CHICO -- At about 8:30 a.m. Thanksgiving Day, Dillon Kiuttu, 10, wasn't thinking about turkey, stuffing or pie. He wasn't thinking about the drizzle getting his hair wet.
It was all about running in Bidwell Park with his grandparents, Dennis and Bev Landers of Chico, who all turned out for Thursday's annual Run for Food, a benefit for the Jesus Center.

CHICO -- A Chico woman's eyes welled up with tears as she thought about what she wanted for her children.
Christina Owen doesn't want them to be homeless anymore, she said Wednesday during Thanksgiving dinner at the Jesus Center. Her two boys, 7-year-old Tyler and Sean, 5, ate their meals and played at the tables. Mitzi, just 8 days old, was curled up in her mother's arms.

CHICO - In recent years, John Stattard has made it a point to spend the day before Thanksgiving at the Jesus Center.
As a chef, Stattard takes time from his job at Sycamore Glen Retirement Center to pitch in with the Thanksgiving meal served at the Park Avenue shelter.

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An expected 300 participants swelled to about 1,000 runners by the 9 a.m. start time Thursday for...Nearly 1,000 eager, beaming people began Thanksgiving Day by giving.

he Jesus Center's first ever Run for Food fundraiser was expected to draw a couple of hundred people to One-Mile Recreation Area Thanksgiving morning to run or walk five miles through Bidwell Park. Instead, a thousand showed up.