Thanksgiving – by Sandy McBride

The horror that has transpired in France at this season of the year when our thoughts have turned to celebrating Thanksgiving, to time-honored traditions and happy gatherings of family and friends, reminds us of how tenuous peace is, of how tenuous life is.  So it is that once again, in 2015, we will experience a holiday tempered with sadness, with concerns and fears not only for our own future, but for the very future of the world.

   Have you ever considered that this aura of trepidation has become almost as traditional as the holiday itself?

Read the entire article in the Nov. 26 issue.

The Express Newspaper November 26, 2015

Thanksgiving Food Drive

Boy Scouts  and Cub Scouts to help with Thanksgiving Food Drive

The Cub Scouts Pack # 34 and Boy Scouts Troop Mechanicville will be at the following location on November 14 from 10-12.

Jack Bryne

Legends Barber Shop

Clifton Park Toyota

Country Living

DiSiena Furniture ( Round Lake Ave)

The scouts will be standing by the donation boxes and handing out flyers to remind everyone about the food drive.

The Express Newspaper – November 12, 2015

The Express Newspaper – November 5, 2015

Thanksgiving Food Drive to Feed 800 Families

NOVEMBER 21- Eight hundred families will have a Thanksgiving turkey dinner this year. The 8th annual Thanksgiving Food Drive, spearheaded by Mike Raucci of Toyota of Clifton Park will take care of families in the local area.

Read the entire article in the Nov. 27th issue of the Express.

 

Thanksgiving Day In America – By H. Wessell

Thanksgiving Day is about many things: giving thanks for the bounty America knows by sharing in a famously festive meal, fervent prayer at home and even church attendance, family time... parades.. football game  and more and more every year, frenetic shopping: as early as the following midnight, if not still on the holiday itself.  Thanksgiving Day most noticeably launches, in modern times in America and elsewhere,  not the season of Advent (whose four Sundays before December 25 starts near or on the holiday weekend  November 30 this year). But now most folks know those weeks not as The Advent Season, but "The Christmas Season," meaning the Christmas-Shopping Season.

Read the entire article in the Nov. 27 issue of the Express.

The Express Newspaper – November 27, 2014

The Express Newspaper – November 20, 2014