D’Ann Savage Buckfield hands platters of turkey Thursday at the start of the Thanksgiving meal at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. The annual gathering started over 30 years ago in the home of two local women. The meal moved to the church once the gathering became too large for the home, Rosalie Ketchum of Norway said. Savage and Ketchum are two of the key players who keep the event going year after year. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Volunteer Joss Langevin of South Paris makes sure people have what they need Thursday during the Thanksgiving meal at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Theresa Marie Lelievre of Norway catches up with John Callina of Oxford on Thursday during the Thanksgiving meal at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

“I’m the backup turkey,” John Callina of Oxford said Thursday during the Thanksgiving meal at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Thanksgiving dinners are served Thursday at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. Volunteer D’Ann Savage of Buckfield said volunteers prepared 100 sit-down meals and another 50 meals to be delivered. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Volunteers prepare a Thanksgiving meal Thursday at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. D’Ann Savage, left, of Buckfield said nine turkeys went into the oven at 4:15 a.m. From left are Savage, Alan Wilson of Mechanic Falls, Christine Hebert of Norway and Peter Hammond of Norway. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Janel Danforth, right, of South Paris catches up with Adelaide Roma of Otisfield while helping prepare for the Thanksgiving meal Thursday at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. Volunteers from five area churches helped during the annual gathering. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Volunteers Pat O’Brien of Oxford, center, Carol Slade of Bridgton, left, and Joanne Fortier of Waterford cut over 30 pies Thursday during the Thanksgiving meal at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. “There is nothing like community,” Fortier said about how people from five different churches come together to prepare and serve the meal each Thanksgiving. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Volunteers brought over 30 pies to the Thanksgiving meal Thursday at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal