Hoboken Elks Lodge provides holiday fun for children with special needs
The Hoboken Elks Lodge kept up a decades-old holiday tradition for children with special needs.
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Dec 13, 2020, 6:05 PM
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The Hoboken Elks Lodge kept up a decades-old holiday tradition for
children with special needs.
The lodge held a socially distanced afternoon of fun with music, gifts
and photos with Santa on Saturday.
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“We’re keeping it at a small
amount inside, but we’re still giving those special
needs children and their families that need smiles for the holiday,” says Keith O’Dwyer. “And giving them that same
great feeling. We want them to feel as normal as possible.”
The Hoboken Elks
Lodge started the tradition in the 1950s.
At the time, children were learning to use crutches during the polio epidemic.
