More than 3,800 families hoping for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner are receiving assistance from food banks on the North Olympic Peninsula this week.

The families range from no income, to two adults working full-time and making minimum wage, to people who have been laid off in less-than-prosperous economic times.

“We’re seeing more people,” Nina Fatherson, executive director of the Sequim Food Bank, said Friday afternoon as volunteers handed out Thanksgiving baskets.

“A lot of them have lost their jobs, a lot of them have been cut back, and it’s just more or less our economy,” she said.

That story is the same across the Peninsula, where more people are in need this Thanksgiving.

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