I was at the Silvertips/Thunderbirds hockey game at the Everett Events Center for the first “teddy bear” toss. I would like to thank the organizers, the Events Center, the Silvertips, the sponsors and especially the fans who threw the bears on the ice to be collected and distributed to children in various stages of distress or poverty. Your work, money and actions demonstrate the real meaning of Christmas.
To those attendees who took the teddy bears home without knowing they were intended for less fortunate children, there is still time to drop them off at a local fire station.
To those few hundred attendees who mutilated the stuffed animals and filled the cavity with everything from beer to body fluids before throwing them on the ice, you should plan on the State providing for your needs at Western State or Monroe.
To the Thunderbird player who threw a bear and hit one of the volunteers collecting the bears, I will bet you never get beyond the current level of hockey.
To those young women dressed in the most current designer clothes with your cell phone in one hand and a teddy bear in the other, shame on you.
To the woman seen stuffing multiple bears inside her male companion’s jacket and to the guy decked out in a National Hockey League jersey walking out with several bears, I can only guess that the spirits of greed and materialism are alive and well in your lives.
Don’t be surprised if your Christmas dreams will not be filled with sugarplums but rather the same visions that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge and are as equally deserved.
Snohomish
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