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2018A supplement to The Eunice News Thursday, November 22, 2018 5 Benefits of Shopping Locally Looking for 5 can charge higher benefits of shopping prices. By having a locally? Mom and multitude of local pop shops rely stores within your on the customers community, all within their town to of the stores will keep coming back need to keep their on a daily or weekly prices competitive basis. Big box stores in order to gain your have much more business. financial stability than your local • Community Well shops, so without a November 24, 2018 Being. constant stream of Common uses benefits of shopping win-win situation will be a much revenue, you may The final benefit on for local sales tax locally, also has a for local customers. broader range of see your favorite our list of the five include investments domino effect. Local Big box stores have product choices. local store go out of benefits of shopping in infrastructure, stores will need national sales plans, business in no time. locally is community police and fire to hire other local and generally do not • Competition. well being. By d e p a r t m e n t s , residents to help stock their stores • Tax Base. shopping at local libraries, and parks. with accounting, with products that Competition of local shops, you will most create store signs, are sought after shops is also one of One of the five likely run into your • Jobs. etc. within a specific the most important benefits of shopping friends and family region. Local shops five benefits of locally is the more often, which Local shops employ • Product Diversity. will need to stock shopping locally. Big increased tax base. helps unite the local residents, their stores with box stores often drive By shopping locally, community together which means there Product diversity, products that their mom and pop shops more sales tax is as a whole. Local will be more job one of the five local customers out of business, being generated by business owners are opportunities within benefits of shopping will want, so if you which means there your favorite local also more likely to your community. locally, may not have many local is no competition. stores, and that tax donate more to local The increase in seem important shops within your With no competition, can be used within causes than big box jobs, one of the five at first, but it is a community, there the big box stores your community. stores are. 2B Thursday, November 22, 2018 News The Eunice News www.eunicetoday.com Shopping Tips We all know Black because you got it for • Compare Prices Friday offers the cheap doesn’t make it Before You Head Out best holiday season a good deal. Take the Shop around to see shopping deals, but time to make sure it’s what the average they only come to those a quality product and retail price of an item who are prepared and worth getting up early is before you leave, in the right place at or staying up late for so you can go to the the right time. Here are the price cut. store that is offering some tips to help you the best deal. Check make the most of the • Browse the Deals to see what usually sales and discounts so Before You Go comes with the item you get the most bang Knowing which you are looking for, for your buck. retailers are going to and what the store is have what on sale and offering. Many stores • Do Your Research when before the big day offer “ stripped down” If you are planning will help you decide versions of products, web page where you owl specials between as long to return a on making a special where and when you which means you will saw the deal with the the hours of midnight product. The amount purchase of a big- want to go, will help have to spend money advertised price and and 4 a.m. to draw in of time you have to ticket item based on with budgeting, and on accessories. Take give it a shot. the crowd that doesn’t return something is a Black Friday sale, will help you see who time to see what like to get up early, important since you’re it is important to you have left to shop accessories you will • Use Store Credit but would rather stay buying nearly a month remember to check for. As you browse need to determine if Cards up late. Cashing in on in advance. Having consumer reports and the deals, make a the deal is really worth I’m not saying go out these deals is not only a receipt is also very read consumer reviews list with the product, it or not. and max your cards. a good way to beat the important, because no of the item before who it’s for, the price, You will still have crowd, but it’s a good receipt often means no you decide to make the location, and any • Bring Ads with You to practice budget way to guarantee the return. the purchase. If the special hours for the Bring sales ads with savvy shopping getting will be good, product is bad, just sale. you so you can have and make regular because typically, once • Don’t Forget the them available if you payments to avoid the deals are gone, Gift Receipt Tis the Season to Open Your need to call a store hefty interest charges, they are gone. Many stores are Account!! out on their “lowest but many stores offer printing a gift receipt price guarantee.” extra discounts and • Familiarize Yourself so you can include Most stores have a warranties if you make with Store Policy a receipt with the policy that will allow purchases on your As stores are gift in the event of them to match or beat store card. This, when becoming stricter on return or exchange, a lower advertised paid in full as if it were return and exchange without divulging price, but will