By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
“It’s about the kids,” is the repeated mantra from a small roomful of big guys raising big bucks in the Small Business Challenge for the local charity Operation Santa Claus.
We’re stuffed tight into the studio of WCKM radio station 98.5 FM, where morning hosts Dan Miner and Pete Cloutier are joined by about a half-dozen men promoting the Challenge that the late Pete …
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Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
The local children’s charity Operation Santa Claus has cancelled, due to Covid, what would have been the 35th Operation Santa Ball at the Sagamore, which has organizers thinking Christmas in August.
“Fretting” might be the better word.
Founding director Frank Munoff contacted The Chronicle to say that Operation Santa faces a significant drop in funding in a year when demand will likely be up …
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