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What Are You Thankful For?

Same as every year, I’m most thankful for my family and friends. The Carroll/Turnbull clans are as crazy as they come, but I couldn’t have asked to be a member of a better group of people. And what can I say? I have the most amazing friends in the entire world.

What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? Please share below – and keep it in your heart all year long!

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Save Sacred Heart School, Highland Falls, NY

I received some pretty upsetting news tonight – that after 80 years of top-notch education, service and community, Sacred Heart School in Highland Falls, NY (my elementary school) may have to shut its doors in June.

Sacred Heart has not been immune to the dwindling enrollments in Catholic schools over the past few decades and was once almost shut under Cardinal O’Connor in the mid-90s. But this time around seems worse, people say, as the NY archdiocese is prepared to cut its ties with the school at the end of the school year. Officials at Sacred Heart have been asked to prepare a contingency plan, but according to sources, enrollment would need to double for Sacred Heart to remain open. Basically, we need a miracle.

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RIP Ulysses the Pumpkin

“Come, my friends.’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows; for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.”

Ulysses the Pumpkin was laid to rest Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. He was one month old.

Ulysses was born in Jamesport, NY, but moved to Boston in October of this year. A lover of books, he worked in publishing and was named after the famed Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem.

In his last few weeks he worked as supervisor of cubicle 6E307A. Co-workers remember him as “always with a smile on his face.”

He is survived by John, Paul, Ringo and George Gord of Brighton, Massachusetts.

Ulysses will be laid to rest next to Dunkin’ Donuts Munchkin container, as they were old friends. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Kelly, Laney, Sam and Sandra Scholarship Fund (preferably in the form of cash).

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