require cash, can offer extra policies, knowing the how much money you Main Office Eunice Branch you to show the ad savings benefits. store policies before spent on the item. 3031 Stagg Ave. • Basile 751 West Maple Ave • Eunice as proof to process 337-432-6646 • 337-432-5166 Fax 337-457-4050 • 337-457-7581 Fax you go can help you While many stores the price difference. • Early Bird and decide where to shop do this automatically www.basilebank.com Generally speaking, Night Owl Specials and what places to for holiday season the store policy will Many stores advertise avoid. Most stores purchases, it is CRAWFISH SEAFOOD STEAKS not apply to online early bird deals, are now starting to important to ask for advertised deals, even generally between 4 charge a restocking one so you can be in the case of the store and 11 a.m., to help fee and closing the sure to have it for the website due to online draw in the crowd, return window, so recipient. only deals, but you but also offer night customers do not have can always print the German Chocolate Bar Prep Time: 25 minutes until lightly toasted. . Pour evenly Using foil overhang, Stir halfway through over partially baked lift bars from pan and Cook Time: 59 minutes baking. crust. place on a cutting Yield: 24 bars (about board. Use a sharp OPEN FOR LUNCH 2-inch square) Line bottom and sides Bake 28-34 minutes, knife to cut into bars. Tues. - Fri. 10:30 - 1:30 of a 9”x 13” baking pan or until edges are Notes Evenings: Tues. - Sat. 5 - 9 Ingredients with aluminum foil, golden and filling has leaving an overhang set. 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The History of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Day is a national spring. In March, the remaining Because the Pilgrims had no published numerous editorials Parades have also become an Thanksgiving story is presented holiday in the United States, settlers moved ashore, where they oven and the ’s sugar and sent scores of letters to integral part of the holiday in to the American public, and and Thanksgiving 2018 occurs received an astonishing visit from supply had dwindled by the fall governors, senators, presidents cities and towns across the United especially to schoolchildren. In on Thursday, November 22. In an Abenaki Indian who greeted of 1621, the meal did not feature and other politicians. Abraham States. Presented by Macy’s their view, the traditional narrative 1621, the Plymouth colonists them in English. Several days later, pies, cakes or other , Lincoln finally heeded her request department store since 1924, paints a deceptively sunny portrait and Indians shared he returned with another Native which have become a hallmark of in 1863, at the height of the Civil New York City’s Thanksgiving of relations between the Pilgrims an autumn harvest feast that is American, , a member contemporary celebrations. War, in a proclamation entreating Day parade is the largest and and the Wampanoag people, acknowledged today as one of the of the Pawtuxet tribe who had Thanksgiving Becomes an all Americans to ask God to most famous, attracting some 2 masking the long and bloody first Thanksgiving celebrations in been kidnapped by an English Official Holiday “commend to his tender care all to 3 million spectators along its history of conflict between Native the colonies. For more than two sea captain and sold into slavery Pilgrims held their second those who have become widows, 2.5-mile route and drawing an Americans and European settlers centuries, days of thanksgiving before escaping to London and Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 orphans, mourners or sufferers in enormous television audience. It that resulted in the deaths of were celebrated by individual returning to his homeland on an to mark the end of a long drought the lamentable civil strife” and to typically features marching bands, millions. Since 1970, protesters colonies and states. It wasn’t until exploratory expedition. Squanto that had threatened the year’s “heal the wounds of the nation.” performers, elaborate floats have gathered on the day 1863, in the midst of the Civil taught the Pilgrims, weakened by harvest and prompted Governor He scheduled Thanksgiving for the conveying various celebrities and designated as Thanksgiving at the War, that President Abraham malnutrition and illness, how to Bradford to call for a religious fast. final Thursday in November, and it giant balloons shaped like cartoon top of Cole’s Hill, which overlooks Lincoln proclaimed a national cultivate corn, extract sap from Days of fasting and thanksgiving was celebrated on that day every characters. , to commemorate Thanksgiving Day to be held each maple trees, catch fish in the rivers on an annual or occasional basis year until 1939, when Franklin D. Beginning in the mid-20th century a “National Day of Mourning.” November. and avoid poisonous plants. He became common practice in Roosevelt moved the holiday up and perhaps even earlier, the Similar events are held in other Thanksgiving at Plymouth also helped the settlers forge an other settlements a week in an attempt to spur retail president of the United States parts of the country. In September 1620, a small alliance with the Wampanoag, a as well. During the American sales during the . has “pardoned” one or two Thanksgiving’s Ancient ship called the Mayflower left local tribe, which would endure for Revolution, the Continental Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively Thanksgiving turkeys each year, Origins Plymouth, England, carrying 102 more than 50 years and tragically Congress designated one