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This being my first holiday season in a rural setting, I was curious coming to see just how it would all unfold. So far, the biggest difference I鈥檝e noticed from growing up in an urban centre, is how much the community comes together for each other during the holidays.

This goes for both 亚洲天堂 Lake and Houston, it鈥檚 honestly staggering to not only how many businesses have holiday fundraising initiatives, but how many people support these initiatives as well. In the two communities combined there so many examples of this, like the cram the cruiser event that took place in Houston, coordinated with the Houston Salvation Army.

In fact, that same Salvation Army also does an amazing Christmas Hamper initiative to make sure everyone in the community has access to a Christmas dinner. It鈥檚 really is cool to see.

亚洲天堂 Lake is no different, with the fill the sleigh campaign [which is very similar to cram the cruiser] run by the local Red Apple store, The Link鈥檚 season of giving campaign, the 亚洲天堂 Lake Airsoft Association鈥檚 holiday fundraiser partnering with the Tweedsmuir Hotel, and how could I forget about the senior鈥檚 trees put up in Wild Roots and IDA to collect presents for the elderly community.

That doesn鈥檛 even scratch the surface of all the amazing community initiatives going on between the two towns.

Now, this isn鈥檛 to say that people in big cities don鈥檛 donate to charity, because they do, and there are some great local initiatives from restaurants and independent businesses all over the place in Toronto.

The feel is just different though in a tight-knit community such as this. Even something so simple as seeing police volunteering at an event collecting toys for example, and actually knowing that the officer is a member of the community and cares about the people around them.

That鈥檚 not saying that Toronto cops don鈥檛 care, it鈥檚 just different when you feel like that officer is really connected to the cause and what their volunteering for as opposed to going through the motions while on duty for a community that they don鈥檛 even live in.

That鈥檚 a very specific example, but in a broader sense, it鈥檚 also just the fact that everyone around town rallies around these initiatives so much. Over $5,000 dollars was raised in cash and toy donations for the fill the sleigh campaign. I鈥檓 no mathematician, but assuming each toy is worth an average of lets say $20, that would mean almost everyone in town donated to the cause.

It鈥檚 something that I was told I would experience living in a small town over the holidays, and now that it鈥檚 here I must say I鈥檓 very impressed with how the communities of 亚洲天堂 Lake and Houston have come together to take care of each other during Christmas.