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Serita Basilio-Lewis throws brocolli onto a stove at the Coast Café, where she and several volunteers prepared Thanksgiving meals on Monday for delivery to a host of Bolinas families in need—whether because of ill health, struggling finances or the arrival of a newborn—as part of Food for Families. David Briggs

It wasn’t long after her mother fell ill that Serita Basilio-Lewis began to rely on support from family friends in her hometown of Bolinas. Weighed down by grief, at times she found consolation in a “crew of angels” that took turns caring for her mother at her home while she worked to make ends meet as a dispatcher for Fairfax police. 

“Life is difficult enough without supporting each other,” said Ms. Basilio-Lewis, whose mother, Nola…