 | Glide gives 6,000 bags of groceries They started lining up outside the church in the middle of the cold night, sitting on plastic tubs, and by daybreak Tuesday so many people were waiting for the big red bags of free food that they wrapped around a full city block in San Francisco's Tenderloin. (San Francisco Chronicle-December 20, 2006) | | Last Minute Toy Store provides gifts Last year, Irene Carrera stood several hours in the cold rain just for a ticket. But it was worth it, she said, because that small piece of paper represented a Christmas holiday for her four boys, who now range from ages 2-9. The 61st Avenue United Methodist Church will open this year's toy store Sunday through Wednesday, said the Rev. Paul Slentz. (Tennessean - December 15, 2006) | | | |
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