PITTSBURGH —

A Thanksgiving Eve tradition returned for its 51st year Wednesday: the annual Albright Community Thanksgiving dinner.

Hundreds of people from across Pittsburgh’s East End gathered to share food and fellowship at the First United Methodist Church social hall on Centre Avenue. Advertisement

“It’s great. It’s comforting. It makes me want to stay,” Jacqueline Stewart said. “It’s a chance to gather with my family, meet new friends."

This was Stewart’s second year attending the dinner, but the tradition began years before that. The dinner started 51 years ago at Albright United Methodist Church as a Boy Scout project.

“It’s a credit to the organization. To constantly do something like this for 51 years changes a lot of people’s holidays,” said Mayor-elect Corey O’Connor, who v

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