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He's the REAL Santa
Gainesville man takes gifts each year to impoverished Kentucky mining town
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Santa Donnie arrives at Robinson Elementary School in Dawson County for a recent visit. Each holiday season, Gainesville's Donnie Carder provides toys and gifts for residents in a rural coal-mining area of Kentucky. - photo by Tom Reed
You might think you know Santa Claus, but you’d be wrong. He doesn’t live in the North Pole. He doesn’t ride in a sleigh and his name isn’t Kris Kringle.