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Highlighting News Stories for Our Town for the week of November 24, 2003

Newsbreak for Walpole

The Week – Nov. 24

The Year – 2003

It’s Thanksgiving Time

From the earliest days of the founding of our nation, we have celebrated a day of Thanksgiving in the month of November.

Presidents Washington and Lincoln, for example, issued official proclamations that provided the rationale for the whole country being united around this time.

And, in this century, we mark Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday of November as an official holiday.

How do we celebrate? What do citizens in Walpole do prior to the traditional start of the end of the year shopping marathon?

Here are some thoughts to stimulate the reflections of us all.

1. Let’s be thankful for the many people who respond to cries for help in our town. We thank all those engaged in public safety – police, firemen, EMT’s and medical personnel at various levels.

2. Let’s be thankful for the freedom we have to participate in elections – whereby we can make our choices for people to serve in public office.

3. Let’s be thankful for the freedom we have to worship as we choose in the traditions that we follow.

4. Let’s be thankful for the community in which we live, with the freedom to send our children to public schools, private schools, or to educate them at home.

5. Let’s be thankful for the many volunteers in town who give of their time and energy to make this a better town.

6. Let’s be thankful for the many blessings that come to each of us in diverse ways at unexpected times.

7. Let’s be thankful that we are able to arise each day and greet one another.

Finally, as we hope for a better future with an end to the violence and horror that rings the globe, we place our hope and trust in the new generation of young people who can lead us in times to come.

We wish one and all a peaceful and tranquil Thanksgiving Day.