Thanksgiving News

B.C Ferries to cut back sailing after Thanksgiving weekend (News 1130)
B.C. Ferries will cut back sailings on its major routes following the Thanksgiving weekend in an effort to reduce costs. Off-peak sailings on the Swartz Bay-Tsawwassen, Departure Bay-Horseshoe Bay and …

Pilgrim, Native American At Thanksgiving Dinner? (WCVB Boston)
If you’ve ever wondered what it was really like at the first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts in 1621, you may get a chance to find out this year.

Turkey express: Put together a Thanksgiving spread in one day (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
Let’s be realistic here. For most of us, the window we have to put together a Thanksgiving dinner is not the widest.

Turkey express: Put together a Thanksgiving spread in one day (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Let’s be realistic here. For most of us, the window we have to put together a Thanksgiving dinner is not the widest. If Thursday is the only day you have off from work, you’ll be squeezing five days’ worth of work into four at the office and probably working late on Wednesday night. Plus, you’re likely to find yourself picking up relatives from the airport, collecting cans for the food drive or …

PETA: skip the turkey this thanksgiving (660 News)
Many people may be looking forward to their thanksgiving turkey, but PETA is hoping to change that. Motorists driving under McMahon Stadium bridge this afternoon will notice a giant turkey and a huge …

Consumers will gobble up grain price rise this Thanksgiving (CBC Prince Edward Island)
Turkey producers on P.E.I. say the high price of grain will make the traditional Thanksgiving meal more expensive this year.

Thanksgiving Day — Nov. 27, 2008 (Centre Daily Times)
In the fall of 1621, the religious separatist Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest, an event many regard as the nation’s first Thanksgiving. It eventually became a national holiday in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. Later, President Franklin Roosevelt clarified that Thanksgiving should …

Southwest adds extra flights for Thanksgiving travelers (Dallas Business Journal)
Southwest Airlines Inc. is adding some flights to its Thanksgiving holiday schedule. (LUV)

Vote called for Oct. 14, day after Thanksgiving (Bracebridge Examiner & Gravenhurst Banner)
Canadians will go to the polls Tuesday, Oct. 14, the day after Thanksgiving, to vote for a new federal government. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who had fixed the next federal election date in law as October 2009, pulled the plug on his own government a year early.

Southwest adds extra flights for Thanksgiving travelers (Dallas Business Journal)
Southwest Airlines Inc. is adding some flights to its Thanksgiving holiday schedule. (LUV)

F.M. 890 Bridge To Be Finished By Thanksgiving (KAUZ Wichita Falls)
Adele Lewis said, “They’re expecting to open part of that bridge on October 3rd. They still have to finish up phase two of that bridge.”

Big band Thanksgiving (The Tuscaloosa News)
By day, Big Band enthusiasts on the Nov. 21-Dec. 1 Lisbon-Miami voyage of the Crystal Serenity can enjoy swing lessons, trivia contests, tea dances and classic Big Band-themed films, while at night they can dance to the sounds of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

Dish popular after Thanksgiving delicious anytime (The Columbus Dispatch)
Chicken and pork are staples in my kitchen, but they can get boring fast.

Dancers to perform in Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade (Spring Observer)
Learning Polynesian dancing in Hawaii at 8 years old, Jonell Tomas-Haiola was taught the fundamentals of her culture, which led her to share it with others.

Cop Indicted In Fatal Thanksgiving DUI Crash (CBS 2 Chicago)
Chicago Police Officer John Ardelean was indicted Tuesday on charges of reckless homicide and aggravated DUI in the Thanksgiving 2007 crash that left two men dead. CBS 2’s Pamela Jones reports on the developments in a case the victims’ families have been arguing deserves a trial.

Quadruplets born in Fort Worth could be home by Thanksgiving (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Tina McLean is planning for a big, big crowd at home in Hico this Thanksgiving, including three new sons and a new daughter that weren’t around last November.

Quadruplets born in Fort Worth could be home by Thanksgiving (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By SHIRLEY JINKINS FORT WORTH Tina McLean is planning for a big, big crowd at home in Hico this Thanksgiving, including three new sons and a new daughter that weren t around last November. The quadruplets were born 14 weeks premature Aug. 18 at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital. But they have thrived at Cook Children s Medical Center and are expected to be released by their original due …