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Thursday, December 22, 2005
That's Happening Here? 5 Stories Fast My inflated snow globe's bigger than yours! Mix competition with the Christmas spirit and you get Mercer Street in Cherry Hill. Holiday figures, visitors and even a live Santa bask in the glow of 160,000 lights put up by just two neighbors. Hear them trash-talk about it . ... The holiday lighting of City Hall impresses most after-dark passersby . Pictured is a statue colorfully transformed. Some people express surprise they didn't notice the altered appearance before. That's because the French-designed display only started Nov. 30. Better see it soon. It'll end Jan. 1. ... Postal workers volunteer to help answer Santa's mail , for no credit and no pay, just personal satisfaction. No one answered North Pole-bound missives when custodian Maria Rossiter started with the Deptford post office, so in 1991 she took up the task. St. Nick has ghostwriters at other locations, too. ... The Sixers' Chris Webber paid cash for a Villanova mansion -- $2.6 million in cash . Has five bedrooms, an elevator, and a neighbor named Allen Iverson. ... Yesterday, on both sides of the river, services memorialized homeless men and women who died this year . Friends and social-service workers attended. Since 1990, the National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day has been held on the first day of winter.
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