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No More Humbug at Chateau Waters<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Darwin Bonn of Sartell, Minnesota, the hectic Christmas season was not the most wonderful time of the year. His wife, Rosie, disagreed. \u201cShe\u2019d bake up a storm,\u201d 89-year-old Darwin says. \u201cAnd she loved decorating. That\u2019s where a humbug like me got in trouble.\u201d Every year, Rosie pestered Darwin to put up their Christmas lights. She had to ask and ask until he finally complied. \u201cIt was a big deal for her,\u201d Darwin says. The high school sweethearts were married for 58 years before Rosie passed and Darwin moved into the Chateau Waters retirement community.<\/p>\n

As Christmas 2020 approached, Darwin found himself feeling more apathetic than ever. \u201cI was thinking about my wife,\u201d he says, \u201cand how I should be putting up the lights.\u201d He wondered if it would make people at his new residence as happy as it had made Rosie.<\/p>\n

Working with the Chateau Waters staff, Darwin arranged for the facades of all 72 apartments to be transformed with colorful strings. The whole community lit up like a Christmas tree<\/a>. \u201cPeople I\u2019d never spoken to thanked us for what we did,\u201d Darwin says. \u201cIt was rewarding to see the glow on their faces.\u201d It put a glow on his too. Darwin plans to do it all again this Christmas, adding lights in the entryways and therapy suites. \u201cMy gift to Rosie is one we can all enjoy,\u201d Darwin says. And one that still must make Rosie smile.<\/p>\n

Santa\u2019s Got Wheels in Panama City<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in 1977, Mike Jones was moonlighting as a security guard for Sears. One day he went into a back room where workers were crushing broken toys for disposal. He immediately thought of the needy kids he had met through his full-time job as a detective with the Panama City, Florida, police department. \u201cI was assigned to many child abuse cases,\u201d he says. \u201cI saw a lot of kids who didn\u2019t have anything.\u201d Mike collected the broken toys, repaired them himself and passed them out at Christmastime.<\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s efforts have grown into a year-round operation he calls Salvage Santa. His specialty is bicycles, and donations for refurbishment come from all over. \u201cMy goal used to be 100 bikes a year,\u201d Mike says, \u201cbut now it\u2019s 300. What kid doesn\u2019t want a bike?\u201d Got old tires, tubes and pedals? Tell Mike at salvagesanta.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A Tree Grows in Cajun Country<\/strong><\/p>\n

Victor\u2019s Cafeteria on Main Street in New Iberia, Louisiana, is the go-to spot for locals who want their homestyle Cajun cooking without the hassle of a kitchen. Tradition keeps grits and French toast on the menu\u2014and an artificial Christmas tree in the dining room all year long.<\/p>\n

Catherine Huckaby runs the cafeteria with her husband, Victor. She says the tree had always stood bare between holiday seasons because it was a production to dismantle it completely. \u201cYou need a special ladder,\u201d she says. The tree was simply ignored as diners focused on food and family. Until June 2021, when the Onellion family gathered at Victor\u2019s as they often did on special occasions. They were celebrating their son Emmet\u2019s twenty-first birthday, with Emmet video calling into the party while away in the Marines<\/a>. After dessert, Emmet\u2019s mom approached Catherine about the tree. What if it was a place where the community could honor service of all kinds?<\/p>\n

\u201cMrs. Onellion comes from a line of military families<\/a>,\u201d says Catherine. \u201cSo do Victor and I. What a wonderful idea.\u201d Catherine rehung the tree lights and put out a stack of blank cards. \u201cWe asked people to write a note of gratitude and hang it on the tree.\u201d The patrons loved it, and a tradition was born. This Christmas, red, white and blue decorations will nestle between the many messages of thanks to our vets and all who serve in their own way.<\/p>\n

Terre Haute\u2019s Cross Lane Community Church Delivers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Becky Willimann organizes the lively children\u2019s ministry at Cross Lane Community Church in Terre Haute, Indiana. Things weren\u2019t the same during the holidays last year; they hadn\u2019t been ever since families went into lockdown because of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hard not seeing the kids for such a long time,\u201d Becky says. How could she let them know their church family still cared? Cookies! she decided. \u201cThere\u2019s just something about cookies.\u201d Becky made up boxes with cookie dough, frosting and sprinkles, and dropped in some fun holiday activities, such as a Christmas maze or an advent calendar<\/a> to color. Then she drove around delivering the kids\u2019 church experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thrilled when our families came to the doorway for a chat,\u201d Becky says. Of course the kids couldn\u2019t wait to start baking. \u201cIt was a way for our church to keep even our youngest members close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paying It Forward, Worldwide<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Esmond of Gulf Breeze, Florida, opened his utility bill one day in early December 2019 and noticed the disconnect date for nonpayment: December 26. Mike had the money, but he remembered a time in his life when that wasn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in the 1980s, I was struggling financially,\u201d he says. \u201cI had a wife and three daughters. Our gas was shut off, and we had no heat the whole winter.\u201d He worried about the people in his small town who might be in the same boat. At City Hall he got a list of his neighbors who were headed for trouble on Christmas Day. He paid 44 bills. \u201cNow that I could, I wanted to do something to help,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Thank-yous came in Christmas cards, phone calls and text messages, and word spread beyond Florida and the U.S. \u201cSo many people wanted to know, How can I do this too?\u201d Mike paid the utilities for 114 Gulf Breeze families in 2020. \u201cCome this Christmas, people worldwide are going to be doing the same thing we do here in our little community of 7,000. This pay-it-forward has really caught on.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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