Maybe the rescue mission in your area could use donations of rice and pinto
beans. Any little bit helps. I'm going to Cash and Carry today to pick up
a couple hundred pounds of each to drop off.

NAMPA -- It's become an annual tradition - tamale making for holiday
dinners.

The Boise Rescue Mission and 75 volunteers rolled up their shirt sleeves at
Skyview High School Saturday to make 5,000 tamales.

The popular Mexican treat has become a holiday tradition at Thanksgiving and
Christmas meals.

"The Hispanic population is so large at our events in Nampa that we give
them the choice between a traditional Thanksgiving turkey meal or a
traditional Hispanic tamale meal," said Meagan Ellis, who helped make
tamales. "So they can have tamales, beans and rice or turkey, mashed
potatoes and gravy."

The Boise Rescue Mission still needs donations of Mexican rice and pinto
beans to help with the holiday meals.

Donations can be accepted at any Boise Rescue Mission facility.

More tamales will be made next weekend for the Rescue Mission's Boise
locations.