“Thanksgiving is more than eating, Chuck. We should just be thankful for being together.”
Marcie from “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”
WKTV Staff
joanne@wktv.org
Come Home and Stay
Coming home for the holidays and wish you could just stay? Have a love one you would like to convince to move back home? Then Hello West Michigan has the event for you. Wednesday night Hello West Michigan and 49 local business will host the eighth annual ReThink West Michigan. The event is from from 5:30-8 p.m. at several locations in West Michigan: The B.O.B., 20 Monroe Ave., Grand Rapids; Walldorff Brewpub, 105 State St., Hastings; Sterns Hotel, 212 E. Ludington Ave., Ludington; The Block, 360 W. Western Ave., Muskegon; Double JJ, 5900 S. Water Rd., Rothbury; and Lake 23 Restaurant and Pub at the Watersedge Gold Course, 1100 Ramshorn, Fremont. The event is free, but people are asked to register at www.rethinkwm.com.
Operation Handshake
The Gerald R. Ford International Airport will be hosting its Operation Handshake, patriotic welcome home for West Michigan troops and other festivities. If you have someone coming home from the military via the airport, contact Tony VanGessel at 616-862-1984 or tvange58@yahoo.com. Also, Thanksgiving is expected to be the busiest time of the year for the Gerald R. Ford Airport, so make sure to give yourself plenty of time to get through the TSA check. Click here for some other helpful tips.
What’s a Thanksgiving Without Football?
WKTV’s Turkey Bowl returns featuring 13 hours of football (and two hours of soccer, also called football in many countries) on its Channel 25. So grab that turkey leg and relive some of fall’s finest football moments as brought to you by the WKTV Sports crew. The program starts at 9 a.m. For more information on the complete schedule, click here.
49 Million Turkeys
Americans will be gobbling up a lot of turkey this Thanksgiving. In 2018, 88 percent of Americans surveyed by the American Turkey Federation ate Turkey on Thanksgiving. The organization estimates that 49 million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving and of course, Thanksgiving ranks as number one for turkey consumpation. Christmas is second with 22 million turkeys and about 19 million turkeys are eaten at Easter.
