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Merriment Chugs: Hasn T and Saturday Morning

merriment chugs: All I can see are his slanting green eyes and mop of hair that hasn t met scissors since August and only rarely a comb, according to Toronto Star. He is smiling, hopeful too, in general, and specifically about this day. Carlos Osorio / Toronto Star By Francine Kopun Business reporter Fri., Dec. 2, 2016 My son, age 11, rests his chin atop an armful of Christmas presents as the elevator in what I imagine was a swinging building in 1965 the lobby has that fun, swoopy look of that decade of hope and merriment chugs slowly upwards. We are among an army of volunteers fanning out around the GTA on a Saturday morning in November to deliver 45,000 Santa Claus Fund boxes, which take a year of hard work to assemble. The Toronto apartments where we make our deliveries are occupied in large part by Canada newly arrived, recommended to the Star Santa Claus Fund charity by social service agencies. It will take volunteers a month to deliver them to 22,000 separate addresses. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.