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Gobble, gobble! Here's the 2022 list of Greensboro area restaurants taking reservations for Thanksgiving dinner or offering large family-style meals for pickup.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Don't feel like cooking all day for Thanksgiving? You can still get a delicious Turkey Day meal! Here's a list of Greensboro area restaurants doing Thanksgiving 2022 dinners - dine-in, carryout, or both. If you would like your restaurant to be included in this list, please email details to [email protected].

Boston Market is an ideal choice for this holiday.

Customers can get a $13.99 plate that includes chicken or turkey, a choice of two sides, a dinner roll, and a slice of apple or pumpkin pie. If you're looking for a bigger spread, they also offer the Holiday Heat and Serve, a pre-cooked meal with a while turkey, spinach and artichoke dip, gravy, vegetable stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry walnut relish, one apple pie, and one pumpkin pie for $130.

Customers can pick up a hot Thanksgiving dinner or get it delivered.

Golden Corral restaurants in the Triad will be open on Thanksgiving Day.

Green Valley Grill will be open Thanksgiving Day, serving their dinner menu plus "traditional favorites".

Their Thanksgiving dinner menu includes Rotisserie Fired Turkey, Turkey Tenderloin and Pumpkin Cheesecake.

Reservations fill up quickly and they reserve a limited number of tables for up to 8 people.

Honey Baked Ham Co. has Thanksgiving meals available for pre-order and pickup. The website says to check back for updates on pre-orders.

A Thanksgiving holiday take-home feast feeds 8-10 people and costs $179.99.

Pick up cold only beginning November 19 - November 23. The feast comes with reheating instructions. It includes a whole herb-buttered turkey, gravy, cranberry orange relish, whipped mashed potatoes, candied pecan mashed sweet potatoes, buttered cornbread stuffing, and green bean casserole with crispy onion strings. You'll also get two carrot raisin nut loaves, one pumpkin, and one pecan pie for dessert.

You can preorder your Thanksgiving holiday meal from Moose Cafe today and pick up at your convenience.

Thanksgiving meal pickup times are Wednesday, Nov. 23 between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, Nov. 24, between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Click here to pre-order a Thanksgiving meal.

Print Works Bistro will be open Thanksgiving Day, serving their dinner menu plus "traditional favorites".

Their Thanksgiving dinner menu includes Turkey Roulade, Oven-Roasted Herbs de Provence Turkey Breast, and White Chocolate Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake.

Children 10 years old and younger can also get Turkey dinners for $16.

Make sure to make reservations online through OpenTable. Reservations fill up quickly.

Oak Crest Family Restuarant will be open Thanksgiving Day, serving turkey, ham and prime rib dinners.

The family dinner feeds 12-14 people including baked turkey or grazed ham. Sides include dressing, green beans, real mashed potatoes, dozen rolls, and peace cobbler all for $149.99.

Place your order at 336-254-3344

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Summer brings beach vacations as North Carolina residents and out-of-state visitors descend upon the state’s coastal regions in search of cooling breezes and good fishing.

Fishing at many beaches means going to piers, of which 19 remain in operation today (in 1992 North Carolina had 32 coastal fishing piers).

Oak Island at the southeastern corner of the state — the communities of Long Beach, Caswell and Ocean Crest beaches combined several years ago into one municipality — has two remaining fishing piers, Oak Island (former Yaupon Pier) and Ocean Crest.

Located between the Cape Fear River mouth and Lockwood Folly Inlet, both piers offer an excellent chance to land summertime species, particularly flounder, king mackerel, Virginia mullet (whiting), pompano, puppy drum, bluefish, spots and sheepshead.

The town purchased Yaupon Pier in 2008 after the demolition of Long Beach Pier in 2006. Fearing Yaupon would fall prey to the same real-estate boom that claimed Long Beach Pier in 2005, the town bought Yaupon Pier (and renamed it Oak Island Pier) because wise city fathers recognized what a tourist draw it was, especially for anglers.

Today, no condominiums sit at the former Long Beach Pier site, only 10 empty beach-front and second-row lots.

“We’re having a decent run of flounder,” said Carl Bedsole, a former Long Beach Pier regular who now fishes at Oak Island Pier. “A couple days ago, one guy caught six keepers.”

Flounder must measure at least 15 inches to be retained.

