NORFOLK — Tom Anderson was taught well.

His great, great grandmother, Mary Hinkson, played a huge role during the Great Depression.

“She was instrumental in feeding people in the city of Philadelphia during the Great Depression,” Anderson said about that period from 1929 until the late 1930s when there was a severe worldwide economic downturn that saw high rates of unemployment and poverty. “When I was little, my grandfather always told us stories about it. And he said she would feed the block. So that was instilled in us.”

Nearly 100 years later, Anderson is carrying on her legacy.

Earlier this week, he had nearly 30 members of his Landstown High track team show up at his church in Norfolk to prepare Thanksgiving boxes for the less fortunate.

Anderson, who has been the school’s only

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