Holiday Season

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Food & other Donations/Help

Many local centers need donations of food items and/or volunteers to help gather, serve, drive and other jobs as needed. Food items generally need to be non-perishable: canned goods, stuffing and/or mashed potato mix, cranberry sauce, cereal, etc. Some places will gladly accept monetary donations to buy larger or perishable items to distribute.

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center - 401-846-4828

The RI Community Food Bank - 401-826-3073 

ECHO (Ecumenical Help and Outreach) is an all volunteer agency that gives rides to elderly and infirm patients so they can make their medical appointments. Helpers are needed to answer the phone, set up rides and work with volunteer drivers. Hours are Monday to Friday from 9am to 1pm, training is provided. Volunteers can work on a weekly, monthly or substitute basis. For more information call Mary Lou Proffett at 253-6353 or Mary Clair at 253-3351.

Special Olympics has a program called "Recycle for Gold". 
    They will collect old cars in ANY condition and recycle them. The money raised goes to pay for training and to provide athletic competition to Special Olympic athletes across the state. For info on how to have your old car taken away call 800-590-1600 (you may even qualify for a tax break!)

Click here for more information on Donating and Volunteering

Cooking/Baking:

FDA's Food Safety Site        USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service
1-888-SAFEFOOD

ABC TV chef's Mario Batali, Emeril Lagasse & Sara Moulton are featured here. 
Betty Crocker
Birds Eye Vegetables
Butterball Turkey site - "Turkey headquarters on the internet"
Carnation Milk
Carolina Rice
Cheese Lovers
Chicken of the Sea
Christmas Recipes from around the world
Cooking.com
Culinary.net
Duncan Hines
Eagle Brand Milk
Epicurious - over 10,000 recipes (206 just for turkey)
Fleischmanns.com - The yeast folks
Grey Poupon
Holiday Recipe.com
Hungry Pilgrim, The - New England Style Recipes
Kitchenlink - recipes and more.
Land O'Lakes Holiday Bakeline
Libby's Pumpkin
Mrs. Claus' kitchen
National Cherries
National Pork Producers Council
Nabisco Recipes
Nestle Baking Family, The
North Pole.com - cookies and lots of other recipes
Ocean Spray Site - Recipes
Perdue Farms
Planters Nuts
Quaker Oats Recipe Site - Canada
Recipe ideas from Reynolds Wrap
ThanksgivingRecipe.com - "Thanksgiving all the time"
Tollhouse.com
Traditional Christmas Recipes
Vegan Christmas or Yule
Vegetarian recipes
Yankee Magazine - Recipe section

Thanksgiving

Plimoth Plantation - A step back in time, great trip during this time of year. Thanksgiving -World Book

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving - on VHS  DVD

Hanukkah

AARP - about Hanukkah
History of Hanukkah - from TV's The History Channel
Hanukkah - World Book
Hanukkah History - Games, Free Printable Activities and Lesson Plans
Holiday History - Games, Free Printable Activities
Jewish Year, The - A calendar showing the Jewish Holidays and information about them
ORT.net Hanukkah pages
Touro Synagogue

Christmas

Jan. 8 - 12, 2007   - Portsmouth: DPW picks up Christmas trees
                The Department of Public Works will pick up discarded Christmas trees on weekdays. Trees must be totally stripped of all decorations and tinsel! Check the Portsmouth web site for your scheduled pick up day. Christmas trees cannot be accepted at the transfer station, but will be accepted at the Department of Public Works 143 Hedley St. 683-0362 Trees are recycled into mulch that is free and available to Portsmouth residents.  Residents may pick up mulch at Melville Campground. Contact Melville Campground at 682-2424 for hours.

Jan.TBA  - Newport: Christmas tree pickup
               Discarded Christmas trees will be collected on residents' regularly scheduled  collection day. Trees must be curbside and clean of any tree bags, ornaments, tinsel, etc. For more information call 849-2380

Jan 8 - 12, 2007- Middletown: Christmas Tree Pickup
        ** All ornaments, decorations, tinsel, etc. should be removed from trees.
        ** Trees should NOT be In plastic bags.
        ** All trees must be placed at curbside by 7:00 a.m. on your collection day.

Kwanzaa:

AARP - about Kwanzaa
History of Kwanzaa - from TV's The History Channel
Kwanzaa - World Book

Happy New Year!:

The New Year - World Book
Opening Night- Newport

Lots of links to around the world New Years sites

Martin Luther King Jr. Day:

DoSomething.org
The King Center
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Martin Luther King, Jr. Addresses the March on Washington ("I have a dream...")
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Holiday - On the Net

TOYS, GAMES, Etc.:

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