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211 PRESS IwombT 19, I1K2 No job, no home, no Christmas 1 "We didn't have much money." Ziegler said. "-We didn't have enough for food for the kids, So I went to the grocery store and stole some lunchmeat, and I was caught." The charges were dropped, but Zie-gler's boss asked him to quit. He couldn't find another job and had no money to move or learn a trade, "I'd work two jobs if I could; I'm not afraid of work," he said. The Ziegler family had stayed at a charity shelter once, a year ago. and received welfare assistance for one month.

"But we've always been able to pull ourselves out of it," said Ziegler. "This time, it seems harder." Reporter ends TV show with proposal ALEXANDRIA. La. (AP) -Viewers got a dividend when they tuned in business reporter Jeff Hol-. ley for the closing stock market report on KALB-TV.

Holley ended his 5 p.m. report Thursday by proposing marriage to Donnakay Brown, a reporter for the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, whose newspaper colleagues made sure she was watching. She accepted and a wedding is tentatively set for June. "It seemed appropriate for me to propose this way, because we're both in the field of communications. Besides that, I didn't have to face her," Holley explained afterward.

In addition to the acceptance call from his fiance, Holley said a male viewer called to warn: "You'll be sorry." a two-bedroom place. "They were hungry when they got here," he said, "but they're getting food donations now. They're stocked for this week." The Salvation Army is trying to permanently solve the Zieglers' plight. "We've had a couple of job offers, one is driving a vending truck, and another is a job at a restaurant. One lady said she'd like to sponsor him through truck driving school so he can get his license," said Kay.

A couple of people called in to say they needed yardwork done. "This all happened this morning," Kay said Monday. Ziegler is "confused with all the help that's being offered He never expected anything like this." Kay said the Zieglers are just one of the thousands of families who have turned up on the doorsteps of local charities during the holiday season because they have nowhere else to go. He said many of the urban refugees arc blue collar workers who have been thrown out of work by the recession and find themselves having to seek help to provide for their families. "We're overflowing.

All the facilities in town are full," said Kay. "We're 50 percent over last year and growing. One of the saddest things about it is that some of these people contributed to us in past years." The family's difficulties began when Ziegler was laid off from a job he had held for five years preparing raw stock at a Washington paper mill, lie was unable to find work in the area, so the family moved to San Diego, where Ziegler had been stationed in the Navy. He found a janitorial job in El Centro. but the money just wasn't coming in fast enough to feed his family.

SAN DIEGO (AP) A few days afio the Ziocler family had no home, no food, no jobs, no hope for a happy Christmas. They carried thoir belongings in cardboard boxes and, like thousands of other desperate people, they landed at the door of the Salvation Army. Now they have a roof over their heads, and within a few hours after a newspaper published a story about their plight, generous donors gave them money for food and made at least three job offers. Dave Ziegler says his family hit bottom several months ago, after he was fired from his last job as a janitor because he was caught stealing a package of lunchmeat for his three children. Since then, Ziegler, 41.

his wife, Ann, and their children have been carrying their belongings in a few cardboard boxes and a trash bag. They say they stayed with friends in El Centro until the friends were evicted Saturday. The Zieglers then took refuge at the Salvation Army shelter in downtown San Diego. 'The kids tell me, 'Mommy, I'm Mrs. Ziegler, 2fi, told the San Diego Union.

"I tell them I'll see what I can do. They forget about it for awhile, but then they come back. I have nothing for them." "I'm scared stiff." said Ziegler, an unskilled laborer and Navy veteran. "I don't need much to live on," he said. "All I ask is a roof over the heads of my wife and kids and food on the table.

We're happy with the little things in life. Unfortunately, we don't even have the little things right now." The newspaper ran a story on the family's plight Monday, along with a picture of the children, aged 2, 4 and 6. By the afternoon, things were looking up. The Salvation Army has found the family a tiny hotel room. Money and job offers have been pouring in.

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