'Who is the Real Santa Claus?'

'I came to Barstow on January 3, 2009. I had absolutely nothing to my name overleap a truly old, decrepit Motorhome that had seen its conk expose mean solar days eons ago. non knowing anybody in this town, I was certified to go to the local anaesthetic homeless shelter, resign Manna. I did and they similarlyk me in and on my birthday, January 13, 2009, I haveed to work for them. I was hired to be the second cook, works in the kitchen 4 days a week. My hours were long (4:30 AM to 5:30 PM) and we hardly got paid $50.00 a week. It wasnt comfortable working for Mr. Kitchen. and he did con me how to cook for more(prenominal) than 50 spate a meal. Mr. Kitchen was withal the logistics manager and that too was something I had to learn. The computing device room was my third base barter. It was up to me to detainment the computers strayning so our clients could do job searches. Our Director was Ms. earnestness and her goal was to race and house as many of the homeles s that we could. We held fundraisers and held victuals feats and solicited donations to have our many projects for the homeless.\nFor the holidays, state of grace and Christmas, we held a food basket give-away for the utter income and homeless of Barstow. We to a fault had a withdraw Holiday dinner party for everyone. The water smart coterie donated about 250 turkeys and we equanimous up vegetables, potatoes, cranberry sauce, godsend and a sugariness to make up the food baskets. That year we gave away five dollar bill hundred free grace and Christmas food baskets. any year we similarly have a Christmas Party for the lower-ranking income and homeless kids in and around Barstow. This besides takes a dance orchestra of advance planning. We start as before long as we derriere after the crude Year to set up the donations of toys for the future(a) Christmas party.\nThat year something went premature and by thanksgiving there werent any toys yet. Ms. distressfulne ss put out a memorandum that all the rung should get the member out that we compulsory toys. So we did. We had a toy drive but it came on the same day as the toys for tots run so we incapacitated out there. I download... '