Thanksgiving Holiday

• Abraham Lincoln knew dark days and yet he chose hope, time and again. (Deseret News)
• The Mother of Thanksgiving (NPR)
• Love, loss and gratitude: Finding light in dark times (Deseret News)
• Voices: For Indigenous people like me, Thanksgiving is a day of gratitude and mourning (Salt Lake Tribune)
• How the first Pilgrims and the Puritans differed in their views on religion and respect for Native Americans. Scholars say the Pilgrims appreciated and respected the intellect and common humanity of Native Americans and did not actively seek to convert them. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• President Russell Nelson preached the value of gratitude. Turns out, it does help. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Volunteering, spending time with friends offer meaningful Thanksgiving apart from family (KUTV)
• Miller Thanksgiving Meal a blessing this year more than others
  Along with the nearly 3,000 meals, Utahns were provided with numerous other services at the Salt Palace Convention Center (KSL)
• ‘Tis the season for Utah to flex its mighty volunteering muscles (KUTV)
• Tabitha’s Way Local Food Pantry hands out hundreds of Thanksgiving meals ahead of holiday (Daily Herald)
• So you’re gathering with relatives whose politics are different. Here are some tips for the holidays (AP)
• 'The Great Thanksgiving Listen' encourages people to tell stories for the future (NPR)
• 10 stories of feeling gratitude on Thanksgiving (Washington Post)

Thanksgiving Dinner

• Play now: How many Thanksgiving groceries can you buy with $100? (AP)
• What Thanksgiving foods should I avoid if I'm taking a weight loss drug? (KUTV)
• Ask an Expert – Eleven tips for healthy holiday eating (Cache Valley Daily)
• Have you seen this? Terrible Thanksgiving side dish recipes (KSL)
• Tips to prevent fires while cooking holiday meals (KSL Newsradio)
• A guide to making Thanksgiving dinner for the first time (Deseret News)
• This Thanksgiving side dish is the most popular in 17 states (Deseret News)
• What Thanksgiving foods can you take through airport security? (Deseret News)
• From midcentury Western kitchens to your Thanksgiving table: How we got funeral potatoes (Deseret News) (Editor's note: We have funeral potatoes AND mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. Yay for carbs!)
• If you pig out at Thanksgiving, are you sinning? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Millions will eat cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving. But where do those cranberries come from? (AP)
• Crumbl ditches it’s signature cookies for delectable Thanksgiving pies (ABC4)
• Easy and simple gut-friendly swaps for a healthier Thanksgiving (ABC4)
• New York restaurant combines Thanksgiving and pizza in a surprising holiday treat. Mmmm. (KUTV)

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• Dec. 3 â€” Promoting Civility and Dignity in Utah, with UWLP, 12:00-1:15 pm, Register here
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• Jan 14 — Utah Taxpayers Association Legislative Outlook Conference, 9 am - 12:00 pm, Little America Hotel, Register here
• Jan. 21 — Utah legislative session begins
• Mar. 7 — Utah legislative session ends

On This Day In History

• 1095 - Pope Urban II orders first Crusade against Muslims to reclaim the Holy Land
• 1868 - Colonel George Custer massacres Cheyenne on Washita River
• 1870 - The New York Times dubs baseball The National Game
• 1895 - Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
• 1901 - U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.
• 1911 - White House housekeeper Elizabeth Jaffray frets over President Taft’s waistline
• 1957 - The US Army withdraws from Little Rock, Arkansas after Central High School integration
• 1970 - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
• 1973 - US Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President
• 1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls
• 1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk are murdered
• 2013 - Greece becomes the first developed market to be demoted into an emerging market by the MSCI index

Quote of the Day

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

—Abraham Lincoln, 2nd inaugural address

On the Punny Side

What smells the best at the Thanksgiving meal?

Your nose!

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