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More Than a Third of Americans Say Idea of Talking Politics at Thanksgiving Stresses Them Out
The holiday season is upon us! With Thanksgiving around the corner and a divisive election in the rearview mirror, millions of Americans expect to talk politics with friends and family members over the holiday, and more than a third say the idea of those conversations stresses them out.
According to an online survey conducted by ABC News and its partner SSRS, 45 percent of Americans foresee a side of political conversation with their turkey and cranberry sauce, and 38 percent said the idea of such talk is at least somewhat stressful, with 14 percent saying it is very stressful.
When asked to share one word to describe what they are most thankful for, the vast majority of respondents said “family,” followed by “life” and “health.” Also among the top 10 responses were “friends,” “Trump” and “Jesus.”
Thanksgiving Day 5K and Kids Fun Run
November 19,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Glen Rock NJ, Thanksgiving Day 5K and Kids Fun Run in Glen Rock on Thanksgiving morning. It is going to be a wonderful family event and we are expecting a great turnout!
1. We are hosting the packet pick up in our Ridgewood store (11 N. Broad Street) for the three days leading up to Thanksgiving so it would be a great chance for the Ridgewood businesses to get involved and promote their brands/companies to the hundreds of runners that will be coming in to pick up their race packets and tshirts.
2. There is endless opportunity for the Ridgewood businesses to promote at the race.
3. Come out and run the race! There is a 5K (run/walk) and a Kids Fun Run. All levels are welcome to join in on the 5K. A lot of Ridgewood residents have already signed up but we really want to get the word out there that this fun family event is just around the corner.
4. Spread the word! As we all know, this is key to success so if people are busy Thanksgiving week and cannot participate, we would love to have everyone spread the word, hang posters in the stores, put lawn signs outside their stores/houses!
RaceFaster
11 N Broad St
Ridgewood, NJ
1-844-rfaster
Village of Ridgewood ; Leaves, Deer, Volunteers and Thanksgiving
file photo by Boyd Loving
Dear Friends at the Ridgewood blog,
Fall is always a busy time of the year! And this year is no exception. I would like to bring your attention to some important timely issues.
- Leaf Collection – We continue to follow the established leaf collection schedule.The orange flyer recently mailed to your home explains when to put leaves in the street. The schedule is also posted on our website www.ridgewoodnj.net. If you employ the services of a landscaper, please communicate your schedule with them. Once leaves are placed in the street, Village crews will be collecting these leaves AFTER the date listed for each area. For further information, please call 201/670-5585.
- Deer Activity – We are seeing growing evidence of deer activity.Please drive carefully and be aware of a family of deer living near the busy Prospect and Maple intersection area: as well as other areas of the.At this time of year especially, deer have been known to dash across the street and have been hit by cars.
- Board/Committee Vacancies – There are some vacancies on several Village boards and committees for resident volunteers to serve. The Community Relations Advisory Board; Library Board of Trustees; Planning Board; Parks, Recreation, and Conservation Board; Open Space Committee; Project Pride Committee; Environmental Advisory Committee; The Green Team Advisory Committee; The Shade Tree Commission; The Central Business District Advisory Committee (member of the Ridgewood Guild) and the Stigma-free Task Force have openings for volunteers. Please submit a cover letter indicating why you wish to serve on a particular board/committee; a resume or biography; a Citizen Volunteer Leadership form to the Village Clerk’s Office by November 30th.
- Thanksgiving Holiday – In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, Village Offices will be closed Thursday, November 24th and Friday November 25th.
Thank you for your continued cooperation.
Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving!
Heather A. Mailander
Acting Village Manager
201-670-5500, ext. 203
Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce Farmers Market Open Till Thanksgiving!
Sun, June 26, 2016 – Sun, November 20, 2016
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Train Station Parking Lot, Godwin Ave & W Ridgewood Ave
OPEN UNTIL THANKSGIVING
Sundays June 26, 2016 – November 20, 2016
9:00am – 3:00pm
Sundays June 26, 2016 – November 20, 2016
9:00am – 3:00pm
People have been requesting that the Ridgewood Farmers Market stay open until the Sunday before Thanksgiving – the answer is YES – UNTIL NOVEMBER 20, 2016, westside of NJ Transit Train station every Sunday, 9-3pm.
