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Demarest NJ, everyone who participated in the Academy of the Holy Angels’ Turkey Drive helped the Community FoodBank of New Jersey provide healthy, nutritious Thanksgiving meals for people in need. Campus Minister Maryanne Miloscia organizes this annual activity, and the AHA community responds to the call to serve others. This year’s drive netted 43 turkeys.
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Ridgewood NJ, Nearly four out of five Americans will gather together for Thanksgiving and most haven’t let the COVID-19 pandemic change their plans for this year’s holiday.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 79% of American Adults say they are planning on getting together with family or friends this Thanksgiving. That’s up from 50% last year. Thirteen percent (13%) won’t be gathering with family or friends for the holiday. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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Ridgewood NJ, according to their Faceboook page Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church food drive collected 302 turkeys and seven SUV’s filled with other nonperishable food items . The turkeys were split up with 253 going to Fr. English, 25 to Ridgewood Social Services (the maximum they could take) and 24 turkey breasts and one ham for Ridgecrest Seniors. Nonperishable food items were also divided up for the three locations.
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Ridgewood NJ, as many of our readers have read by now a large flock of aggressive turkeys are terrorizing residents of an over-55 community in the Holiday City section of Toms River.
Continue reading Wild Turkeys Terrorize New Jersey Just in Time for Thanksgiving
By LISA W. FODERAROFEB. 18, 2016
HILLSDALE, N.J. — In some neighborhoods of this placid New Jersey borough in Bergen County, they are seemingly everywhere — waddling by the dozen in the road, perched on car roofs, pecking at the tires of delivery trucks.
But wild turkeys, which were wiped out in the state by the mid-1800s, put on their most brazen display on Tuesday, when a letter carrier felt trapped in his truck and telephoned his boss for help.
“Hey sarge,” the postmaster said in a 911 call to the Hillsdale Police Department. “You’re not going to believe this, but I got a carrier that’s being attacked by wild turkeys and won’t let him deliver the mail.”
The letter carrier, who was not identified, was inside his truck on Esplanade Drive, surrounded by four or five turkeys, when two officers arrived, according to Capt. Sean Smith of the Police Department. “The first officer attempted to blow the siren and that didn’t work,” he said on Thursday. “Then the other officer got out of his car and ran aggressively toward the turkeys and that did the trick.”
It was just one of the latest skirmishes in suburbia’s wildlife wars. Turkeys have now joined the ranks of raccoons, foxes, coyotes, bears and deer, all of which have both fans and detractors and seem to make headlines with growing frequency.
