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Thank you, Victoria. Because of your generosity, we raised almost $232,000 for the annual TC Christmas Fund this holiday season.

The book will be released in time for the Times 91原创 Book Drive Feb. 23 and 24. It will then be exclusively available at select Canada Safeway stores, the Bay, Zellers and Home Outfitters for a month, going into general release after that.

The A2 feature is called This Day in TC History, and it will highlight our reporting of an event on that day in history over the last 150 years.

The early editions are now being processed. They are fragile, and their age makes it difficult to incorporate OCR technology 聴 optical character recognition. It is this element that will allow you to search the back copies for names and events.

Readers sometimes complain that newspapers never report on the good news. It's nice to be able to refute that contention whenever we can, especially when the news is as good as it is today.

On a Saturday, at Hillside Shopping Centre, there were two happy crowds. One lineup, as might be expected, was for a red-suited guy with a fluffy white beard. Not far away, another group encircled a young fiddler and an even younger guitarist.

I counted about a dozen appeals in recent weekend papers for help. There are any number of groups and individuals out there with great ideas and they all need help. Nonetheless, count this article as one more appeal.

Merry Maids donates $1,000 to TC Christmas Fund

Companies in the capital region focus on helping people in need

Fifty-five members of the Peninsula Singers will make merry this Christmas season by gathering at Mary Winspear Centre this weekend to offer three seasonal performances -- and raise money for the Times 91原创 Christmas Fund.