<div>Mission: Good tidings in bad times
BY KAREN SEIDMAN, THE GAZETTE DECEMBER 25, 2012
http://www.canada.com/life/theholida...668/story.html
MONTREAL - Everyone Micheline knows, or knew, has died. Her family, she says, is too far to drive on icy roads at Christmas.
So, come Christmas Day, she headed to the only place she really knows that keeps her from being totally isolated: the Old Brewery Mission.
The good food, warmth and compassion she got there compelled her to thank everyone in the room after she finished her meal of turkey and tourtière and before she departed for the cold streets again. She even thanked a reporter, who sadly had nothing to do with the good will and charitableness that was oozing out of the main dining hall of the Mission on a crisp Christmas Day.
It is the kind of experience that makes you realize that if Santa didn
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BY KAREN SEIDMAN, THE GAZETTE DECEMBER 25, 2012
http://www.canada.com/life/theholida...668/story.html
MONTREAL - Everyone Micheline knows, or knew, has died. Her family, she says, is too far to drive on icy roads at Christmas.
So, come Christmas Day, she headed to the only place she really knows that keeps her from being totally isolated: the Old Brewery Mission.
The good food, warmth and compassion she got there compelled her to thank everyone in the room after she finished her meal of turkey and tourtière and before she departed for the cold streets again. She even thanked a reporter, who sadly had nothing to do with the good will and charitableness that was oozing out of the main dining hall of the Mission on a crisp Christmas Day.
It is the kind of experience that makes you realize that if Santa didn
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