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The Willing Workers of Sugar Hill

By Rebecca Brown on Monday, December 24, 2001.

Just before Christmas in the North Country town of Sugar Hill, Santa Claus makes a stop at the Meeting House.
Every child in town gets a present, courtesy of Santa, but with a little assistance from a group called the Willing Workers.
In Sugar Hill, it?s a Holiday tradition.
But Sociologists like to label it a form of Social Capital?..or community connectedness.
Small town New Hampshire tends to rich in Social Capital, but as Rebecca Brown reports, it can?t be taken from granted.

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