Democratic Vision Club Donates to Penn-Scipio Thanksgiving Dinner

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Edgar Baker Phillips of the Democratic Club presents a check for $500 to Francine Penn-Scipio for the Thanksgiving community dinner the family holds each year at Emancipation Garden. (Photo courtesy of Edgar Philips)
Edgar Baker Phillips of the Democratic Vision Club, left, presents a check for $500 to Francine Penn-Scipio for the Thanksgiving community dinner the family hosts each year at Emancipation Garden on St. Thomas. (Photo courtesy of Edgar Baker Philips)

Edgar Baker Phillips, president of the Democratic Vision Club, presented a check for $500 to Francine Penn-Scipio of the Scipio Foundation recently.

The donation will help fund the Penn-Scipio annual Thanksgiving community feast — an event founded in 1996 — on Thursday at Emancipation Garden in downtown Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas.

A special thanks goes out to the following members who donated — Merla Phillips, Frankie Hoheb, Raymond Francis, Glenwood Dickerson, and Edgar Baker Phillips — according to a news release from the club, which wishes a Happy Thanksgiving to all.