Editor’s note: During the COVID-19 pandemic, The Call is looking back at school news from when students’ time in class was more normal. This news is from December 2018.
Louie, the St. Louis Blues mascot, visited Concord Elementary School during National Believe Day on Dec. 7, 2018 to collect letters for Santa from first-grade students. During National Believe Day, Macy’s doubles its donations to the Make-A-Wish Foundation from $1 to $2 for each letter to Santa they receive.
That year marked the 11th year of Macy’s campaign. Letters could be sent online or delivered to Macy’s locations through Dec. 24. For more information about Macy’s Believe campaign and sending letters to Santa, visit
The last living spouse of a Civil War veteran has died
In strange-but-true news, the last known surviving spouse of a Civil War veteran just died last month.
How is that even possible? The U.S. Civil War took place from 1861 to 1865, and no one who survived the war is still alive. However, there are two things that make it possible: 1) As much as we might like to imagine that Americans fighting over the right to own Black people was super ancient history, the Civil War was just 160 years ago. That s two 80-year-olds living back to back. 2) Some people live long lives and have unlikely marriages, which makes for fascinating historical stories like this one.