Best flounder bites occur from the bait-cleaning sink (just outside the surf breakers line) extending 100 feet toward the end of the pier. The pier’s end, as at most Tar Heel saltwater fishing platforms, is reserved for king mackerel anglers.

Flounder anglers are having the best success using Carolina-rigs with 2-ounce barrel sinkers baited with finger mullet or mud minnows.

“There are plenty of sheepshead around the pilings,” said pier regular Barry Singletary, who fed minnows to a pet snowy egret named Henry, who shows up at the pier each March. “But nobody fishes for them very much.”

Singletary caught a 4-pound, 6-ounce flounder at Oak Island Pier, the largest of the first week of June.

Best times to fish are early in the morning (crack of dawn) until about 10:30 a.m.

Chuck Brown, with a 2-pound, 4-ounce pompano, took Category One of the just-completed Oak Island Pier Fishing Tournament. The event pits anglers from Oak Island and Ocean Crest piers. Barry Crews landed a 4-pound, 14-ounce sheepshead to win Division Two.

A 16-year-old Colorado Springs boy who lost his arm in a shark attack Sunday on North Carolina’s coast said Tuesday that he is choosing to fight and live a normal life.

In a Tuesday interview released to the media by the New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Hunter Treschl said he was playing in the waves of an Oak Island beach with his cousin when he felt “a hit” on his left calf.

“I thought it felt like a big fish, and I started moving away,” he said. “And then the shark bit my arm off.”

The hospital said Treschl’s left arm was severed just below the shoulder.

Once his cousin pulled him out of the water onto the shore, Treschl said, beachgoers sprang into action. He thanked them for their help and support.

Treschl is keeping positive.

“I have two options. I can try to live my life the way I was … or I can just let this be completely debilitating,” he said. “Out of those two … I would actually choose … to try to fight and live a normal life with the cards I’ve been dealt.”

Treschl was attacked in the waters off the beach town only about 90 minutes after a 12-year-old girl’s arm was severed in a similar attack.

Both were swimming in waist-deep water about 20 yards off shore at the time of the attacks, which occurred about 2 miles apart.

They were immediately aided by beachgoers who acted quickly to stop the bleeding and likely saved their lives.

An update on the girl’s condition was not immediately available Tuesday. The hospital told The Denver Post that her family has asked that further information about her not be released.

The town where the attacks happened is advising against ocean swimming, although its beaches remain open.

After the second shark attack, authorities drove along the beach on ATVs and shouted to warn people out of the water.

Tim Holloman, town manager of Oak Island, one of two barrier islands off the North Carolina coast where the attacks happened, told the Associated Press the town has no ordinance authorizing officials to order the surf cleared even if sharks present a threat. And a state law guarantees public access to beaches.

Federal wildlife protections are helping sharks rebound, but they aren't the sole reason for the uptick in encounters between sharks and humans. Expanding human populations and growing use of beaches are major factors too, scientists say.

Recent shark attacks in North Carolina and Florida have made headlines as the summer beach-going season gets into gear. Such attacks have become more common in recent years—the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File says the number of unprovoked shark attacks has grown in every decade since the 1970s.

Shark researcher George Burgess, who publishes the file, said this decade is almost certain to set a record for shark attacks.

"The fact of the matter is, while shark populations rebound and hopefully come to where they once were, the human population is rising every year," Burgess said. "We're not rebounding, we're just bounding."

Americans made 2.2 billion visits to beaches in 2010, up from 2 billion in 2001, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimate. A spokesman for the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association said the figure is likely still rising because of the improving economy.

Populations of some shark species have grown due in part to conservation efforts, such as a 1997 U.S. law that prevented the hunting of great white sharks. Dr. Bob Hueter, director of the Center for Shark Research at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, said preservation and management have also helped repair populations of species like the sandbar shark and blacktip shark.

The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 also has helped increase the population of seals, which are a favorite prey of white sharks. In Massachusetts, the growing number of seals has raised concerns in recent years about the animals attracting sharks to beaches favored by humans.

Hueter said the rebounding white shark population justifies vigilance, but he added that it's presumptive to assume there are more shark attacks because there are more sharks in the ocean.

"Sharks are fairly sophisticated. If they are hunting for seals, they are going to concentrate their efforts near a seal colony," he said. "Are you going to go swimming in a seal colony? Of course not."