or as , was met with sparing the birds from slaughter Although the American concept passengers—an assortment of remains one of the sole examples more days of thanksgiving a year, passionate opposition, and in 1941 and sending them to a farm for of Thanksgiving developed in the religious separatists seeking of harmony between European and in 1789 George Washington the president reluctantly signed a retirement. A number of U.S. colonies of New England, its roots a new home where they could colonists and Native Americans. issued the first Thanksgiving bill making Thanksgiving the fourth governors also perform the annual can be traced back to the other side freely practice their faith and other In November 1621, after the proclamation by the national Thursday in November. turkey pardoning ritual. of the Atlantic. Both the Separatists individuals lured by the promise of Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved government of the United States; Thanksgiving Traditions Thanksgiving Controversies who came over on the Mayflower prosperity and land ownership in successful, Governor William in it, he called upon Americans In many American households, For some scholars, the jury is and the Puritans who arrived soon the New World. After a treacherous Bradford organized a celebratory to express their gratitude for the the Thanksgiving celebration has still out on whether the feast at after brought with them a tradition and uncomfortable crossing that feast and invited a group of happy conclusion to the country’s lost much of its original religious Plymouth really constituted the of providential holidays—days of lasted 66 days, they dropped the fledgling colony’s Native war of independence and the significance; instead, it now first Thanksgiving in the United fasting during difficult or pivotal anchor near the tip of Cape American allies, including the successful ratification of the U.S. centers on cooking and sharing States. Indeed, historians have moments and days of feasting and Cod, far north of their intended Wampanoag chief . Constitution. His successors John a bountiful meal with family and recorded other ceremonies of celebration to thank God in times destination at the mouth of the Now remembered as American’s Adams and James Madison also friends. Turkey, a Thanksgiving thanks among European settlers of plenty. Hudson River. One month later, the “first Thanksgiving”—although designated days of thanks during staple so ubiquitous it has become in North America that predate the As an annual celebration of the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts the Pilgrims themselves may not their presidencies. all but synonymous with the Pilgrims’ celebration. In 1565, for harvest and its bounty, moreover, Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they have used the term at the time— In 1817, New York became the holiday, may or may not have been instance, the Spanish explorer Thanksgiving falls under a are now commonly known, began the festival lasted for three days. first of several states to officially on offer when the Pilgrims hosted Pedro Menéndez de Avilé invited category of festivals that spans the work of establishing a village at While no record exists of the adopt an annual Thanksgiving the inaugural feast in 1621. Today, members of the local Timucua cultures, continents and millennia. Plymouth. historic banquet’s exact menu, holiday; each celebrated it on a however, nearly 90 percent of tribe to a dinner in St. Augustine, In ancient times, the Egyptians, Did you know? Lobster, seal the Pilgrim chronicler Edward different day, however, and the Americans eat the bird—whether , after holding a mass to Greeks and Romans feasted and and swans were on the Pilgrims’ Winslow wrote in his journal that American South remained largely roasted, baked or deep-fried—on thank God for his crew’s safe paid tribute to their gods after menu. Governor Bradford sent four unfamiliar with the tradition. Thanksgiving, according to the arrival. On December 4, 1619, the fall harvest. Thanksgiving Throughout that first brutal winter, men on a “fowling” mission in In 1827, the noted magazine National Turkey Federation. Other when 38 British settlers reached also bears a resemblance to the most of the colonists remained on preparation for the event, and that editor and prolific writer Sarah traditional foods include , a site known as Berkeley Hundred ancient Jewish harvest festival of board the ship, where they suffered the Wampanoag guests arrived Josepha Hale—author, among mashed potatoes, on the banks of ’s James Sukkot. Finally, historians have from exposure, scurvy and bearing five deer. Historians countless other things, of the and . Volunteering is a River, they read a proclamation noted that Native Americans had outbreaks of contagious disease. have suggested that many of nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little common Thanksgiving Day activity, designating the date as “a day of a rich tradition of commemorating Only half of the Mayflower’s the dishes were likely prepared Lamb”—launched a campaign and communities often hold food thanksgiving to Almighty God.” the fall harvest with feasting original passengers and crew using traditional Native American to establish Thanksgiving as a drives and host free dinners for the Some Native Americans and and merrymaking long before lived to see their first New England spices and cooking methods. national holiday. For 36 years, she less fortunate. others take issue with how the Europeans set foot on their shores.

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