No matter what holiday you celebrate, GT Patch has picked the best weekend holiday events for those of all ages to enjoy.
It's Christmastime. It's also Hanukkah ... and almost Kwanzaa. Whatever you celebrate, this holiday weekend is filled with great events from which to choose. If you aren't swamped wrapping gifts and want to escape your house (and perhaps some of your family), check out the best of what this weekend has to offer. Happy holidays! Starbucks Holiday Fun Being Jewish at Christmas Candy Making Tours Feast of Seven Fishes Christmas Eve Experience Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Hanukkah Character Breakfast Christmas Stories Monday Kwanzaa Fun Kwanzaa Celebration
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Starbucks Coffee
1490 Blackwood Clementon Rd, Clementon, NJ
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101 N Independence Mall E, Philadelphia, PA
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719 Stokes Rd, Medford, NJ
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2040 Springdale Rd, Cherry Hill, NJ
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359 County House Rd # 639, Sewell, NJ
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2385 W Cheltenham Ave, Philadelphia, PA
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Bethel Christian Center
1583 Blackwood Clementon Rd, Blackwood, NJ
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301 Springdale Rd, Cherry Hill, NJ
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The annual community dinner will be held on Nov. 13 at Highland High School.
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- Trish Adkins
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
The eighth annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner, sponsored by Bethel Christian Center, will be held on Nov. 13, from 1 to 6 p.m., in the Highland Regional High School Cafeteria. "The Thanksgiving dinner is open to the whole community," said Kathy Kinney, wife of the senior pastor at Bethel Christian. "It is a great day to come together as a community and celebrate Thanksgiving." Volunteers, including Mayor David Mayer, township officials and students from Highland, will serve a traditional Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and other fixings. There will be a variety of pies for dessert. Kinney said the dinner typically feeds about 2,000-2,500. Leftover meals are taken to the Walter Rand Transportation Center …
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Highland Regional High School
450 Erial Rd, Blackwood, NJ
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Township food pantries are facing shortages.
Gloucester Township resident Joanne Carr saw a woman buying an enormous amount of pancake mix at the grocery store and wondered what she planned to do with it all. The answer: Take it to the food pantry at Our Lady of Hope Parish, on Little Gloucester Road, which had run out of food. Like other food pantries in Gloucester Township, Our Lady of Hope Parish has seen a gigantic increase in the number of families they provide food. Last year at this time, the food pantry served 175 families a month; this year the number is close to 250. “People had good jobs last year and now they are out of work,” said Anna O’Toole, president of the St. Vincent DePaul Society, the organization that manages the food pantry at Our Lady of Hope. “We are seeing …
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Coles Rd & Little Gloucester Rd, Blackwood, NJ
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Michelle Wolfson
3:42 pm on Friday, November 4, 2011
We do our best to donate every year. We also donate several pounds of food to the food drive at my children's elementary school, which just ended. I know times are hard, but really, if you are doing okay, and can pass up your daily Starbucks for a week, you can feed a whole family on that! It only takes literally a couple bucks from each person who can spare it. I bought 18 boxes of cake and … more ›