Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving traditions -- a lot of families have them. For some, it's a certain dish served each Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe playing games, watching football. Or, if you're like my family, each person goes around the table and says what they are thankful for each year...

My girlfriend and I were chatting about Thanksgiving the other day and she completely shocked me when she said that she wasn't cooking a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. What! Isn't that un-American?

The Yakima Valley has a lot to be thankful for this season -- including Northwest Harvest, which is celebrating its 50th year of fighting hunger in our region. So Friday morning (Nov. 18), Michele and I plan to "bowl with a goal" when the annual Celebrity Turkey Bowling gets rolling at Grocery Outlet, 2109 S...

The Yakima Union Gospel Mission -- which has helped thousands of hungry local families and individuals over the years -- needs some help of its own now. Donations are down lately, and the mission doesn't have enough food for Thanksgiving.

Here is the Official Power Ranking List Of Movies To Watch On Thanksgiving And The Day After (Please note: All other movies you watch on these two days are trash!!) 1. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving 2. Paul Blart, Mall Cop 3. Soul Food 4...

I have a friend (we'll call her "Annie") who confided in me that she really didn't want to go anywhere for Thanksgiving. Annie said that her family lives thousands of miles away and she did not want to deal with the hassle of traveling through the airports with her child or dealing with all of the flight delays and cancellations that are typical this time of year because of the weather a

A recent survey revealed that 4 out of 5 people think the best part of hosting Thanksgiving dinner is all the leftovers. I do love having all the leftovers to make homemade turkey noodle soup, potato pancakes and open-faced turkey sandwiches, but it's not the best part of hosting Thanksgiving dinner.

Thanksgiving brings everyone together for food, fun ... and sometimes family fighting. It almost never fails that when you have a bunch of people with varying opinions someone is going to start a disagreement.

I've had the song lyric "Christmastime is coming" stuck in my head all week! It's also true -- Christmastime is coming, and that means spending time with family that you don't see very often. A real chance to bond, share life and laugh with your relatives. But on the off chance that you get bored or just want to sneak away after Uncle Al starts hitting the bottle or Aunt Donna wants your

A listener sent us an email wanting our opinion in regard to charging for Thanksgiving dinner ... Dear Rik, Michele and Cefus: One of my relatives is making Thanksgiving dinner and sent an email asking for money for the dinner. Wait! You invited me to dinner and now you are charging me for it...

Thanksgiving is one of our favorite holidays for a number of reasons. First being the fact you finally get a day to slow down and spend quality time with the people you love. Second is the great daylong feast that ensues at my parents' house...

Gobble down as much food as you like on Thanksgiving, because now you can work off all of those calories -- and for a good cause, too! It's The Leftover Turkey Trot in support of the Yakima Greenway. The event takes place at 10 a.m. on Nov. 28 this year at Sarg Hubbard Park.