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Cassie’s Freakmas brings in $12K

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As Whodini said 40 years ago, “The freaks come out at night.” And this week they came out in force to support Cassie Nova’s annual “Freakmas” Christmas show, auction and raffle, raising money for the Secret Santa Program at Sam Houston Elementary School.

And raise money, they did. This year’s event brought in about $12,000 to help make sure underprivileged kiddos will get a visit from Santa to make their holidays bright and merry.

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, the late Alan Ross, then-executive director of the Dallas Tavern Guild, ran an annual “PWA [person with aids] holiday gift drive” to create and deliver holiday gift bags to residents of at the AIDS Services of Dallas housing facilities and other individuals with HIV — many of whom otherwise would not have gotten holiday gifts.

That eventually morphed into a program benefitting underprivileged students at Sam Houston Elementary, and when Ross retired due to his own battle with HIV, the then-manager of JR.’s, the late Donald Solomon, took over to head up the annual effort. — Tammye Nash

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