Bianca Nery-Oeverndiek Megan Lazar helps prepare a turkey for a Thanksgiving dinner for 130 children and adults at First Step for Families in San Mateo Thursday afternoon.

Richard Rossi Wilbert Lleses, financial aid director at Notre Dame de Namur University, hands out bags for food during the school's 20th annual Thanksgiving in the Park event. About 40 of Belmont's NDNU students, faculty, staff and alumni helped share a Thanksgiving picnic with about 400 homeless people in San Francisco yesterday.