Thanks to a local food pantry, more Columbus residents will have a happy Thanksgiving this year.Recipients came to Indianola Middle School, 420 E. 19th Ave., Wednesday where special Thanksgiving baskets of food awaited them.Tamara Maxey, a Columbus resident, came to the event so she could provide her three children with a good Thanksgiving dinner.”It would be really rough especially when you’re a single mom and don’t really have an education,” she said. “I work to survive. I have been working on my own for eight or nine years now.”Neighborhood Services, Inc. sponsored a food drive to supply traditional dinner items to 42 needy families.Residents in Ohio State’s dormitories donated goods through a collection organized by Project Community. Area churches, the Mid-Ohio Foodbank and Kroger grocery stores also donated food. Families also received $10 gift certificates from Kroger, said Denise Youngsteadt-Parrish, director of Neighborhood Services, Inc. The certificates were meant to allow people a chance to buy a turkey, she said.”This is the first time we have held the food drive at Indianola,” she said. “It works out OK because it separates the food baskets from the Thanksgiving baskets.”The Thanksgiving baskets have the gift certificate, extra food and general non-food staple items which the regular food baskets don’t have. The Thanksgiving baskets are only available until 3 p.m. today. The regular food baskets are available all year.”The food drive helps a lot because I’m on a fixed income,” said Minnie Wells, a Columbus resident. She said she came to the drive to pick up food for herself and her live-in boyfriend. “We go to the food pantry once a month. The only way we can make it is if we combine both of our fixed incomes,” she said.Wells said she is not sure what she would do without a food bank.