Parking will be free in downtown Iowa City on Thanksgiving and parking in the ramps will also be free Saturday this week. You’ll still have to feed the meters and pay to park in a ramp on Friday, when spaces may well fill up, because in addition to the annual post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy of Black […]
Thanksgiving
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Project Holiday returns for 35th year of home-cooked meals, with fewer barriers for families in need
CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank’s Project Holiday has helped families experiencing food insecurity enjoy a home-cooked holiday meal for 35 years. It provided traditional entrees and sides to almost 1,500 families last year, and this year has eliminated the need to register in advance to receive a meal in order to reach as many […]
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Thanksgiving in a box! Order your feast from a local vendor and give your oven a rest
No need to overwork this holiday season; get out your wallet and take a load off.
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Surviving Thanksgiving with a special diet
Whether you’re vegan, gluten-free, paleo, lactose intolerant, celiac or just plain picky, the holiday season can be extra stressful if you don’t eat the way “everyone else” does. But Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be a stressful, passive-aggressive — or aggressive-aggressive — mess. There are many ways to ensure your health and happiness while eating the […]
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All are welcome: Community churches offer free Thanksgiving dinner
While many people will gather with their loved ones to celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow, not everyone has plans to spend day eating turkey and stuffing …
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UR Here: Beyond the feast
For the moment, let’s assume the story of the “First Thanksgiving” is true. You know, how the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1621 sat down with the Indians and had a feast that set off an annual tradition in the colonies and then the United States? What we actually do know of that autumn feast is […]
