Kids and adults can follow St. Nick's every move on his way to Johnston.
It’s Christmas Eve in Johnston — do you know where your supernatural gift-giver is? NORAD does. The North American Aerospace Command, charged with, "ensuring air sovereignty and air defense of the airspace of Canada and the United States,” according to their web site, has been tracking Old Saint Nick for the last 50 years. In 1955,according to the site's about us page, a Sears Roebuck ad for kids to call Santa misprinted the number, sending them instead to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD). The staff gave callers updates on Santa’s location, and they’ve been doing it every year since, continuing the tradition in 1958 when Canada and the US formed NORAD as dual air monitoring system updating the practice in recent years with the …
Members of the Explorer program and the police union provide holiday cheer to local families.
The Johnston Police Department created a merrier Christmas for struggling families by donating and distributing toys to those in need. The police department participated in two toy drives. Lt. Mark Boisvert and the Explorers collected toys that were distributed to Johnston families and the police department's union, IBPO Local 307, donated toys to the Third Annual "Kids, Cops and Christmas" effort. Sgt. Matthew Benson said the union donated $250 worth of toys to "Kids, Cops, and Christmas," which will provide the toys to Crossroads Rhode Island. Benson said he went shopping with IBPO Local 307 President Officer James Seymore using the donation of $250 from the union account to purchase the toys. Benson said it took about an hour for them …
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