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Item Santa grapples with COVID’s ripple effect

By | December 16, 2020
Toys that have been donated to the Salvation Army for the Item Santa drive. (Courtesy photo )
For so many years, the Item Santa fund was run on a schedule that seemed set in stone. People seeking help wrote letters to the Salvation Army, which, in turn, referred them to social workers to make sure those requesting aid during the holiday season were eligible. Once those seeking help were cleared, those letters…
Steve Krause
Steve Krause Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

Steve Krause can be reached at skrause@itemlive.com

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