FARM to table-FRESH – visit and put your orders in to the new fruit farmer…
you will love the variety.
Fresh vegetables galore,
mozzarella made on the spot,
bakes goods-pies,
B&B Jams-great gifts,
pickles for the holidays and kids,
pumpkin patch for everyone.
NEW…fresh hot apple cider every Sunday!
Bergen Country’s real Farmers Market-
FARM to table FRESH!
FOR MORE INFO 201-445-2600
INFO@RIDGEWOODCHAMBER.COM
see you there!
Enjoy “Farm to Table”
Ridgewood Train Station
Parking Lot West Side
or call 201-445-2600
Kings of Ridgewood Offers Refreshing looks of Classic Recipes For Thanksgiving
October 27,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Kings Food Markets took a look into the top flavors for fall this year and hand-curated the following recipes, refreshing some of the classics to inspire you and your palette this holiday, including:
- Cranberry & Sage Cornbread: Take your cornbread recipe to the next level with cranberries and sage this season, blending the perfect mix of savory and sweet.
- Whipped Butternut Squash Gratin with Caramelized Apples: Move over marshmallows. Squash is getting an upgrade this season with caramelized apples – can you think of a better combination?
- Citrus Cranberry Sauce: Add a touch of citrus to your cranberry sauce to not only spark a new taste bud, but to cleanse your palette before moving onto the next course.
Looking for more inspiration? Kings offers an array of Cooking Studio classes, including:
- Harvest Party, Nov. 4th– Learn how to make the juiciest sage and garlic crusted Pork Tenderloin and a butternut squash this side of the Mississippi!
- Thanksgiving Awesome Sides, Nov. 17th – Spice up your side dishes this Thanksgiving leaving your family a lasting memory for years to come.
- Know your Squash, Nov. 30th– Learn all the ins and outs of squash from fancy feats to casual weekday dinners.
Still stressed out? No need! Kings offers fully catered meals in their Catering department, covering all of your bases, including Kings Baked Brie, Kings Spiced Pumpkin Soup, Sweet Potato Soufflé and much more. Or, if you’re just looking to bring a dish to the host, check out our assortment of chef-prepared foods available in-stores, giving you more time to spend with family celebrating
The Ridgewood Thanksgiving Day Run
Thu, November 26, 2015
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Benjamin Franklin Middle School, N. Van Dien Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Event Description
Thursday, November 26, 2015
The Ridgewood Thanksgiving Day Run
Racefaster would like to invite you and your family to attend our inaugural Ridgewood Thanksgiving Day Run. It’s a sanctioned 4 mile race beginning and ending at Benjamin Franklin Middle School. Stop by the Racefaster Store, 211 E. Ridgewood Ave, for discounted registration rates.
Online registration is also available at www.theridgewoodthanksgivingdayrun.com
Old Paramus Church to Host Community Thanksgiving Service, Nov. 24
Thanksgiving Day Service – November 24th – Senior Bus Available
All are invited to attend the Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service to be held at the Old Paramus Church on Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30PM.
The Senior Bus will be available for transportation for this service. Reservations for the bus can be made at 201/670-5500 x203
Old Paramus Church to Host Community Thanksgiving Service, Nov. 24
Complete with a community choir, the Interfaith Religious Group of Ridgewood Thanksgiving service will be held at Old Paramus Church on Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 24. The participating congregations will share the different expressions of their own faith as they all give thanks together. The community choir invites anyone interested to join them as they rehearse under the direction of Stewart Holmes, Old Paramus Choir Director, beginning at 6:45 p.m. immediately before the service.
Old Paramus Church is located at 660 East Glen Ave., Ridgewood. It is handicapped accessible and there is ample free parking. Additional questions may be addressed to the church office weekdays, from 9 to 1:30 or visit the church website, www.oldparamus.org
VILLAGE OFFICES CLOSED IN OBSERVANCE OF THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Village Hall and The Stable will be closed on November 26 & November 27, 2015, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. On November 27th, there will be east side garbage collection, recycling pick-up for Area 8, and the Recycling Center will be open. The Police Department, on the second floor of Village Hall, will be open on both days. All offices will open again on November 30, 2015 at 8:30 a.m.
