Salvation Army

OGDEN — The Toys for Tots and Angel Tree warehouse in Business Depot Ogden is a sea of toys for, well, tots — but that doesn’t mean there are enough.

Shortages of gloves, toys and even pants are looming. And those are just two of several programs working to fill needs of the poor at Christmas.

WASHINGTON TERRACE — Members of the community have one final opportunity to participate in a Thanksgiving run/walk led by Sister Stephanie Mongeon, of Mount Benedict Monastery.

Mongeon and her fellow sisters at the monastery have announced that they will leave Ogden once their property is sold. But Mongeon will be present at 9 a.m. Thanksgiving Day when the 27th annual event begins in the southwest parking lot at Ogden Regional Medical Center, 5475 Adams Ave. Parkway in Washington Terrace.

OGDEN — Ogden-area Boy Scouts and their families can get to know the Ten Commandments from a little different perspective Saturday morning, when the Boy Scouts of America Trapper Trails Council sponsors its second annual Ten Commandments Hike.

The event is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. at the Salvation Army, 2615 Grant Ave.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Someone has dropped a rare coin worth about $1,700 into a Salvation Army kettle in central Pennsylvania. Again.

The family whose car was crushed by a tree in the recent windstorm reminds me of a 1948 movie, "The Bicycle Thief."

The film is set in economically ravaged Rome after World War II. A man with a small family finally gets his bicycle out of the pawnshop so he can get a job.

OGDEN -- There were collectors, sorters, baggers and loaders. There were dinosaurs, dolls, dump trucks and dart boards.