Travel Day I'm on a train this morning so posting will be light, and delayed. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves -- some of the comment threads (see "recent comments") are pretty lively -- and good luck getting through the next couple of days until Thanksgiving.
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Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 11:03 AM
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I saw this from News Tips:
This Newstip edited by Curtis Black
Contact: 312-344-7783 | fax 312-344-6404 | curtis@newstips.org
A Thousand Teens for Thanksgiving
Newstip Date: 11-16-2007
Kids Off the Block expects 1,000 teens from across Chicago for its first annual "Feed A Teen" Thanksgiving Dinner, Thursday November 22 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at KOB headquarters, 11621 S. Michigan.
The police department's CAPS program is providing a heated tent, caterers are donating dinners, and police officers and other volunteers will serve youth.
Twenty buses from churches and community organizations in twenty communities will be bringing kids.
The idea for the dinner came from the same place as the idea for KOB, said organization founder Diane Latiker -- young people in the neighborhood who are looking for alternatives.
"Every Thanksgiving I have teens coming to my house and asking, Did you cook Thanksgiving dinner?" she explains. They come from families that aren't able to provide a traditional meal, and holidays invoke a desire for stability and tradition.
(more at http://www.newstips.org/interior.php?section=Newstips&main_id=812&topic=)
--- I just think the idea of teens, if they're still in school, needing to find a dinner on Thanksgiving Break very interesting. I'd doubt kids in that situation would be doing any homework over break, either.
This Newstip edited by Curtis Black
Contact: 312-344-7783 | fax 312-344-6404 | curtis@newstips.org
A Thousand Teens for Thanksgiving
Newstip Date: 11-16-2007
Kids Off the Block expects 1,000 teens from across Chicago for its first annual "Feed A Teen" Thanksgiving Dinner, Thursday November 22 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at KOB headquarters, 11621 S. Michigan.
The police department's CAPS program is providing a heated tent, caterers are donating dinners, and police officers and other volunteers will serve youth.
Twenty buses from churches and community organizations in twenty communities will be bringing kids.
The idea for the dinner came from the same place as the idea for KOB, said organization founder Diane Latiker -- young people in the neighborhood who are looking for alternatives.
"Every Thanksgiving I have teens coming to my house and asking, Did you cook Thanksgiving dinner?" she explains. They come from families that aren't able to provide a traditional meal, and holidays invoke a desire for stability and tradition.
(more at http://www.newstips.org/interior.php?section=Newstips&main_id=812&topic=)
--- I just think the idea of teens, if they're still in school, needing to find a dinner on Thanksgiving Break very interesting. I'd doubt kids in that situation would be doing any homework over break, either.
