Thanksgiving News

MEMBERS of the public are invited to attend a service of thanksgiving service to mark Armed Forces Day on Saturday, June 29. The service takes place at the War Memorial at 10.50am and has been organised by the Boston branch of the Royal British Legion which will be in Veterans way on the same day from 10am until 3pm.

In the weeks before he died Friday in an accident on Interstate 64, the 63-year-old Norfolk man's recovery from pancreatic cancer was speeding up, and he was making plans to return to the passions he'd been pulled from - skiing and helping disabled children and veterans.

Think back to last Thanksgiving. Your meal probably started out normally enough - a few slices of turkey here, a few dozen spoonfuls of mashed potatoes there - and ended with you clutching your food baby while passed out on the couch at 6 p.m. in front of the football game.

Thanks to the sponsorship of Avocados from Mexico, these Chocolate Gooey Cake Bars have a healthy secret - NO butter! Remember when Food Network got really big? I remember watching Emeril and Bobby Flay back in 2000.

Don Zolidis ' "Miles and Ellie," now having its world premiere at the Purple Rose Theatre , tells the story of two teenagers who fall in love, break up, and see each other again 20 years later.

The beagle's clinched the title, no question about it, as Snoopy, the world's most famous companion with a wildly imaginative, supremely confident, canine master of disguise personality, prepares for his return to the 87th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

A NORTHUMBERLAND school has been able to personally thank a Dutch family which has returned its lost war memorial after almost half a century.

Mawbey Street School lives up to its name as number one, Fifth grade essay winner Sana Qureshi expressed on Monday afternoon at the school's 50th anniversary celebration.

As chairman of the India Overseas Trust, which is organising events to mark the 40th anniversary of the expulsions, he reminded the multicultural congregation: "In September 1972, a plane landed at Stansted airport bringing refugees from Uganda who had with them nothing but one suitcase each and, if they were fortunate, 50 in cash.

Federal law establishes the following public holidays for federal employees. If the holiday falls during the weekend, it may be observed on a different day.

It's one of those unhappy holiday surprises -- a visiting family member gets sick.

Put down your spatula and pop in a video of "What's Cooking?", an ode to Thanksgiving as prepared in the kitchens of Latina Mercedes Ruehl, African-American Alfre Woodard, Vietnamese Joan Chen and Jewish Lai= nie Kazan.

As a teenager in the late 1950s, New Albany native Charles Oliver considered his career options and found that he liked no business better than the family business: making and selling eyeglasses.

It's like Thanksgiving every week for the Ellerbroek clan in Sioux Falls. A turkey dinner with all the fixings can feed a big crowd, and that's what the Ellerbroek siblings and their families look for in their Tuesday night dinners.

Fair season is just around the corner, but many of the Aldermere Achievers 4-H Club members at Maine Coast Heritage Trust's Aldermere Farm in Rockport are already winning praise and awards for a variety of things outside of the show ring.

One of the FBI's Most Wanted for more than a decade, James "Whitey" Bulger went on trial this week.

Fathers are our teachers. They support us, set examples and help us enter the world of adulthood.

On the night before Thanksgiving 2009, when he was 16, David Dove fatally shot a 24-year-old man in the Cutoff section of Algiers and wounded a woman in the process, a New Orleans jury determined late Friday.

WASHINGTON D.C., June 14 .- An influential Democrat-leaning communications strategy group has targeted critics of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, claiming it is "Catholic McCarthyism" to bar funds to groups allied with backers of abortion and "gay marriage."

It's not every day you get to witness the birth of a calf, the cheese-making process, or how milk is produced, but those opportunities are coming your way in July.