PORT ANGELES — Gerald Walkup is a 13-year-old who has played football and worshipped the Seattle Seahawks since he was a little boy.
And the Roosevelt Middle School student is also no rookie at volunteering his time toward community service, putting in an impressive number of hours at the Salvation Army food bank.
“It’s just fun helping out people,” said Gerald, a seventh grader who Thursday enticed his sister, Rachel, and his mother, Cindy Lees, to join two dozen other volunteers in putting on a Thanksgiving feast at the newly built Serenity House single adult transitional shelter.
“This is our first year at getting out for Thanksgiving,” Lees said. “Usually we just sit around, looking at each other.”
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News.
