Letter: Thanks to the community!
It is with immense gratitude that I write to you, my Davis community. The Davis Community Church Gift Project 2020 (our 22nd year) went off without a hitch! You are all so generous, so kind, and so thoughtful to include in your Christmas planning the children of the DCC Gift Project.
We provided for: infants in the CommuniCare PNDT program boys housed in the Progress Ranch Group Home children enrolled in the Yolo Crisis Nursery Pamma’s Shoe Closet, for foster kids (over 60 pairs of new shoes!) DCC’s own program: Friday Faith and Food meals to serve the food insecure of our community.
Watch ‘Downtown Tom’s Christmas’ for free
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Young actor Miller Traum stars as Tom in “Downtown Tom’s Christmas a Mini Musical,” available to watch for free online.
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For years, Davis residents and visitors knew Downtown Tom a full-grown male turkey who roamed the city’s downtown streets, leaving an impression wherever he wandered. And while the real-life Tom met a somewhat inharmonious fate, he has inspired an assortment of stories sure to entertain generations to come.
Accomplished local director Krissy Schwerin has adapted a 10-minute mini-musical from a book about the turkey, written earlier this year by her husband, Jay Schwerin. She gathered some of the area’s top young musical-theater talent via online and individual on-location shoots to produce “Downtown Tom’s Christmas a Mini Musical.” The show is available online for free through Dec. 31 at MadeInDavis.net/Tom.
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