Ridgewood’s Social Service Association prepares for Thanksgiving
NOVEMBER 19, 2015 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015, 3:29 PM
BY DIANA OLIVEIRA
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
When she was a first-year volunteer, Kathy Lops was “blown away” by the big production of Social Services’ annual Thanksgiving food drive.
Now, she is serving as co-chair of the “well-oiled machine,” as she describes it, this year.
The Inaugural Ridgewood Thanksgiving Day Run
Registration is now open!
The Ridgewood Thanksgiving Day Run
Racefaster would like to invite you and your family to attend our inaugural Ridgewood Thanksgiving Day Run. It’s a sanctioned 4 mile race beginning and ending at Benjamin Franklin Middle School. Stop by the Racefaster Store, 211 E. Ridgewood Ave, for discounted registration rates.
Online registration is also available at www.theridgewoodthanksgivingdayrun.com
Please join us this Thanksgiving Day for a great new community tradition. This race is four miles through the beautiful streets of Ridgewood, NJ. Runners will be hosted in the Benjamin Franklin gym before and after the race, and you will be home in time for Thanksgiving Dinner!
The Inaugural Ridgewood Thanksgiving Day Run
Route Description:
Register Online: https://runsignup.com/Race/NJ/Ridgewood/TheRidgewoodThanksgivingDayRun
Entry is $30 online and
mail in applications.
$25 in person registration at Racefaster Ridgewood (211 E Ridgewood Ave) or Racefaster Garden State Plaza.
$35 for Same Day Registration.
Santa makes an early visit to South Irving Street
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
Santa makes an early visit to South Irving Street
November 27,2014
Boyd A. Loving
7:18 PM
Santa Claus dropped by unexpectedly at a home on South Irving Street on Thursday afternoon where 1-year old Declan and his 5-year old sister Delia were having a Thanksgiving meal with their grandparents.
Declan was a slightly unnerved by the surprise visit and kept his distance, but Delia sat right down near Santa, and had a nice 15 minute conversation with the fat man from the North Pole.
Santa did not arrive empty handed; Declan was the recipient of a toy vacuum cleaner, and Delia found a Play Doh kit when she unwrapped her present.
Mr. Claus arrived in a bright red SUV, which he told Delia he uses on every day of the year except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and was gone in a flash 15 minutes after his arrival.
As he waved goodbye to Declan and Delia, Santa did reveal that retired Ridgewood Police Department Captain and former Ridgewood Mayor Keith D. Killion was the person who wrote the North Pole and requested Santa make an early visit to South Irving Street.
Thank you Keith!
Photos by Boyd Loving
The five worst places to drive in the United States
file photo by Boyd Loving RT 17
The five worst places to drive in the United States
Millions of people traveling for Thanksgiving will face daunting traffic problems that critics say have been magnified by Washington’s inability to move a long-term bill to pay for new highway projects.
With a nor’easter bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard this Thanksgiving, it’s expected to be an especially brutal few days on the road.
Congress hasn’t approved a long-term highway bill since 2005, and it’s become much more difficult to move legislation since then because of a variety of reasons, including the end of earmarks that directed money toward specific lawmaker-backed projects and a financial crisis and recession that made it tougher to move big-budget bills.
Business groups, labor unions and other players have pressed Congress since then to focus on infrastructure, but to little avail.
The crisis is getting worse in some ways, too, since the gas tax used to fund most highway improvements hasn’t been raised in decades and can no longer keep up with the need, according to advocates such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
1. Interstate 110 in Los Angeles
2. Interstate 80 in San Francisco
3. Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas
4. Interstate 678 in New York
The West Coast and Texas don’t have a monopoly on bad roads.
New York City ranked sixth on the INRIX traffic scorecard. It is also home to the worst road in the East Coast, according to Texas A&M in the form of a 3.1 mile stretch of highway running from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to the Bronx.
Known as Van Wyck Expressway, the road produced 690 hours of delays per mile and 1,086 wasted gallons of gasoline.
