- The most secret bar in London, Standard.co.UK, March 7, 2002.

2. Officials announced that a number of schools, designated “safe havens,” would be open to feed children breakfast and lunch and keep them off Chicago’s mean streets. The police superintendent spoke of strategies for avoiding a return to the summer's plague of drive-by shootings.

There’s much theorizing about why children come to school from dismal and discouraging environments. Conservatives blame a decline in moral standards and the failure of parents to live up to their responsibilities. Liberals point to endemic poverty and the lingering effects of racism and segregation.

One thing is for sure: It’s not the children’s fault.

- Teachers’ lesson sometimes show up years later, ChicagoTribune.com, September 18, 2017.

3. Sharon-Lee White is a skid-row Santa.

Each year, the secret Santa lovingly wraps up a rather unorthodox care package for residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Only this year, it’s not such a secret.

“I think it’s better if you do good things and don’t tell people about it,” White said somewhat reluctantly at Pub 340, where she serves as general manager.

“Then I thought it might be good for the people who need help.”

White is publicity-shy, so it was up to daughter Amy Christian to spread the word.

“I was reading something in The Province, and I thought, ‘They should write something about Mom,’” said Amy.

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