While American families begin preparing to celebrate their family traditions and homecomings for the Thanksgiving Holiday, Delegate J.B. Jennings (R-7th Legislative District), members of the Towson Elks Lodge No. 469, and several volunteers gave their thanks by spending their evening serving Thanksgiving dinners to United States Veterans.
On Thursday, November 19th, Delegate Jennings and others volunteered their time to provide a holiday dinner for the Veterans from the Greens Street and Loch Raven VA Medical Centers at the Elks Lodge No. 469, located in Towson, Maryland.
Every year, the Towson Elks Lodge hosts a Thanksgiving Dinner for Veterans spanning from WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Gulf War, as gesture of appreciation and honor for their sacrifices and service to our Country. The Veterans received an All-American home cooked holiday spread and a played a few rounds of ...Continue Reading
I love the Thanksgiving holiday. Well, by “I love the Thanksgiving holiday,” I mean I love watching people go into a crazy tailspin of mixed emotions – including anxiety, anticipation, fear, enjoyment, rage, euphoria, anger and even casual indifference – over preparing a Thanksgiving dinner to celebrate a holiday commemorating a year of harvest. Mind you, as Americans, most of us really don’t harvest anything, but it’s a time of year that we all get together and pretend we have been harvesting. It’s an American tradition at its finest.
Everybody has their own memories of Thanksgiving. Growing up with a large extended family that spanned four generations, my memories include an annual gathering of anywhere from twenty-five to thirty people. It was literally a house divided. The women of the family were busy preparing dinner, exchanging cooking tips and discussing what is wrong with the male members of their ...Continue Reading
Harford County Public Schools will close two hours early on Wednesday, November 25th for the Thanksgiving Holiday. The dismissal schedule for students is as follows:
* High School: 12:00 p.m.
* North Harford Middle School: 12:00 p.m.
* Middle School: 12:45 p.m.
* Elementary School: 1:30 p.m.
* Elementary Fourth Tier (Havre de Grace, William S. James, and Deerfield elementary schools): 2:00 p.m.
There will be NO afternoon half-day Prekindergarten or Child Find Programs on this date. There will be no after school childcare programs. In addition, the Alternative Education program will not be holding classes and the Arrow School will be closing two hours early.
Baltimore Ravens Guard Ben Grubbs will host a Thanksgiving dinner distribution on Tuesday, November 24 for 100 single parent families in the metropolitan Baltimore Area. Included in this number are 2 single parent families from the Westminster Unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County and 8 single parent families from the Edgewood Unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County.
Ben Grubbs, additional Ravens players, and local Marines will be on hand to distribute the following to the families in need:
1 Turkey; 1 Can of Cranberry Sauce; 1 Can of Gravy; 1 Can of Yams; 1 Can of Green Beans; 1 Box of Stuffing; 1 package of Brown-n-Serve Bread
The Boys & Girls Club families will be traveling together to the Park Heights Unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore at 4910 Park ...Continue Reading
Americans believe that Thanksgiving is about, well, giving thanks for things like food, shelter, liberty, and football, but few people are aware that there may be a dark side to the holiday.
When we think about Thanksgiving, images of children dressed in tall hats and buckles and paper-made feathered headbands come to mind. Most of us were those children in grade school. We remember what we learned from our teachers — Native Americans taught Pilgrims to sew corn, and they shared a big feast to give thanks for the bounty and friendship they had made.
We weren’t taught about the first-hand accounts of thieving puritans, or the evidence of failed crop, and the bloodshed of hundreds of people.