5. Interstate 95 north and south of Washington, D.C.
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/225464-the-five-worst-places-to-drive-in-the-united-states
The Thanksgiving guide to making conservative arguments liberals can understand
The Thanksgiving guide to making conservative arguments liberals can understand
Timothy P. Carney
November 26th, 2014
Your Baby Boomer aunts are unshakable in their faith in Hillary Clinton. Your nephew Trevor won’t stop spouting vapid Democratic talking points in favor of Obamacare.When Thanksgiving talk turns political, do you feel like you and your liberal relatives can’t communicate?
It’s okay. I can help you. I was born in Greenwich Village to a lawyer dad and community-organizer mom. I used to live on Capitol Hill, and now I live in Montgomery County in Maryland. I even served a year as an MSNBC contributor. This is all to say, I speak liberal.
You won’t win over your lefty in-laws with appeals to liberty. Those warnings about hubris that tickle your Edmund Burke nerve will ring hollow with Nephew Trevor, who is still infected with his 2008 case of Hope & Change. You need to speak their language.
So let me offer my conservative and libertarian readers the first annual Thanksgiving Guide to Making Conservative Arguments in Liberals’ Language.
Regulators will ban your organic kale.
Your liberal relatives generally trust government regulations to solve problems. They don’t sweat the costs to the economy as much as you do. Throw in a healthy distrust of Corporate America — often even an unhealthy disdain for it — and progressives (this is what they call themselves these days) end up regarding regulation as a force for good.
You can plant a seed of skepticism about regulators’ ability to do good, though, by pointing to the salad course Trevor brought. The organic, local, sustainable kale in it might be impossible to get after the Obama administration’s food safety rules go into effect.
The Food Safety Modernization Act that Obama signed is finally being implemented, and it has locavores up in arms. Quote Nathanael Johnson at Grist (your relatives know this site): “Everyone wants safer food, but some small farmers fear the rules could force them out of business.”
Proposed federal rules on manure-spreading and water-testing seem tailored for industrial farming, impossible for smaller farms to meet. As you discuss this, throw in references to author Michael Pollan.
At work here are two dynamics common to regulation: They’re called “regulatory capture” and “the overhead smash.”
Obama’s food safety czar is Michael Taylor, former top lobbyist for Monsanto. (You’ll be amazed at the power of the word “Monsanto” with some of your relatives.) Industrial farms and major food processors hire the best lobbyists and thus get a seat at the table when the FDA writes the rules. Thus, the biggest players in the regulated industry have “captured” the agency that regulates them.
“The overhead smash” is my phrase for the tendency of regulations to add to overhead — the fixed costs of doing business — which smashes smaller competitors while protecting the big guys. In the food safety realm, small farms are begging to be exempted from these rules that only big farms can afford.
In case your aunts think this is an aberration, point them to similar phenomena in the realms of handmade toys, taxi services, bakers, hair-braiders, casket-makers and so on. (All these links are prog-friendly.)
Friendsgiving, a new tradition to be thankful for
Friendsgiving, a new tradition to be thankful for
By Ellen McCarthy November 25
Shauna Alexander’s Friendsgiving story began in the traditional way: She was avoiding her family.
“I was having some tough times with my parents — as one does when they’re 25,” she recalls. “It was just growing pains with the folks.”
So, instead of going home to New York for Thanksgiving that year, Alexander lied and told her parents that she had to work on Friday and was stuck in Washington.
Then she went out and bought the video game “Rock Band,” cooked a bunch of food and invited all her friends who were left in town over for dinner.
The evening was laid-back and boozy and so, so much fun. That was five years ago — and Alexander hasn’t been home for Thanksgiving since.
She is among those who ardently believe in the superiority of a Thanksgiving spent with friends. Benefits: no travel, no drama and the ability to sleep in your own bed, assuming that you don’t pass out on your buddy’s couch. It’s not that Friendsgiving advocates aren’t thankful for family. They definitely are. Just, you know, from a distance.
“There’s something to be said for friends being the family you choose, as cliche as that statement is,” says Alexander, now 31. “You get to be with people you actually want to be around, and aren’t just obligated to be around — crazy aunts and uncles and brothers you might not get along with.”