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Northern Saskatchewan families to receive 1,700 Christmas gifts from community organization

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A group of hard-working elves is bringing the Christmas spirit to northern Saskatchewan this year.Children North, a family support organization in La Ronge, is shipping roughly 1,700 gifts to families in 12 northern communities.

Families react to Regina school boards’ move to online learning around Christmas break “It’s pretty amazing,” said Daina Lapworth, Children North’s executive director.“We’re not sure what Christmas is going to look like this year, so it’s nice to be able to just have some gifts and some board games and gingerbread houses and some fun stuff to do as a family.”The first shipment of gifts was flown to Wollaston Lake on Wednesday morning, she said, with more arriving in other northern communities over the next two.

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