Anonymous Santa Chisago County MN

12/23/2025

As always, Olson Power & Equipment pulls through for us again by allowing us the use of their trailer. This may seem like nothing to those who don’t understand the magnitude of what we haul around, but without the use of the trailer we would not be able to help the community as effectively. We truly appreciate you!

Lakes region EMS is also an incredible part of our season! They go around and pick up all of our new donations! This saves us time, money, etc and allows us to start our work quicker!

Thank you to all the local businesses in our community for helping with monetary donations and allowing donation bins to collect gifts. Our program is 100% community funded without all the support we would not be able to help provide Christmas to hundreds of families in our local community.

And last, but not least a huge thank you to Main Street Church for allowing us to take over a big part of the church for the week. Without having a place to set up and actively have families come through to shop, we would cease to exist. We truly appreciate your love for the community, and could not do this without you! 

12/23/2025

Santa and his reindeer have completed their tasks for the year!
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12/22/2025

Another wonderful year helping out our community! We were so fortunate to be able to help out 100’s of families this year. These tables may look full of gifts- but we are running surprisingly low. We had lots of empty spaces on tables (more than usual!) and our bins underneath are pretty much nonexistent. This is both a blessing and a curse as we are so thankful to have helped so many families, but we are feeling very nervous about the upcoming couple of years. If you have not please continue to donate to support the community (walmart in forest lake still has a bin). We now have a Venmo account, 100% of the proceeds to go back toward the program. We purchase things like hats/gloves when they go on sale or toys for the program. Even if everyone who is able donates $5 it adds up.

I know this was long, so thank you for to reading if you made it this far.
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12/19/2025

Calling all applicants! Today is our last day to pick up gifts. If you missed you appointment or did not receive a paper in the mail please reach out to us via messenger to see if we can squeeze you in. Please reach out to us by noon. Thank you!

12/18/2025

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Thank you for keeping the parking lot safe and ice free for all of our families that are coming through and shopping. We love being able to count on you Gustafson Excavating!

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12/17/2025

Please be patient if you are trying to reach out to us. We are in the thick of setting up and will get back to you as soon as we can. Messanger is our preferred method of contact and our quickest.

12/14/2025

Semi truck unload today at Mainstreet Church. Please dress for the weather!

12/12/2025

Just a reminder, the shopping vouchers were mailed out Monday (12/8). If you have not received anything in the mail by Wednesday (12/17) after the mail comes please reach out then.

12/08/2025

A HUGE thank you to you to Santa and his elves at the Wyoming, MN Fire Department for all the toy and food shelf donations. We have a wonderful community who knows how to come together and lift each other up during hard times. ❤️

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12/08/2025

8 volunteers (6 pictured) showcased their compassion with 7 hours of volunteering today and we are gearing up for an extraordinary couple of weeks.

12/08/2025

A big round of applause to Setzerville for their kindness in collecting gifts for our community's children! ❤️

12/08/2025

With the deadline last Friday, we got all the applications assigned shopping times and got the gift vouchers in envelopes and in the mail. 7 hours of volunteering, here is a picture of all the envelopes 😊 If your application was filled out completely you should receive your voucher sometime this week. Thank you to a great group of volunteers!!!