South Florida Sun Sentinel from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 24

4B Sun-Sentinel, Friday, Nov. 25, 1983 Jl For some, Thanksgiving Day meant more than a tradition Du(l ru AM YGwee By Russell Clemings Staff Writer For many South Floridians, it was a traditional Thanksgiving Day, complete with turkey and stuffing. There were exceptions, however. Some were drawn to the beaches, where nary a cranberry nor a yam could be found. Others worked, like the 24 lifeguards who watched over Fort Lauderdale's bathers, or three of the waitresses at Lester's Diner who worked "because we have to if we had a choice we wouldn't be here." At Spectrum House, a residential drug rehabilitation center at 2301 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, the day was quite extraordinary.

Spectrum residents, of course, aren't permitted to get away to their families for Thanksgiving dinner. So the center's directors brought the families to the residents instead. "I know that, for some of you, this is the nicest Thanksgiving you've had for a long, long time," the center's supervisor, Jody Rosen, told the 43 residents and a like number of guests just before the kitchen was opened and the dinner began. Rosen said the dinner is an annual event, dependent upon donations and the labor of Spectrum residents, who prepared much of the food themselves. "Last year we had even bagels and lox," Rosen said, viewing a lox-less spread of sliced turkey, turkey drumsticks, chicken, ham, Italian pasta dishes, several different kinds of potatoes and vegetables and at least 14 pies.

"Some of the food we hustled from local places the turkeys, for one thing and we asked the parents to bring some things, too." A similar variety of food could be had at Lester's Diner, 250 W. State Road 84, Fort Lauderdale. Lester's is one of the few restaurants open on Thanksgiving Day, when even McDonald's bows to the holiday spirit and locks its doors. But 24-hours-a-day means 24-hours-a-day, even when it also means reluctant waitresses and uneven business. Not surprisingly, turkey was the most popular item on Lester's menu on Thanksgiving afternoon, according to waitress Nancy Judge.

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