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Santa remains larger than life
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentLAPORTE - Holly Nedza remembers the thrill of seeing the 18-foot-tall Santa statue in LaPorte when she was growing up. Now, she enjoys the reactions of her children, 10-year-old Nolan and 8-year-old Silas, to the 500-pound fiberglass man in the red suit....Tags: Arts, Crime, Law and Justice, Wells Fargo & Co., Sculpture, Arts and Culture
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Christmas Tree for the Troops
BRISTOL – Two local businesses are making sure the troops have a tree for Christmas.
On Friday, Eby's Evergreens cut down a 50 foot tree to send to Fort Hood, Texas. It is the third year Eby's has sent a tree to Ft. Hood, but this year...Tags: Religious Festivals, Christmas, Fort Hood (military base), Jeff Alexander
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Deer goes Christmas furniture shopping in St. Joseph
ST. JOSEPH – Looks like a deer got in on some holiday shopping Tuesday morning in St. Joseph.
Police say a deer crashed through the window of the Schroeder Furniture building on Hilltop Road just before 11 a.m.
A sales associate yelled saying...Tags: Services and Shopping, Furniture
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Late plea for Toys for Tots
BUCHANAN — With Christmas coming fast and his annual Toys for Tots program short on toys, Gene Wesner once again is looking for assistance from Santa’s helpers. “I don’t want to be begging but every little bit helps,’&...Tags: Religious Festivals, Christmas, Charity, Toy Industry, Human Interest
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Hollywood's holidays start glumly with bad weekend
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The holiday spirit is eluding Hollywood, which has stumbled through its worst two weekends of 2011 at a time when business usually starts to pick up as big year-end releases approach. Overall domestic revenues are expected to...Tags: New Year's Day, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank
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Secret Santa helps Elkhart families
ELKHART -- A holiday epidemic is sweeping the country and it's now spread to our area. It's a phenomenon called the "layaway Santa," anonymous donors show up at a store to pay off a strangers' layaway account. This weekend it hit in Elkhart.
Kmart in...Tags: Religious Festivals, Christmas
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Michelle Obama to donate gifts to Toys for Tots
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama is visiting a military base in Washington to deliver gifts the White House staff is donating to the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign. Obama plans to visit Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling on Friday to meet...Tags: Trips and Vacations, White House, Michelle Obama, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington, DC
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Local stores see boost in sales
SOUTH BEND -- The National Retail Federation says it expects holiday sales for the November-December period to rise 3.8 percent. The trade group had projected a rise for that same time frame but originally not as much, just 2.8 percent.
So how are...Tags: National Retail Federation
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Lack of snow delays ski slopes from opening
ELKHART – This warmer weather and lack of snow has some people worrying that we will not have a white Christmas, but for some local businesses it's affecting their "green".
With the temperatures we are having people are not ice skating, skiing,...Tags: Religious Festivals, Business
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Dowagiac airman home for the holidays
While many of those troops are headed home from Iraq, a reminder there are men and women serving our country around the world that spend the holidays overseas every year. That's why this Christmas will be a special one for a local airman and his family....Tags: Germany
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Snow for Christmas?
It is unlikely that we'll see much of a white Christmas.
We have a chance of snow through Friday morning but only a slight chance of light snow. At least dry weather will be easy on travelers. Unfortunately for snow lovers, we've already seen that winter...Tags: Religious Festivals, Christmas, Weather
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Santa Controversy: St. Joseph, Mich. parents worry substitute teacher ruined Christmas
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. – There is outrage among some parents after a substitute teacher in St. Joseph "revealed too much information" about Santa Claus with a class of second-graders.
Some of the 7 and 8-year-old kids went home with tears in their...Tags: Teachers, Religious Festivals, Santa Claus (fictional character), Teaching and Learning
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