Kids serve Christmas dinner to Drumheller seniors [Video]

Drumheller grade school students have turned into servers, escorts and entertainers for a day at a free turkey dinner for close to 350 seniors from the town and surrounding area.

Tom Zariski, chair of the Drumheller Seniors Christmas Dinner Committee says the event has run for more than 30 years and involves close to 100 students from the town’s three schools, from kindergarten to grade 12.

The younger grade students are responsible for table decorations and place mats.

“The placemats are just a hoot and they make little reindeer decorations and the seniors just love that,” he said. “In fact at the end of the meal you’ll see seniors folding up these placemats and taking them home, they’re so cute.”

When the seniors arrive, they’re escorted into the Drumheller Community Facility from the parking lot, have their coat checked and given a handmade corsage.

The entertainment is provided by school …