The Montgomery Humane Society raised a little over $14,000 with the wrapping stations at the Shoppes at EastChase and Eastdale Mall this year. Last year, they raised about half that. Kudos to all the staff and volunteers! Also, kudos to EastChase and Eastdale for hosting the stations.

My father used the wrapping service and on Christmas, presented me with one of the gifts: a scuba tank (63AL Luxfer). The wrappers at EastChase couldn't have known that when they were telling this reporter about some of the more memorable things they had wrapped, that the scuba tank was actually, eventually, to be mine.