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Toy giveaway benefits hundreds in Brawley
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterBRAWLEY — As hundreds of people lined up Sunday outside the American Citizen Club for the annual toy giveaway, club vice president Tony Gallegos sounded happy but somewhat concerned. “I hope we’ve got enough presents,” said...Tags: Toy Industry
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New Campo children get early Christmas gifts
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterBRAWLEY — The Christmas spirit came to New Campo on Sunday, when dozens of children got gifts and a lucky few got brand new bicycles. Bicycles were given away in Niland, and others were given in El Centro. “Our goal was to give 100 bicycles....Tags: Holidays, Toy Industry, Politics, Sports, Religious Festivals
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A Christmas reminder
Christmas is a holiday of peace and joy, and most of all a time of wonder and innocence for children. It is a time of belief in magic and goodness, a day when small wishes come true. This year, in particular, we need reminding of that fact. It has...
Tags: Holidays, Religious Festivals
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A quarrel with Kwanzaa
Reports of a so-called war against Christmas may be wildly exaggerated, but at least one Wisconsin lawmaker really is waging a war against Kwanzaa. In a war by news release, Wisconsin Republican state Sen. Glenn Grothman of West Bend fired this recent...
Tags: Cinco de Mayo, Maulana Karenga, Democratic Party, Holidays, Kwanzaa
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From the Editor: Upcoming projects will please readers
It's time to do a little catching up here at the end of the year. I wanted to mention a few projects you can read over the next few weeks in the American News: • Our readers will be busy Christmas Day, but don't recycle your American News...Tags: Holidays, Elections, New Year's Day, Christmas, Politics
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1.) Our Olympians: No one made us prouder this year than the capable athletes, coaches and announcers from Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Irvine who represented Team USA in the 2012 Summer Olympics Games in London. They grew up, trained or live here. Costa...
Tags: Mountains, Layoffs and Downsizing, John Mann, Natural Resource Industry, Landforms
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Westport family rebuilds life after losing home in April blaze
WESTPORT — It took 35 years for Eva Gage to collect nearly 1,000 pieces of Santa memorabilia. But in less than one day, a fire destroyed everything. On April 12, 2012, Gage and her husband, Harley, lost their Westport home to a fire that began...
Tags: Holidays, Fires, Religious Festivals
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Savage Love: An After-Christmas Miracle
I just started an intense relationship with a guy who has a boyfriend. This guy and I love each other. However, he is uncomfortable with me meeting his boyfriend. I've asked if it's okay that we're fucking, and he said they're in an open relationship so...
Tags: Holidays, Human Interest, Honeymooning, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Belle Hodges, 87, Burlington, Kan., formerly of Somerset
HODGES Belle Hodges, 87, went home to heaven on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 at the Life Care Center in Burlington, Kan. Mary Belle Hodges was born July 17, 1925 in Somerset, the youngest of ten children born to Harry L. and Jennie L. Barron. Belle was...Tags: Animals, New York City
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The Prospector: Chris Board, Malik Smith should top Scholarship Santa's list
Today is a rare opportunity for The Prospector to play Santa Claus, sorta, and so it is time to dole out some much deserved gifts to the prospects of Central Florida. It would be nice for several members of this year’s Sentinel Central Florida...
Tags: Football, Holidays, Awards and Prizes, Bethune-Cookman University, Sports
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Merry Christmas from Charles Dickens
Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future: they first appeared in 1843. That was when Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published; in the century and a half since, it's never gone out of print and...
Tags: Holidays, Google+, Charles Dickens, Ghosts (supernatural entities), Religious Festivals
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Santa generally welcome at church
As the director of a north suburban Episcopal preschool, Mary Johnson hears all about Santa Claus from her toddlers. They can describe where he lives. They can tell her what he drives. They can name his nine reindeer. Since the children already know...
Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Family, Entertainment Events, Holidays, Religion and Belief
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