Oliver Heckman Elementary Helps Families Enjoy Thanksgiving

The elementary school's faculty and community worked together to help families within the school to enjoy Thanksgiving.

Through the generous donations of the Heckman faculty and community, 14 needy families from within Oliver Heckman Elementary were provided with complete Thanksgiving dinners, plus additional pantry items. According to a Neshaminy School District press release, the school nurse Colleen McIlhenny coordinated the efforts of the school and community. If you are interested in helping to provide food and pantry items for families during the holiday season and throughout the year, please contact McIlhenny at Oliver Heckman Elementary by calling 215-809-6330.

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NHS Family & Consumer Science Students Prepare Annual Thanksgiving Feast

Neshaminy High School's Family & Consumer Science students prepared their annual Thanksgiving feast without wasting any food.

Neshaminy High School's Family and Consumer Science students prepared their annual Thanksgiving feast in Today's Foods classes without wasting any food. According to a school district press release, the students in the Today's Foods classes spent most of November preparing for their annual Thanksgiving feast. They planned menus, collected recipes, wrote shopping lists and prepared the dishes for the meal. The students also studied the history leading up to the historic meal. In the class, time was also spent teaching the technique of formal table setting for a holiday meal and praticing the art of table manners. The students roasted five turkeys, mashed 50 pounds of potatoes, broke up 10 loaves of bread for stuffing, baked five sweet …

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Neshaminy Closes for Thanksgiving Holiday

Find out what days kids will be home from school for Thanksgiving 2012.

For Thanksgiving 2012, Neshaminy School District students will have a number of days off from school. They are as follows:

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McCaffrey's Donates Turkey for Photo Contest

After recovering from Hurricane Sandy, McCaffrey's Supermarket, thankful for its costumers, donate a prize to the Patch photo contest.

Photo Contest: What Are You Thankful For?

Share a photo that shows what you're thankful for, and you could win a turkey for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is fast approaching and we'd like to know what you're thankful for! Post a photo of what you're grateful for to enter our contest. You could win a turkey from McCaffrey's (or the equivalent in a voucher), plus a Patch prize pack. McCaffrey's, with stores in Newtown and Yardley (as well as N.J. sites), lost its power last week during Hurricane Sandy and lost its perishable food stock. "It's just food; we can restock that,"said Kathy Bodine of McCaffrey's. "It's nothing compared to what some of our neighbors lost." Bodine said the company is thankful for its costumers and that's the reason it wanted to donate a prize to the photo contest. Not sure what kind of photo to enter? Well, it can be anything near and dear to you - …

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