The sounds emanating from the Ship Bottom Firehouse were unexpectedly expected as children’s excited squeals rang out and Christmas music punctuated the soundtrack of a cold, cloudy December morning. That buzz of happiness and anticipation could mean only two things: The annual Kiwanis Club of LBI Christmas breakfast for special needs children was in full swing, and Santa Claus was in the house.
“It’s pure Christmas,” Belle Placa, president of the Southern Regional Key Club International, a service organization…
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