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Church to give program about Mali

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 4:37pm

OGDEN — Deja Mitchell will be the presenter for the Congregational United Church of Christ’s Women’s Spirituality program at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Mitchell teaches African drumming and dance in the Ogden area. Once a year, she goes to Africa to learn more dance and drumming and to provide medical and personal care services there. At Christmastime, she was in Mali. The public is invited.

The church is at 3350 Harrison Blvd., behind and up the hill from the Key Realty building on the east side of Harrison. Call the church at 801-392-5012 for more information.

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Rocio and Jace Schneider, of Hooper, play Mary and Joseph in a manger in the yard of Jace’s parents, Brad and Tammy Hunt, of West Haven. The Hunts, their extended family and friends stage a free live Nativity and pageant for the community for the three days before Christmas every year. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

West Haven family: Open up, accept gift of live Nativity

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 12:52am

WEST HAVEN -- At the time of year when headlines abound about fighting over merchandise in stores, a local family quietly shares its message of hope.

Brad and Tammy Hunt, their extended family and friends put on nine performances of a 20-minute live Nativity and Christmas pageant for the three days before Christmas as a gift to the community.

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Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts

Margery A. Beck The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 4:47pm

OMAHA, Neb. — The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.

He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn’t be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.

“She told him, ‘No, I’m paying for it,”’ recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. “He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn’t, and that she was going to pay for him. And he just busted out in tears.”

At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by impoverished parents.

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