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Christmas Wishlist 2014

The Christmas season is a joyful time for me, I go all out with a bright Christmas window light display for the tenants and neighbours to admire and a well decorated Christmas tree sits in my living room area.
Every year an invitation from the KMHC office is posted on the general bulletin board for tenants to write down a 5 item Christmas wish list and submit it to the office then we’d get everything on our list on Christmas Eve.
Trying to think up a wishlist for 2014 I came up with:
1. White sport socks
2. Small coffee maker
3. Black tee-shirts (M)
4. Toiletries
5. Hair conditioner
and that was it.  Usually on Christmas Eve morning the happy staff can be seen bringing gifts in a loaded shopping cart through the main entrance then later distributed throughout the building to the tenants.
This year it was different on Christmas Eve I saw an elderly gentleman in a blue Areo car unloading and delivering a small amount of gifts to HOW Lynda Jones while she stood at the side the building (in front of my window) then she carried the wrapped items to the building via the fire exit.  I thought this is strange I don’t usually see a staff member creeping around outside trying to avoid detection.
Here’s the kicker: This year I was unfortunately overlooked when it came to my Christmas wishlist. I received no gifts from the KMHC office.  My wishlist items were the basics and certainly not expensive.  It’s been said it’s not the gift that counts it’s the thought, well it looks like KMHC/HSC wasn’t thinking at all  :P   If Urban Native Homes Inc. didn’t want to include some tenants then they shouldn’t post a general invitation on the bulletin board.
Talking to my fellow tenants they were shocked and sympathetic.  As one tenant exclaimed “That was a rotten thing for them to do!”  

Happy New Year!  :)

tk

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Tony King said…
Today I found out other tenants were also excluded gifts, while others received 2 or 3 items from their 5 item Christmas wishlist. I feel sorry for the vulnerable and sensitive native elders they must have sat in their unit feeling disillusioned on Christmas Eve. :(
December 30, 2014 at 6:54:00 AM EST
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