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Flood of donations after toy theft means 1,600 underprivileged San Antonio kids get toys instead of 60
Friday theft before toy distribution to kids at Alazan Apache Court spurred many San Antonians to give
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SAN ANTONIO – As cars snaked past the San Antonio Housing Authority office Wednesday to be loaded with presents, it capped off a San Antonio holiday story fit for a movie.
“It’s the classic story of how the Grinch stole Christmas and Whoville. We became Whoville, or the North Pole whatever,” said SAHA Director of Community Development Initiatives Joel Tabar with a chuckle.
The piles of toys handed out to children living in SAHA public housing properties were there, ironically enough, because of a theft, which ignited the city’s generosity in a big way. After thieves took toys from an event meant to benefit 60 kids at the Alazan Apache Courts, a flood of donations from churches, private companies and other organizations allowed SAHA to provide toys to 1,600
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Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 9:57 AM click to enlarge Andrea Moreno / San Antonio Heron Janece Johnson, who lives at Alazan-Apache Courts, receives a donated box of food during a distribution this summer. After thieves last Friday stole half the toys gathered for a holiday gift drive at the Alazan-Apache Courts housing project, San Antonio residents have stepped up in a big way. Since the news broke, the San Antonio Housing Authority has received enough money and donated toys for 2,000 additional presents. Grocery chain H-E-B matched $4,000 of the donations, according to SAHA officials. The new donations allowed SAHA to increase the size of the planned distribution tenfold. Originally, it only expected to shar
Gifts pour in after Alazan Apache Courts toy drive theft
Donations exceed what was stolen Friday from toy drive, now enough to include more SAHA properties
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EDITOR’S NOTE
: A previous version of this story misidentified the event for residents at Alazan Apache Courts as a “toy drive” and, based on information from SAHA, included an incorrect tally of how many presents and children were included. After further reporting, these errors have been updated.
In a true display of the holiday spirit, the collective generosity of San Antonio residents on Sunday far outweighed the greed of thieves who looted a toy distribution event for needy children.