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Local police and firefighters are scheduled to get cultural awareness training on Sikhism from U.S. Department of Justice workers Thursday and Friday.

One of the Sikh religion's major principles is to help mankind by sharing and performing charitable service from the fruits of your own work. When the devastating earthquake occurred in January 2010 in Haiti, the Sikh community responded with millions of meals, tents, funds and manpower.

"It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at the sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwell in the heavens.”

Sikh devotees from far and near gathered at Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar in Southington to celebrate the 543rd anniversary of Guru Nanak with great devotion and celebration.

It is the presence of the Sacred Sikh Scripture entitled “Sri Guru Granth Sahib” (written in Gurmukhi Script) that gives the Gurdwara its religious status. Although a Gurdwara may be called the residence of the Guru (meaning the residence of God), Sikh faith firmly believes that God is omnipresent.