For the fourth year in a row, the Alliance for Medical Outreach & Relief held their annual Thanksgiving food drive on Saturday, providing 300 holiday food boxes to families in Mendota. Beginning at the AMOR Wellness Center, volunteers from participating community organizations drove around town, knocked on doors, and greeted...
Serve Up Health Ground Rules Before Gathering This Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving a few days away, Fresno County health officials encourage the public to follow safety guidelines because of a taxing winter for health ahead. Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County's top health expert, says there are many ways to plan for a safe holiday feast as long as individuals take...
Viral Spread: Americans Paying the Price for Thanksgiving
With some Americans now paying the price for what they did over Thanksgiving and falling sick with COVID-19, health officials are warning people — begging them, even — not to make the same mistake during the Christmas and New Year's season. “It’s a surge above the existing surge,” said Ali...
Data Shows Americans Couldn’t Resist Thanksgiving Travel
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Americans couldn’t resist the urge to gather for Thanksgiving, driving only slightly less than a year ago and largely ignoring the pleas of public health experts, who begged them to forgo holiday travel to help contain the coronavirus pandemic, data from roadways and airports shows. The...
Early Rush on Christmas Trees has Been ‘Fast and Furious’, Valley Seller Says
[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield.com Chris Maretich has worked in Christmas tree sales since 1977 and he can’t remember ever being this busy. That's nothing new for Maretich this time of year, but typically his energy is devoted toward setting up his five Alpine Christmas Tree lots in the days before they open...
California Ban on Natural Gas Appliances ‘Probably a Done Deal’, Says Homebuilder Rep
[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield.com Natural gas-fueled appliances such as water heaters and ranges may eventually become the sign of an older home as policymakers push forward with California's ambitious plan to decarbonize the state. The latest sign of this shift is the pressure facing the California Energy Commission to require developers of...
New River Park Brewpub That Got its Start in Paso Robles Opens on Black Friday
[aggregation-styles] The Business Journal Black Friday marks a big day at Fresno’s River Park shopping center as a highly anticipated new tenant opens for the first time. BarrelHouse Brewing Co. plans to open its doors Friday at 10 a.m., and will also debut a large extended patio. There will be...
What You Learned About the First Thanksgiving Isn’t True. Here’s the Real Story
[aggregation-styles] USA Today After a summer of racial reckoning, is the country finally ready to learn the truth about the 'first Thanksgiving'? The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"...
Joe Biden Appeals for Unity in Thanksgiving-Eve Address
WILMINGTON, Del. — In a time of plague and raw division, President-elect Joe Biden appealed for unity Wednesday in a Thanksgiving-eve address to the nation asking Americans to “steel our spines” for a fight against the coronavirus that he predicted would continue for months. But even as he implored Americans...
Here’s What Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Will Look Like This Year
NEW YORK — Jawan M. Jackson recently got to do something he's been yearning to do for months — sing and dance again with his Broadway cast. Jackson is one of the stars of “Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of The Temptations” and he reunited with castmates for the...