There were 72 shark attacks worldwide in 2014, three of them fatal, according to the International Shark Attack File. The deadliest recent year was 2011, when 13 of 79 attacks were fatal.

Greg Skomal, senior scientist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, said encounters with marine animals such as sharks are inevitable as long people keep visiting their habitat.

"If shark populations do return to historic highs, then you know there will be the issue of coexistence, because the one trend we do see is more and more people going to the shoreline," he said.

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OAK ISLAND, N.C. -- The shark attack on a girl about 100 yards from a pier has prompted this town to consider at least a temporary ban on shark fishing, a move already undertaken by several cities along the East Coast.

Fishing piers can be a magnet for sharks even when people aren't looking to land them because live bait is in the water and the pilings from the structure itself offer refuge for fish. There are also fish guts and blood from caught and cleaned fish that are sometimes tossed back into the water.

"That's going to attract fish and that's going to certainly attract sharks," North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Director Louis Daniel said. "If they get into the surf zone where the water is a little muddy and cloudy and there's dead fish parts floating around and they're gobbling it up," the sharks can get confused and bite a person.

Fishermen say they don't think they should be blamed or punished for the rare shark attacks, but local officials in Oak Island want a shark fishing ban to limit the food supply for sharks close to shore - at least through the popular Independence Day holiday weekend, town manager Tim Holloman said. It's not clear how a ban could be enforced, but could involve limiting the use of certain types of hooks, rigs and bait used for shark fishing.

Experts say swimming farther away from piers is a good idea, regardless of whether a shark fishing ban is in place. At Oak Island, two young people lost limbs in separate, life-threatening shark attacks within 90 minutes of each other on Sunday. One happened in the shadow of a fishing pier. The other was 2 miles away.

Both had been swimming about 20 yards offshore, in waist-deep water.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, are among popular destinations that have outlawed shark fishing from piers to try and better protect swimmers. Towns in Florida have also considered bans.

In North Carolina, it's legal to attract sharks by placing fish parts - also called chum - into a mesh laundry bag and hanging it off the side of a boat or pier, allowing the scent to attract sharks. But even without chum, virtually any structure in the water offers a place for fish to congregate, and that gives sharks a destination for hunting, said John Zardus, an associate professor of marine biology at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

"With their sensory system, they are able to tell there is structure and they know from experience that food is in that area," he said.

Last Sunday, Kiersten Yow, 12, of Asheboro, was swimming about 100 yards from Oak Island's Ocean Crest Pier when a shark attacked. She lost her left arm below the elbow and suffered leg injuries. Her parents said in a statement Tuesday she was in stable condition.

Nearly 90 minutes later, a shark bit off the left arm above the elbow of 16-year-old Hunter Treschel of Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was in good condition Wednesday at a Wilmington hospital, spokeswoman Carolyn Fisher said.

Officials do not know if they were attacked by the same shark.

The Ocean Crest Pier - near where the girl was attacked - allows shark fishing only at night, but forbids floating bags of chum, manager Steve Sanders said.

The town's other pier, the Oak Island Pier, is 2 miles from where the boy was attacked. That pier boasts the state's record-breaking tiger shark, a 1,150-pound monster caught there in 1966.

The Oak Island Pier allows shark fishing during its open hours but doesn't allow chumming, said operator Tommy Thomes. He said town officials would have to show him some evidence his pier is imperiling swimmers by attracting sharks.

"Until we get some other support than the town's opinion, no we would not" stop allowing shark fishing, Thomes said.

Shark fishing usually involves large hooks, strong steel fishing rigs and bloody cut bait, such as the head of another large fish.

It's unclear whether shark fishing bans are effective. Beth Firchau of the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center said she doesn't know whether shark fishing increases the likelihood of an attack or of any marine scientists studying the bans.

But, she said, "we know that the act of fishing is all focused on attracting animals to your bait. And so if you're actively fishing in an area where people are swimming, one plus one equals two."

Virginia has had just five attacks since 1837, with the only fatality coming when a 10-year-old boy was attacked south of Virginia Beach in 2001. After that deadly attack, Virginia Beach expanded its ban on shark fishing or chumming to include all of the city's waters to within 500 feet of shore.

Only five shark bites have been reported in South Carolina waters in 2014, and there were just four in North Carolina last year, part of a gradual increase in recent years, according to the International Shark Attack File report compiled by the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida.