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Santa, soldiers cheer up town facing river erosion crisis

机译：圣诞老人，士兵们为面临河流侵蚀危机的城镇振作起来

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A school employee wearing a traditional pink Alaska Native smock called a kuspuk breezed through the hubbub in the cafeteria adorned with murals of purely Alaska scenes, zigzagging through children clutching presents and past uniformed soldiers wearing Santa caps. "Napakiak is happy today," she told principal Sally Benedict. That's a rare emotion of late for the 300 or so residents of Napakiak, a western Alaska community. "We're falling into the Kuskokwim River," Benedict explained, because of erosion that is forcing everyone to move their town further inland. But for one day earlier this month, the Alaska National Guard gave folks a reason to smile with its "Operation Santa Claus" program, which featured the jolly old elf distributing gifts to the children. "This lightens the load," said Benedict, a former Detroit educator who arrived last summer. "This is sunshine for us. It's a brightening of our day." Now in its 63rd year, Operation Santa Claus has become a rarity among National Guard units. Defense officials have shut down the program everywhere but Alaska, where the mission survives because the state is so large and some communities are so remote. The program started in 1956 when the residents of St. Mary's, Alaska, had no money to buy children Christmas presents after flooding severely affected hunting and fishing. Since then, Guard members try to visit at least two rural communities a year, delivering Christmas gifts and other needed supplies.
机译：一名身穿传统粉红色阿拉斯加土著工作服的学校雇员在食堂的喧嚣中微风吹拂，上面装饰着纯阿拉斯加场景的壁画，children着孩子抓着礼物折弯，过去穿着圣诞老人帽的穿制服的士兵曲折走动。她告诉校长本尼迪克特：“纳帕基亚克今天很高兴。”对于阿拉斯加西部的纳帕基亚克（Napakiak）的300名左右的居民来说，这是一种难得的情绪。本尼迪克特解释说：“我们陷入了库斯科克姆河，”这是由于侵蚀迫使每个人将其城镇迁往内陆。但是在本月初的一天，阿拉斯加国民警卫队给人们一个理由对其“圣诞老人行动”计划微笑，该计划的特色是欢乐的老精灵向孩子们分发礼物。去年夏天到达底特律的前教育家本尼迪克特说：“这减轻了负担。” “这对我们来说是阳光。这是我们一天的光彩。”到了第63年，“圣诞老人行动”在国民警卫队中已经很少见了。国防官员已经关闭了该计划，但阿拉斯加各地都得以关闭，该州得以幸存，因为该州规模如此之大，而某些社区却是如此遥远。该计划始于1956年，当时阿拉斯加圣玛丽的居民在洪水严重影响狩猎和捕鱼之后，没有钱买孩子们的圣诞礼物。从那时起，警卫队成员试图每年至少拜访两个农村社区，运送圣诞节礼物和其他必需品。

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    《Greenwire》 |2019年第11期|21-21|共1页
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    Mark Thiessen;

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