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Thanksgiving 2012

Monday, November 19, 2012

How to Make a Thanksgiving Centerpiece

Candles, fresh flowers, supplies, a step-by-step guide for creating a stunning holiday centerpiece for your Thanksgiving table.

Thanksgiving brings families, friends and neighbors together, reminds us to be grateful for all we have and to be generous toward others. One way to make guests feel special is to include a Thanksgiving centerpiece on the dinner table. Lori Treffens, floral designer at Pesche’s Flower Shop and Garden Center, 170 S. River Road in Des Plaines, has 30 years of design experience. Treffens showed Patch step-by-step how to create a beautiful Thanksgiving “long and low centerpiece” with candles, fresh flowers and other products that will add a festive decoration to your party, and give your guests one more thing for which to be thankful. The same concepts and techniques presented here about how to create a Thanksgiving centerpiece can be applied …

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Fun Facts and Trivia for Thanksgiving

Canadian Turkeys, carving the lobster and a turkey the size of a dog.

No need to worry about conversation topics around the Thanksgiving dinner table. Let your guests fill up on this Thanksgiving fun facts.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Vets Prepare Turkey Feast For Navy Recruits

Morton Grove's American Legion Post is planning a Thanksgiving of fun and feasting for about 50 recruits in basic training at Great Lakes.

  The 18- and 19-year-old U.S. Navy recruits at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center will be sent into harm's way in a matter of weeks. That's why Casey Bachara, Joe Gesicki and other members of Morton Grove American Legion Post 134 want to prepare a feast and a day full of entertainment and fun for about 50 of them on Thanksgiving. This is the sixth year they've done this Adopt A Sailor Navy Day.  "It's just a fun day for these kids to kick back, relax and unwind. They're a really sweet bunch of kids," Bachara said, adding that they make a point of inviting both female and male recruits.  Plans call for the recruits to arrive by bus between 8 and 9 a.m. on Nov. 22, when they can snack at a sweet table, phone anywhere in the world on a …

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8:30 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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