Tonight was my second consecutive year on the Thanksgiving Day shift. It started with turkey and ended with shopping, and I imagine that’s pretty much how this blessed day will be in the foreseeable future.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Volunteer Tina Yeager serves a plate of Thanksgiving dinner to Betty Shawver, 82, who came to the event with her brother-in-law Dave Baughman, 83, and her son Craig Edwards, right, on Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, NOv. 22, 2012, at St. Stephen’s United Church of Christ. A group of 10 friends, calling themselves the “Thanksgiving Dinner Committee,” organized a second annual Thanksgiving dinner for shut-ins and the West York community. Organizer Jean Firestone said volunteers roasted nine turkeys and made 150 pounds of mashed potatoes in anticipation of about 100 people coming to St. Stephen’s United Church of Christ, which offered a venue for the event.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. For the third year in a row, Bobby Brunner of York is camping in a tent outside Re-Source York on Carlisle Avenue for his foundation “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” and to gather donations for the needy. Brunner began camping on Monday, Nov. 19, and plans to do so through Sunday, Nov. 25.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Fran Monbray of West York and her daughter Stefanie Moyar of Spring Garden Township react after finding a Thomas the Tank Engine figurine for less at the West Manchester Township Toys R Us than it is on Amazon.com, on Thanksgiving night on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. Moyar said she is shopping for her son and two nieces, and has spent the past week comparing ads. Big box stores have extended Black Friday sales into Thanksgiving night, encouraging shoppers to have early Thanksgiving dinners, study ads, get in lines or all of the above.
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