Annual turkey fry provides fare for 300

Bill Lame remembers the year he and four friends set up five deep fryers on his driveway, cooking turkeys to give to needy families he learned about through his church.

As he stored the grease and put away the fryers that day, little did he know that some 27 years later, he’d be joined by more than 200 volunteers preparing 300 deepfried turkey dinners for Kendall County families.

That was the scene Nov. 26 as members of the Christian Men of Boerne came together the day before Thanksgiving at the Kendall County Fairgrounds. There, they prepared the hundreds of turkeys that serve as the traditional centerpiece for a Thanksgiving meal, given to hundreds of families in the Boerne area that otherwise might not have such a holiday feast.