38 - Suuday, November 27, 1988 - North Shore News

KYLER STORM, Grade 4, (left) and Jamie Blace (Grade 3) present Lynn
Valley Lodge residents Agnes Gray (centre, left) and Margaret Blake with
blankets that the children and their classmates at The Waldorf School
made during a recent knit-a-thon. The event earned $1,200 for tie
school’s library and created some warm feelings for loca! senivrs.

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Write to
Santa

CANADA POST Corporation
employees, who last year volun-

teered to answer ciuse to 800,000 a ° .
letters Santa Claus received from yy (Y ut a lO ah Vv
children across Canada and other Z ‘

parts of the world, are geared up

to do it again this year. ,
“As in previous years, every |
child who writes a letter to Santa,
addresses it correctly and includes ff 4
a return address, will receive a rep-
ly from the North Pole,’’ said
Helene Labelle, this year’s national ] :
coordinator at Canada Post for § a5 a

Santa’s letter writing program.
The program had a_ modest
debut in 1973. That was when a
handful of postal employees across
the country answered a few thou-
sand letters addressed simply to
Santa Claus — while several thou-
sand more were addressed to him
in care of particular department
stores and delivered to those
stores. mes © re 7 _
The Santa Letter Writing Pro- § ‘ . 7 , . es . go
gram gained in popularity annually : tes At 1 . b » LARRY YAU! * AL McLEAN..
and, due to the ever-increasing # . _ ‘ : st : 4 oe > STOR EM
number of Jetters received, became Be : Ho : : : . A .
an organized nation-wide project :
in 1982.

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800,000 letters. They were assisted
in their letter writing endeavors by

senior citizens, community and §
professional groups across the §
country. ‘
The program is also part of
Canada Post Corporation’s sup- |
port for improved literacy among § i
children. It promotes correct ad-
dressing of letters and the use of §

the postal code tt “hanes ane

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