SAPD’s Blue Santa program providing gifts to thousands of San Antonio children

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Police section hopes to springiness presents to much than 7,000 children this year

The Blue Santa programme is an effort by San Antonio Police Department to assistance section children and families successful and astir San Antonio, making definite determination are nary Christmas trees near without a present.

SAN ANTONIO – The Blue Santa programme is an effort by San Antonio Police Department to assistance section children and families successful and astir San Antonio, making definite determination are nary Christmas trees near without a present.

“It is simply a joy, it gives america an accidental to springiness back,” SAPD Officer Alonzio Hardin said.

On Monday, Hardin was astatine the Blue Santa warehouse arsenic a Blue Santa helper.

“The Blue Santa programme is simply a programme that was begun successful the seventies, consisting of officers who were giving backmost to the community. What we do, is we enactment astatine this warehouse, arsenic you tin see, and this is wherever we marque bags for children,” Officer Menell Orosco said.

The warehouse is afloat of everything from basketballs to barbies and the extremity is to assistance thousands of children.

“Right present (we’re capable to help) implicit 5,000 kids by the end. We anticipation to beryllium capable to assistance a small implicit 7,000 children that volition person gifts from Blue Santa,” Orosco said.

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“They (people donating) tin spell to immoderate substation nearest them, immoderate constabulary substation astatine immoderate hr and we judge immoderate benignant of donations. They tin conscionable travel up and conscionable driblet them disconnected and we’ll beryllium much than gladsome to receive,” Orosco said.

As for Officer Hardin, it is his sixth twelvemonth connected the Blue Santa squad and helium doesn’t program to halt helping retired anytime soon.

“Taking the bags to the families, knocking connected the doorway -- you conscionable spot the joyousness and excitement erstwhile they spot a constabulary serviceman lasting with gifts. And truthful it’s conscionable a beauteous feeling,” Hardin said.

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Max Massey

Max Massey is the GMSA play anchor and a wide assignments reporter. Max has been unrecorded astatine immoderate of the biggest nationalist stories retired of Texas successful caller years, including the Sutherland Springs shooting, Hurricane Harvey and the manhunt for the Austin bomber. Outside of work, Max follows authorities and sports, particularly Penn State, his alma mater.

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