Operation Santa Claus

Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday for the Operation Santa Claus 5K.  What an awesome group of people to run with!

Operation Santa Claus has helped underprivileged children right here in the Shreveport/Bossier City area for decades!

Think maybe you might have just a little left over in the "jogging tank" and you'd like to help put a smile on hundreds of local kids' faces?  We've got just the way you can do it with the first ever "Operation Santa Claus 5K!"

It took over three weeks to collect, sort, wrap, and bag all of the toys for this year's Operation Santa Claus program. But it will only take two days to deliver those toys to about 1000 needy children in Shreveport and Bossier Parish.

Nearly six-hundred toys -- over a-thousand dollars in cash -- that's what members of the North Shreveport Business Association have contributed this year to Operation Santa Claus.

Operation Santa Claus kicked off in Shreveport-Bossier this week with one goal: to help underprivileged area children have a Christmas. Several local drop-off locations for Operation Santa Claus have been set up for residents who'd like to donate toys to the non-profit group.

Santa Claus arrived in Shreveport-Bossier Monday, Dec. 2 to bring some early holiday cheer to the children of Turner Elementary Middle School and launch this year's Operation Santa Claus.

Operation Santa Claus -- it's all about puting smiles on little faces that, otherwise, might not have much to smile about at this time of the year.

It's coming down to the wire for Operation Santa Claus. Thanks to your generosity, the Shreveport police officers and firefighters and Bossier sheriff's deputies who are participating in the program this year will be able to help every child on their lists...

Our Operation Santa Claus elves were out spreading the holiday cheer at several local children's hospitals this morning.  One of their stops...Shriner's Hospital for Children.  Erin McCarty talked to a couple of the employees there... Tammy Moore: Kim Green: