U.S. Ambassador to Latvia will serve a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal

Riga, November 22, 2006. – Tomorrow, November 23, the United States Ambassador to Latvia Catherine Todd Bailey and her husband Irving Bailey will serve a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal to the Day Care Centre for the Elderly Seniors' Club at St. Savior’s Church.

The first Thanksgiving feast in America was held in the autumn of 1621 by the Pilgrims to celebrate the new colony's successful harvest. Today, Thanksgiving is the most traditional of holidays in the US and is a day set aside for family and friends to gather together and give thanks for the many blessings of the year.

Ambassador Bailey said, “As America approaches this Thanksgiving, a time of gathering for family and friends, I am extremely grateful to the people of Latvia for their warm hospitality that has been given to my family and myself since my arrival in Latvia in January of 2005. My husband and I look so very forward to spending Thanksgiving in Riga.”

In addition, the Ambassador and Mr. Bailey will spend time on Thanksgiving Day with the U.S. delegation that will be here leading up to the NATO Summit.

NOTE TO THE EDITOR:
The event at St. Savior’s Church, Anglikanu street 2a will be open to media. You are welcome to be there (the cellar of the church) at 12:30.

U.S. Embassy, Riga, Public Affairs Section
Smilsu iela 7
Riga, LV 1050
Phone: 371 750-9022
Internet: www.usembassy.lv
Media specialist's e-mail: dilanes@state.gov