There was turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce, and of course pumpkin pie. All of the food was catered by the Seven Clans Casino. The community meal was put together to bring a new positive event to Red Lake that focused on being together as a group. I'd like to do things like this. It makes you feel better inside that you're doing things, teaching. Before this year, the Red Lake community used to host a soup line after months of the collaboration between the Red Lake Tribal Council, the community center, and the officials at the casino. That's why. What you see today was born. Community coordinator, we meet with her regular. She gives me and the other representative some kind of idea she would like to do. And we try to give her that freedom, though, to run with her ideas, just to keep the events going, keep them positive. The community meal brought out more than 40 community members. At the end, people were even allowed to take-to-go containers. Anything else left over was given to the local homeless and women's shelters. I like seeing everybody here coming and getting together and spending time with each other. To me, that's the biggest, the most important thing is just keeping everybody visiting, keeping everybody together. To keep the community events in Red Lake going strong, the first-ever Elders' Christmas meal will take place next month on December 21st at the Seven Clans Casino. It starts at 11 in the morning. Reporting in Red Lake with this week's community spotlight, Shremor, Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.