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This year is thus the 400th anniversary of what became heralded as the First Thanksgiving.

This year’s Valley Assembly Thanksgiving dinner will benefit HRC Ministries. Nov. 6, 1 to 2:30 p.m. and 3 to 4:30 p.m. Valley Assembly, 15618 E. Broadway, Spokane Valley. Cost is $12 per person, $8 for children 4 to 10. For information and to register: https://valleyassembly.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1037834?mc_cid=a8ffa33cba&mc_eid=8cfe0c85bb

Is it possible to give thanks when people are dying? Is it right to? The short answer is yes. In fact, I’d say it’s more important now than ever.

In any normal November, Spokane’s Union Gospel Mission would be planning a Thanksgiving for its residents that’s as close to home as most of them have been in a while.

I am going to write about all the things for which I am personally thankful this season and about all the things for which I think you should be thankful.

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book “Our History Is the Future.”