Christmas Spirit Spreads Beyond the Holidays
The piece highlights acts of kindness and community projects that reflect holiday spirit year round. It notes adoptive families, camp life generosity, cross language aid fixing a bicycle tire, and local efforts to fund and staff a school for mentally retarded children, marking statewide momentum. It also contrasts these good works with the Faubus education stance advocating teaching children to hate.
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Marshalltown
Christmas Spirit in Unexpected Pages Across Worlds
A nostalgic column blends holiday cheer with global acts of kindness. Gladys and Don Lair foster a Japanese-Indian child named Buster, now welcomed at their Nebraska ranch, while Ann Deavours in rural Mexico feeds pigs to aid needy families. The piece waltzes through social security sums and a Jamaica memory, painting Christmas as a universal outreach.
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Gladys
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Lair'g Ranch
Nebraska
Laing
Ann Deavours
Mexico
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