• Thanksgiving comes early for those who need it

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    Antionette Erby-Jones feeds her eighteen-month-old grandson Anthony Erby as seven-year-old granddaughter Kayla Williams looks on.

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    DC residents arrive for the annual Safeway Feast of Sharing on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

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    Goldie Brown with Child and Family Services Agency hands out traditional Thanksgiving turkey meals on Wednesday night.

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    Local residents pick free clothing after the dinner on Wednesday.

    By James Cheng

    As we celebrate this holiday season don't forget those less fortunate, please donate to your local food pantries.

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    The 12th annual Safeway Feast of Sharing feast provides a free turkey meal, a job fair, free clothing and free health screenings for low income and homeless DC residents to celebrate Thanksgiving. The event feeds more than 5,000 local residents through a variety of corporate and community partners.

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  • Safeway that was site of mass shooting set to reopen in Tucson

    By Carissa Ray

    It's interesting how a place as normal as the neighborhood grocery store can be transformed by an event like the Tucson shootings into a site for a community to come together, mourn, and memorialize.

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    A woman, right, who lost a step-father and who has another family member who was wounded during the shooting rampage at the Safeway supermarket in the La Toscana Village parking lot is comforted on Jan.14, in Tucson, Az.

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    A woman, right, who lost a step-father and who has another family member who was wounded during the shooting rampage at the Safeway supermarket in the La Toscana Village parking lot mourns on Jan. 14, in Tucson, Az. The supermarket is scheduled to re-open tomorrow. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head and is in critical condition in the hospital after a mass shooting at a Safeway grocery store that killed six and injured several others.

    Read the latest on the shootings and those being mourned here, and see our slideshow of these memorials.