DALLAS — The Tarrant Area Food Bank North will be proving free meals ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. On Tuesday, Nov. 19 the food bank will host a Holiday Mega Mobile Distribution in Denton County.

The mobile food truck serves as a source of meals and nutritional resources for families. TFAB serves those seeking food assistance including low-wage workers and their families, senior citizens living on fixed incomes, victims of family violence and of disasters, the chronically ill, the severely disabled, the homeless, the under-employed and the temporary and long-term unemployed, according to their mission.

The event will occur from 10 a.m. to noon at the C.H. Collins Athletic Complex, 1500 Long Road in Denton.

The organization expects to feed almost 1,000 families through their Mega Mobile food distribution.

Driven by concerns about hunger in their community, a group of Fort Worth residents established the Tarrant Area Food Bank in 1982.

TAFB currently provides services to 13 counties in North Texas: Tarrant, Bosque, Cooke, Denton, Erath, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell and Wise.