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The season of giving is in full effect right now across the Bay Area. Several charities held turkey giveaways and traditional sit-down Thanksgiving meals over the weekend.

It was an eventful week in San Francisco.

South Bay volunteers come together to help rehab a Korean War vet's Santa Clara home that's in disrepair.

TEAR-JERKER: A California-based pilot delivered a touching pre-flight speech honoring his parents who were on his flight as passengers for the first time. "This will be the most memorable flight of my career," the pilot said. #UnitedAirlines

When the tectonic plates shifted last Friday night, a new social-media sensation was born. ‘Dollarita Steve’ went viral. 

They sit in cold storage, stuffed into boxes for 334 days a year, but come October 1, it's show time for Johnny Marchant's special pumpkins. "I'll come out and sit for an hour and just watch them," Marchant told KTVU about his glowing pumpkins. "It's like a Christmas tree."

There are people who decorate for Halloween and then there people who take haunted houses to the next level. These three take their scares very seriously.

San Francisco Police Department say the 4-year-old girl who was kidnapped by a relative this week has been safely located. 

He is a man with many names: TKA, E-Feezy, Mr. Flamboyant, The Ambassador of the Bay. But to many in his hometown of Vallejo, he is known as Earl "E-40" Stevens and he is being honored Saturday for his achievements.

13-year-old Heather Freligh returned to school in Tracy more than three weeks after she went into cardiac arrest. She was escorted by an entourage of police and met with first responders, school leaders and friends who say it's a miracle she's alive and well.

Retired East Bay teacher Jack Nelson plans to mark his 31st charity run on Tuesday, to raise money for three East Oakland high schools. Over the years, the beloved 68-year-old mentor and coach has raised $252,000 for schools.

The Top of the Mark rooftop bar at the Mark Hopkins hotel is the birthplace of “The Squadron Bottle," where servicemen would buy and leave a bottle of whiskey in the care of the bartender, so the next member from their squadron could enjoy a free drink. That tradition stopped after World War II, but has been revived and lives on.

No one won the full $1.2 billion California Powerball jackpot, but someone in Vacaville got a nice conciliatory prize.

New engagement photos of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy and his fiance, Jenna Brandt, were released a few days ago showing the couple aglow on the shores of Half Moon Bay. 

School leaders and first responders are being credited with saving Heather Freligh's life at Freiler School in Tracy where the eighth grader stopped breathing and suffered an apparent cardiac arrest Friday.

The Oakland Roots soccer team is teaming up with non-profit America SCORES to raise funds to upgrade a soccer field at Brookfield Elementary in East Oakland.