Christmas Spirit
No, this wasn't the Spirit of Christmas that came prowling at night to leave a reminder that someone up there at the North Pole is thinking about people in need. But it was someone - or someones - who counted on the generosity of people coming to the practical aid of those whose Christmas spirit would have been dashed if they couldn't rely on an area food bank to supply them with foodstuffs for a Christmas feast for their family, and toys for their children.
Which is why the Riceville Food Bank found themselves deprived of a goodly proportion of the frozen turkeys, hams, potatoes and other food items that they were planning to use to prepare hampers to be given out to local needy families who had identified their need by signing up well beforehand in the hopes of receiving one of those hampers. Which would also include small wrapped gifts for their children.
There's something about the Christmas season, bringing out the best in people who have enough for themselves and to spare for others as well. And there's also much about the Christmas season that appeals to children, anxiously wanting to experience the same kind of excitement and happiness in a brief interlude between fall and winter's cold, bleak onset when they can expect a memorable dinner and something new to play with.
"They didn't just take stuff, we found freezers wide open, stuff all over", said one of the volunteers on discovery of the theft. "Then they went upstairs to steal the children's gifts." The food bank is located in the premises of the Prescott-Russell Church of God Sunday School on Country Road 16. Presumably, it would have been local goons who might have knowledge of the cache they could loot.
Kids, maybe out to have some fun for themselves, doing something both illegal and nasty-mean. Sociopathic and loving it. Happily, though it was estimated by Reverend Maynard Chant that some 60% of the gifts and 50% of the turkeys were stolen, "We're just thankful it wasn't all taken." And if anything can be guaranteed at this time of year, it's that others will pull together to make up for the purloined items.
The hundred families in the area in dire need of provisions for Christmas and their children hoping for new toys to enliven their Christmas holiday will still get to celebrate. The churlish oafs who took the food and the toys can chuckle with delight to their hearts' content. Conscience won't bother them.
Which is why the Riceville Food Bank found themselves deprived of a goodly proportion of the frozen turkeys, hams, potatoes and other food items that they were planning to use to prepare hampers to be given out to local needy families who had identified their need by signing up well beforehand in the hopes of receiving one of those hampers. Which would also include small wrapped gifts for their children.
There's something about the Christmas season, bringing out the best in people who have enough for themselves and to spare for others as well. And there's also much about the Christmas season that appeals to children, anxiously wanting to experience the same kind of excitement and happiness in a brief interlude between fall and winter's cold, bleak onset when they can expect a memorable dinner and something new to play with.
"They didn't just take stuff, we found freezers wide open, stuff all over", said one of the volunteers on discovery of the theft. "Then they went upstairs to steal the children's gifts." The food bank is located in the premises of the Prescott-Russell Church of God Sunday School on Country Road 16. Presumably, it would have been local goons who might have knowledge of the cache they could loot.
Kids, maybe out to have some fun for themselves, doing something both illegal and nasty-mean. Sociopathic and loving it. Happily, though it was estimated by Reverend Maynard Chant that some 60% of the gifts and 50% of the turkeys were stolen, "We're just thankful it wasn't all taken." And if anything can be guaranteed at this time of year, it's that others will pull together to make up for the purloined items.
The hundred families in the area in dire need of provisions for Christmas and their children hoping for new toys to enliven their Christmas holiday will still get to celebrate. The churlish oafs who took the food and the toys can chuckle with delight to their hearts' content. Conscience won't bother them.
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