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Letters to Santa Will Go Unanswered!
Every year around this time, many children from around the world mail letters to Santa Claus addressed to the North Pole. The post office would actually forward these children's requests for various toys and goodies to North Pole, Alaska, in which...
Tags: santa, Santa Claus, letters to santa, letters, rape, child sex offender, sex offender, sex, post office, north pole, christmas, christmas season, esp, usa, state, children, Alaska, allnews, Christmas films, Santa Claus in Northern American culture, Indiana, Advertising characters, Christian folklore, volunteers
No More Letters From Santa
For over 50 years, kids have been able to write Santa Claus and sometimes get a reply from volunteers in the town of North Pole, Alaska. But now, because a volunteer in Maryland was discovered to be a sex offender, the whole program has been dropped....
Tags: Santa Claus, christmas, north pole, sex offender, postal service, volunteers, kids, allnews, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Alaska, letters
THE POSTAL SERVICE STOLE CHRISTMAS?
After a postal worker in Maryland identified a sex offender volunteering for the Operation Santa Program, the Postal Service says it is dropping the program. In 1954 the small town of North Pole, Alaska (yes it is a real place), began volunteering to...
Tags: Dear Santa, letters, North Pole, Alaska, Postal Office, elves, helpers, volunteers, kids, santa clause, traditions
Wendy Lee & Books For Cameroon: How To change The World For $11,500 (An Exclusive Interview with A U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer)
Wendy was studying for her postgraduate entrance examination when her friends Billy and Loǐc invited her to a dinner-party. Welcoming the break from Pythagorean theorems, she soon found herself in the midst of Bamilệkệ villagers and foreign...
Tags: Wendy Lee, cameroon, books for cameroon, biya, illiteracy, poverty, peace corps, volunteers
4th of July 2009 Images
WASHINGTON: The National Mall in D.C. was thronged by thousands of people throughout the day to attend several activities. Apart from a number of exhibits, a concert next to the Capitol Hill and fireworks at the Washington Monument were main attractions....
Tags: 4th of July images, firewords, National Mall, Capitol Hill concert, pictures, Capitol Hill, Cannons, Policeman on bicycle, John Neilson, letter carving, Llansilin, Wales, stone and slate, Tents, first aid, press corps, American flag, Volunteers, free water, Green roof, Helicopter hovering, hina (mehndi) pattern, Policeman on horse, holiness, Ironsmith, merry go round, Latino music, Washington Monument, fireworks, Free food, yoga, independence day, Umbrella, Pigeons, restrooms
Changing face of Charity shops
I live in deepest darkest Devon, where charity shops smell like mothballs and death, and size 18 is the norm, but I recently found myself in a very upmarket Charity shop in Notting Hill, which turned into something akin to a jumble sale as everyone tried...
Tags: charity shops, increase in prices, designer outfits, throwaway society, volunteers, elderly
$8M For National Service Training and Technical Assistance
The Corporation for National and Community Service announced recently the availability of approximately $8 million in funds to support national providers of training and technical assistance for community service programs that use service and volunteering...
Tags: Nonprofits, Volunteers, Training, National Service, Federal funding
Those Turned Away: Faces and Stories of People Deported from the US
Not statistics, but people with heart-rending stories: those deported from the US into Nogales, Mexico shared their faces and life stories with photographer Marie Triller who created an exhibit entitled "Sin Lugar/Without a Place." A colleague...
Tags: Border Patrol, US-Mexico border, migration and immigration, Nogales, volunteers, Marie Triller, deportation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
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