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* For the past several years, Becky Carroll has brought a load of toys to my annual City Club “Christmas with Rich Miller” speech to donate to Lutheran Social Services of Illinois. She’s never once asked me to publicly thank her. She does it because she wants to help the kids.

Since I didn’t do the City Club event this year, Becky asked me for a contact person at LSSI so she could donate toys again. She delivered 40 toys and games to LSSI a few days ago.

I neglected to ask Becky to take some pictures of the toys, so I reached out to Joy Medrano at LSSI to see if she had any photographs.

Email from Joy…

Hi Rich-

Sorry for the delay in my response. Here is a small sample of what Becky sent.

I gave quite a few toys away to children at our Visits to Mom party this past Saturday. The Visits program enables children and their care givers to visit their mothers who are incarcerated. The kids were so excited to receive the toys.

This current batch will be going to our Intact South Program. Thankful to both you and Becky for this incredible gift!

More on LSSI’s Intact program is here. Info on Visit to Mom is here.

And here’s one of Joy’s pics…

Thanks, Becky!

* As I write this, we have raised $8,250 for Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, most of it donated in a single day. That’s far more than we ever raised at any of my City Club events.

How about we try to reach $9,000 (or even $10k) by this Friday? Let’s help this group. And, remember, we’re doing this in honor of the late Wordslinger, a proud Lutheran who was profoundly disturbed by what happened to social service providers like LSSI during the impasse.

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* Speaking of our late commenter, the Wordslinger Golden Horseshoe Award for Best CapitolFax.com Commenter would normally be given this Friday, the last day the blog will be open before Christmas. I’ve been wondering what we should do about it. Should we just give it to Wordslinger in his memory? Or should we open it up to all commenters?

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