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Volunteers keep the food assembly line humming.
'Fill-the-Bag' effort in RVC feeds families
Hundreds of vehicles lined up on Lakeview Avenue and around the block onto Langdon Street to pick up food donations at the annual Fill-the-Bag event in Rockville Centre from Monday, Nov. 19 to Wednesday, Nov. 21. more
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Members of the Oceanside High School class of 1984 hosted their 37th annual Thanksgiving week Turkey Bowl on Saturday, which featured former classmates and their family members. Above, Mike Tricarico in action at the Oceanside Kindergarten Center, the former site of his junior high school.
Oceanside High School alums carry on Turkey Bowl tradition
For the 37th Thanksgiving weekend in a row, members of the Oceanside High School class of 1984 and their families hit the gridiron at the site of the alumnas’ former junior high school on Saturday for their annual Turkey Bowl game. more
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Claire Bellerjeau found newspaper clippings confirming that New Yorkers celebrated Thanksgiving when New York was a colony.
Unearthing holiday’s roots at Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay
The mention of the first Thanksgiving in New York has been discovered in a historic diary of an Oyster Bay schoolteacher from the 1750s. This artifact was always at Oyster Bay’s Raynham Hall … more
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Jacob Hurney, left, Luke Santeramo, Martin Luther King Center board Chairman James Hodge, and Andrea Wilkins, far right, handed a turkey and a bag of traditional Thanksgiving dinner trimmings to Long Beach resident Milagro Rodriguez on Tuesday.  
MLK Center hosts annual Thanksgiving dinner
Long Beach residents filed in to the Martin Luther King Center on Tuesday to collect turkeys and traditional Thanksgiving dinner trimmings before a large community gathering at the center. … more
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Oceanside High School will play host to a few Thanksgiving events over the next week, including the 28th annual Best Buddies Thanksgiving Feast.
Thanksgiving events on tap in Oceanside
There will be plenty to be thankful for in Oceanside this holiday season as many Thanksgiving events are scheduled. more
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Burger Bandit owner Ryan Straschnow and several volunteers will prepare meals to deliver to homeless shelters on Thanksgiving Day.
Coming together to provide Thanksgiving cheer in Lynbrook, East Rockaway
It was last Thanksgiving when Burger Bandit owner Ryan Straschnow was returning to his restaurant to pick up some foil and encountered a hungry homeless man. He brought the man inside his establishment and cooked him a meal, which he said brought him a lot of joy and sparked an idea. more
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Oceanside Interfaith Council's free Thanksgiving dinner
The Oceanside Interfaith Council's annual Thanksgiving Day dinner is scheduled for Oceanside High School on Thursday, Nov. 22 at 11:30 a.m. more
The Rev. Dorett Johnson-Agu led congregants in prayer at the East Meadow United Methodist Church on Nov. 19.
Harvesting Thanksgiving spirit through prayer
As the East Meadow United Methodist Church choir sang a rendition of “He Loves Me,” congregants from different churches and synagogues across East Meadow joined together for the 36th annual Interfaith Thanksgiving service on Nov. 19. more
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The Acuna, Ruano and Galeano families gathered together for a Thanksgiving meal at the Bridgeview Yacht Club courtesy of owner John Vitale.
Island Park gives thanks five years after Sandy
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy it was cold. Thousands had been displaced, their homes badly damaged by floodwaters. Thanksgiving became an afterthought as recovery was just getting … more
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More than 100 students and volunteers took to the streets to deliver thousands of pounds of turkey and food to needy Oceanside families.
Birds abound at Oceanside’s 31st Annual Turkey Shoot
Nearly 4,000 pounds of turkey and roughly 5,000 pounds of canned and dry food flew out the doors of the Oceanside High School lobby early on Nov. 21. The reason for this mass exodus? Charity, as more … more
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