Santa Needs You! Be an Elf & Help New York Kids in Need This Xmas

How would you like to help the big guy this Christmas? Santa Claus gets inundated with letters during the Christmas season and he would love your help to get through them all. The United States Postal Service Operation Santa is underway and here's how you can make it a special holiday for underprivileged kids in New York.

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What is USPS Operation Santa?

Since 1912, the program has allowed the public to read letters to Santa and adopt children to fulfill their wish list. You act as Santa's elves and pick a family in a town or city in New York to make their Christmas magical. The post office elves select letters and post them on their site.

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Santa Still Reads Every Child's Letter

The program selects letters and connects them with Santa's elves that want to help. But after the letters are selected, they are delivered to the big guy so he can make sure the children are being taken care of.

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How Can You Become Santa's Elf?

It's really easy. If you wish to adopt a child through their Santa letter just click HERE. There is a required registration form. If you would like to submit a letter you can do so and get more information about USPS Operation Santa by logging on to beanelf.org. You can also make a monetary donation on the site. No matter how you help, you are truly in the spirit of the holidays in helping to make a family or child's Christmas magical

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Canadian Pacific Holiday Train Rolls Through The Capital Region For a Great Cause

It had been three years since the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train rolled through the Capital Region. It made three stops; Mechanicville, Saratoga Springs, and Fort Edward. The first was Mechanicville on a rainy Sunday night. This is where I enjoyed the festive holiday train. They are traveling across the country to 106 stops. At each stop, they play live music and collect donations for the local food banks. Country Artist Lindsay Ell was the musical entertainment and she was awesome. The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train also presented the Mechanicville Community Center with a check for $3500 to help restock the food bank. Even though the weather wasn't ideal, a couple of hundred families joined the fun.