The Sanatoga Post

SANATOGA PA – If you’ve got business to conduct with Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township officials that just can’t wait, better get to the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA, to see them today (Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011) or Wednesday (Nov. 23), the township’s website indicates.

That’s because the building will be closed, and the township staff given days off, on Thursday (Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24) and Black Friday (Nov. 25, the biggest retail shopping day of the year).

Normal township office hours will resume Monday (Nov. 28) at 8 a.m.

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Infographic from the MD Anderson Cancer Center

IT BRR-WHITENED THE HOLIDAY – The first snowfall of the 2010 winter season in Lower Pottsgrove PA Township fell Thursday morning (Nov. 25, 2010; Thanksgiving Day) at about 9:45 a.m.

Weather forecasters had predicted the day would be cold enough for either snow or sleet, and there would be plenty of moisture in the air to make them possible. They were right on both counts. The first flakes seen in Sanatoga fell across a weathered wooden railing, left, where the colors of fall still clung to trees in the background.

Within only 10 minutes more, the accumulation was heavy enough to give cars and their windshields, at top, a coating of white.

WE WISH YOU ABUNDANCE – It’s Thanksgiving Day, and as it has for the past two years The Post again will take a 24-hour break to enjoy this holiday with family and friends. We are thankful for many things, and most certainly among them you, our readers. Please accept our best wishes for you and yours: love deeply, eat heartily, drive carefully, drink moderately, cheer loudly! We’ll have fresh news for you bright and early Friday morning.

POTTSTOWN PA – Calm your spirit and soothe your soul before you tackle the turkey next week, says Barbara Kosciewicz, the owner of High Street Yoga and Wellness, 141 High St., Pottstown PA.

Kosciewicz will lead a Thanksgiving morning yoga session Thursday (Nov. 25), beginning at 9 a.m. in her High Street studio. It’s one way, she said, to “take time for giving thanks and grace … before the family (and) before the food.”

• This event has been added to The Post calendar.

For more information, call 484-524-9583.

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LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – The owners of Sanatoga Thriftway and Redner’s Warehouse Markets are sure to be happy about this.

Thanksgiving spending on home cooking has been growing annually since 2006, and likely will continue again this year, according to IBISWorld, a Los Angeles-based independent national publisher of business research. It reports American families have shied away from restaurants in favor of home-prepared meals during the past two years. That wasn’t always the case; between 1980 and 2006, Thanksgiving food consumed outside the home grew to 43 percent of all diners.

Increasingly, those enjoying Turkey Day at their own tables are opting for organic birds, the publisher adds. Certified organic turkeys account for just over half of total domestic turkey production in the U.S. this year, reflecting changing tastes. Overall, around 275 million turkeys will be raised this year, up 1.1 percent from 2007.

To round out the meal, says IBISWorld, U.S. growers will produce 700 million pounds of cranberries (up 1.5 percent); 1.65 billion pounds of sweet potatoes (up 3 percent); 1.1 billion pounds of pumpkins (up from 1 billion); 1.9 bushels of wheat (up 5.5 percent); and 850,000 tons of snap green beans (up 1 percent).

By the way, both Thriftway, 2190 E. High St., Sanatoga, and Redner’s, 1300 N. Charlotte St., are open Thanksgiving Day morning through afternoon for limited hours.

For all in need, The Salvation Army will host a Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008) luncheon from noon to 2 p.m. at its corps headquarters, 137 King St., Pottstown PA. For more information, call Maj. Mary Francis at The Salvation Army, 610-326-1621.