Good News! Safest Hospitals, Holiday Parades, Deer In Candy Shop

From a deer visiting a candy shop, lucky lottery winners and plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas parades, plus Maryland's best nursing homes, safest hospitals, stores closed on Thanksgiving, and a schedule of holiday movies now on TV, we've rounded up some good news stories from Maryland's Patch sites this week.

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Here are this week's good news headlines:

• Safest Hospitals In Maryland: FULL LIST
• Howard County General Hospital Receives A For Patient Safety
• 20th Anniversary Montgomery County Thanksgiving Parade Date Set
• Bel Air 2017 Christmas Parade Now Taking Applicants
• $50K Lottery Win Pays Off Germantown Man's Debts
• 38 Maryland Nursing Homes Rated As Best In State: U.S. News
• Ellicott City Pilot To Be Honored At Arlington Cemetery
• Sears In Columbia To Celebrate Grand Reopening
• Tina Frost, Arundel High Grad Shot In Las Vegas, Out Of ICU
• 2017 Christmas Movies TV Schedule: When Are Holiday Classics On?
• $50K And $100K Powerball Wins ‘Rock’ Rockville
• Scratch-Off Queen Banks Lottery Fortune For Holiday Fun
• Severna Park Trucker Drives Home $50,000 Prize
• Wockenfuss Gets Visit From Deer: Harford Sheriff
• HdG Carnival Raises $8K, Heralded As Success
• The Point Opens In Towson
• Aberdeen Neighborhood Gets Little Free Library
• 200-Plus Pounds Of Drugs Turned In At County Police Sites
• Reisterstown Chick-fil-A Opening. Traditional Campout Planned
• Thanksgiving Store Closures: Maryland Retailer Full List
• Takoma Park Police Launch Winter Coat Drive
• MidiCi Giving Away Free Neapolitan Pizza In White Marsh
• Towson Tree Lighting 2017 Set For Olympic Park

Photo of deer courtesy of the Harford County Sheriff's Office.