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- URL: https://www.smdp.com/123003-story/
- Published: 2003-12-30T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:25:39.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The Santa Monica Elks hosted a Christmas Party on Sat. Dec. 20 for under privileged children.

Doug Randall, chairman of the event sent 270 invitations to seven different schools. The teachers then selected the students who would benefit.

Each child presented his or her invitation and went to see Santa, played by Bob Jacobs, chairman of the Elks Trustees. Jacobs said it was heart wrenching listening to the children’s Christmas list. One 6-year-old girl said that all she wanted for Christmas was a father. The clown, played by Jan Crozer, then gave each child a stocking filled with fruit, candy and nuts. The “Ladies of the Emblem Club,” along with Emblem President Toni Broneau, who also is the Drug Awareness Chairman for the Santa Monica Elks, gave each of the children a drug awareness coloring book and sticker that said “SAY NO TO DRUGS.”

Each boy or girl was then given one or two wrapped toys. Elks members took extra presents and stockings to the pediatric ward of the Santa Monica-UCLA Hospital. The nurses there said that the Elks presents were the only ones delivered there.

Raedean Kiesz, exalted ruler of the Elks, said one father told her that the $6 he received an hour for walking the picket line in front of Albertsons did not pay the rent, utilities and food for his family. He said the only presents that his children would receive were those given by the Elks. Needless to say, they received two. Santa Monica Elks lodge gives to the underprivileged

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 30, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/123003.pdf?ref=smdp.com)