VIDEO: Holiday Fire Safety Tips from Newark Fire Department

Keep your kitchen safe this holiday season

It's the most wonderful time of the year – but it can also be the most dangerous time in the kitchen. The Newark Fire Department Wednesday morning held a demonstration on fire safety tips to heed while cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year. Battalion Chief Raul Malave advised how to safeguard your kitchen – and how to properly handle those pesky deep fryers. Click on the video above to hear more fire safety tips.

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Share Your Non-Traditional Thanksgiving Recipes!

Do you make a non-conventional dessert? Side dish? Main course? Tell us about it!

While the “traditional” Thanksgiving dinner usually consists of turkey and trimmings, we have all established different traditions through the years. That said: Do you bake or cook anything that strays from conventional Turkey Day cuisine? Perhaps it is a dessert, a side dish – or maybe even the main course. We are looking for your non-traditional recipes to share with our Patch readers. Please e-mail them (and pictures) to bfalzarano.patch@gmail.com and we will publish them early next week. And, of course, feel free to share below in the comments.

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MMS Students Feed the Hungry for Thanksgiving

The annual Thanksgiving Assembly focused on the Morristown Soup Kitchen and a food collection.

The theme of this year's annual Thanksgiving assembly at Millburn Middle School was feeding the hungry. It's a mission undertaken by MMS students in their monthly visits to the Morristown Soup Kitchen. John Rogers, MMS Guidance Coordinator, spoke to the assembled students on Wednesday about this important outreach program. "The number of hungry people in New Jersey would fill Giant Stadium 9½ times," he told students. He reminded them the people who are fed at the soup kitchen are not always homeless but people who may be trying to save their homes "Often a smile and a kind word may be just as important as the meal provided," he said.  Students then saw a short film about the Morristown Soup Kitchen and the work they do. The Peer Leader …

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Annual Thanksgiving Drive Collects 140 Boxes of Food

The provisions were taken to 55 Millburn-Short Hills families.

Millburn's elementary school families and school district staff donated 140 boxes of food in the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive sponsored by the Community Outreach Committee of the Millburn-Short Hills Conference of Parents and Teachers. The program is coordinated with the assistance of the Millburn-Short Hills Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Millburn Fire Department and the Millburn Board of Education. Fifty-five township families received donations of 89 ShopRite turkeys, a cornucopia of Thanksgiving staples, and $2,670 in cash (each student was requested to send in $2) that was used to purchase ShopRite gift cards for each family.  Members of the Millburn Fire Department volunteered to deliver the boxes to each family. This year'…

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Turkeys for Charity: Wyoming Church Brings Thanksgiving to Newark

Wyoming Church volunteers will bring the food to the Salvation Army to feed 400.

It was a turkey-lovers heaven in Wyoming Presbyterian Church on Wednesday. Volunteers from the church were preparing the turkey and sides for Thanksgiving dinner with the Salvation Army in Newark on Thursday. They expect to serve 400 needy families. Volunteers annually spend the week preparing the food and then they take it to Newark on Thursday to serve it. Newark Mayor Cory Booker attended a year ago to help serve.

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St. Rose of Lima Hosts Interfaith Service

The annual service is sponsored by the Millburn-Short Hills Clergy Association

Each year the the Millburn-Short Hills Clergy Association sponsors and interfaith Thanksgiving service. This year's service was at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, and Rabbi Karen Perolman from Temple B'nai Jeshurun gave the sermon. St. Rose of Lima provided these photos and video from the service.

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More New Jersey Residents Expected to Travel for Thanksgiving

AAA is predicting the first increase in Thanksgiving travel since 2005 for New Jersey.

More than one million New Jersey residents are expected to travel this Thanksgiving, which is a 11.2 percent increase from a year ago, according to AAA. The organization's prediction would be the first increase in Thanksgiving holiday travel in New Jersey since 2005, according to a press release. AAA also predicts a 11.4 percent increase in the number of people traveling across the country, which is 42.2 million. "While people remain cautious with their household budgets and discretionary spending amidst high levels of unemployment, many are in a better financial position this Thanksgiving than a year ago," said Cathleen Lewis, director of public affairs for the Florham Park-based AAA New Jersey Automobile Club, in a press release. "This …

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Finding the Perfect Wine for Thanksgiving

The owners of the Village Wine Shop in Maplewood give suggestions on what wine to pair with the turkey

When you consider trying to pair one wine with all the varied flavors found on a traditional Thanksgiving table — from sweet to savory, bold to mild — it's enough to make you, well, whine. Luckily, locals have easy access to two folks who can make choosing a wonderful wine wonderfully easy: Alan and Rosetta Weiser at Village Wine Shop in Maplewood. According to Alan, you're not alone if you're up in the air about what wine to serve come Thursday. "Everbody seems to put it off until the last possible minute," he said. "We do 95 percent of our Thanksgiving business on the day before —Wednesday." As complicated as the flavors in a typical Turkey Day menu might seem, the solution for settling upon a perfect wine pairing is pretty …

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Community Food Bank Raises Money in Short Hills

The organization collects food and monetary donations at Kings Super Market.

Shoppers headed to Kings Super Market on Saturday to buy provisions for Thanksgiving, and the Community Food Bank also was there with the same mission. Volunteers were at the grocery store on Saturday to collect frozen turkeys and non-perishable food donations and to raise money. "Since I started doing this four or five years ago, people at this location have been really generous," said Molly Lenz, the turkey drive captain and a volunteer for the Community Food Bank. "People can also go online to give, as we have a virtual food drive.  You can enter a dollar amount and it shows you how many pounds of foods that money will buy. " The Community Food Bank of New Jersey runs several programs like the backpack program that gives kids non-…

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