Christmas gifts

Some gifts need some explanation

Getting a new gadget can be awkward. You know it's expensive. You know it's "cool" or at least you know you're supposed to think it's cool. But you don't really know what it's for.

You are not alone. My daughter, home for the holidays from a Senate internship in Washington, D.C., shared this story:

Community donations prove 'someone cared' at Christmas

LAYTON -- Daneen Adams could not help but tear up when a young mother of two visited the Family Connection Center the week before Christmas, picking up gifts for her kids as part of the Sub4Santa program.

Delong Puk, 14, picks out shoes at the Target in Riverdale on Thursday. Students at Mount Ogden Junior High in Ogden raised money so other students at the school could go shopping for themselves and others and enjoy Christmas with their family. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Junior High students reach New Level of Fundraising

OGDEN -- A slow economy didn't have any effect on students' giving at Mount Ogden Junior High School this year.

Students raised more money with their Change for Children event than ever before -- almost $8,600.

Jamie Lynn Ford

Thieves steal gift packages from Bountiful porches

BOUNTIFUL — Police say a watchful neighbor helped them nab a pair of suspects who were stealing packages — meant for under the Christmas tree — from front porches.

“A neighbor saw a suspicious car pull into a driveway and then a man get out and take something off the porch,” said Police Lt. Ed Biehler.

Tech. Sgt. Steven Frazier, an active-duty member of the 388th Fighter Wing, watches Rigby (center) and Oslo, both 3, go through their Christmas stockings at the Burke family home in North Salt Lake on Thursday. Each year, airmen from Hill Air Force base deliver donated gifts to hundreds of children in foster care through the Utah Foster Care Foundation's Giving Tree program. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Hill airmen deliver Christmas to foster care children

NORTH SALT LAKE -- Christmas came early for Top of Utah foster care families Thursday.

About 80 uniformed airmen from Hill Air Force Base's 388th and 419th fighter wings gathered at the Utah Foster Care Foundation offices in Ogden to help package and deliver Christmas gifts to foster and adoptive families in Weber, Davis, Morgan and Cache counties.

United Way: Time to give to 'Santa'

OGDEN -- Parents, here's your chance to show your children how spoiled they are.

Saturday, you can take your kids to the United Way of Northern Utah offices and have them hand toys, clothes or gift cards for those in need over to Santa Claus himself.

Warning to all husbands: Do not take this gift advice!

Need a little help with your Christmas shopping? Have I got the Ideal Holiday Gift Idea for you.

It's readily available, it's reasonably priced, and it's reportedly the No. 1 toy in the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Spain and France. (Memo to self: Cancel European dream vacation.)

Now, if you're reading this over breakfast, I do recommend you put down that spoonful of cereal for the next five minutes or so.

So then, what's the season's hottest toy for Christmas? It's called ... wait for it ... the Doggie Doo Game. You heard right, people. Family game night just got a little cruder.

Toys for Tots has 800 requests to be filled in Top of Utah

OGDEN -- Marcia Hamblin has more than 1,200 Christmas toy requests from families in Weber, Morgan, Box Elder and Davis counties on the Toys for Tots program this year.

S. Ogden police sponsor angel tree

SOUTH OGDEN -- The South Ogden Department of Public Safety is again sponsoring an angel tree.

Church plans gifts yard sale Sunday

OGDEN -- Immediately after Sunday's church service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden, 705 23rd St., members will hold a gifts yard sale. The sale is expected to start around 11:45 a.m.

Volunteers pack 700 Christmas stockings to be sent to soldiers

OGDEN -- Christmas came early for more than 700 servicemen and women.

Center hopes Davis residents in giving mood for Christmas

CLEARFIELD -- Santa needs more helpers this year, and the Family Connection Center hopes Davis County residents take on the role of willing elves.

Stocking-stuffers needed for soldiers

OGDEN -- Myers Mortuary is participating in the annual "Christmas Stockings for Soldiers" initiative.

(Standard-Examiner file photo) Young Buick GMC collected a truck bed full of letters to military service members in December. Young Buick GMC employee Galen Schatzman, whose son is serving in Afghanistan with the Air Force, helped organize the collection of letters and care packages after his son told him several service members did not get mail from home.

Christmas for service members continues at Layton dealership

LAYTON -- Christmas is over, but one local car dealer is still delivering gifts. During the holidays, Young Buick GMC spearheaded a program to encourage friends, family, customers and students in Davis County to write letters and send care packages to military personnel deployed in Afghanistan who might not otherwise receive such gifts.

MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner
Todd Large rubs his hand together in excitement while opening gifts from employees of Staker Parson Companies and their families at Aspen Care Center in Ogden on Wednesday.

Residents of Aspen Care Center get Christmas

OGDEN -- Millie Cromwell got exactly what she needed for Christmas, and she couldn't have been more thrilled.

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